Tag: Adversity

Blessed is the teeth kick

Glacier National Park.
GNP. Rising Sun Motor Inn parking lot with pay phones (lower left)..

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all the troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

Walt Disney

Every situation, properly perceived, is an opportunity.

dad

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Calm anything

GNP.

A calm sea never made a skillful mariner.

dad

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Got your umbrella?

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This is one avenue yet to be tried.

This is a perfect time to have a rainy day fund.

Adversity doesn’t develop character, it reveals it.

Remember that sentiment in today’s first post at MidLifeCelebration.com?

Having a rainy day fund is a perfect example.

Additionally, being debt free is also a perfect example. Learn to pay as you go, so when global adversity hits, your ship – your sanity – stays afloat.

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Great leaders overmanage what other leaders don’t

Disney culture model
i spent 15 years speaking full time, explaining this simple model to outsiders. Photo: Disney Institute training materials.

 

Disney great leaders
Screen shot of Disney Institute video featuring answers to the question, from Disney Leaders.

 

Notes from a lifetime at Disney
Notes from a lifetime at Disney

 

Bottom photo, catch the 2007 date in upper left?

Overmanaged the details of every speech i gave since 1999. In the notes above, here’s the back story deciphered:

  • While flying from Orlando to Minneapolis i brainstormed some topics that would share my personal experience with the conference theme.
  • Left Pennsylvania for Washington State with $75, on a bicycle.
  • As a Disney Resort Operations Manager, i “got my throat ripped out” everyday, by a Guests so angry, their jugular veins were “popping out”.
  • Every year i was the closing manager New Year’s Eve and opening manager New Year’s Day. Think about that one.
  • Waited 13 years before asking for Christmas week off and didn’t get it. Got it in my 14th year. True story.
  • Received my 5-years of Disney Service award pin two months late, in an interoffice envelope.
  • I chased a national championship as a Masters Track & Field 400 meter runner.
  • Generated 50% more sales leads than the next highest team member. The next year reached that same number in seven months instead of 12.
  • In 2007, i drove an 18-year old car. Now my car is 27 years old.

Funny how you unearth a random note page, a relic from your past, and it floods you with awe and wonder, and a smile of gratitude.

 

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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.