Quote – Page 36 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

A toast to power

Mountains — There was a time when sitting here was only a dream, like hitting the Powerball lottery. Never in a million years. Why? Astronomical odds. For both.

Child watering a flower bed — A $3-poster from K-Mart. My vision of what parenting would be one day.

Child in Flowers — Parenting, one day in the future. In real life.

Optimism is power.
dad

Hooray for power.

Power is a great feeling.

Love your family (and yourself) so much you get and stay optimistic for them.

Bonus: Teach them how to do the same by the power of your example.

Insight: A powerful example may not be enough for another. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.

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Hey August, Happy New Year

Yellow Post-it note with 2024 written on it — Hello new year.

Yellow Post-it note with numbers on it — January 1 and August 10 are connected by the following: Writing this on New Year’s Day… And publishing this on August 10, 2024.

If all you get in 2024 is what you were thankful for last week, will it be enough?
dad

Curse the thorns or cherish the flowers?

We see what we want to see.

How we think in 2024, or any year, is how our year will go.

Do we see problems, or challenges?

Problems, or opportunities?

When you change what you see, what you see changes.

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Fleeting days

pink post it note with writing on it — New Year’s Eve, 2001. First day of third attempt to ‘quit drinking’. Made it over 21 years without a drop before a new idea about drinking revealed itself.

If not now, when? If not ever, why?
dad

The days are long, the years are short.

i think Gretchen Ruben said that. She went viral with “The Happiness Project”.

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Every day is a lot of days

One person taking a picture of another person and a dog by a fun sign — The first time i was here (Two Dog Flats), never knew about it. Never saw the sign. Glacier National Park has a couple distractions, so one lone, roadside sign never stood out. The Continental Divide stood out though. For sure.

Firsts can be a long string of firsts.
dad

The first day i published five differently-themed blog posts was a first.

The next day when i did it again, that became the first time i did it two days in a row.

The third day doing it became the first time i did it three days in a row.

Today is the first time i’ve written five daily, differently-themed blog posts for 5,386 days in a row.

Incidentally, when this post publishes on August 8, 2024, that day will be the first time i’ve ever written five daily, differently-themed blog posts for 5,608 days in a row. (assuming i don’t miss a single day in the next 222 days)

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Blueprints, site prep, foundation

text thread — Yesterday. The soundbite needed to help me help someone else overcome stalling.

If you want to be on the Olympic podium, you are going to have to burn the ships. And there is never a guarantee.
dad

Hopeful objectives:

Assumptions (2):

You have said for years you want the podium.
i’m the only one who can get you (and your team) there.
Each item below will have an accountability owner. Motive for volunteers is leadership development.

Leaders:

Leadership Development Resource ‘jumpstart handbook’: 100 reliably effective employee development tactics to increase employee commitment.
Meet with who’s in charge of Galen’s Performance Development Process (PDP). Review process in detail with the PDP ‘accountability’ owner.

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