Blog – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

How big can you dream, mind

Walt Disney World LinkedIn account update — Perhaps the dream of every great brand or maybe i’m overthinking it.

Hiker on a mountain — Photo: Steve or Stacy Wahlberg. How high is too high?

How big are your most optimistic thoughts?
dad

How big are my most optimistic thoughts?

Back in the day, so big they scared me.

Now they’re even bigger, and they feel like a friend.

Master the art of dreaming and doing, and failing and achieving.

Mastery is an enlightened goal because wealth can’t buy it, impatience can’t rush it, privilege can’t inherit it, and no one can steal it. You can only earn it by doing the reps. Mastery is the ultimate optimism.

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Time and repetition

Social media post about touching Bluey episode.

18-second video: “Reddy”.

You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra

Still living a busy life.

Not nearly as busy as it was at Disney and the first 10 years of my business (founded 2009).

Like all habits, time and repetition are the tools we use to embed new things into our daily routine.

Therefore, being present requires time and repetition.

A lifetime of busy-ness must simultaneously be minimized to make room for a new, consistent, and maybe someday constant lifetime of being present.

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Favorite questions, mind

Dole whip at skipper canteen at Walt Disney World — Bicycled to Disney’s Magic Kingdom in the morning to shoot a couple client videos and then made it to the town of Celebration Florida for 1 PM meeting with fellow Disney Institute colleagues.

Are you satisfied?
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Some favorite questions:

Why?

When?

So what?

Are you satisfied?

Is this your best work?

Why do you do this?

What’s holding you back?

What does a perfect day look like?

How often do you have a perfect day?

What is the meaning of life?

Where’s your favorite place in the world?

Who’s your favorite Disney character?

What is your vision for your future?

What are your priorities? And, is that the order?

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Paradox love

1990's Disney Institute business card — If you want to be a remarkable contributor, plan on a lifetime of doing the reps. The other option is simply to attend a three-day “How to be a world-class speaker” workshop.

The shortcut is the long way.
dad

i’ve always said “the long way is the shortcut” and just now April 15, 2024, it hit me… “the shortcut is the long way”.

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Learn, grow, teach, mentally

American flag at airport customs — Politics divides people, families, States, Nations, the World. Always has. Always will. Or will it? Optimistic that the impossible, eradicating division, is in the future.

Learning the easy way is better than learning the hard way. Learning the hard way is better than not learning.
dad

Mental vibrancy requires a pro-level growth mindset which insists you have the highest and most optimistic mental expectations for yourself. You are committed to only seeing possibility and opportunity.

To learn, to grow, to teach.

Bonus thought from a previously published blog post:

Plant, fertilize, nurture, harvest, and share nothing but positivity, hope, and possibility.
dad

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