Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Learning to let go of holding on to what scares us.
Composed and sent 15 emails yesterday to everyone who initiated contact (requesting a keynote speaker) in the first 30 days of retirement.
Following up isn’t scary. Quite good at it. What seems scary is being labeled as a stereotypical salesperson only interested in making a sale.
Overcoming this will set him free.
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Who’s the CEO of “You, Inc”?
We transition from one busy, ordinary day to the next, mostly driven by our good intentions of getting to the important stuff “tomorrow”.
Friendly reminder to your CEO. Today is yesterday’s tomorrow.
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(photo: One of the most important questions the audience should ask themselves. “So what does this mean to us?”)
Leaders set the tone.
Leaders maintain, accentuate, or ignore the tone they set.
Year after year.
Heading out shortly for our 15th annual Christmas morning delivery of Food For Families.
We began this Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter tradition in 1999, the year before parenthood.
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(photo: Bottom left, sitting on Main Street enjoying a Starbucks breakfast sandwich at 9:30am the day after Thanksgiving.)
Bold question.
Kind too.
Has the reality of your daily life sunk in?
Filled with hope?
Prepared to work incredibly hard?
Yesterday was a bit closer to feeling it here. See photo above.
Today is the last day of the first month of retirement.
The only way to get to this point was to dream, do, dream, do, dream, do…
And along the way, constantly overcome failure, doubt, and fear.
The goal to retire at 55 was made six years in advance.
The goal to carve out a career at Disney was made at the tender age of 25.
It was 30 years to pay off a mortgage and reach the pinnacle of an incredible career.
It was a five day drive from Pullman, Washington to Orlando, Florida in 1984.
And before loading up the car for good, a risk had to be taken.
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(photo: Yesterday we volunteered at Church and at Middle School and then visited the closest dealership.)
Do you know exactly what you want without having to do research, compare statistics, ask questions, etc? Generally not when we are younger and less experienced.
Working hard in an admirable way for a long, long time has an upside. You gain more control of things you had less control of when you were less experienced younger.
Walked into a dealership yesterday after the Saturday school festival and a few hours later walked out striking a fair deal on a new van. Same van we bought 11 years ago. A vehicle and company we trust.
Didn’t even test drive the vehicle. Why would you need to?
PS. Trusting the maker and trusting the seller are two entirely different propositions. Car dealerships have negative, long-seeded stereotypes. It would be great for the sellers to rupture them.
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