Enthusiasm is a superpower. This is me at (cousin) Redwood’s house. Circa mid to late 60’s.
Happy present moment.
dad
Enjoy your journey through life.
Never lose your childhood enthusiasm to have fun and explore what’s possible.
My goal in the photo was is to see how many pogo-stick bounces i could do in a row.
Don’t recall the actual record, but i distinctly remember thinking 1,000 would be epic.
Ps. Never owned a pogo stick, so practicing was never in the equation.
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A Motel room with a view like this is possible, if you catch a lucky break and find it.
Strive continuously to solve your personal mysteries. Then continuously enjoy the fruits of your labors.
dad
The mystery of BFOs is stunning.
A BFO is a blinding flash of the obvious.
A few ‘stunning’ examples:
Regular exercise and decent nutrition are light-years better than the opposite.
Reading, studying, observing, and teaching (to name a few) are better than not doing them.
Consistently, for a decade or so, saving a little money and investing in one or two blue chip stocks when you are young is remarkably better than not doing it.
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Flashback to August 14, 2023. Waiting as a walk-in to see the eye doctor on duty. Blind in the left eye. A few hours away from meeting a Retina Specialist.
Count your blessings.
Sage advice
Sure, count your blessings. Everyone knows this.
The pro-tip is this: Count your blessings, all day, everyday.
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This morning’s quick call to fix the glitch i predicted existed. The glitch revolved around a DNS issue. Bryan fixed it. Thirty minutes later, the migration was complete.
The quality of your life is from the quality of your priorities.
dad
Priorities are multi-layered.
Priorities start at the top-line level with a handful of categories.
Mine are…
Mind.
Body.
Spirit.
Work.
Home
Each of the top-line priorities has a subset of priorities.
Each subset has a subset.
You can drill this down to the most granular level.
Kinda like all the steps it takes for a mountain to become grains of sand.
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Wrote this post seven months ago at Lane8.org. It published yesterday, while on the two-hour call with GoDaddy. Reminds me of the supreme goal of every customer interaction.
Ask vital questions. What is the supreme goal of every single customer service interaction?
dad
Every employee in every company has the same, singular, supreme goal in every customer interaction.
As a Disney Leader and Disney Institute Business Advisor, for 30 years, and now since 2014 as a solopreneur, my research confirms that most organizations have no idea how to answer this vital question.
Moreover, they have no idea how to embed the question’s answer in their Organizational DNA,
And finally, they have no capability to scale the training and career-long commitment to consistently achieve the goal in every customer interaction.
Insight: They can call me, agree to a paid collaboration, and i can reveal to them our (Disney) five Organizational pillars and corresponding 19 architectural blueprints. They can engage me as long as they want.
Always remember, the long way is the short cut.
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