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Dear writing

Magic Kingdom First Aid — Not a soul to be found.

Dear writing,

Many will say you require writers to also be researchers. Thank you for qualifying “research” to also mean real life experience.

Having spoken to over one-million people and roughly 2,000 different organizations, my “research” is world-class.

Few, if any, speakers have done this level of quantitative and qualitative research.

Dear writing, thank you for being flexible, creative, and smart.

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Dear Risk

Walt Disney World Marching Band — Second floor of the Magic Kingdom Train Station yesterday.

Disney's Flag Retreat Ceremony — A United States Marine was the honored recipient yesterday, September 11.

Dear Risk,

Thank you for the glory days when i wasn’t afraid of anything. Thank you for quickly teaching me there are certain things i should be glad i’m afraid of, like going through the motions in life.

But now that i’m 57, the glory days could appear to be behind me, or at least for the “typical 57 year old”.

But they’re not behind me, they’re ahead of me.

i’m still afraid. But now i’m afraid of squandering time.

So i don’t.

It’s too risky.

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Dear Prayer

Disney's Not So Scary Halloween decorations — A Family often spends hundreds to enter. We used free passes, earned from a lifetime of Disney Service.

Dear Prayer,

Thank you for the religious and spiritual leaders you inspire to dedicate their lives to helping the rest of humanity have a place of worship.

And thank you for allowing every human to freely choose which path in life to take – one that centers on service, or one that centers on being served.

PS. Thank you for transforming my personal leadership commitment with the blessing of parenthood. What i once believed was an entitlement turned out to be anything but.

PSS. Thank you for providing Walt Disney the epiphany, as he sat on a community park bench, that there ought to be someplace where adults and children could have fun together.

Note: Walt recognized that places for adults didn’t (generally) cater to children and places catering to children were boring for adults.

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Dear running

Windermere Prep Cross Country team — This morning, September 10, 2016, approximately 7:40am.

Dear running,

This may be a bold statement.

And we can be certain there are exceptions.

Physically fit leaders are better (and often remarkably better) leaders than they were when they were less fit (or unfit).

Why i spent two decades of my life as a decently unfit person escapes me.

No wait, i know, it was because i was busy, also known as having skewed priorities…also known as excuse addiction.

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Dear Future me

Mid Life Celebration model — The four obvious boxes are surrounded by a fifth, larger box. Clockwise starting upper left: mind, body, money (work), spirit and the large box holding those four is HQ (home).

Dear Future me,

Enjoy the harvest from your lifelong commitment to excellence.

Enjoy the harvest from your drive, your creativity, and your (growing) wisdom.

Enjoy it all, even when your efforts seem in vain.

Trust me, when you balance your ~~time~~ energy across mind, body, spirit, work, and home, you’ll become remarkable at what you were placed on Earth to do.

The world craves remarkable. It’s what moves our species forward.

It’s also what makes our ~~fear and doubt~~ excuses invalid.

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