Tag: Disney

Thankful to think

Disney plastic character toys at a mountain lake
Photo at Avalanche Lake in Glacier National Park. Something about the Sun. A true life-giver.

Thankful to think.

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Thinking differently about Glacier

Space Mountain and Cinderella Castle
Space Mountain and Cinderella Castle.

Thinking differently about Glacier in 2022.

Thinking differently is a lifelong habit learned at Disney called continuous improvement.

Classic, fundamental “start, stop, continue” evaluation.

Based especially on new data from last year’s hikes, as well as cumulative experience from all previous visits:

  • What routines should be started?
  • What routines should be stopped?
  • What routines should you continue?

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Disney Retirement anniversary

Bicycling Going-to-the-Sun Road in mid-June. Road is closed to vehicular traffic. Have spent multiple Summers here working on a series of books. Work from anywhere. Write from anywhere.

Disney Retirement anniversary number eight.

It killed me to leave Disney after 30 years instead of 40.

Little did i know, retiring early was a brilliant move. Life is good like that sometimes.

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Disney Retirement eve

Kuwait City skyline
Kuwait City from my hotel room. Kuwait Towers, far right.

Eighth Disney Retirement eve, October 30, 2022.

Retiring from Disney does not mean retired.

Not retired, at all.

Like you’ve heard a dozen times, “Retired from Disney but not retired from working.”

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66 – 80

Thought Cheryl and i would spend 40 years each at Walt Disney World. Can you imagine one couple serving and leading (and having fun) for 80 years combined?

Turns out our 66 combined years of Disney Service is perfect. Cheryl with 36 years and me retiring 10 years early with 30 years of service.

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My decade-early departure (retirement in 2014) was a six-year plan spurred on by two things:

First, a catalytic Disney layoff in 2008-09…the Real Estate and Banking collapse (the Great Recession, akin to the Great Depression).

Second, the realization that i should have a Plan B in case this ever happened again.

Historical note: It did happen again in 2020 when Covid-19 decimated Disney operations world-wide. Roughly 30,000 Cast Members in Florida and California were laid off and eventually terminated. Disney Institute went from approximately 170 Cast Members to about 20.

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