Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
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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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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The early days of Mid Life Celebration…yesterday, i stumbled upon these crayon sketches and handmade business card ideas from December 2008 and January 2009.
Today, March 10, 2019, on this “Spring Forward” clock change morning, it’s helpful for this moment of pause to see what the dream seed looked like a decade ago.
PS. i coined the phrase Mid Life Celebration somewhere around 2001, less than a year after becoming a dad. Officially incorporated the LLC January 1, 2009.
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The world record for blog posts from one author belongs to Darren Murph.
Darren was hired to write, so his 10-12 daily posts was his job (career).
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November 11, 2018.
Happy present moment.
Taking a risk.
Something is saying, “just do it”.
Like TV shows recorded before a live audience but aired later, i write 5 daily, differently-themed blog posts in real time and post them 2 months later…
The daily writing ideas include the things you probably think about every morning…
1. What i learned yesterday.
2. What i get to do today.
3. What i hope for tomorrow.
When i wrote the daily 5 posts on Sept 11, never could have predicted the timing of our Son landing in London 2 hours ago (Nov 11, the day i wrote these) and the messages in these posts.
Absolutely random.
On the five daisy-chained websites, there’s no way to leave comments, no way to share, and no email subscription option.
Not looking to create social proof, validate my self-image, or grow a business.
It began innocently as a 100-day self-imposed writer’s boot camp to prepare for writing my first book.
And it started on April Fools Day 2009.
Thought i was a fool to think i could write 500 posts in 100 consecutive days.
(my previous record was two consecutive days)
It was doomed to fail.
Enter a miracle.
After nearly 3,500 consecutive days, i still write to leave a trail for our Son.
3,500 days x 5 posts = 17k+
5 themes…
Mind • Body • Spirit • Money • HQ
Simple (yet elusive) recipe for balance.
With 17,000+ blog posts on the Internet, you know i’ve never tried to get any of you to read them – and if you are a prson who sees this one, here’s to hoping something positive stays with you.
Today is not an exception.
Not trying to get you to read.
Just thinking about serendipity…
Happy New Day.
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