In Disney’s body

Disney leaders at a January 2025 reunion
L-R: me, Kevin, Tracy, Laura, Kathy. Kathy, Laura and i worked as mid-1980’s Disney’s Contemporary Resort Front Desk Leads.

Pictured above, coincidently, are four people i worked with before joining Disney Institute in 1999.

Kevin, with his back to us, was the Resort Operations Area Manager when i was on DLDP at Disney’s Village Resort (DVR) in 1987. Kevin rose to a Resort Vice President.

He ran leadership meetings more efficiently and effectively than anyone i ever encountered at Disney.

By the way, DVR later became Disney Institute, and then (and now) Disney’s Saratoga Springs Vacation Club.

Didn’t think of this until trying to theme this post to ‘body’…no one asked me (and i never expected anyone to) if i am still bicycling. Cheryl and i had one car, two jobs with different schedules, and we lived 30 miles from Disney’s Contemporary Resort. We also had two nice bicycles. i rode one of them to work for several years. We eventually bought a second car.

Final note: Mentioned in the second paragraph, DLDP stood for Disney’s Leadership Development Program. It later changed to DMDP, Disney’s Management Development Program.

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Halupki Magic

A plate full of stuffed cabbage
Last night. Dinner. Cheryl used her Grammy’s recipe. Halupkies are stuffed cabbage.

Six mile walk today.

Third consecutive day this week.

Never gets old.

Plus, another…

100 push-ups, 20 pull-ups, planks, etc.

Also never gets old. This portion is done three times a week.

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What did you expect?

Walt Disney at Disneyland
Exercise doesn’t cure everything nor everyone, but it does do many people good.

Walked 6 miles yesterday.

Also, like every M-W-F every week:

Did 100 pushups, 20 pull-ups, one-minute of parallel bar planks. And, assorted other “no-gym” gym workouts.

Thankful for the motivation and ability to do these things.

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Five big choices ‘justs’

Disney customer service keynote speaker
Stumbled on this Disney Keynote photo. Clearing (deleting) texts yesterday and stumbled on three photos i didn’t know i had. The conference photographer texted them soon after the event. This is the second one.

Five ‘big choices’:

  1. Just think
  2. Just move
  3. Just feel
  4. Just work
  5. Just dwell

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Speech practice, body

disney keynote speaker
2007, Walt Disney World at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort Convention Center. You can see the SunTrust logo on left edge. SunTrust is now named Truist. Pictured here is me opening with my trademark “rubber band” joke.

Continuing with slides 10-18:

10. Consistency (for context, not expectation)

11. Oxygen Mask

12. Four ops priorities (alphabetical order)

13. Hunted Mansion

14. Four ops priorities (priority order)

15. 3 Blueprints (Goal in gold)

16. Custodial Host (pre-opening)

17. Custodial Host (red umbrellas)

18. WOW

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