Writing – Page 16 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Should we try it if the benefits could be staggering?

(photo: Six months is a long time. Imagine an entire year.)

You know the coolest thing about an intensely positive attitude?

You are ok doing the craziest experiments that:

No one else is even thinking of doing.
No one else would even dream of succeeding at it.

Twelve more days to complete one year of not using I, Me, my, or mine.

Not in:

Five blogs a day. And yes, that’s 1,865 posts.
Not in emails for Disney.
Not in emails for MLC.
Not in personal emails.
Not in a single social media update, reply, comment. Not one. For a year.

To be honest, it’s insane.

But some unexpected Magic happened.

Have you ever tried it? For a day? A week? Longer?

See how crazy it is.

The benefits are staggering.

First up was learning an invisible (unknown) definition of humility.

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Very first Mid Life Celebration blog post was six years ago

Walt Disney car stickers — Walking through the Disney University parking lot.

The first Midlife Celebration posts were six years ago – November 2008.

Who cares right?

Like most bloggers when it started it was supposed to be every day… you know the standard, “Come back tomorrow for more stuff.”

Never happened.

Not for the rest of that month nor for December.

So guess what the New Year’s resolution was? That’s right, blog every day.

Never happened. Not in January, not in February, not in March.

And like an idiot, promised it was all going to be different starting April Fools’ Day 2009.

Of course it was.

But something strange happened. The first day was easy because it was the first day of the new promise.

But then it was five more posts the next day and five more posts the day after that. Heck, even made it seven days in a row – 35 posts.

And then the craziest darn thing you could ever imagine. Wrote five daily posts every day the second week, the third week, fourth fifth sixth seventh, etc.

Miraculously, five different blogs every day for all 100 days.

Something transformational happened in those 100 days and the thought of stopping on the 101st day seems weirdly unthinkable.

April Fools’ Day 2009 was 2048 days ago.

Remarkable.

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The beautiful thing about writing

(photos: 5 x 365 = 1,825… five blogs a day every day for a year equals 1,825 blog posts per year; times six years equals 11k posts… a writer has to write)

The beautiful thing about writing a lot is that you can call yourself a writer if you want to. And it’s not an inflated label.

What’s more amazing is the fact that if you take your writing seriously, and it gives your joy and helps others… well, you also develop a deep conviction that you are a writer.

From the personal experience of writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts about life’s five big choices, please know that there are many types of writing.

Many styles.

Many topics.

A writer has to write.

But if a writer isn’t inspired to want to write, then no amount of desire is going to help.

Write to create your art about what you are insanely passionate about.

Writing about anything else will feel like work.

And it will tempt you to stop writing.

Quit or write?

A writer has to write.

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It is done.

Disney coffee cup — Fitting to have the first post on the final day be written at Walt Disney World (completely unplanned)

It is done.

This is the final post to complete five straight years – 1,826 days to be exact.

Too busy to run this morning, or write.

Now, mid morning, sitting at Starbucks in Epcot, writing this.

Humble beginnings five years ago.

Humble endings now with each iPhone keyboard click.

And tomorrow, what’s next?

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His writing about second chances is so inconsequential to the world

Steve Jobs iPhone announcement speech — Who doesn’t love the crazy and misfit in the mirror?

This is so inconsequential to the world… April Fool’s Day 2009 began a 100-day challenge to write everyday.

Never intended for it to last five straight years… 1,825 consecutive days.

That’s just sick.

It’s kinda fun to do the impossible. -Walt Disney

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