Paradox – Page 11 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

The reason people can’t achieve balance?

Disney Executive Speakers — Last day teaching at Disney Institute was Oct 29, 2015

There aren’t many experts.

But there are some.

Experts become experts because they have fought to win a rare, and regular, intimacy with something thought to be a myth.

The reason people can’t achieve balance?

It’s because their definition is wrong.

How do i know?

Three decades at Disney, searching for a balance role model, none were found.

And 15 years ago on the verge of becoming a father, i decided to begin the slow and steady process of becoming the change i wished to see.

Balance isn’t just about work and home life.

Balance also isn’t simply about mind, body, spirit.

Balance is about all five.

And balance isn’t about time.

It’s about energy.

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One person’s trash is another person’s treasure

Insanely popular for the right audience.

Violent comics — The upper left caption wins glowing accolades.

Graphic Comics — Some love this, some hate it.

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. The paradox of yesterday’s dislike for a simple concept is paradoxically highlighted by one of Mid Life Celebration’s first book reviews:

I read the book this morning, and as expected, it is fantastic! Having read Jeff’s blogs for quite some time, there are a lot of familiar themes in the book, and it is great to have them together in one spot.

What stuck with me was a simple sentence that Jeff sprinkles throughout the book. “We know this.” There are a lot of lessons that are shared, and ideas to help us be better, that at the core are simple things that we really do know. We just may not be paying attention to them, or they may be drowned out by the other things in our lives. Taking the time to “rethink, reprioritize, and recommit” helps us see that we know what we need to do. We just have to get the clutter out of the way.

Having just seen the Disney Institute video of Jeff speaking about the CEO of You, Inc., it was neat to see that idea carry across his day job and his passion.

The video Brian speaks of is here.

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The compelling case to do this impossible thing

(photo: Yesterday, downtown, Grand Bohemian Orlando Marriott, lobby art)

Is it possible to live stress free?

Stress management? Forget about stress. Live your life so that you don’t have any.

Then there will be nothing to manage. Stress management will be a thing of the past.

Got it?

Balanced wellness is the only antidote for stress.

Insider tip: This process takes decades, but when you arrive, peace and contentment.

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Burn the ship of fear

(photo: Last night leaving the parking lot at Buena Vista Palace in Walt Disney World. Cortes? Burn the ships? Yes!)

Everyone is afraid. Not everyone lets fear become an excuse.

A thought from Troy Tyler:

“Strategy is all about commitment,” says Tyler. “If what you’re doing isn’t irrevocable, then you don’t have a strategy — because anyone can do it. That’s why burning the boats is so important. I’ve always wanted to treat life like I was an invading army and there was no turning back.”

Boldness has genius.

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PS. What are the odds that tucked at the far edge of a hotel parking lot at Walt Disney World there’d be Cortes’ trailer?

Of course it’s impossible

(photo: someone’s Facebook update screen shot)

Is it possible to get to a place, probably not until midlife at the earliest, where we are incredibly self-aware and we begin living a different life?

No skeletons in the closet to worry about.

The skeletons are there (and we all have them), but the worry is gone.

To live so that if anyone ever said something bad about you, no one would believe it.

It’s impossible, right?

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