Time – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Toxic is deadly

Final photo last night. Taken as a backup to the tube of ant ‘poison’. Family knows the visible tube is a warning to be careful. The toxic gel is clear. Even with the bait tube as a marker, it’s difficult to know exactly where it is. Hence this photo.

Toxic is deadly.

Hard stop.

Note: Most people never notice.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Clock or compass?

wordpress admin screen invalid JSON response — Trying to finish today’s posts. Top pink banner message: just now a new error message is entering the mix.

woman making sandwiches in mountain setting — My photo library is full of reminders. Reminders about how lucky i am. Photo: A few years ago, making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before an (another) epic hike.

Haven’t worn a watch since 1995.

Stopped wearing one (30 years ago) to remind me daily that where i’m going is more important than how fast i’m getting there.

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Priorities and Calendar gymnastics

Facebook post screenshot — Wow, roughly nine years ago in 2016.

empty Facebook friends list — Creative decision to not yet delete my Facebook account. Instead, i deleted (unfriended, but i like deleted better) all 27 Friends, all linked posts, and all comments on the posts remaining. These 27 people…we can text and call each other anytime. We’re family and a few lifetime friends from hometown and college. No Disney colleagues in this account, btw.

Calendar gymnastics is the phrase that inspired today’s posts.

i prefer prioritization gymnastics.

Since our priorities drive what’s on our calendar, it feels synonymous.

Perhaps calendar gymnastics’ original definition is “balancing and flexing all the stuff we want to do with all the stuff other’s want us to do”.

To me, the best way to do that is to be crystal clear on your prioritized priorities.

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Time on my home

Woman in room with flipcharts — Photo 2005. Alicia, pictured here, and i were together on September 11, 2001. We were delivering a four-day Disney Institute program then. Pictured here in 2005, Alicia was helping facilitate a new leader transition for Leslie Campbell (i think). “New Leader Transition” is when a new leader communicates their style and asks for the team’s (each individual) style. Below, highlighted in red, is a snapshot into “Jeff-Land”.

Flipcart handwritten notes — Photo: 2005 internal leadership session. My public declaration for how i like to be “recognized”: “Freedom, Flexibility, and Development”. Fun to reminisce.

The interesting thing about your home is a fascinating paradox.

The bigger your living space, the more you have to take care of.

As you age, you have to decide where you want to spend time and money.

The less you have, the less you have to take care of.

Same goes for your your home’s “lot”.

Our “lot” is big.

And…

i’ve been intentionally architecting a low-maintenance “big-lot” design. Most of our big yard will not need tending to. It’s a work in progress.

Been intentionally, by design, working on it for a few decades. And in the past four years, an accelerated perimeter barrier and buffer. A wilderness landscape requiring no maintenance.

i love envisioning a future that’s not only better than now but much better than now.

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What’s in your calendar?

small child in wildflower patch — Looking back two decades ago. It’s fun to do the math. The math is my vision back then and how that vision manifested over 20 years to today.

Decluttering frees you to get to the important stuff.

The personal leadership stuff.

The stuff that makes you happy.

The stuff you will never regret doing or getting better at.

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