About Mid Life Celebration – Page 4 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

In reality, we don’t need to feel guilty

Disney Cruise – first thing a saw yesterday morning.

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, the writer was up at 5:00am, writing like she means it.

Being off social media for eight days while sailing on the Disney Fantasy was surprisingly easy.

So much drama.

Just because Facebook gives everyone (us) a microphone doesn’t mean we should use it.

A Facebook Page would make sense.

Then, people could Like your Page and follow your story.

The harsh reality is very few people care about what we have to say.

PS. This post was prompted because i read some Facebook updates a few minutes ago, now that we are back on land and have unlimited wifi.

Maybe i just need to mute some people’s updates. But it doesn’t feel right. Why be connected if you’re not gonna listen?

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It is done

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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Correcting Word Press calendar post tallies

blog calendar — Word Press calendar. Every month should have a minimum number that matches the number of days in a month.

Writing 200+- blog posts the past 48 hours has been taxing.

But i’ve been motivated to correct a flaw.

The flaw is in the Word Press monthly calendar post tallies.

About 18 months after i began writing five daily, differently-themed posts, i decided to go back and review everything i wrote and did one of three things:

Left the post untouched
Revised the post to remove any sound of Disney or Disney Institute “official voice”
Deleted the post

This was an over-focusing on a worst-case scenario.

Worst case is someone over-reacting to something you made public.

Important to remember in 2008-2011+ blogging was literally the new “wild frontier” – uncharted wilderness.

In the absence of an official Disney and Disney Institute social media policy, everything was up for subjective review.

Subjective is not the way to measure.

By over-focusing, i slept well at night.

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Writing to feel uncomfortable

selfie with toddler — The daily learning curve continues to be steep for both. And they both thrive on it.

My posts are designed to make me feel uncomfortable.

Maybe you feel (or felt) uncomfortable too.

Not everyone likes this.

i thrive on it.

Oxygen, so to speak.

Why?

The goal with making myself uncomfortable is to challenge me to .think .differently

And the goal with thinking differently is to then reach the point where i no longer feel uncomfortable.

No excuses.

No regrets.

Who doesn’t want that?

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Only 3 weeks until new writing milestone

Prolific blogging — 365 x 8 years = 2920…add 2 leap year days = 2922 days in a row.

Only 3 weeks until new writing milestone.

The 8th year concludes.

The 9th year begins.

That fateful April Fools Day in 2009…

Write five different blogs every day for 100 consecutive days.

Impossible i thought, but what the heck, think BIG.

Was literally certain i would fail.

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