The uppity UP’s

Mountains and disney pin
Bicycling to Logan Pass. Bishops Cap, from this angle on the Continental Divide, signals i’m 800 meters away.
Nightstand with photo and card
Father’s Day gift.

UP is my favorite Pixar movie.

Every Pixar release is cause for childlike excited anticipation.

Elemental a few days ago has us reflecting on some brilliant life insights.

The animation is stunning, but maybe stunning animation is so expected that it doesn’t deliver the same wow-factor. Hard to say.

On a side note, looking forward to hiking with Ember and Wade.

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Epiphany

Who will make us believe balance is possible? Who will teach your children if not you? Photo: Epcot yesterday, American Adventure.

Epiphany.

Yesterday was the Catholic Church calendar’s “Epiphany”.

Epiphanies are rocket fuel.

Here’s to your blast off with new awareness.

Waiting and doing nothing are the twin siblings of self-destruction.

Twenty years into a 30+ year Disney career, i had an epiphany about work/life balance.

Searching unsuccessfully for a role model at Disney, it hit me.

i must figure this out for myself.

These five daily blogs are a manifestation of my strategy and tactics.

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Wow, what a wakeup call yesterday

note
Note from yesterday afternoon, paraphrasing some of our conversation.

 

Wow, what a wakeup call yesterday.

Thank you Chapin.

As a Disney teacher, my DNA drives me to make the important points stick – literally no matter what.

i’ll work on rethinking this.

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Is it worth a 40-year wait?

Epcot icons
So many on-stage icons, but what about backstage?

 

If ever there was a temple at Disney, certainly Disney University (DU) would be a contender.

Met over lunch hour (neither one of us ate though) at DU.

He wanted to know when i discovered that life isn’t about the money.

Long story, short – it was a process that took about 41 years.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

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Surrender, self-control, service

Glacier National Park view from St Mary
July 2015, Glacier National Park.

 

Surrender, self-control, service.

Surrendering to what we cannot control is the only way to peace.

With peace we experience contentment.

With peace and contentment, we find joy and gratitude with every breath.

The long way is the short cut.

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