Category: Dear Son

Is this cheating?

For college students sitting on a mountain porch deck
Upper left. Look familiar?

Many of the blessings in my life currently feel too good to be true.

Why?

Humbly, i submit it’s from over-focusing on what i used to under-focus on.

Over-focusing on what i believe are life’s basics…

Having fun perusing life’s basics.

.thinking .differently about life’s basics.

Leaning into discomfort while pursuing and improving my efforts to never get bored with life’s basics.

Is this cheating?

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Senior Year Day 4, work

iPhone notes app list
Son, you summarized our talks at Lake McDonald Lodge and from the Fish Lake and Snyder Lake trails.

Learn from those who embody what they teach.

dad

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Senior Year Day 3, work

screen shot of INC article
Screen shot from a random LinkedIn post. Theory is that money is not what drives employee loyalty.

You will have leaders throughout your life.

Parents, teachers, healthcare, peers, internships, trips, employment, community, etc.

There’s a range of how we lead and how we feel we are being led:

  1. Poor
  2. Just ok
  3. Good
  4. Very good
  5. Excellent

Learn from all categories.

Learn what is excellent and why.

Learn what is not excellent and why.

Mold yourself into a great personal vibrancy leader.

The first leadership victory is with self.

Have fun.

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Senior Year Day 2, work

LinkedIn screenshot of Van France story
Disney is Fanatical about it’s purpose. Make people so happy so they return often and tell others. Photo: LinkedIn screenshot of some Disney curator’s post.

Simplicity is operational genius.

Bob Iger led with three priorities:

  1. Creativity
  2. Technology
  3. Globalization

Deconstruct Bob’s priorities…

  1. Creativity is Disney’s DNA
  2. Technology is the way for everything
  3. Sell more stuff, to more people, more often

Let’s deconstruct one more level down:

  1. Creativity is the environment
  2. Tech is the tool
  3. Profit is the reward/goal

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Senior Year Day 1, work

empty grocery store shelves
Didn’t see a career change coming from a single 1999 phone call. No one saw Covid-19, a 2020 microbe, disrupting the entire world’s normalcy.

Senior Year Day 1, work…

Remember, i was 40 before a serendipitous phone call led me to what i was born to do.

dad

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