Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
T-minus 6 days.
Less than a week away.
What?
In six days, year 14 starts.
Year 14 for what?
Year 14 for consecutive years writing 5 daily, differently-themed blog posts.
Not only never missing a year, but never missing a single day. Not one.
Ever.
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This website is about our MIND. To read today’s post about our BODY, click here.
The best time to worry is when you don’t need to.
dad
Think positive, read positive, write positive, watch positive, speak positive, have positive friends. Seems obvious. But.
But what is even more obvious, ridiculously more obvious, is doing the opposite. Watch how this reads, sounds, feels:
Think negative, read negative, write negative, watch negative, speak negative, have negative friends.
Worry in advance. Take climate change. We needed to worry about it before we needed to worry about it. That’s the only way to prevent it.
When you don’t prevent a negative, closed mindset, you eventually (by the magic of slow and steady compound interest) find yourself in the proverbial emergency room.
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Three days after the Disney Retirement party, Walt Disney World honored all the 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 and 45 year Cast Service Awards at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, on a single night, massive scale.
As a Disney Executive, Cheryl had double duty: hosting honored Cast Members in her Human Resources Division as well as being an honored and celebrated Cast Member herself.
This annual tradition is generally held near calendar year end. It has become so large that an entire Disney Theme Park is required to host the thousands of Cast Members, their Guests, as well as the Disney Executive Leadership Team and Catering and Events Team.
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Why 30 years at Disney, not 40?
Simple.
Our son was about to enter High School.
Disney Institute (DI) was requiring (expecting) more frequent travel, to more distant locations, for longer durations.
Didn’t want to wake up in four years and our Son’s life launches him on a trajectory (like me when i graduated HS) whereby he never returns home to live.
Note: Could have transferred out of DI Delivery Operations and secured a position back in Hotel Ops. Could have stayed the 40 years at Disney and retired in 2024.
Turns out, was born to teach but never knew it until 1999, at age 40.
Turns out, was born to be a ship captain not a deck hand.
Turns out, was willing to “burn the ships” to ensure what roughly 3-5% succeed at – building a sustainable, long-term enterprise.
Hidden track: The Disney layoffs from the 2008-09 Great Recession were the catalyst for considering what a Plan B looks like.
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This website is about our MIND. To read today’s post about our BODY, click here.
If your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough.
dad
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This website is about our MIND. To read today’s post about our BODY, click here.