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17 days to GOal: Who do you want?

Posted 04-25-2010 at 02:37 PM by Sandra Bostwick
Updated 04-25-2010 at 03:53 PM by Sandra Bostwick

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
Walt Disney

Theresa made an interesting comment on yesterday's blog entry. Here is what she said:

What came to mind was - if you build it - they will come...

Posted Today at 10:30 AM by orionchika

(Here I am again!)
I love that concept, the notion that if you build it, they will come. One of my favorite movie scenes is the row of cars coming to the field in the middle of nowhere in Field of Dreams.

Well, instead of building a field in the middle of nowhere, I built a blog out in virtual nowhere.

I'm not exactly sure why, either. I think I just had some time on my hands and I wanted to see what would happen and who would come. I'm still waiting...........OH, the mystery!

I really didn't know who would show up. I didn't really know what to write half the time. And, when I think of the Disney quote above, I have to tell you that I really don't know what "the people" want.

All I invested was a little time and typing! Walt Disney, on the other hand, had a great deal on the line when he put his confidence in what the people want.

I'm glad for people like Walt Disney who have that intuitive sense.

I can't believe that in only three sleeps (AKA three nights) I will be on a plane to Orlando. OK, the first half of the trip is a conference, but the second half of the trip will be in DISNEY WORLD!

Every time I visit, when the car pulls under the gates, I feel in my heart that I've somehow come home. OK, there are crowds, but there are crowds because lots of people are drawn there!

Drawn to a place that, not TOO long ago, was a swamp in the middle of what many people would have called nowhere...that is until something they wanted was built there!

And that is my blog entry for today!

Quote from The Imagineers, Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real (New York:Hyperion, 1996) 171.

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Walt certainly lived by the "If you build it, they will come." philosophy. I mean, he took an orange grove and built Disneyland with as many resources as he could muster and people telling him it couldn't be done. Then on opening day it was filled. The same thing with swamp land in Florida. He built it and we all came.

If you think of "Walt's Folly" aka Snow White, you know that he lived by that philosophy. He built a feature length animated movie when animations were only for the short featurettes before the main movie. People flocked to that movie too.

I think we have a lot to learn from Walt. The college I am attending now has been a upper class 2 year college for a few decades now. (Meaning junior and senior level classes only.) But this coming fall, they are opening up to being a four year university. They have built the foundation and now the freshmen and sophomores are coming to the school.

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Posted 04-25-2010 at 10:34 PM by PamelaK PamelaK is offline

	You did a nice job with this blog, Sandy. I think you've gotten many people thinking hard about their own lives and making changes so you built your own peaceful place. I'll be sorry to see it go but happy for you. Do you think you'll miss it? 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 04-26-2010 at 11:25 AM by Christine43

	I am sure I will miss it! No question! 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 04-27-2010 at 07:38 AM by Sandra Bostwick

	Well you built it and wonderful people came. I'm doing that with my site as well. 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 04-29-2010 at 12:22 AM by TNTWheels

	You really have done a fine job with your website, Todd! I'm so happy to just be a little part of that! 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 04-29-2010 at 08:41 PM by Sandra Bostwick