Back To The Lesson My Church And Disney Taught Me

Walt Disney said, "Keep moving forward". I hear ya loud and clear, Walt. Thanks.

Looking carefully at the Church’s model and Disney business model, it helped validate my intuition that life has five big choices: mind, body, spirit, money and hq. In trying to envision a balanced life with one or more of these missing, I can’t.

Insight: Mind, body and spirit are readily perceived as crucial, but what about where we spend a third of our life (career) and were we spend the rest of it (home, the headquarters of our life)?

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Business Excellence

People are always so astonished to discover the secret recipe for business excellence.

Every long-term successful business has five key ingredients that work together to create competitive sustainability: leaders, employees, customers, financials and creativity. Disney has taught me to try to imagine a successful business model that neglects one or more of these five. I can’t.

Insight: Good is the enemy of excellence.

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Faith, Hope, And Love

Oh, and don't forget a little bit of pixie dust...

Every tribe, every family, and every nation that prospers has faith, hope and love as a common foundation. My Church helped reveal this as self-evident. I simply imagined a society with one or more of these three missing. I can’t.

Insight: There are key, non-negotiable ingredients to every successful recipe.

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The Best Way To See The Power Of An Organized Life Is to Imagine Living Life The Opposite

Perfection, but only in the first hours of opening day.

Yin and yang. Life and death. Organized and disorganized. Healthy and unhealthy. Love and hate. Justice and injustice. When I started looking at life this way, the definitive answers came quickly.

Insight: Life can be explained without research and statistics.

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The Best Way To Discover Self-Evident Truths

Why did Noah need two of every animal?

I’ve always been challenged to want to unquestionably understand the definitive simplicity of any subject. And every subject has this. Can the most important lessons in life be ridiculously simple? For example, is the meaning of life really as simple as – to love and be loved?

Insight: Imagine living life with only one or neither and the answer quickly becomes self-evident.

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