Tag: control

Who’s writing my story?

Mickey Mouse tattoo on calf
Yesterday on high school tour. Mickey is tattooed on my heart.

 

Who’s writing my story?

It’s a question that changed my life in 2008/09.

This was the timeframe that an unusually weird Disney layoff provided the gift of feeling vulnerable for the first time (at the time, i was in my 24th year at Disney).

This was the catalyst for creating a Plan B even though the layoffs were done.

The best time to worry about your next job is when you don’t need to.

My next job revolved around the dream of being the captain of my own ship – a solo entrepreneur. To take everything i learned in 30 years at Disney and retire at 55 and begin the quest to put a dent in our Universe.

PS. Unusually weird means that the process didn’t make sense to me, nor to literally all of my colleagues.

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Our thoughts are more real than we give them credit for

 

Fascinating 14-minute video…

Why?

Because it says the same thing most people already know about positive attitude, but in a different, more compelling way.

The mind doesn’t work like a camera, the mind works like a projector.

What we see isn’t real although we think it is. It’s what we think that is the real thing.

  • What we see looks like a photograph of something real.
  • What we actually think is what gets projected out to the world.

If we see an empty clear square container, but are told it will be full of spiders in a little while, and we are afraid of spiders, we become afraid of the clear empty container.

Our snapshot of the clear container now sees it full of scary spiders, even though it’s empty.

Crazy how it works.

The implications to whether we become a thriver or a survivor hinges on our thoughts.

Our thoughts do become things.

It begins with, “I’m getting older, so…”

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