I’ve been in Disney World Florida for two weeks. It was awesome, but it was also really interesting in terms of design.

Consistency - Magic band, the customer service experience, everybody waving and smiling

Immersion - From the queues, to the rides, to the characters

Perfection/Magic - Nothing ever out of place

Witty/Clever - Monsters Inc Laugh Floor

Visually beautiful - The end of day shows - Happily Ever After

Technically cutting edge - Pandora, Happily Ever After

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I've been in Disney World Florida for two weeks, and today in part 1 I'm talking about a bit of history and the original vision for Walt Disney World.The scale of it all

$1000 a day average popcorn stand in peak season

Spend around $1,000,000 a day on fireworksInteresting design points

The original vision for Walt Disney World was Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. When Walt Disney died, it became a dedication to him, and they built an amazing theme park instead

Its purpose was to be a "real city that would 'never cease to be a blueprint of the future,' designed to stimulate American industry to develop new ideas for urban living.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)

Original concept: monorail travel everywhere, no cars needed, a transportation system owned by EPCOT 

The PeopleMover: a transportation system that never stops

The whole Epcot thing lead to the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which is basically a governing jurisdiction of land that Disney owns. That’s where Walt Disney World is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_District

They are their own government. 

Nothing is ever out of place. It’s perfect in terms of litter, upkeep, staff smiling and greeting you, everything. Replant flowers every 3 weeks. 

Immersion. Nobody can leave character, the queues to any of the rides is completely immersive like the new Avatar ride

Interesting Conversations episode 1 is out now!

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I'm taking a break for two weeks. Here's why.

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When you're making something, forget about the stats. Focus on the quality.

Interesting Conversations episode 1 is out now!

When you first start a new blog, forget about the stats

They’ll be rubbish

Low

Depressing

Instead, focus on sharing good content

Writing good content, improving, learning, and practising

When your time is right, your audience will grow

It won’t be quick if you do it right

1-2 years to create a decent sized audience with a blog if you do it slow and progressively

It can be made quicker with Facebook Advertising

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You don't have to be angry, sad, or grumpy. You can change it, and you can change other people's perceptions.

Interesting conversations starts on Sunday! Listen to the trailer here.

We can’t please everybody, this is a fact of life we have to accept

But also, we have to take ownership of what people think about us

Other people’s perceptions of us: grumpy, happy, smiley, sad, bossy: are created by us

Once somebody has called us one of these things, we become them, and accept it

Most of us prefer not to pay attention to what other people perceive us as

Burying your hand in the sand approach

Take control of other people’s perceptions by actively trying to change them

My angry face—and how I try to soften it

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Ignoring time is a little idea I’ve been playing around with recently.

Interesting conversations starts on Sunday! Listen to the trailer here.

I recently read The Big Leap, and it talks about a concept that we create our own time

Einstein time - an idea I still don’t fully understand

The problem with always paying attention to time:

Pressure to get things done

We always feel like we’re running out of time

This problem somewhat disappears when we try and ignore time

I’ve found this the most helpful when I’m really rushed for time: particularly on a morning

I’ve been trying to ignore the time and just do the things I need to get done

So instead of thinking “I only have 20 minutes to complete X”, I instead think “I have to complete X, no matter how long it takes”

I’ve also been trying to drop the idea of “I haven’t got time to do X”, trying to remove it from my vocabulary

Instead, I say: “I didn’t get that done.” OR “I didn’t want to do it”

It wasn’t time’s fault I didn’t get it done, it was my fault for not wanting to do it.

That’s why when you really need to do something for the day after, you’ll somehow manage to squeeze it in.

I’m still exploring the idea, but I thought it’s worth sharing. It has more power that it seems to have at first, once you become aware of how much time we spend worrying about time

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The next two episodes are a bit Doctor Who. This episode is about time. 

Interesting conversations starts on Sunday! Listen to the trailer here.

Parkinson’s Law

'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion’

It’s true!

Whether you set yourself 10 minutes or 10 hours, you’ll make the task last

BUT it won’t necessarily be better spending a lot longer on it

Relative to design:

Design sometimes takes 10 minutes

Sometimes it takes 10 hours

Both solutions could be just as good

Set realistic deadlines

Don’t give yourself too much time

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I share some thoughts and feelings about how I improve my mindset and become more self-aware.

What do I mean

Become more self-aware

Work out who you are

What are you good at?

What are you better at that most other people?

What do your family, friends, colleagues and clients say you’re good at?

Work to do more of that

Improve your environment

Is your work environment bringing you down?

Is your home environment bringing you down?

Improve your body

Exercise

Improve your mind

Meditate

Affirmations

Visualisations

Write all your progress down

Journalling to keep track of progress

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How can you learn loads of stuff all at once without getting overwhelmed? I'm currently going through this, so I thought I'd share my thoughts.

Yesterday’s episode I spoke about some of the new things I’m trying

Writing a book

Creating video courses

Making a interview-style podcast

Trying new marketing techniques

Writing a daily email

Some of that stuff right now I don’t know how to do

What’s just in time learning?

Stops overwhelm

Stops the analysis paralysis problem, and the getting addicted to learning

I’m addicted to learning, so I have to be careful

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I'm doing a lot of new stuff at the minute and it scares me and makes me anxious. Here's why that's important.

Yesterday I covered my story, and why doing things you’re scared of is important

Today I want to carry on, and go into my story a bit more

I’ve been getting into a lot of marketing things lately that I’ve never tried before

And I’ve bought a couple of courses 

Tried stuff out I’ve never done

Started a daily email newsletter

Working on a creating some video courses

Even trying to write a book

All of that stuff scares me

Every year, we do a big print project for a client, and it terrifies me

I get genuinely anxious about it for weeks

But it’s worth it: to grow, to get better, to produce amazing work

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