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Day 3 CCL, home

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Do you believe Steve Jobs told Bob Iger not to stay too long at Disney?

Over-focus on the same priorities you currently (and habitually) under-focus on or ignore.

Work is addicting.

i know.

Most leaders and owners intimately know.

Steve Jobs knew.

Steve was dying.

His friend, Bob Iger, became Pixar’s steward.

And Steve was grateful to have Bob to pass the baton to.

And as a payback, Steve gifted his trusted friend and faithful steward with brilliant wisdom.

Personal opinion: Did Bob listen? Doesn’t seem so. Bob became CEO in 2005 and was supposed to retire in 2013. Here we are in 2024 and he’s back for the ‘umpteenth’ time. As a shareholder, i love having Bob leading us. As a medicare-card carrying senior, i hope Bob and his wife Willow believe they are living their best life.

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Day 2 CCL, home

chalet staff
Brian (2024 Sperry manager), far left, is out of the photo.
cartoon mountain goat
Brian found this in the Chalet office files. He was excited to share it with me.

Don Rosa, Disney Animator.

As i write this, my mind wanders to this thought…

How many Disney Cast Members have stayed at Sperry Chalet?

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Day 1 CCL, home

15-second video: When you find reliable cell-signal deep in, remember where you found it.
More location context to the best ATT hotspot deep in.
27-second video: Motivation’s epitome.
4-second good-night video: From our balcony.

Stay motivated.

Simple as that.

Simple doesn’t mean easy.

But simple does mean simple.

Find a million ways.

(to stay motivated)

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Day 7 GIL, home

25-second video: Client video. Great backdrop for going the extra inch. Worth noting, again, i do not pursue this close proximity.

The best way to tell others how to prioritize is through the behaviors your priorities produce.

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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.

Day 6 GIL, home

Two people in the mountains
Continental Divide in the background. Reynolds Mountain on the far right.
In this video, you see that there is no trail, in any direction, anywhere.
14-second video: From the Comeau Pass staircase, the next 3 miles are an easily marked trail.
25-second video: Heading down from Comeau Pass. There are two decent waterfalls in this video that are almost invisible because everything else is so big.
Trailhead sign
We started at 8:15 AM and finished at 3:15 PM.
Two people sitting in a mountain chalet room
We mostly played in the dining hall, but when they needed to get ready for dinner, we played here.
8-second video: we had a great time playing Dominion every day.
Room full of people in a mountain chalet dining hall
Every summer there are nine Sperry Chalet staff members. L-R: Brian, Maggie, Ann, Bryce, John, Steve, Olivia, Lilly, and Brian.

Two habitual human focuses. One dominates. One liberates.

Freedom is what we seek.

Freedom from what?

Freedom from lifelong, spoon-fed standards and expectations.

Society doesn’t feed us personal vibrancy standards and expectations. What if it did?

Meanwhile consider, no, confront yourself with, this idea: Survive or thrive? Conform or lead?

We follow the herd’s path in the first list. We follow our own path on the second list.

  1. Information
  2. Knowledge
  3. Education
  4. Experience
  5. Wisdom

Or…

  1. Wisdom
  2. Experience
  3. Education
  4. Knowledge
  5. Information

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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.