The comment by Jeff is not me. Pretty sure it is J. Jeff Kober, former Disney Cast Member, Disney Author, consultant, and Founder of Disney At Work.
Best Buy last night for one wifi lightbulb. Easy peasy. Get up to the front of the checkout que easily because it was empty. Four cashiers at the registers.
i waited to be called by one of them.
Crickets.
It was fascinating.
When i was finally called, the cashier kept talking with the cashier next to him, as if i wasn’t there.
Seriously, this fascinated me so much that i remarked about how four cashiers with no customers in front of them and i had to wait.
Gave a free customer service riff in hopes it will help them up their customer service game.
Not unhappy nor disappointed, but definitely pointed.
Son, wake ups calls, of any duration or magnitude are gifts. In the choice to be grateful or angry, choose grateful.
PS. i wrote you a book and published it in 2013…it’s the antithesis of a Mid Life Crisis wake-up call.
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Cinderella Castle 1971. Photo source unknown, from the Internet perhaps.
Thank goodness for life’s sucker punches.
It was 2008-2009 at Walt Disney World and a new round of layoffs was in progress.
This time, the first time in my 24 years at Disney, it didn’t make sense.
It didn’t make sense for many people, including me. The bottomline was this: i felt vulnerable, and i had never experienced that before.
i hated it.
But then i embraced it.
It was in finding the silver lining that i was able to thrive.
And i decided the best time to create a plan b was when i didn’t need to.
That’s how my business, and early Disney retirement (after 30 incredible years) idea was born.
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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.
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