Quotes – Page 51 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Optimism is the way

Mountains — Photo credit: Steve and Stacy Wahlberg, taken yesterday October 8, and texted to me and Cheryl.

Remember when you are afraid, i know this feeling well. Yet i went from only driving Sun Road to climbing Bishops Cap.
dad

Son, you are the only reason i started hiking in Glacier. i never even did Hidden Lake Trail.

Why?

Because driving and pulling over at the overlooks was amazing enough for me.

Then, the only way i/we could get you to agree to a third visit was to park the car and hit the trail. Had no idea what that meant.

Remember, mom and i only visited once a decade.

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Your mental brand

4-second video: Aiming for: .think .differently

Disney keynote speaker writing a book on his phone on a Disney train — Who thinks they can write a book, or a series of books, about Disney (at Disney)…all done on an iPhone?

How many reputations do you have? You have one with every person you know.
dad

Biggest challenge, greatest opportunity, for you is to control the one thing in life under your control. Your thoughts.

As you know, between stimulus and response is your challenge, your opportunity.

Be well and remain amazed.

Insight: Some key mental brand categories are:

Optimist
Pessimist
Positive
Negative
Open-minded
Closed-minded
Encourager
Complainer

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Palm trees and sunshine

Palm tree trimming crew — The middle tree is too high for the landscape company’s ladder to reach.

You only get better at anything through practice. BFO, eh?
dad

Practiced surrendering yesterday. Big time. Surrendering is growth mindset.

Having high standards and being a known loyal customer to the owner doesn’t always translate to the staff.

One of my great opportunities is being supremely patient in these situations.

Got a C-grade until 10am (the first hour).

Got to practice (on my own, alone) for a couple hours.

Aced it after 2pm.

Kinda a longish story so stopping here.

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Gardening mindset

7-second video: Riding shotgun on return from our favorite nursery. Passing Orlando’s south side.

11-second video: Orange County code enforcement on a delightfully breezy, 84-degree day.

Being alive doesn’t last forever. Neither does today. Celebrate both.
dad

Being alive today is such an insane proposition. The cosmos is infinitely, incomprehensibly massive. Earth is smaller than a grain of sand. You and i are smaller than an atom.

To experience a day, a lifetime, the odds of us being born on earth, mind-boggling.

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Questions change lives

Sarcastic and funny cartoon — All of us know who we can picture saying this too. Wonder how many people would love to ask me that question. Could be the best entertainment since Comedy Central.

Never say anything you would regret if it’s the last thing you say to someone you love.
dad

Everyone is fighting a hell no one else knows about. Since we are all equals in that sense, use the cartoon in the way that serves you best.

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