an imagineer's advice

have you ever been to disneyland?

all the little details they put into everything? 

the cool ways they present everything with magnificent colors, animatronics, and music?  Heck, even the lamp posts have an explosion of detail. 

everything seems to have a twinge of

disney magic.




disney magic. of course!




let me let you in on a little secret.




disney imagineers make the magic happen. it doesn't just happen by itself.

(imaginer+engineer=imagineer)


i know, blasphemy, right?


but imagineers make the impossible possible every day.


i'm reading this book-- the imagineering workout.

i feel like it could be applied to more than just being creative.




take setting goals for instance.


the trick is to actually starting.

go and do.



listen to this:


even Mary Poppins said A job begun is half done.


Whatever you hope to accomplish, from sorting the laundry to starging the great American Novel, [or graduating college], just dive in and start doing as Walt Disney said... Sometimes it's important to start even before you have a chance to start thinking. 

So ball up that first pair of socks from the laundry, type that first sentence of the masterpiece, [sign up for next semester].  Once you start, the juices begin to flow whether you're aware of it or not, and it's only a matter of time before you're doing your best work and the task is finished.



i love it!  thanks again, disney!