Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Do we spend too much time in Tomorrowland?
We make a lifetime habit of going after the easy stuff on our to do lists.
We’ll get to the hard stuff, “Tomorrow”.
Our long-term dreams are so easy to postpone because tomorrow always sounds promising.
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For curious minds only please…
One day while traveling i was very concerned about something.
It’s a first world problem that is as trivial as it gets…
What if my travel schedule made it impossible to write the five daily blogs?
So i wrote an extra day’s worth (5) the morning before departing on a long flight.
Worst case didn’t happen and i was able to write like normal the next morning.
This meant that there was now a surplus of one day.
Over time, usually on a particularly productive/inspiring weekend, after writing the normal five blogs, i’d keep writing.
Eventually this led to having a one week surplus (35 posts, or seven days multiplied by five extra posts for each website).
Somewhere between year two and three writing got even more intense and a 30-day surplus was created. i wasn’t writing to build a surplus, it’s just that i couldn’t stop writing on some days.
It was not uncommon to write 10-12 hours on a Saturday and 10-12 hours on Sunday too. A weekend like that might produce 25 – 50 posts (five to ten days worth).
Between years three and four, the surplus grew to 90 days and finally capped at 100 days ahead, a 500 blog post surplus.
Crazy.
What i’m about to write today (Aug 19) won’t go live until November 27.
It’s quirky.
It’s real.
And until it happened, it was also impossible.
So, you know those things you dream about but self-talk yourself out of?
Here’s to challenging you to stop saying you can’t.
How’s this for impossible…
It’s been 2,332 days in a row writing 5 daily, differently-themed posts. Then add in another 100 day surplus, and that’s 12,160 blog posts.
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We become codependent on quotes don’t we?
What this means is that if we asked ourselves do we feel confident enough to have and share original thoughts – clear, concise and compelling thought – would we default to that?
You’re yelling so loudly, i can’t hear what you say.
Or would we doubt ourselves and never make it to first base?
The glorious part of igniting a midlife celebration is nurturing our self-confidence. And when we rely on our own voice, not someone else’s, to inspire us, we have tasted an uncommon freedom.
PS. Often, yelling isn’t words, it’s our actions (or inaction) that clearly speak.
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This was the warmup 5k. The race time was five minutes faster.
What if we had the habit of having the guts to risk failure?
In ten years of running 5k’s, have never run the entire course as a pre-race warmup.
Until yesterday.
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Does the way we start our day have a direct impact on our ability to excel?
Duh.
Focus and discipline shape our attitude. We know this. But do we champion the cause?
Do we?
Honestly?
Do we overmanage daily details that others either undermanage or ignore?
Do we?
Are we being intentional where others are unintentional?
Are we?
The woman asked the recent retiree, “Are you allowed to talk about Disney?”
He replied, “Not going to be talking about Disney. Going to be talking about my career, and life. You know, lessons learned, wisdom gained, joyful and painful experiences, people, challenges, triumphs, etc. Coincidently, the past 30 years have been spent at Disney.”
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