Dear Son, Being Brave Will Test Every Creative And Emotional Muscle You Have

Dear Son, being brave (courageous) is touted as an essential leadership characteristic. Skill or a trait? Born with it or developed? Does it even matter?

At the end of the day, look back and try to have at least one thing you did that scared you. Try, win. Lose, learn. Launch, learn, repeat.

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Photo from AMC Theater promoting Disney Pixar’s Brave, coming 2012.

Dear Son, Work Hard To Simplify Complex Systems. You’ll Be A Rockstar If You Can

Dear Son, all you’ll ever need to know about world-class customer service is contained in these six words. You don’t even realize it yet, but you have been learning these from your dear old Dad since you first learned to walk.

Remember how I keep telling you if you line up two boys the same age and one is nice and uses manners and one isn’t nice and doesn’t?

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Dear Son, I Wonder If You’ll Love These Two Things As Much As Your Dad

Dear Son, I wonder if you’ll love Disney and photography as much as your Dad.

Your Father also wonders if you’ll love your job as much as he loves his. And I don’t mean his entrepreneurial startup, I mean his career as a full-time professional speaker.

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Dear Son, You Are The Son Of A Big Time Dreamer, That’s Where You Get Your Dreaming From

(my photo, but not my car)

Dear Son, when your Mother and I relocated to Orlando from Washington State University in 1984, I had a vision to live no more than five minutes from Walt Disney World.

Son, you can see how that turned out. No doubt you will be a big time dreamer too, because you are the son of one.

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Happy Birthday Disneyland, My Son And I Love Everything Disney

Disneyland, July 17, 1955 (opening day).

Celebration, Florida, Spring 2010 (above).

Dear Son, you may not realize it, but you are very lucky to have your hometown be the Walt Disney World Resort. Everywhere we turn, there’s a Disney this or a Disney that. Your first haircut was at Harmony Barber shop on Main Street USA.

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