July 2015 – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

50 shades of retirement?

Some people think my retirement from Disney means it’s time to sit back and just enjoy life. This is not true.

Retired means only one thing right now. It means i’m only working one job, not two.

As painful as it was to leave Disney after 30 incredible years, the desire to do this has become more important:

Speeches and consulting for organizations that want to change the world.

Photo above is from yesterday’s lunch at Mid Life Celebration’s HQ – listening to Jimmy Buffett, enjoying the birds chirping and the breezes blowing.

Then it was back to work.

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As adults, how many times have we encouraged others to follow their dreams?

We dole this encouragement out unashamedly.

Ok, now what about our dreams?

What are we telling ourselves?

Excuses win, don’t they?

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A tree does not grow overnight, but it does grow.

Same with us.

It happens so slowly :

The days cannot teach nor prepare us like decades can.

As we age we can cast more shade, because our roots are wide and deep.

Makes sense when we think about it, but we never do.

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This photo was taken yesterday. It’s a Twitter advertisement for their new video app. Love the tag line:

Life, camera, action.

Rearrange our word choice and magic happens. A small tweak – add one word, change the order – changes everything.

Life, purpose, action, camera.

Got it?

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Criminal was my lifelong, general lack of intentionality in consciously and thoughtfully making wise, habitual choices.

Enter midlife…

Midlife presents us with two striking choices.

Life altering choices:

Astonishing how fundamental these two choices are.

Criminal is our general lack of intentionality in consciously and thoughtfully making wise, habitual choices.

To be sure, our choice is habitual.

Turning my midlife crisis into a midlife celebration was the small change that changed everything.

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