Disney on Mondays

“The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.”

Walt Disney (1901–1966)
American entrepreneur & entertainment icon




Resourcefulness & Resilience by Disney...

• First company went bankrupt.

• Lost the rights to his first successful cartoon character (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit) along with most of his employees.

• Had a nervous breakdown.

• Won his first of 22 Academy Awards on a cartoon that he'd completed in black & white but then redid in color from scratch (Flowers and Trees - 1932)

• Made it through the Great Depression with merchandising deals of Mickey (watches, dolls, etc.)

• His company employs 150,000 people and has $38 billion in sales.

For Disney fans, the DVD about his life, Walt - The Man Behind the Myth is killer.

Reprinted from Justsell.

The Cookie Theif

There's a nice poem by Valerie Cox circulating on the Internet about a woman who bought some cookies and a book at an airport and sat down to read and nibble while waiting for her plane. She soon noticed a man sitting next to her, who casually took a cookie from the bag.


Although shocked and seething, the woman remained silent as the man, without the slightest sign of shame or gratitude, quietly helped himself, matching her cookie for cookie.


When there was one cookie left, she watched in amazement as he picked it up, smiled at her as if he were being gracious, and broke it in half. He ate one half and gave her the other. Congratulating herself for maintaining her cool, she said nothing to this rude cookie thief, astonished at the nerve of some people.


Later, when she was settling into her seat on the plane, she rummaged through her purse and discovered the bag of cookies she'd purchased, still unopened. The moral message is contained in the poem's closing stanza:


"If mine are here," she moaned with despair,


"Then the others were his, and he tried to share."


Too late to apologize, she realized with grief,


That she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.




Being sure is not the same as being right. Certainty without humility can lead to self-righteousness that distorts our view and understanding of the world and of people.




Humility doesn't require us to be equivocal or doubtful about our deepest convictions. What it asks is that we hold and advocate our beliefs without dismissing the possibility that others may be right instead.




This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.




Michael Josephson

www.charactercounts.org

Kindness

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
                                            -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success Quote

"You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights."
                                            ~Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001)

To All Aspiring Authors...You Can Do It!

Do All The Good You Can...

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can
    ~John Wesley (1703-1791)

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Going For It

"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
-W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
English writer