Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker
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The Oval Office and Official White House communications. Apple’s Cupertino headquarter’s or Starbuck’s Seattle headquarters, everybody has an HQ. However, most of us never consider our lives as having an HQ. I never did. Until I became a parent.
Insight: Some insights in life come late. And they change everything for good.
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In two short weeks on April 1, 2012, Mid Life Celebration, LLC will have posted five different, daily blogs for 156 consecutive weeks. Yep, three straight years, 1096 days. Thank you, Son, for inspiring me to make that innocent, but life changing 100-day challenge to overcome my writing inertia.
Insight: Life’s defining moments often arrive dressed in a pair of overalls, labeled hard work, no guarantees.
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Does life have five big choices? Yes. We have a mental, physical, spiritual, career and home responsibility. Neglect one of these and your life will reflect a proportional discord. Neglect two and life becomes proportionally more difficult and unbalanced. Three or more…
Insight: Just because no one has ever shared this model for life with you – that includes these five choices – doesn’t mean it isn’t a breakthrough for uncommon sense.
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Try to imagine knowing common sense but not applying it. Uncommon sense is doing what isn’t common, say, exercising, eating well, and resting well. Uncommon sense is also the key to sustainable results.
Disney has uncommon sense to focus on small, seemingly insignificant details that make their brand world famous. Why other companies wouldn’t study this, apply this, and expect similar results is mind boggling.
Insight: There are basic, undeniable models for everything from religion to business to personal.
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Google uncommon sense and there’s nothing substantial. But Google common sense and we quickly get Wikipedia’s answer – “sound and prudent judgement based on a simple perception of the situation or facts”.
So, my definition of uncommon sense: “sound and prudent judgement based on a simple perception that humans readily, habitually and abundantly ignore common sense”.
Insight: Knowing is never enough. We must apply knowledge.
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