Leading yourself?

Granite Park Chalet
To sleep here 15 days in a Summer of 90 days is absurdly over-focused. No electricity, no running water, no heat (nights in 40’s), no wifi, spotty cell signal, pit toilet.

Leading yourself?

If you’ve been habitually over-focused on your personal and professional development, you are not panicked right now.

Why?

Because the chaos the world is experiencing is normal for you.

You are always experiencing things that are uncertain, taking risks others could take, but never do.

You have already lived with deep fear and even deeper doubt. You’ve failed, learned, and improved. Over and over.

It’s part of your DNA – being comfortable being uncomfortable.

When you quit your job to start your business, you made do with limited resources, uncertain conditions and outcomes, as well as the psychological trauma of probably losing it all. Odds overwhelming do not favor startups.

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Podcast summary

spent dandelion
The ultimate design for every living creature is to reproduce. And perfectly, there are beautiful and wondrous exceptions. Some march to the beat of a different drummer and contribute in endlessly special ways.

If Disney Ran Your Life podcast assumptions:

  • Personal vibrancy yields balance
  • High Disney-style standards will not be lowered
  • Participation in the 72-hour challenges is expected
  • Each episode builds on the previous episode
  • You must believe balance is achievable
  • You must teach what you learn and do

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Hei Moana, share some Magic

Cinderella
Cinderella making Magic Happen.
Miguel from Coco
Miguel from Disney Pixar Coco, making Magic Happen.
Disneyland parade float
Five Cast Members are required to move the float forward.
Todrick Hall
Todrick Hall co-composed the songs for Magic Happens. He sat a few people to our right.
Disneyland crowd control
Minutes after the world premiere of Disneyland’s Magic Happens parade.

Hei Moana, share some Magic.

Ok.

These photos do just that.

Did you see what i did with the title?

Used a word from each of today’s previous three post titles.

Magic does happen.

If you over-focus on the same things you used to under-focus on or ignore.

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The Show must go on

Jody Maberry and jeff noel
Recording Season 5, Episode 2 yesterday from Disneyland.
Jody Maberry and jeff noel
The top photo shows a window with a view down into Disney’s California Adventure.
Dream trinket at Disneyland
Dream? Of course. Why? It gives us hope.

The Show must go on.

One of our (Disney) key world-class organizational principles is separating backstage from onstage.

If people knew how relentlessly hard we must work all day, day after day, people would not believe it.

It’s cool to be a business advisor who can help outsiders bring world-class Disney business principles to their own organizational culture.

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Bob Iger stepped down yesterday

Jody Maberry at Pixar Pier
Jody can now say he’s been to Pixar Pier. His announcement and Bob Iger’s stepping down announcement was yesterday’s big news.

Bob Iger stepped down, effective immediately, yesterday February 25, 2020.

Stock closed at $128.

Covid19 is threatening the world.

When you live long enough, you know a stock’s rapid rise is not sustainable short term. Stocks are long-term investments.

This is a hard lesson to embrace because few of us can see long-term horizons.

Going the distance, so to speak, requires stamina.

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