Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
My Greatest Mental Failures in 2017:
About a handful of times, i got angry – less than a minute each time. i believe it’s possible to live without anger.
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November 30th meet December 30?
i love writing in such a way that there is no pressure on me to write to please others.
i used to worry about writing ahead – not posting live, but posting in the future. Kinda the way many television shows are recorded and then aired later.
Stumbled upon it on a 14-hour flight for a Disney Institute engagement because i was worried i wouldn’t have time the next morning to write.
Had just learned how to schedule a post to publish on a future date. In preparation for this trip, i wrote a post while still in Orlando for the morning i was worried about.
As luck would have it, my fear never happened and i wrote that morning, 14-hours from Orlando.
This meant i now had a surplus of five posts (one day’s worth).
Bottomline: i’m currently writing 30 days out – in this case, 30 days before New Year’s Eve.
So i’m thinking about the ineffectiveness of resolutions.
i’m also thinking about how December 30, 2001 was the last day i drank alcohol.
Turns out, for determined people, you figure out how to conquer your fears and follow your dreams – no matter what day you decide to commit.
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Every once in awhile, the Universe offers you a clue that something you came up with on your own is actually something rare, and valuable.
Yesterday’s email included the daily dose of Hugh McLeod at Gaping Void Art.
It was a link in Hugh’s daily message that led to the screen shot coming up…
In the center of the screen shot below is the word-for-word phrase i use to tell others what’s different about my Disney Approach.
i’ve spent my life deconstructing Disney’s DNA and reconstructing it in brilliantly simplistic fashion.
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First principles thinking is about deconstructing what looks complex and then reconstructing it in a simple breakdown of reality – let’s call it irrefutable truth.
Click on the hyperlink in the previous sentence to read more about the concept Aristotle is credited with inventing and Elon Musk is credited for famously applying.
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Writing changes people.
Only people who write daily understand this.
Wish i could impart the wisdom to everyone who isn’t prepared to do the work.
What a fantasy, right?
Start writing a little bit every day.
If you really want to live on the edge, publish every day.
Show the world what you believe in.
And be prepared for no one to care.
Be prepared for deafening silence.
And keep writing anyway.
It will either turn out worse than you expected or much better than you expected.
Sorry, but i’m not able to predict your results.
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It is done.
Finally.
Over the weekend, went back in and re-wrote 200+- blog posts to fill in the calendar count gaps on the five main Mid Life Celebration websites.
Why was there a gap?
When i began blogging in 2008 – and particularly when i began writing five daily, differently-themed posts in April 2009 – Disney and Disney Institute didn’t have a social media policy.
The word on the street was, “Use good judgment”.
Never knowing i’d be blogging past the 100-day self-imposed writer’s bootcamp, i found myself with thousands of posts a few years later.
Eventually, we had an ambiguous (in my opinion) social media policy.
What if a leader subjectively said i crossed a line?
i rewrote many posts and some were too challenging to rewrite so i simply deleted them – roughly 200 posts gone, permanently.
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