Retire – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

Time poor, work

sanibel island florida — Sanibel Island, Florida…all time favorite beach vacations. Worked many ‘vacation’ days here, for many years. It is what it is.

Disney Top Corporate Trainers — Retired the first time (from Disney) on Halloween, 2014. Retired a second time (from Mid Life Celebration, LLC) on New Year’s Day, 2026.

Am i time poor? And, does it even matter?

Time poor is when you are so busy, you cannot afford to waste any time.

You are living without any discretionary time.

No extra time to do something that isn’t required.

But guess what?

Work is no longer required.

The new goal is to ween myself off the need to contribute excellent work (for a paycheck).

With pay comes accountability and responsibility. Since pay is no longer required in our life, i’m anxious to see and feel the lightness of not having pay, nor the responsibility and accountability.

Not only will there be time regained from not working, but also mental energy and emotional energy regained.

.thinking .differently has a new vision.

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Letting go of posturing, work

LinkedIn profile Sept 2012.

Is it possible to finally, for good, let go of habitual, societal posturing?

Started a new career and became a father around age 40.

Also received a serious health wakeup call at 40. Had been sedentary for years.

Began jogging one mailbox a day, for the first week.

Second week, two mailboxes a day.

Third week, three.

Fourth week, four mailboxes a day.

One month to jog the equivalent of one lap around a high school track.

Gradually added more distance.

All of this began when i started at Disney Institute in 1999.

Ten years later, i’m one week away from my Summer 2009 vacation. But it’s only me traveling. To Finland. For the 2009 Masters Track and Field World Championships.

After a decade pursuing physical vibrancy, i finally told my boss and one colleague what was going down. Had been working on the same team of people for a decade.

No one knew.

Never postured my physical achievements.

When i returned, never told others where i had been. Just kept running and going to the gym.

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Hold on, work

Senior couple at Disney — Home sweet home, Walt Disney World.

…and six hours earlier we knew…

We’d be splitting up.

Three cars.

Three pairs.

Two agendas.

One agenda (mine) is to tag along and enjoy the Parks without needing or wanting to stand in line and/or sit in an audience or a ride vehicle. Like we sometimes do at Glacier, wanted to simply chill and watch the ‘wildlife’ (the Guests).

The other agenda is Disney’s Skyliner to Epcot.

Nearly 5pm now, sitting on our front porch (my second fav place on our planet), and four blogs into a five-a-day blogging commitment that began 18 years ago.

Lovin’ life sitting on our screened-in, shaded front porch.

The question often asked is, “WWJD?”

For me, WWjD equals, “What would jeff do?”

So the answer is what i did today.

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The trap to be busy, work

woman and car in parking lot — Living out of the trunk of our car between gigs. (Washington State 1984)

The trap of being busy.

Insidious.

Habitual.

Common.

Addicting.

Harmful.

Unhealthy.

Regretful.

Please stop letting your blind ambition erase your intuition.

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Paperwork playoffs, work

Consulting framework — A sheet of paper, three hand-drawn lines (6 boxes) and then brainstorm the DNA of past, present, future. The future isn’t listed on this sheet (yet).

In personal leadership, it matters little to walk to do the preaching, if not the walking is the preaching.

As paid work has instantly become a low-to-no priority big life choice, letting go is only natural.

However from my observations, most retirees procrastinate.

As i’ve always said, waiting and doing nothing are the twin siblings of self-destruction.

Just because i have room to continue storing all this ‘junk’, doesn’t mean it’s smart to let it sit. And then after i die, someone else has to go through it or ‘bulldoze’ it.

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