The colors were carefully and intentionally chosen.
Walt Disney’s biggest risk was investing in things people never notice.
People ask me what does it mean to over manage the details others either under manage or ignore?
The blog header colors intentionally symbolize something 99.99% will never understand:
Gray: We think with our mind, the gray matter
Brown: We move with our body, brown is the median human skin color
Red: We feel with our heart, everyone bleeds red
Green: We earn from our work, American currency is green
Blue: We dwell at our home, and deep blue is my favorite color
Why do it if most never notice?
Disney’s secrets for over managing a vibrant organizational culture are context neutral, meaning the prevailing wisdom that Disney uses can be used anywhere, even on my blogs.
But our mornings are so busy that we don’t take time to get centered before we get going.
There are a few freaks who believe that balance must be the daily habit.
Never in a million years right?
Self-fulling prophecy got it’s name because it’s true.
But we can retrain our habits by rethinking our priorities.
For example, if you are not going to exercise today, it’s because you have intentionally thought through that today is a rest day.
Of course, there are rare, emergency circumstances that warrant not exercising on days that are not designated for rest. We should allow for about one every month or so.
Screen shot from a friend’s Facebook feed last night. Real life in real time.
A Facebook status update from one minute ago
For curious minds only please…
One day while traveling i was very concerned about something.
It’s a first world problem that is as trivial as it gets…
What if my travel schedule made it impossible to write the five daily blogs?
So i wrote an extra day’s worth (5) the morning before departing on a long flight.
Worst case didn’t happen and i was able to write like normal the next morning.
This meant that there was now a surplus of one day.
Over time, usually on a particularly productive/inspiring weekend, after writing the normal five blogs, i’d keep writing.
Eventually this led to having a one week surplus (35 posts, or seven days multiplied by five extra posts for each website).
Somewhere between year two and three writing got even more intense and a 30-day surplus was created. i wasn’t writing to build a surplus, it’s just that i couldn’t stop writing on some days.
It was not uncommon to write 10-12 hours on a Saturday and 10-12 hours on Sunday too. A weekend like that might produce 25 – 50 posts (five to ten days worth).
Between years three and four, the surplus grew to 90 days and finally capped at 100 days ahead, a 500 blog post surplus.
Crazy.
What i’m about to write today (Aug 19) won’t go live until November 27.
It’s quirky.
It’s real.
And until it happened, it was also impossible.
So, you know those things you dream about but self-talk yourself out of?
Here’s to challenging you to stop saying you can’t.
How’s this for impossible…
It’s been 2,332 days in a row writing 5 daily, differently-themed posts. Then add in another 100 day surplus, and that’s 12,160 blog posts.
At the end of each post is an opportunity (easy hyperlink “Next Blog“) to scroll horizontally to the next website and blog. There are five differently themed posts about balance.
