The thing about everything, work

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It’s simple. i retired from Disney in 2014 to fulfill a purpose bigger than Disney. Note the new Cast Member ID card middle-right: RETIREE. And as i write this it’s 2026 and i’ve finally retired a second time, December 31, 2025.

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

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

Exceptions are rare.

i planned on not working.

Most American’s typically think age 65 is the goal line.

Seems fair and reasonable.

Went a bit past 65, yet feel good about taking a little longer.

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Paperwork playoffs, work

Consulting framework
A sheet of paper, three hand-drawn lines (6 boxes) and then brainstorm the DNA of past, present, future. The future isn’t listed on this sheet (yet).

In personal leadership, it matters little to walk to do the preaching, if not the walking is the preaching.

As paid work has instantly become a low-to-no priority big life choice, letting go is only natural.

However from my observations, most retirees procrastinate.

As i’ve always said, waiting and doing nothing are the twin siblings of self-destruction.

Just because i have room to continue storing all this ‘junk’, doesn’t mean it’s smart to let it sit. And then after i die, someone else has to go through it or ‘bulldoze’ it.

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If i could, work

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Disney Institute helped me reach one-million people, with Walt Disney’s Business Gospel.

Work…

If i could learn well, contribute well, and teach well…

Perfect.

So i dedicated, and continue to dedicate, my daily efforts to learn well, contribute well, and teach well.

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Praying for Earth, work

Artemis II is returning to Earth after sending humans farther from Earth than ever before in history.

Artemis II traveled around the Moon and lost contact (it was planned for) with NASA for a brief period.

Extraordinary accomplishment in human history.

And as i type this (4:25pm April 7, 2026) we are three hours and 35 minutes from our President’s Iranian-peace-deal deadline.

The work-side of me can focus on a grand picture of Earth in an infinite cosmos.

Incomprehensible.

And we are infinitesimal.

Everything we know about Earth and our Milky Way Galaxy…

i have come to learn through science, that we are so blessed, so extraordinary.

But we are the center of nothing.

If Earth disappeared, the cosmos continues, unaltered, uncaring, unaware.

Carl Sagan is intriguing me in a way similar to Jesus, Gandhi, MLK, Mother Theresa, Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Sheldon Cooper.

Praying now that when i wake up tomorrow (April 8, 2026, 5:00am) our Earth isn’t ‘on-fire’.

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Two week countdown, work

European flight schedule
Sense of Urgency? Yes. Almost didn’t make it in 2009.
Disneyland Paris 2012
Three years later, Disneyland Paris 2012. First look. A way more relaxed travel experience the second time (in 2012).

Disneyland Paris.

For ‘work’.

Disney Institute.

In 2012.

Deep breath now…

Disneyland Paris.

For ‘fun’.

In 2026.

Can’t wait.

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