Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker
One million+ people globally while at Disney Institute.
The most exciting part of being a facilitator is the accelerated and unrelenting learning that takes place. It’s quite common to discover a new angle, a new tag line, even a new definition that’s never been used before. A new definition for facilitator:
If you tell people the answer, they’ll never remember. If you help them figure it out themselves, they’ll never forget.
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The best facilitator I ever knew could walk up to a small group of people (many times I was in one of these groups), start a conversation about something trivial, ask a few questions to keep the dialogue going, and then leave.
It wasn’t until after he left the company we worked for that his brilliance surfaced. You see, every time he left, I realized he had just taught something. He was teaching me how to be a facilitator. Guy was the boss. I was a big time rookie.
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Life ain’t a dress rehearsal! Yet people literally live like this is just a warm up. Friendly reminder, there ain’t no do-over.
And yeah, these blogs ain’t no diary, even though I just go on and on about what happened yesterday, and so on. It’s an easy trap to fall into, because most of the time, I don’t ask you to do anything. Not literally anyway…
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It dawned on me that quite often, these blogs may sound like a dairy of sorts. Not denying that it could be read like that. But guaranteed, it ain’t meant like that. Read between the lines. The message in every post is this…
Life is not a dress rehearsal. It ain’t a spectator sport either. Live it like you mean it!
PS. Maybe some day, I’ll own a brand new car.
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Kids are only 11 once, like this summer for example. And in the picture above, kids are only four once. In 2005, this was the perfect pool for many reasons.
Well, for 2012, the perfect pool is on it’s way – in the ground kind-of-perfect. The epiphany happened as I was taking our 2008-2010 inflatable pool down and dragging it to the curb for trash pickup over Christmas break in 2011.
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