Never forget

Ornate Elephant statue
Never forget, just like an elephant.

Never forget that what you think is who you become. Who you become drives your thinking.

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Never forget that everything drives an outcome.

Never forget life’s basics.

If your thinking is always positive, you are acting on life’s mental basic…

Optimism trumps pessimism.

Growth mindset trumps closed mindset.

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Mental stardust

Bronze dragon statue
Today at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, at the Yak and Yeti entrance.

Disney culture taught me how to perform like every day is Super Bowl Sunday. And that taught me how to do it in my own life.

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In my own life, i apply Disney culture to my mind, body, spirit, personal business (work), and home life.

Mental stardust is using the gift the cosmos facilitated, the human brain, to a positive benefit.

To not use the gift for purely positive is to use it for negative benefit.

For example, fill your gas tank with 10 gallons of gasoline (1,280 ounces).

Five percent of that 10 gallons is 64 ounces.

Let’s assume your gas tank holds 10.5 gallons and you top off the tank with the final half gallon (64 ounces, just five percent of 1,280 ounces) of water.

What happens when you add even a little bit of water to a gas tank?

Now imagine that one-half gallon (just 5%) of water. That’s eight, eight-ounce glasses of water to a gas tank.

The engine is going to fail to work properly.

Now imagine just 5% of your thoughts being negative.

What mental damage does that do to the cosmos’ creation of your brain? What does that 5% negativity do to your ability to think only positively, whatever you want, whenever you want?

Maybe a small bit of dust (say 5%), turns mental stardust into something other than mental stardust.

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Prepare your mind

mountain hiking path
“Keep moving forward” is something Walt Disney liked to encourage others with.

Prepare your mind for the future. The long way is the shortcut.

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Your attitude should continuously improve, slowly and steadily, each year–and every decade you are stronger, more positive, more optimistic, and demonstrably focused on your growth-mindset.

Insight: Mental habits are formed one thought at a time. Our thoughts begin by default and later in life, potentially, by design. As you age/mature, and especially when you live on your own, start to over-focus on the same things you used to under-focus on or ignore.

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Doing good?

Pixar character toy figurines on a table
What’s the answer to the auto-pilot question, “How you doing?”

Do as much good, for as many people, as often as you can.

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Doing good is not an answer, it’s an imperative.

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A toast to power

Mountains
There was a time when sitting here was only a dream, like hitting the Powerball lottery. Never in a million years. Why? Astronomical odds. For both.
Mountains
The center pointy tip on the Continental Divide, Bishops Cap, never in a million years.
Child watering a flower bed
A $3-poster from K-Mart. My vision of what parenting would be one day.
Child in Flowers
Parenting, one day in the future. In real life.

Optimism is power.

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Hooray for power.

Power is a great feeling.

Love your family (and yourself) so much you get and stay optimistic for them.

Bonus: Teach them how to do the same by the power of your example.

Insight: A powerful example may not be enough for another. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.

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