Tag: milestones

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

Keeping my blogging a quiet, personal endeavor.

Kept it quiet out of habit, like i did for a decade prior while overcoming a major health wakeup call through running. Running that eventually led to me going to Finland in 2009 to represent Team USA in the Masters Track and Field World Championships in the Men’s 50-54 age group. Never told a soul.

Well, eventually, i told my leader and one colleague, but not until two weeks from the actual trip. Nine years, 11 months and two weeks of quietly doing my thing. A good and decent thing.

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What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

Another of the earliest and most important questions…

What will you speak about after you retire?

A few ideas collided to create Mid Life Celebration, the paradox, the antithesis, of midlife crisis.

i would craft a personal speaking business challenging 80 million Baby Boomers to do something great before they die. To dust off one of their lofty childhood dreams that still inspired them. And then go for it.

Why?

To die without regret.

To have no regret that they never tried to do the thing they promised themselves was supremely important to them in their youth.

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What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

i was super busy and super ignorant.

At 25 years into my full-time Disney career, how was i going to learn how to write, how to build, and how to write some more…

Without impacting my demanding Disney Institute career?

What i gained from this heavy lift surprised and delighted me. The ‘extra’ work didn’t turn out to be extra, it turned out to be fertilizer.

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What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

You know, after the Disney layoffs in 2008, i quickly saw the light in using personal blogging to help me build my ‘slow-and-steady’ Plan B.

An early memory that’s easy to forget or discount is how i discovered an Orlando WordPress meetup group.

Their target audience was website developers and website designers.

i was there simply to understand how blogging worked. What common mistakes to avoid. What easy best practices are must-dos? Etc.

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What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

My original blogging idea started in 2007 because i thought Disney Institute (DI) Facilitators could each have a blog and share Disney Institute essence, content, offerings, etc, as we traveled the globe.

After months of a slow and personal campaign to gain DI peer and leadership buy-in, i failed, gave up, and accepted leadership’s digital fear.

But i did not abandon the idea.

In fact, i creatively grew it as a personal experiment.

My thinking was, let me be an early adaptor, get in the “blogging game” so to speak, and be ahead of the curve once blogging became corporately less fearful.

Never saw coming what was about to happen in 2008-2009.

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