Time – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Time poor, home

Quiet leadership — In one month he went from being last to shaving 7 minutes off his 5k time. Text from Chapin’s Cross-Country coach.

Walt Disney Legacy Award tag line — One is easy. The other two take a lifetime of commitment.

A few times in our lifetime, someone comes along with a dramatic breakthrough, disrupting everything.

Am i time poor? And, does it even matter?

Time poor is when you are so busy, you cannot afford to waste any time.

You are living without any discretionary time.

No extra time to do something that isn’t required.

Now, i’m embarking on a time-rich life.

There’s a catch, however.

i only get one day at a time.

Every day i get on this planet isn’t one less day to be alive, it’s one more day to be alive.

Yee-ha!

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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.

The thing about everything, home

Woody from Toy Story graphic — We waited and waited. And waited some more. Eight years of waiting. Never saw an invisible disability coming.

The thing about everything is that everything takes longer than you plan.

Noteworthy, there’s an exception to nearly every rule.

Exceptions are rare.

We planned on having kids.

We started later than many, but thought that within a year of ‘starting to try’, we’d be parents.

We waited to ‘start trying’ until we moved into our second house, the one we have lived in for 35 years and counting.

We never planned on being married for 17 years before becoming parents. It took eight years (from ‘starting to try’), not one, to be blessed with our son.

So yes, nearly everything takes longer than planned.

My advice to myself, plan accordingly.

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Time, home

three men at a Mountain Lake — A picture is worth a thousand words. A dozen annual pictures of the same people at the same place, year after year…time well spent.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A dozen annual pictures (at Lake McDonald’s south shore, looking North at the Continental Divide) of the same people at the same place, year after year…time well spent.

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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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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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