Tag: Wisdom

Don’t drop the ball

5-second video: Someone dropped the ‘ball’. Probably an adult because i didn’t hear anyone crying.

Wisdom comes from experience.

Experience comes from making mistakes.

Grateful to know this.

Grateful to embrace this.

Grateful to chase this.

Note: Found and told a Cast Member. Went back to the slip hazard until the Cast Member returned with a wet cloth and cleaned up the slip hazard in one fowl swoop. It was impressive. Definitely not his first rodeo.

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100% fatality rate, work

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Advent Health’s name tag is brilliant. A simple, clear, concise, and compelling, scalable way to communicate compassionate care.

None of us get out of this life alive.

Not sure of my best-work-habits fatality rate after i’m gone.

Don’t aim to be the best in your category. Become the category.

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The biggest challenges

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The sole reason i continue to write prolifically after 13+ years of never missing a day is to leave a trail for this college student. A secondary reason surfaced after the original 100-day, self-imposed writer’s bootcamp – writing helps me find peace and contentment on a wild planet.

The biggest challenges with fear:

  • Narrowing the gap between closed mindset and growth mindset
  • Unintentionally fueling no-win discussion/arguments
  • Quelling fear
  • Remaining patient and professional with the opposite
  • Losing hope that there will be a mutual understanding

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Five things to know

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Angel Wing dominates the foreground. Behind it, almost invisible, is Mt Gould, which is massively bigger from a different angle. Change what you see and what you see changes.

Five things to know:

  1. Wonderful blessings come from adversity
  2. Gratitude deepens, broadens, and accelerates wisdom
  3. Gratitude frees you from anger, hate, impatience
  4. Karma is a blue chip stock
  5. So is humility

Writing forces you to out-think and out-learn the former you, the non-writer. But not in a competitive way. In a steady, self-improvement way. Emotional wounds can be deep. Out thinking and out learning your former non-writing self is personal leadership triage.

Happy present moment and God bless everyone.

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2021 Disney Keynote Speaker firsts

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These two share 66 years of Disney Service and Leadership.

2021 Disney Keynote Speaker firsts…this is an “intermission” in my unpacking last night’s intensely-painful event.

Deep breath.

Exhale.

And remember that writing is as cathartic a daily exercise as any other option.

Here goes a remarkably simple, uneventful story. Yet this story illustrates a dramatic leap in my artistry as a professional speaker. And it happened just four months ago. This is significant in the 23-year arch of a prolific speaking career.

Here goes:

Grateful that risk taking yields growth…

Let’s review the Disney Keynote Speaking firsts from 2021: 

Walked from home to Disney Convention Center, to speak.

1st Disney speech – in 2,000 speeches – delivered without slides.

1st time using conference A/V staff to role-play a story.

1st Disney Keynote delivery in jean shorts.

1st time in Walt Disney World’s 50-year history a Disney conference speaker walked from their house to speak at Disney.

Bonus 1st: 1st time in 23 years with a 16-month (Covid) public-speaking gap.

All firsts happened in one day. Would have been ridiculously easy to take no risks. Just do what you always do – what works – since 1999. Without multiple risks of failure on this day there’d be no growth. And because none of the risks failed, it was an epic growth day.

None of these firsts required a checklist. All of these firsts required an unexplored frontier.

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