Sell me on how, work

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My home-office desk honors a “bead jar”. So much commitment, discipline, vision, and forethought.
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The bead jar never travels. Jack the Bear has been around the world.
If Disney Ran Your Life Podcast in Kuwait
Wait, the bead jar traveled to Kuwait in 2019 for my TEDx Talk. The big trifecta: Jack, Stitch, and the Bead Jar. Kuwait Towers in background.
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This bead jar has been in front of me every day since August 2000.

If Disney ran your life…

How can you be qualified to lead an expedition if you cannot explain ‘true north” and why it’s the most important thing?

How can you start by focusing on ‘what to do’ and ‘how to do it’ when you don’t know “true north”?

Oh wait, people do it this way because that’s how most do it.

In my 25-year keynote speaking and business advising career, inside 2,000 different organizations to varying degrees of depth and breadth, i witnessed only 1/1000 (yes, thousandth) know why they exist.

Side note: Disney and Advent Health (formerly Florida Hospital) are the only two. That’s two out of 2,000.

True north is why you exist. It’s why your company exists.

When you know and are 100% committed to why you exist, your what and how will reveal themselves. Your what and your how will also reveal when it needs refreshed, revised, or replaced.

But your true north never changes.

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Get busy living, work

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Consistently using courage is hard work. Until it isn’t.
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Let this one sink in.

Dylan (Bob) said, “He who is not busy being born, is busy dying.”

Spring Break is a time for celebration and relaxation.

Leadership, fear, and courage are siblings.

All three travel side by side, for a lifetime.

Note to self: Invest irrationally in vision, vibrancy, and courage.

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Memory a day, work

Disney Dream Cruise 2016 photos
Good morning sunrise tradition from Deck 12. Disney Dream Cruise 2016.

Memories are a type of currency. Like money.

Money buys you stuff.

Memories buy you stuff.

You invest wisely so you can reap “stuff” from your investment’s (exponential) growth.

The magic of compound interest (and doubling).

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Watching “The Madison”, work

Two Dog Flats restaurant
GNP. We joked about returning to Glacier to have lunch here again. A few weeks later, before School started, we returned for lunch. We stayed a couple days.
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GNP. Our final Glacier National Park photo from 2014. i was 55, he was 13. i spoke briefly about savoring the moment because it may not happen again.

Watching “The Madison” on Paramount…

Vision.

Brand.

Focused.

Trailer.

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Spring break, work

Married couple posing with Mickey Mouse
Two retired Disney Cast Members, with 66 combined years of Disney Service. Photo: Disneyland trip to celebrate Cheryl’s Disney retirement in February 2020. No one saw Covid-19 coming when this happened. Just rumors. No panic. No pandemic talk. One month later the world changed. Glad we got this trip in the books before the panic, uncertainty, and masks.

“Anyone else think like this” is a blog category.

Anyone else think of retirement as a potential “Spring Break” opportunity?

Will my retirement spring break last one month, one year, one decade?

Time will tell.

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