Category: Dear Son

Aim for enduring vibrancy

wall sign displaying success quote
Your physical vibrancy is your family’s vibrancy compass. Photo: Client’s HQ hallway wall.

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Health should focus on vibrant personal habits, not weight. Yet everyone knows excess weight can hinder excellent cardio, flexibility, sleep.

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Sweating, with gratitude

beach sunset
Sunset is a daily milestone. A daily opportunity to reflect.

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Note: Post written 2013. Never published, until 2021. Unedited.

A moment exactly like this will never come again.

Life is full of waiting.

First it was learning to walk.

Then comprehending the seasonality of nature, as a young child.

Then young love as a teen.

Then ambition as a tax payer.

And on and on.

To today (actually yesterday) to becoming the parent of a teen.

All good things take time. Lots of time.

Daily blogging is embedded with struggle and optimism.

Have begun the long journey to appreciate the value of this very moment.

The one right here, right now.

A moment exactly like this will never come again.

As sweat pours from the skin, body temp lowering back to normal, gratitude for the longest post-surgery run, and typing this message from a trusty phone/camera/computer, a family of Sand Hill Cranes squaking in the yard, and heading to Disney Institute soon to be surrounded for the day with some of the smartest, most caring people I’ve ever known… feeling like the richest man in Babylon with each precious breath.

Peace and blessings immeasurable. 

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Dear Son, thank you for saving my life.

dad

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No time off

Mountains
Nature never takes a day off.

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One of the biggest barriers to world class performance is believing in your mind you can be world class, but not believing it in your heart.

To believe it in your heart will require your best effort every single day.

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Excellence never takes a day off. You must be outrageously dependable.”

dad

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Stop focusing

Five High Schoolers and teacher
As a teen, as a Disney Leader, and throughout life, i tended to focus on what i could not do. No longer.

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Stop focusing on what you can not do and start focusing on what you can do.”

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Leaving a trail

Roy Disney and Minnie Mouse statues in Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney World will always be home.

Note: This content is from May 2011, from a website (The Blog Whisperer) i deleted in 2021.

What Parent alive would want to be forgotten by their child? What parent wouldn’t want to teach their child important life lessons?

Have a sense of urgency about your life? Erin Kramp did, because she was dying and knew it. Erin wanted her young daughter, Peyton, to remember her.

It worked.

Some of Erin Kramp’s story is here.

i spent the past 26 months blogging every day to leave a trail for our young son (now 10) in case something bad happens.

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Live every day like the phone could ring with your wake up call.

dad

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