Quotes – Page 8 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Yesterday was a great day, mentally

mountains — Constant gratitude is my habit of choice to enable thinking only good thoughts.

Control your thoughts and you control your peace.
dad

Yesterday was a great day.

Slept in due to ‘Spring Forward’ time-change event. And, went to bed early the night before…nine hours of sleep. Can’t say that very often.

Got to ask Cheryl if she wanted to walk to breakfast two days in a row.

Wrote five differently-themed blog posts.

Finished our taxes.

Finished taxes earlier than i can ever recall.

Beautiful call with my Mom and Sister, like we do every Sunday.

Walked our yard, like i always do, daily, when i am home, admiring the beauty, color, tropical foliage, serenity, and “it-factor” being less than a mile from WDW.

Oh, and i washed our 1990 car.

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Growth begets growth

Apple Watch iOS update information — Yesterday, which in the Universe, means nothing. Pretty cool.

Willfully disrespecting your neighbors, thinking they won’t notice is so weird.
dad

i have AirPods noise cancelling feature and the volume turned up to my highest acceptable level.

Why?

To drown out our neighbors live band.

So grateful to not be next door neighbors.

This is growth for me.

Big time.

Turns out i learned this personal insight…

Insight: i no longer concern myself with the blatant human disrespect. Why? Because my original battle was for my community’s benefit. i’ve come to realize i’m cool with it all because i can adapt and overcome.

Now it’s up to the others. Putting that accountability on the others is freedom.

What that means…i stay silent. i said my piece in defense of my neighbors a few years ago. They had a chance to echo my sentiment. Never heard the echo. Good luck everyone. Sending good karma.

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29,000 blog posts

Numbers on a post it note — 29k written. 28k published, as of March 8, 2024.

15-second video: Yesterday. Friday. Quittin’ time for most people. Still thinking, past quittin’ time. Thinking is my highest priority work task. The “Severance question” has to do with an analogy from a recent client conversation.

The pinnacle work effort is when your effort never feels like work.
dad

The top photo is an illustration of what can happen when you love doing something that doesn’t feel like work.

i wrote five daily, differently-themed blog posts for five years while i worked and traveled the globe full-time at Disney Institute.

Every time i thought about starting a morning by skipping writing due to a demanding schedule, one thought always convinced me to not skip a day.

The thought?

This is what i’d be doing if i wasn’t doing this…

Can’t imagine there ever being a morning where i don’t feel like reflecting on what i learned yesterday, what i get to do today, and what i hope for tomorrow.

i knew when i was at the pinnacle of my Disney and Disney Institute career…i’d need/want to start every morning expressing my gratitude for another day by thinking and writing about it.

Will i do it until the morning i don’t wake up for?

Seems like a safe bet.

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Keep being a bright light

Disney toy figurines — Disney. Service recovery.

5-second video: Sent to a Disney Institute colleague. He’s been at Universal for 20 years. He’s world-class all the way.

World-class is not for everyone. Try not to annoy or piss off people.
dad

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Surprises can be delightful

Kane Brown album cover — Heaven. Randomly played during a, “*Siri, shuffle my music*” request.

When your get-to-do is what you’re great at, Magic happens.
dad

.thinking .differently is in my DNA.

Have come to accept it.

It is what it is.

Can trace it back to my earliest memories.

Being contrary is not a desirable attribute.

Being aggressively unfancy is not a desirable attribute.

Promoting and celebrating the opposite of dogma and tradition, another item for the list of “undesirable human attributes”.

This is my sweet spot.

Do what you love.

#truedat

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