Category: Dear Son

Enter the Web Log

child with butterfly net in flower meadow
Wow, what a blast from the past, maybe 2005. Our front yard.

The term Blog is the iteration that came from Web Log.

i know this because my first (while at Disney Institute) folder about this new thing, social media, was labeled Web Log.

Simple idea. Wanna write a book, then practice writing. Get in writing-shape.

Wanna run a half-marathon, practice running. Get in running-shape.

Blogging was the perfect training facility to get in writing-shape.

Blogging was a miserable activity for a year or so. Couldn’t get the hang of the muscle memory. In reality, i simply wasn’t practicing enough.

On April Fools day, 2009 i fixed this.

To this day (we are in 2021), i haven’t missed a single day writing five differently-themed blog posts.

Practice, practice, practice, practice.

Now play.

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Four posts in

funny quote about pricing
Basically, formulaic. Also, accurate.

Here we are four posts into today’s thread and you (me) haven’t written a darn thing that resembles a “Welcome and thank you for subscribing” email.

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Why not?

Mickey Mouse
Snazzy dresser.

Taking a break isn’t quitting, it’s simply a break.

The only reason taking a break makes us nervous is because an intended short break looks exactly like the early start to quitting.

dad

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Imagine every night

mid life celebration, the book, at Rocky mountain National Park entrance
To be so close (teaching at Colorado State University) and not make the attempt to briefly visit just didn’t feel right.

Imagine one has the daily habit of a generous gesture like preparing meals and weekly gestures like doing laundry and grocery shopping. Now imagine denying yourself the gift of gratitude by not thanking the doer.

dad

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Got Communication?

Disney is big, busy, and customer expectations are out-of-this-world high. How do you communicate to every employee the most important things in a scaleable, digestible, and welcomed way?

Use your constant need to communicate with your team as a daily, tireless, world-class tool to inform and inspire what your culture stands for and why this is mission critical.

dad

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