No sweat means it’s totally appropriate

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Everyone is at Chef Mickey’s for breakfast.

 

Disney employees and Guests
Where Magic lives…(L-R: me, Kate Shubert and Jeffrey Williford from Disney Institute, and consultant Leslie Mullens from Hawai’i)

 

Do at least one thing a day that scares you.

Was it appropriate to drop in on the group during their relaxed and fun breakfast with the Disney characters?

Walked around the resort taking photos and realized that i had cooled down and stopped sweating.

An invitation came via text. The rest, as they say, is magic history.

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Working vacations are necessary sometimes

Sanibel Island Summer sunsets
Awaiting first Family sunset, 2015.

 

Sanibel Island Summer sunsets
First Family sunset (in progress).

 

Sanibel Island Summer sunsets
First Family sunset heading for grand finale.

 

Sanibel Island Summer sunsets
First Family sunset – take a bow.

 

Sanibel Island Summer sunsets
First Family sunset – encore.

 

Working vacations are under rated and over rated.

Just like exerting the lifetime effort (personal leadership) to stay healthy and active. Or to opt for ‘relaxing, taking it easy, and enjoying life’ at the expense of exertion.

The key is to take enough vacations so that the odds equal out that some are working vacations and some are not.

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It’s your responsibility to set yourself on fire

Steve Jobs Mid Life Celebration phone
Did Steve Jobs have a premonition about Mid Life Celebration?

 

It’s your responsibility to set yourself on fire.

Period.

If you’re on fire with the passion to do excellent work, congratulations. And thank the CEO of You, Inc.

If you’re not on fire with the passion to do excellent work, good luck with influencing the CEO of You, Inc. You can’t fire her.

It’s really critical to say the obvious.

Anyone who has succeed at this has done so because of one reason. They have refused to let bullcrap excuses – the ones we all have – determine their destiny.

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Highest and best use of your 401k assets?

Holy Family Orlando Catholic Church
Many neglect their fiscal responsibilities. The time to worry about your future is when you don’t need to.

Meeting with Wells Fargo this morning to discuss rolling over the Disney 401k, managed by Fidelity Investments.

Fidelity would like it to keep it in the family – rollover the corporate 401k into a different Fidelity investment opportunity. This would eliminate any (albeit remote) possibility of a “claw back‘.

While claw backs are highly unlikely with a company like Disney, there are no guarantees.

There have been real life examples where companies have collapsed (remember Enron) and 401k nest eggs destroyed.

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Take another step forward today

Conference Center Inspiring Banners
Orlando Keynote Speaker

 

The notion that we are each the CEO of You, Inc. is such a powerful notion.

Figuratively or in reality.

It’s ours.

No one else owns it.

We know this.

Yet we wait. Mostly.

So.

Stop.

Waiting.

Take another step forward today.

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