Dear Son – Page 63 – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

Comfort Or Fuel For Our Money?

We work hard to do a good job, hoping all the while someone will recognize our efforts, which will lead to increased pay.

To do an excellent job, we skip meals because we can get more work done if we don’t leave our desk.

We snack on sugar-filled foods because they are easy to unwrap, don’t require refrigeration, nor heating, and they taste oh so good.

We stay late to get more work done, often missing dinner time.

When we arrive home late, sugar-laden food choices like cookies, cake, and ice cream are easy to prepare, readily available, taste great, calm our nerves, and cleanup is minimal.

Perfect.

Right?

Our other option is to use intentional, balanced, highly nutritious food choices.

Nah.

Too much effort, cost, and planning.

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What does it sound like when you change your career?

PBJ sandwich Disney Style – spread peanut butter on both slices of bread so the jelly doesn’t make the bread soggy. (jelly waiting to be spread). Have you ever done it this way?

What does it sound like when you change your career?

It sounds like fear, doubt, excitement, possibility, and transformation.

It sounds like either freedom or prison.

Sounds like joy or dread.

We live out our days as a visionary or an order taker.

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You should give a speech to the students about that

The International Baccalaureate (IB) High School diploma is an option at our school.

It virtually guarantees top–shelf credibility and predictive success no matter what University Admissions Director reads your college application.

Students are immersed in above average rigor and group requirements, and are therefore prepared for the same thing in higher education – it’s not a shock to their lifestyle.

On the drive home from school last night, i reminded our son that doing these things meets expectations, but it’s the little things, like thanking a teacher after class for a great insight, that exceed expectations.

There are no courses (except perhaps Disney Institute) focusing on exceeding expectations.

The High School sophomore said, “You should give a speech to the students about that.”

(Dear son, thank you for paying me a compliment, and encouraging me.)

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Training versus development

Corn stalks — Using new iPhone 7 Plus camera depth effect.

Pennsylvania barn — Barn near the Nursing home.

Weather vane — We talked for an hour about true North.

Training versus development.

Train for compliance.

Develop for commitment.

Compliance shouldn’t be taken in a negative context here. Compliance is when employees (and children) and doing exactly what they should be doing, exactly when it should be.

Commitment, however, is doing more than you are paid (or as children, expected) to do and to do it willingly, and to do it all the time.

Last night, i let the 10-grader lead the adult conversation and drive us to a resolution.

While his initiative was not good (perhaps from a trained parent-child relationship), his execution was stellar.

A huge step in development.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

Murphy’s law was trying to break me

Graphic design specs — Spent two hours at Kinkos yesterday. Learned that a workbook cover will have a white edge surrounding it unless you pay extra for the “bleed” for an 8.50 x 11.0. i wasn’t looking to learn this.

Murphy’s law was trying to break me yesterday afternoon. How do i know? When something that should be easy, quick, and fun turns into the opposite.

There’s a feeling i get when professionals don’t do their jobs like they mean it. Going through the motions (it happens sometimes) only frustrates me when someone else in the organization knows the ball was dropped, but doesn’t apologize and doesn’t quickly reassure me not to worry about a thing.

Thank you to Moises, team lead, for exuding great karma. The last thing i needed was one more person to get involved, but Moises wowed me with his can-do attitude and ownership.

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