vibrancy – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Expectations, home

disney look book — The Disney Look is driven by leadership expectations. Employees love the clarity. Leaders love the clarity too. The context for these expectations is that Walt wanted to rupture the negative stereotypes of Carnival workers. Disneyland in 1955 was closest to the circus, carnival, and amusement park industry. Disneyland was a ‘themed-park’.

Why are expectations important to share with the people you care about?

Expectations are life-context.

Context is king.

Context equals clarity.

Clarity is oxygen.

Oxygen is life.

Life is good.

Note: In the photo above, the middle male Cast Member in grey is me, 1987.

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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.

Unemployed, home

Floating in a pool raft near Disney World — The epitome of retirement living?

What does it feel like to be unemployed?

For starters, context…

Unemployed means retired.

It feels surreal to be ‘unemployed’.

Let Spring Break last as long as we continue to enjoy it.

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Carefree, home

cross-country bicyclist at ocean — Before a mortgage, career and family, we have time-freedom that disappears with adult obligation. Photo: Cheryl and me on our 17-night bicycle-honeymoon, staring at the Pacific Ocean from Orcas Island in the Puget Sound.

When in your final life-season, did you believe you were living a carefree life?

My first thought, “i can’t remember.”

Second thought, “It’s now my burning desire to chase a carefree life.”

Carefree…

Free to do what i want, when i want, with the person/people i want.

With whatever, if any, limitations that seem reasonable.

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Grace, home

profound napkin message — A profound tough-love message i wrote at a random lunch meeting two decades ago while at Disney Institute. Handwritten text says, “we will remain a nation of crybabies, but you don’t have to be one of them. Bold moves.

What is Grace?

Sunshine.

A loving hand to hold.

Focus.

Discipline.

The desire to live intentionally.

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Put your habits in your Will, home

mini mart signs — While still at Disney Institute, i’d travel to places that were close to the middle of nowhere. Always felt at home there.

Addiction is a useful and a deadly habit.

Addiction is another word for unbreakable habit.

Love and fidelity are useful habits.

Tobacco and alcohol, potentially deadly.

Intentional prioritized priorities are useful.

Unintentional unprioritized priorities are potentially harmful.

And so on and so forth.

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