When Your Life Changes – Page 3 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Eye surgery day, home

Pro tip: trust and lean into progress, technology, and continuous improvement.
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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Peaceful surrender, home

Surgery Center medical passport website screenshot — All the stuff we used to hand-write on pages with a pen, on a clipboard, and hand back to the front desk receptionist. And now…you have access via website, and you can edit it.

Surrender is gratitude’s twin sibling.
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Told a client during today’s executive coaching call about accepting worst case — permanent sight loss in one eye.

This CEO said i remind him of his dad — “who had the most Grace with difficulty” — than anyone he’s ever known.

Grace begets Grace.

Thank you Mark.

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No detachment

Doctor appointment card — No retinal detachment. Yet no conclusive reason for the bleeding.

Vanity lisence plate — Near the end of our hour-long drive home after Dr Kumar’s examination. Great karma. Thank you random Mickey Mouse fan.

There are many tests we all want to pass but none of us want to take. Ever.
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May the goodness of Dr Kumar’s team shine a healthy energy on the coming days, weeks, and months.

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Grateful for a lifetime of sight

Florida summer anvil cloud at sunset — Two nights in a row going on the roof at sunset.

Grateful for a lifetime of two-eyed sight.
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When i lost my vision in one eye about five hours ago, i immediately started processing for worst case scenario.

We commonly believe our fundamental blessings will last forever.

Right now i’m acutely aware of this falsehood.

Hoping the Universe will see me in the most beneficial and healing light.

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2020 flashback

15-second 2020 video: As the camera pans you immediately see Pollock Mountain, Mt Siyeh, and Piegan Mountain.

5-second 2020 video: Acknowledged the news of Covid-induced, 30,000 Cast Member layoff. Had no idea what to say, so i kept it simple and gut-level.

These two videos remind me of the September 30, 2020 Oberlin (8,200′) summit.

In the moment, it felt scarier than the close (15′?) Grizzly Bear encounter at Granite Park – the one where i had to turn my back on the Grizzly and continued walking.

A rare – and a first – sunset summit.

Just a quick jaunt up and back. Shoot a couple client videos from the summit. Then boogie on down to the car.

Without explanation, i got lost on the summit and couldn’t find my way down.

Have written about it before and will spare a rehash now.

What’s noteworthy in this post is the spectrum of emotions captured on these two videos. And, the emotions never captured on video that evening.

Duplicate Update: Starting tomorrow all five blogs become an “unthemed-canvas” of sorts. The normal mind-body-spirit-work-home theme goes on hiatus until this “couple-week project” concludes.

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