Walt Disney and Roy Disney were diametrically opposed on profit

Walt Disney Blue name tag
Upper left background, two (wild) Mountain Goats.

 

Walt Disney and his older brother Roy had the same critical business vision, profit, yet their unique approaches where polar opposites.

Roy Disney saw profit as the goal.

Walt saw it as the reward.

Our attitude about life is similar.

We spend so much time working for a living.

Do we live to work, or work to live?

Do we measure our success by our paycheck or by our happiness?

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

A 10-year plan seemed absurd at first

Colorado logo
September 1, 2016…passing through on business.

 

Colorado logo
Fascinated with logos lately.

 

Denver airport
“Hey, look at us, we’re hilarious.”

 

funny hats
My first thought was they probably lost a bet.

 

funny tee shirts
Truth.

 

A 10-year plan seemed absurd at first.

We’re all familiar with this scenario:

What would you do if you had only six months to live?

After 30 years at Disney, my mind has been trained to .think .differently

What would you do if you had only 10 years to live?

A question like this changes everything and hands us (on a silver platter) a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform our weak and worried soul.

In just three days, i’m “down to” three years remaining.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Would this one thing make me happy?

What if i was doing what i loved?

Would that make me happier?

How does one figure out what one loves to do?

And how long should one keep searching?

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Think like you mean it

Mid Life Celebration keynote speaker
There are a million+ excuses why i haven’t begun writing the first of seven Disney books.

 

The Internet is full of excuses, although it’s unlikely any of us would need help creating a long list.

Excuses will remain until we confess our undeniable purpose in life.

And if we don’t know what that is, we need to find out.

Live like you mean it.

Note: As an adult, we don’t need to do anything we don’t want to. Dangerous to have so much power over our thoughts. Things changed for me when i saw the trap i created by thinking like that. Nearing my 40th birthday (1999) i began .thinking .differently

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Pressures of the real world

The iceberg of ignorance
Photo: LinkedIn update.

 

Real world pressures. Do they ever go away? Since the answer is no, how do we keep our attitude incredibly positive for an entire lifetime? (Tweet this)

Ironic that most of us shake our heads affirmatively while reading the graph, yet we could redo the graph from top to bottom:

  • Problems known to us
  • Problems known to our acquaintances
  • Problems known to our best friends
  • Problems known to our Family

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.