Intentions are not fuel

page from a Disney Institute workbook
If your story isn’t compelling, and even if it is, good luck finding an audience after you leave.

Exercise sets you free. Exercise hurts. Not being free also hurts.

dad

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BYOG

Mountains and the lake
What if moving is child’s play? It should be. Have fun with your daily activity.

Bring your own games to each new day.

dad

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Simple, healthy message

two disney name tags in the mountains
Today’s photos are completely random.

Hang in there physically.

dad

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Can we non-conform please?

Walt Disney and a robot
Screen shot from social media.

Ok, some ideas for being non-conforming:

  • Short and sweet
  • Shorter than expected?
  • Sweeter than expected? (i don’t even know what that means)
  • Use video instead of text?
  • Use text instead of email?
  • Give a homework (72-hour) assignment?
  • Tell a joke (i’m funnier in person than online)
  • Tell a story (video)?
  • Show exclusive, personal, early days photos?
  • Make them apply in some way in order to get a second email/text?

Guessing it’s not obvious, but this playing on the blogs process is incredibly fun and exciting.

Practice makes you good at your work. Play is what turns your work into art.

dad

Guessing that’s not obvious too.

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You were born for this

Podcast episode summaries
An introduction to Jody Maberry by Lee Cockerell took 3.5 years to finally become an agreement to record a podcast.

A random phone call one day at Disney changed my life.

That call led to discovering i was born to teach. At 40, in 1999.

A random “Great Recession of 2008” changed my life too. Pushing 50 years old no less.

The uncomfortable 2008 Disney layoffs (i wasn’t let go) convinced me to start a business, as an idle-but-ready-to-go Plan-B should there ever be another recession.

There was another layoff, and dang if it wasn’t the mother of all layoffs, in 2020.

Covid-19, you bastard, you cost 30,000+ wonderful Disney Cast Members their jobs in 2020.

Note: The business i founded in 2009 unexpectedly positioned me to retire after 30 years with Disney, in 2014.

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