Why i love mental gardening

baby spider in a pan
Yesterday i was making dinner and discovered a baby spider trapped in the pot i needed.

 

baby spider in a pan
At first i thought it was a piece of dirt because (i assumed) it was balled up in fear. But when it spread it’s legs and began moving, i realized the tiny speck was alive. i released the spider outside.

 

What seeds would i want to plant today that won’t benefit me or anyone else until years down the road?

What seeds did i plant yesterday?

Do i truly believe that tiny actions will reap a harvest sometime in the future?

Or am i too impatient to wait, so i don’t plant?

And then in the future, there’s nothing, or little, to harvest.

Guess what happens to my attitude (or yours) when this happens.

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Our biggest opportunity is here…

Texting message
Yesterday on the way to Lowes. Texting. Habits.

 

You know how we have a daily routine?

Many of the things we do are positive habits.

Showering, brushing our teeth, getting dressed, showing up for work on time.

Our biggest opportunity is here…

Admitting our poor habits.

Which is painful, so we pretend we don’t have them. Why? Because many of them bring us pleasure, save us time, and entertain or distract us from stress and pressure.

Poor habits are part of our daily routine.

They diminish and poison our good habits.

And we let this happen.

Let that resonate for a moment.

For a lifetime.

What would happen to us if we didn’t?

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Your attitude drives the way you talk to yourself.

motivational quote
Your attitude drives the way you talk to yourself.

 

Your attitude drives the way you talk to yourself.

The way you talk to yourself determines how your day will go.

The way your days go, one after the other, determine how your life goes.

Waiting and doing nothing are the twin siblings of self-destruction.

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Mr. Disney, just what do you do?

Disney Customer Service Keynote Speaker
This isn’t a big deal at Disney. Why? Because this type of story is happening all day, every day. To an outsider it sounds like a special incident. To our Cast, it’s simply business as usual. can you comprehend that happening in your organization?

 

Imagine a child asking a 57-year old Walt Disney, “Mr. Disney, just what do you do?”

Walt would respond that he no longer drew cartoons, nor came up with the ideas. He would add that he’s actually more like a bumble bee, going around from place to place in the organization and sort of pollinating everything.

So, Mr. jeff, just what to you do?

Wanted to share with you that the organizational blueprints i always speak of make up the core content of my business. My purpose is to do speeches and advising for people and organizations who want to change the world.

i’ve deconstructed, and then reconstructed, Disney’s DNA. From 30 years of living it and teaching it, i’ve found powerfully simplistic ways to enable any employee at any level to use the content for all five core topics. Equally, any company in any industry can use it as well.

What i was driving at all along (and sorry, it’s challenging when it’s just words on a screen) was to illustrate that the Purple Balloon story is a great Customer Service story, yet it’s simply business as usual at Disney. i think many readers miss the point that it’s the culture and it happens all day, every day. And that it is the result of deeply intentional structure and process, blueprints if you will.

 

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The most powerful wisdom proposal i’ve seen in years

radical Health wisdom
This is most powerful insight i’ve seen in years. Hat tip to Lori Campbell’s LinkedIn photo.

 

Great parents use common sense, paradox, and questions to develop their children.

If every person who considered themselves unhealthy was asked the question below, how do you think they’d respond?

What would happen to your health if you made a radical depart from your current lifestyle and made radically positive lifestyle changes, and stuck with it for the rest of your life?

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