How did you used to do it?

Montreal Convention Center
First AV check

 

Montreal Convention Center
Second AV check

 

Disney Customer Service Speaker
600 people staring at you expecting you to be smart and funny.

 

Disney Customer Service Keynote Speaker
Keeping it simple is extraordinarily taxing because simple is easily dismissed as not valid.

 

First keynote speaking engagement outside of Florida since retiring from 30 incredible years at Disney. Which, by the way, has always been the plan – to be able to leave my driveway (to speak) and return to it the same day, without hopping on a plane.

Don’t know how i used to do it week after week.

Fly all day. AV check. Dinner. Review presentation (again). Sleep.

Wake. Breakfast. Review presentation. First one in the room for another AV check. Facilitate transformational content all day. Last one to leave the room. Dinner. Check email and do admin stuff. Bed.

Often, the above step is repeated several days in a row.

Wake. Maybe a run. Taxi to airport. Fly all day. Maybe home by dinner time. Maybe not.

Not home in time for dinner last night, Friday the 13th.

 

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Orlando based speaker

Orlando based leadership speakers

 

(photo: Colorado State University auditorium)

What makes us incredibly excited to go to work?

Seriously, what?

Hope your answer instantaneously rolls off your tongue.

PS. After a five-week vacation, today is the first day back teaching as an Orlando based leadership speaker.

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We know this yet are tempted by old habits to never change

Disneyland compass entrance
Real life in real time… no fuss over traditional photography strategies

 

Learning to travel light is one of the best habits we can develop as we age.

Learning to accept and embrace imperfections is also remarkably healthy.

Remarkably.

We know this yet are tempted by old habits to never change.

Get your CEO (of your life) involved if necessary.

And it will be necessary.

We know this.

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Early to bed early to rise, yada yada yada, right?

Lake Tibet Osprey Overlook
Winter in Orlando.

 

Early to bed early to rise, yada yada yada, right?

Out the door at 6am.

Orlando International Airport.

Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Airport.

Calgary International Airport.

Lethbridge International Airport.

All of that so that this morning can be remarkable for a very special audience.

Guessing they never saw what’s coming.

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Road trip to North America’s most extraordinary beachfront lifestyle

email from The Breakers, Palm Beach, Florida
Middle paragraph, 1st sentence…

 

Road trip in a few hours. A 2.5 hour drive from Walt Disney World Resort. Back home tomorrow after a 60-minute keynote.

Writing daily, and extensively, and tirelessly, helps a professional speaker in a way that only those that do the same can understand.

Sound boastful?

Why?

It’s merely a statement of massive effort to bring art to the audience. Art that has a much greater propensity to transform than much less prepared, going-through-the-motions-because-I-am-busy presentation ever will.

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