About Mid Life Celebration – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Footer videos

22-second video: Heads-up about blog layout changes.

Favorite growth mindset video…6:10 video…watched many times before bedtime with our son.

Glacier National Park is in my top five favorite places on the planet…35-minute overview…

Culture = habits. Habits = results. Therefore culture = results. A simple way to break a bad habit TED Talk.

These three videos have been removed from this blog’s footer section.

Why?

The upgrade from WordPress Twenty Twenty-One theme to Twenty Twenty-Two.

But why?

Seamless theme upgrades where a click away. Now, this upgrade is beyond my experience level. Once my experience catches up, i might resume footer videos.

Note: This is going down November 11, 2022.

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So much thinking

Circa 2008 or 2009. Never used this logo.

So much thinking.

To be well past 25,000 published blog posts requires a daily .thinking .differently habit that defies logic.

The journey of walking around the Earth begins with a single step.

Note: Walking across the Earth will require a boat ride or two as well.

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Disney Retirement anniversary

Bicycling Going-to-the-Sun Road in mid-June. Road is closed to vehicular traffic. Have spent multiple Summers here working on a series of books. Work from anywhere. Write from anywhere.

Disney Retirement anniversary number eight.

It killed me to leave Disney after 30 years instead of 40.

Little did i know, retiring early was a brilliant move. Life is good like that sometimes.

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Disney Retirement eve

Kuwait City skyline — Kuwait City from my hotel room. Kuwait Towers, far right.

Eighth Disney Retirement eve, October 30, 2022.

Retiring from Disney does not mean retired.

Not retired, at all.

Like you’ve heard a dozen times, “Retired from Disney but not retired from working.”

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66 – 80

Thought Cheryl and i would spend 40 years each at Walt Disney World. Can you imagine one couple serving and leading (and having fun) for 80 years combined?

Turns out our 66 combined years of Disney Service is perfect. Cheryl with 36 years and me retiring 10 years early with 30 years of service.

.think .differently

My decade-early departure (retirement in 2014) was a six-year plan spurred on by two things:

First, a catalytic Disney layoff in 2008-09…the Real Estate and Banking collapse (the Great Recession, akin to the Great Depression).

Second, the realization that i should have a Plan B in case this ever happened again.

Historical note: It did happen again in 2020 when Covid-19 decimated Disney operations world-wide. Roughly 30,000 Cast Members in Florida and California were laid off and eventually terminated. Disney Institute went from approximately 170 Cast Members to about 20.

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