The thesis statement for how to transform your work.
Over-focus on the same things you used to under-focus on or ignore.
If you work for someone else, you will never be compensated for what you are worth.
Wait, sorry, correction – you are paid what you’re worth – a corporation has an obligation to control costs.
Labor costs are managed by having yearly caps for salary increases.
So your 2-3% increase is all you’re worth in the corporate machine.
Suggestion: start your own enterprise and you will find out quickly (give it at least three years) how much you are worth.
PS. The only way to be successful in a sea of people trying to do exactly what you are trying to do – starting a business – is to be different than everyone else.
You can try to be the best in the world (unlikely) or you can try to be different.
There are a million ways to stand out – you simply have to invent yours.
Over-focusing is the only way this is possible.
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Disney characters are so prevalent in American life, we can’t fathom how many times we’ve seen them.
How many times have you seen Mickey Mouse?
Ok, now draw Mickey on your first sheet of paper.
Pathetic.
Seriously.
No sugar coating it.
Second chance…grab another sheet of paper…
i use a “Draw Mickey” activity i taught at Disney Institute to frame up how misguided organizational leaders are when they preach “thinking outside the box”.
Not gonna bore anyone with the details.
Just know the activity is pure genius.
Because humans are easily distracted…
Disney Blog link here for how to draw Disney Characters.
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As an army of one – a small business entrepreneur – you have responsibility for marketing yourself.
This is challenging to do and appear humble simultaneously.
Marketing’s primary job is to shine a spotlight on why their organization, their product, and their people are head-and-shoulders above the competition.
Blogging allows random opportunities (like this post) to play around with that challenge.
Here goes…
How many Orlando-based Disney Keynote Speakers can say this?
I never give the same speech twice
My keynote speeches are unlike anything audiences are used to
I worked at Disney for at least 30 years
I worked at Disney Institute for at least 15 years
I’ve been gone from Disney for less than five years
I live less than one mile from Walt Disney World
I’ve received both of Disney’s Lifetime Achievement Awards
I offer three significant discounts for Orlando Keynote Speeches
I’ve spoken to over one-million people
I’ve spoken to 2,000 different organizations
I retired as Disney Institute’s highest rated, most requested speaker
How many?
PS. The i’s are capitalized because it’s not me speaking, it’s other “Disney Keynote Speakers” asking themselves these questions.
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Assuming client pays for hotel, typical 3-day expenses, using $400 average for airfare.
Creative problem solving, Disney Style…
Context: client and i are far apart on the daily fee for multi-day engagement.
First, please let me apologize for not baking negotiation-room into my offer. This is such an anomaly and i simply assumed you know by now that i .think .differently about everything.
Call Disney Institute and discover their parameters and fees about doing out-of-state engagements as well as on-site at a Disney Property…321-939-4600
(M-F 9:00 am – 5:30 pm ET).
While you’re at it, ask if you can request (guarantee) specific facilitators.
Working with a client – as we speak – who’s asked me to bid against Disney Institute’s offer of $46k for a one-day engagement for 50 people in Orlando at this client’s Orlando office (a rare move by Disney Institute to not require the class to happen on Disney property).
My out-of-state 60-minute keynote fee is $25k.
Disney Institute’s five-day Business Excellence class is $7,750 per person excluding travel expenses. Send only five leaders to Disney and it costs you $39k. Add conservative travel expense for five people to add another $4k…$43k for five people.
My Orlando 60-minute keynote is available for $15k. You can subtract $7.5k because there’s no three-day travel required. This brings us to $17.5k. If you want to save an additional $2.5k, you can pay 100% at contract signing.
There are several choices to negotiate with other entrepreneurs offering Disney content. Contact them. Ask them how long they worked at Disney and how long ago they left Disney, and if they actually ever worked at Disney (some haven’t). You will be astonished at the gap between them and me.
Some never worked at Disney (but they’re great curators), and some only worked a few years at Disney, and none of them have worked at Disney for two, three, or more decades. They are also less expensive.
Some of them are owners, and some have teams – ask for their very best facilitators (if you can’t get the owner) and see if they can guarantee that.
Additionally, to streamline administrative efforts (which cost money) on both ends, our contract should have a flat fee of $660 per trip for travel expenses (air, transportation, parking, meals, etc). This also assumes you will automatically book and pay for my hotel accommodations. i pay (and book) everything else from the travel fee you pay up front.
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