Blog – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Only limitations

Chalkboard with random things — Minneapolis airport, 2014, coffee shop chalk board with invitation to “draw your best robot” (Top left). Bottom right is a blogging robot. HQ is the big box holding everything together. Body, spirit and work are clear. The top left small box is mind – a head with a brain.

The only limitations you have are those you impose upon yourself.
dad

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World-record fool

Disney character as a ceiling feature — Goofy is no fool.

Spring 2009, a meager record of two consecutive days. How would it be possible to achieve 4,400 consecutive days by Spring 2021?
dad

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Artistic gratitude

Book next to Madison Square Garden theater sign — January 2014. New York City.

The side of a Disney Institute van — January 2014. Walt Disney World.

Three men in suits on a stage — January 2014. On Madison Square Garden Theater stage for Super Bowl 48 game day staff training.

Hone your ability to live in constant gratitude and you’ll find it impossible to be unhappy while being grateful. Trust me.
dad

How did i come to start a 13th consecutive year writing two hours everyday without missing a single day? The easy answer is the constant gratitude that daily writing provides.
dad

Note: Today marks the final month of year 12. Expecting deep reflection this month. It snuck up on me. It’s incomprehensible. But will now endeavor – before April Fools Day 2021 – to capture the enormity, and the smallness, of the journey.

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Give your best away

Covid graph — USA deaths as of December 4, 2020.

Give your best away for free. We hear this from ~~well-intended~~ snake-oil sales people trying to make a buck off of vulnerable, and often gullible, people.

You’ve heard the saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”

As we end 2020 (it’s early December as this is written), i have reflected on the reality that i have been “giving away my best for free” unknowingly.

Will unpack as you read through today’s thread.

What is your biggest gift from Covid-19?
dad

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Honing initiative

Snowball shaped Mickey Head — Descending from Swiftcurrent Mountain’s (8,200’) fire tower, fashioned a “hidden Mickey” from a small pile of unmelted snow. Snow is rare as you can see. The motivation is nothing but the initiative to potentially make someone smile.

Initiative solves most challenges by fixing things before they break.
dad

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