Category: So What?

Hate the cold, not the snow person

December 2021.

Hate the cold, not the snow-person.

Palm trees and sunshine.

Daily warm weather is a Central Florida standard. Tee-shirts rarely necessary.

Tee-shirts when it gets cool enough to justify wearing one.

Otherwise, just love the snow-people.

Snowmen and Snow-women are kinda like dogs, with their unconditional goodness.

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Disney Institute 1999-2014

Final day. Intentionally picked Halloween. Teeing up this remark: “After 30 years at Disney it was really scary to leave.”
Rod and Morgan.
By 2014, most Disney Institute (DI) facilitators and advisors worked from home. The DI leadership team and administrative staff occupied the available office space.
Keeping it fun. It’s a non-negotiable.
Watch what happens in this photo story…
Blurry, unposed photos are among the most cherished.
This is what happens when you follow the rules.
Starting to not follow the rules.
Wait for it…
Ta-da! Live like you mean it. Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Last day at Disney Institute, Halloween 2014. It was a “Ghost-Town” late on a Friday afternoon. A Halloween Friday at that.

Thought Cheryl and i would spend 40 years each at Walt Disney World. Can you imagine one couple serving and leading (and having fun) for 80 years combined?

Which begs the profound question – the one i coined and operationalized at Disney Institute…

So what?

So what if you spent all those years at Disney. Who cares? What does that give you after you’re retired? And finally, so what, was it worth it?

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Where Dreams Come True

If you’ve never owned the road, just you, you’ve never known a surreal feeling of the explorer. Seeing something few, if any, have ever seen.

Upcoming student presentation next month. Copy and paste below from the Google form i was requested to complete:

Do you have balance in your life? You are in charge of everything in your life as CEO of You, Inc. If Disney ran your life you would have to think differently about everything. What would happen if you applied time tested, world-class Disney business wisdom to your life to create personal vibrancy?

30-year Disney veteran, dad to 19-year old college freshman son, married 37 years, unofficial world-record holder, senior Olympian, lives less than one mile from Walt Disney World, lifetime Disney Parks pass, insatiable desire to learn and teach, TED Talk (Kuwait), two-time Walt Disney Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, spoken to over one-million people, super power is helping others .think .differently

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Three calls and a pattern

Disneyland Magic Happens parade performer
More Joy? At Disney, the concept of being onstage is relevant to every single Cast Member.

Three calls and a pattern.

Spoke yesterday with Megan in Colorado Springs, Calvin in Louisville, and Steve (from New Jersey) in Miami Beach.

Why?

Each had questions.

The pattern?

  • Offered time to engage with them
  • We went over the 30-minute call window
  • All are fascinated with .think .differently

Pay it back or pay it forward – this is why these calls happen.

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Disney original hire date 1982

Disney Institute Keynote speaker
At 23, i stood in this hallway for the first time, 37 years before this photo.

Disney original hire date 1982.

So?

Exactly.

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