If Disney Ran Your Life

Placeholder recorded around Thanksgiving?

30-min riff on not feeling like recording an If Disney Ran Your Life Season 8-Work opener episode.

Recorded original Traditions episode from West Glacier Motel 09.24.20. Recorded this one in error 10.15.20 from home.The travel, time, and 3-week absence from recording confused me. Will hold onto this for future use.

Published seven years ago, jeff finally opens up about his personal story and why he wrote this book as a life-guide for his young son. Mid Life Celebration could easily be renamed: Life's Five Big Choices. Recorded at Grinnell Glacier Overlook, August 2020.

How do you move from "having no time to waste" to "having time to kill"? What changes when we stop rushing? After 40 opportunities, finally took it. Recorded at Grinnell Glacier Overlook, August 2020. One giant step from our rocky seat and we would have fallen to our death, otherwise, the seat was glorious.

Explaining the energy behind a crazy continuous improvement goal...cutting podcast duration to 10 minutes from 15. Adding a second Disney story. This is second "warmup" episode before an official "If Disney Ran Your Life" episode. Biggest risk is setting not setting bar high enough. Recorded sitting next to Swiftcurrent Glacier, August 2020.

What is this?

We end this 100-episode podcast exactly as we started: Episode one began with three simple questions: Who is Jeff, what does he do, why does it matter? Episode 100 concludes If Disney Ran Your Life with three simple questions: Who are you, what do you do, why does it matter?

Trying things that might not work is standard operating procedure for personal vibrancy. This is a 9-minute warmup episode before recoding Season 6, Episode 5. Recorded at Granite Park Campground, August 2020.

Are your priorities crystal clear? Are your priorities prioritized. Magic happens when you get two yesses.

The concluding season If Disney Ran Your life podcast. Often unplanned, massive change occasionally consumes your life. How you react provides wonderful opportunity to rethink everything.

Jeff and Jody have a traditional backstage Season-end review discussion. It is now a tradition to hit record to capture it.

It’s only impossible until you do it for the first time. recording from Magic Kingdom’s Adventureland, in the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House. Leave a legacy by living vibrantly. This episode encourages listeners with simple, and bold questions.

Your investment in continuously improving your home structure and processes is the feeling you get every time you make progress. Joy. Improvement and joy are inseparable. More joy.

Once you have compiled your home's structure and processes, the lifetime opportunity is to continuously improve everything. Improvement comes by over-focusing on being intentionally excellent at everything - the way Disney does.

Everything from your mailbox to your shower requires your attention. We unpack raising your standards on the methods and systems you use to manage your priorities, decisions, and habits while at home.

Are your priorities prioritized? Have you internalized your priorities? Can you explain and teach your home structure to others? Structure is everything from your mailbox to your shower.

As an A-rated CEO, your clarity and prioritization on your home goals is no different than clarity and prioritization on your business goals. Clarity is power.  With clarity, a growth mindset, and focus, you set your home up to be a well-run "business" and a "vacation destination".

Because we all believe leadership is critical, then the CEO role is exponentially critical. The CEO sets the vision for the future, which drives everything we do now.  Once you embrace being the CEO of You, Inc, you bear the enormous responsibility, and privilege, to admirably lead yourself.

Assuming you ARE the CEO of You, Inc, where is your Headquarters (HQ)?  And since you are in charge of everything, what type of CEO are you?

Traditional, informal, normally never-recorded, Season-end fireside chat between jeff and Jody. What would normally be considered a backstage conversations gets recorded.

Brief review of nine Season 7 episodes and corresponding 72-hour challenges.

How did you get good at what you do? Who taught you the most about what you do? Who are you teaching and why?

At what point in our career do we take ownership for our career path? When does clarity reveal our ultimate career finish line?

Dreaming of a leadership retreat opportunity in Glacier, Summer, 2021. Jody and i hit record while we casually talk about it “a little more seriously”.

Recording from home for first time since returning from 50 days in Glacier National Park. Recording from master bathroom facing Magic Kingdom fireworks. It’s been 62 days without hugging and kissing my family - includes 12 day back-porch self-quarantine. Literally a warmup episode before recording “official” episodes.

Ultimately, our work influences and our work dreams yield us a harvest. Often our reality is better or worse than we hoped.  

Dreaming isn’t just about blue-sky job possibility. Dreaming is also about the quality, the impact, and the joy our work brings others and ourselves.

Reminders about your responsibility to grow and transform: it's an inside job. You are solely in charge of your self-reflection, self-discovery, and self-motivation. Nothing you hear on If Disney Ran Your Life is prescriptive. As CEO of You, Inc, your initiative and your action tell your story without words.

Most of us follow an unintentional career path. People, events, dreams, and serendipity guide us unintentionally. It’s fascinating to reflect how we got to our current situation. Note: Jeff’s sound quality is just okay due to a recording experiment.

The case for why work is one of life’s five big categories for personal vibrancy.

Dreaming moves the world forward.  Dreaming moves us forward. But if we get too busy, we don't take time to dream.  If Disney ran your life, Disney would be a big part of what drives your activity.  Dreaming is a vision of the future that's better than today. A big dream can give you a target to reach for and push yourself. Having a place you are moving towards helps you keep moving when the work gets tough. 

End of season fireside chat with jeff and Jody. This is when we talk about the season, backstage, but hit the record button.

Brief review of the nine episode topics and corresponding 72-hour challenges.

Raising your bar and over-focused personal accountability is the heart of If Disney Ran Your Life podcast. Jeff challenges you to consider the best friend everyone should claim and why.

Most of us have 75% of our days be less than excellent. At Disney, this would be a disaster.  If you can make the connection to the common threads in your very best days, you can take slow and steady steps to add them to more of your days. Conversely, identify the common threads in your worst days, you can slowly work to alleviate or eliminate them.

Annual and seasonal traditions occupy important, even sacred, space in religions, countries, communities, and organizations. As CEO of You, Inc, you can create unique, personal traditions with any frequency that suits you and those you care about. Habits and rituals are a different way of saying traditions. Our habits drive our life.

Every leader is telling a story about she or he values. Harsh reality is we judge ourselves on our intentions, others judge us on our behaviors. Our (perceived) convictions (Season 6, Episode 5) determine if we are 100% all in. Because if we are not all in, we are not all in. 

What is “If Disney Ran Your Life” podcast? Certainly, it is not typical, and it is not a fan-based podcast for entertainment and Disney trivia. In 10 minutes, you’ll understand. New format. Risky? Sure. Worth it? Not sure. But in the potential failure, we are sure we will learn valuable information.

Two Disney “Values” stories. Eight practical questions. And thought-provoking conversation about being intentional and over-focusing.  .think .differently to create balance and personal vibrancy.

What are your goals for Spirit? Spirit is defined as the feeling, emotional part of your life. If you’ve never been asked, you’ve never answered. Now is the extraordinary opportunity of your lifetime to ponder, think, Decide, and declare.

How do you rate your life's peace and contentment? Satisfied or not with your rating? Can you, and are you excited to, raise your bar on everything? Jeff shares two Disney stories that prelude this season's content as being so valuable to you, it is immeasurable.

This is the fifth of five previously unreleased Glacier National Park episodes from Summer 2019. We discuss over-focusing on Life’s small details that most under-focus on or ignore, next to Swift Current Glacier. Of note: We recorded this episode (at 7,000’) the same day (Aug 29, 2019) Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge opened at Walt Disney World.

This is the fourth of five previously unreleased Glacier National Park episodes from Summer 2019. When in front of an expert with only one question you can ask, are you present enough to choose a question that counts, for your future development? Of note: jeff picked one strategic question for the 30-year Grizzly Bear biologist - the answer saved jeff's life 75 minutes later.

This is the third of five previously unreleased Glacier National Park episodes from Summer 2019. We discuss joyful intensity, plus lofty and sometimes crazy ideas next to the Continental divide. Of note: recorded while Jody sits next to an outhouse with one of the world’s best “outhouse views” at 8,200’, while jeff sits next to Jody and feet away from a 3,000’ cliff.

This is the second of five previously unreleased Glacier National Park episodes from summer 2019. We discuss lofty and sometimes crazy ideas next to the Continental divide.