Please don’t tell me – Page 13 – Disney Customer Service Keynote Speaker

Either way, the world owns it

ESPN sports channel in waiting room at Sport Clips — Three strikes and you’re out. How many strikes does terrorism get?

Each barbaric, senseless killing of innocent, civilized, free people is another step closer to the world uniting.

We, the peaceful people of the world, are the targeted fascists. Let’s not be blind to the possibility the peaceful world is unknowingly being a passive aggressive bully.

Let’s also not be blind to the possibility that peaceful people may need to arm themselves against a devil so strong, it can no longer be “someone else’s problem”.

Either way, the world owns it.

Another hint: If you click again on the hyperlinked word “Blog” below, catch the next short, pithy career post…

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A prison without bars

(photo: From TV in Senior Living apartment while watching yesterday’s Rose Bowl game.)

Have you ever lived in a Senior Living Facility or a Nursing home?

Not an extended day-long or all-night visit.

But have you slept there for a week at a time? Multiple times?

Is it the best thing to ever happen to these seniors?

Or is it a prison without bars?

Where does hope reside?

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Our prayers are mostly invisible

(photo: A bare tree feels awkward to humans. To the forest, it’s perfect.)

Our prayers are mostly invisible.

There’s something about public recognition that is compelling though. Even if we are not present when recognition happens. Is this a general human condition to appreciate and enjoy recognition?

For some, being present during public recognition can be painfully embarrassing.

So when, or if, public recognition happens in a group and we are not present, just knowing that others know makes many of us feel good.

This is why humility is so difficult.

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Not everyone wanted to be there

The whole thing started because she generously and compassionately gave up her seat at the table.

We sat at the table, close to 20 of us, for the Disney retirement services overview. Some of us have already retired. For others it will happen next week or the week after.

Her job, and the colleague (34 years of Disney service) with her were retiring because her department was being permanently closed. There were no internal options.

She will see things she’s never seen before. Like a caterpillar waiting.

She provided a quick tour of her work location since it was in the same building as the meeting. Mid Life Celebration, the book, is something she said she wants to read. If she doesn’t buy it in 72 hours, it will never happen.

A metaphor for life, no?

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No, you change first

(photo: It’s the American way isn’t it? Freedom, justice, as well as excuses and codependence.)

Nothing changes until we change.

And many of us will not change because we want someone else to go first.

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