Can you get up and move today to spend fifteen minutes on a long shot? What would you do? If you like, you can work longer or continue for the week-end!

Bruce Gordon, Disney Imagineer and Author, had this to say about Walt Disney:
Walt dreamed of being a Hollywood director, but there he was, stuck in the Midwest. So what did he do? He went to California with little more than the clothes on his back and some pocket change. Then he scraped and struggled and battled to make his dreams happen. The lesson is clear. If you have to get up and move to make your dreams come then then get up and move!"

I really like this thought. I think of all the individuals who were born into opportunity and squandered their lives. I think of all thr individuals who were born into opportunity and did great things with their advantages. Nothing fascinates me more, though, than someone who was able to create their own opportunity from nothing!

I'm on a roll with my EcoTour trip report, and I'm ready to make my next entry today, so that project is going quite well! I can't believe I made such a big deal about learning to post photos!

There are a few long shots, though, that seem a bit daunting. One long shot is the basement, which seems to be a magnet for boxes and unwanted stuff.

My plan is to start with 15 minutes, but probably, once I get started, I'll work longer.

This actually supports my goal because it drives me nuts every time I look at how things were just tossed down there. Sometimes you have to tackle the foundation, where you can't see, in order to keep building where you can see.

It is a real scrape and struggle job, like in the quote and, frankly, I know one day I'll walk down there and everything will be tossed in the middle of the floor again, but I'll just get up and move again and pick up.

So, today I'm looking again at the nuts and bolts, trying to get inspired about the practical stuff.

Is anyone with me?



quote from p. 33, How to Be Like Walt, Pat Williams, Health Communications, Inc.2004