Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life’s 5 big choices on five different sites.
In cards and in life, you must play the hand you are dealt.
You can let go of a few cards and replace them with cards that may or may not serve you.
Risk and reward is a continuous environmental life-reality.
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No risk, no art. No art, no freedom.
dad
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Disney retirement anniversary is one week away.
It’s been eight years since officially retiring.
It’s been 14 years since the decision to retire a decade before i wanted to.
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This website is about our WORK. To ponder today’s post about our HOME, click here.
Life is a career gamble.
The reason we work is to earn the currency that allows us to live, eat, and play. And to afford things like insurance and healthcare that help us when we have troubles.
The career you chose – the work you are paid to do – is a reflection of your personal investment in understanding foundational truths.
Rather than riff about it on this post, will stop and simple say, use this blog’s search function and use keywords that focus on what you believe are personal leadership truths. With 5,000+ posts on this individual website, this is a hybrid master-class waiting to happen. The topic: Personal leadership excellence.
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This website is about our WORK. To ponder today’s post about our HOME, click here.
2021 Disney Keynote Speaker firsts…this is an “intermission” in my unpacking last night’s intensely-painful event.
Deep breath.
Exhale.
And remember that writing is as cathartic a daily exercise as any other option.
Here goes a remarkably simple, uneventful story. Yet this story illustrates a dramatic leap in my artistry as a professional speaker. And it happened just four months ago. This is significant in the 23-year arch of a prolific speaking career.
Here goes:
Grateful that risk taking yields growth…
Let’s review the Disney Keynote Speaking firsts from 2021:
Walked from home to Disney Convention Center, to speak.
1st Disney speech – in 2,000 speeches – delivered without slides.
1st time using conference A/V staff to role-play a story.
1st Disney Keynote delivery in jean shorts.
1st time in Walt Disney World’s 50-year history a Disney conference speaker walked from their house to speak at Disney.
Bonus 1st: 1st time in 23 years with a 16-month (Covid) public-speaking gap.
All firsts happened in one day. Would have been ridiculously easy to take no risks. Just do what you always do – what works – since 1999. Without multiple risks of failure on this day there’d be no growth. And because none of the risks failed, it was an epic growth day.
None of these firsts required a checklist. All of these firsts required an unexplored frontier.
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This website is about our WORK. To ponder today’s post about our HOME, click here.