Category: Common Sense

People as teachers

President Biden
Early in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

People as teachers.

Spouse, family, friends, colleagues, businesses, neighbors.

Everything has a teachable moment in it.

Just like the beauty of nature or the Grace of God – it’s ever present. Never-ending.

People teach us by what they do and don’t do.

What people say is false teaching.

Why?

Because…words don’t teach, what you do teaches.

What you do thunders so loudly, i cannot hear what you say.

dad

We judge ourselves on our intentions, others judge us on our behaviors.

dad

You cannot talk your way out of a situation you acting yourself into.

Context: Behaviors must be witnessed. You cannot truthfully judge on behaviors from a story you are told, only from a story you witness. You must be a first-hand witness. We forget this.

Additional context: Writing from the heart, for our Son’s benefit, from my personal witness journey. Publicly and daily without missing a single day, since 2009.

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Leadership’s role?

Two audio speakers on the far left. Photo: Lakeside Church entrance taken from parking lot.
Zooming in you see the speaker size. Serious sound and bass producing capacity.

Here’s an important context: Orange County Code allows 60dB acceptable noise level. Anything above that constitutes disturbing the peace. The DJ’s PA system and his music speakers (two separate noise sources) easily over 100dB.

The second important contextual point: Have been speaking to the Church staff and Leadership for over a year. This is a critical note – based on the sound level and duration, there appeared to be a complete disregard for Orange County Code enforcement standards.

One simple question.

Why?

Because yesterday was an absolute heinous noise violation.

Heinous.

Completely avoidable.

Totally forgiven.

So…

Begging this question to Church leadership: What noise guidelines have you established with your campus activities team?

Noise guidelines may be the key to a mutually beneficial environment.

We will eventually arrive at a solution.

We are good, decent, respectful, loving people.

And, as all Americans should be, law-abiding citizens.

Easy peasy.

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Chronic career issues

Random shot from Disney Institute classroom. This isn’t my classroom. Happened to walk by, walked in to say hello but found the room empty. Empty and a laptop completely unsecured. A company violation that never went reported, nor (to our best knowledge) led to a stealing of proprietary content.

Chronic career issues define your future.

Chronic issues also foreshadow your life’s quality in the final decades.

Decades.

One, two, or even three decades of poor work habits compounding over time.

The reverse of compound interest is compound decline.

Remarkable news, the reverse of compound decline is compound increase.

Compounding for one, two, or even three decades with great work habits.

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Lead by example

handwritten note
Another old photo randomly stumbled upon. The randomness, and age (6 years ago) seem to make this pic a decent choice for today’s message.

Every person is telling a story about what she or he values.

The proverbial “actions speak louder than words”.

My Disney Institute personal leadership hypothesis:

We judge ourselves on our intentions, others judge us on our behaviors.

No one builds a reputation on what they’re gonna do.

dad

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Essentials drawer

An essentials-drawer is for your most important administrative stuff that doesn’t need storing in a safe.

Scissors, stamps, Passport, and a few post-it notes with million-dollar sayings.

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