2026 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

June 1, 2026, mind

family on beach — Sanibel Island Summer 2009.

boy with inner tube at beach — Sanibel Island, 2011.

Family at Sanibel — Every Summer it’s Sanibel and Glacier.

Sometimes, Life's A Beach — Sometimes (like every Summer from 1988-2018), life’s A Sanibel Beach

florida beach pools — The Sanibel location’s pool was also a huge ‘fun time’. Chapin ‘flying’ into the pool.

Happy June 1, 2026.

While the Summer Solstice is three weeks away (June 21, 4:54am), Since childhood, i’ve always celebrated Summer’s arrival on June 1st.

Why?

Why wait!

Go.

Have fun.

Why wait?

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Praying for Earth, mind

Artemis II is returning to Earth after sending humans farther from Earth than ever before in history.

Artemis II traveled around the Moon and lost contact (it was planned for) with NASA for a brief period.

Extraordinary accomplishment in human history.

And as i type this (4:10pm April 7, 2026) we are three hours and 50 minutes from our President’s Iranian-peace-deal deadline.

Praying for a world-wide growth mindset.

A closed mindset is pessimistic.

Growth mindset is optimistic.

We desperately need optimism.

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Still cleaning up and hoping, mind

Still cleaning up and hoping.

What?

We had three consecutive ’hard freeze’ days a month ago.

Decimated half our shrubs.

Our trees were spared (by design) except for the Sea Grape trees. All but two of the roughly 20 Sea Grapes are small. Two are not mature, but they are about 15’ tall. The rest, 3-5 feet.

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Teach hope, mind

buffalo herd — The western edge of The Great Plains sometimes reveals a species that once dominated The Great Plains by the millions. Now, only dozens are found here and there. Here (above) is a few miles west of Browning, Montana on the Blackfeet Nation.

Teach hope…

Hope, to me, is a growth-mindset daily set to auto-maintain, auto-renew, and auto-improve.

Let your daily habits be your life’s syllabus.

Let your life’s syllabus teach, without you ever saying a word, unless absolutely necessary.

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Harvest hope, mind

mountain lake — Many Glacier valley and Lake Sherburne. First time i saw this i didn’t see it. It was nightfall. Had just ridden a charter bus, full of Boy Scouts, across Montana. It was summer 1973. My first visit to Glacier.

It is challenging for me to feel deserving of remarkable, priceless gifts.

That said, an important goal (hope) has always been to meet this lifelong challenge and make it disappear.

Disciplined, habitual, and compounded hope have finally destroyed this guilt-ridden emotion.

This ‘greatest harvest’ blindsided me.

The greatest harvest produced was, and is, the unexpected, and authentic, example of my life from the lifetime personal vibrancy pursuit.

To be a teacher during my life, using words only when necessary.

In my journey, i have taught myself what to do, why, and how to improve.

In my journey, i have also taught what to not do, why, and how to recover and move forward.

Blessed beyond measure.

Thank you, growth-mindset.

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