Vision – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

God bless America

Three ski jumps in Finland — Not America, but i was representing America.

God bless America.

Ain’t it the truth?

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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.

Criticism or coaching?

Damaged passenger door on a car — Cheryl found a former Disney leader who now owns a MAACO collision repair shop. This car damage repair shop also does all of Disney’s trash cans. That’s how good they are.

One person could see your intended helpfulness to be criticism.

One person could see your intended helpfulness to be coaching (development).

Same person. Same intent. Received two different ways by two different people.

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You know what else?

Zoom meeting screen — .think .differently

You know what happened today?

Had a 90-minute Zoom call with two people. Note, was expecting only one but grateful for the add.

As i compose this at the end of the day, i realize i don’t have the bandwidth to write all the cool things from the meeting. Perhaps tomorrow. And if not tomorrow, please know it was super cool.

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Fear of success?

If we lived life unafraid of death, what would change?

We don’t fear death as much as we fear something else.

We fear having to change into who we know we really want to be.

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The paperwork of life

Post-it note with handwriting — Days later, still working to close my Old GoDaddy Legacy account. Multiple calls, on multiple days, to multiple people. A few emails too. The drag from ‘administrative friction’ puts unproductive strain on our time and psyche.

Oil leak on concrete under a car — Same unwelcome drag when one issue, car repair, becomes a series of domino-effect unresolved administrative chores. Pictured here is a new oil leak, after $3,600 (and three weeks). Will have to return to Action Gator Tire and begin again to ask, “Why is this happening? It wasn’t happening before i brought it to you. Please exceed my expectations, if possible.”

iPhone alarm clock setting — Getting eight hours of sleep is a daily ‘to-do’. It is never on a list though. It’s an automatic (atomic) habit. Actually got nine hours last night. Yay me. Day seven, Flu-A. Sleep is recovery medicine.

The cosmos.

Inexplicable.

Hard to articulate.

But i feel a cosmic energy shift in my commitment to minimalism.

Note: i envision less of everything is more of everything. It sounds paradoxical. Which is in my wheelhouse. So that feels like money in the bank.

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