Posts Tagged ‘Faith’
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Are You Paying Attention?
Simple is elusive.
Focus is elusive.
Determination is elusive.
Humility is elusive.
Unless your life purpose is clear.
Reading yesterday’s post had me question my humility. You read it and you saw “I did”.
The thing you should understand (in case you don’t) is that there are many people who can tell you what should be done and why, but they themselves can not – not nearly to the extent they preach.
It seemed to me, there was an opportunity for a common man (perhaps a Father) to step up and try it differently.
Tags: Charity, Common Sense, Determination, Determined, Driven, Elusive, Faith, Focus, Focused, Hope, Humble, Humility, Inspired, Jeff Noel, Love, Purpose, Servant, Simple, Simplicity, Status Quo
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
We Love You Carter
The love of a pet, for some people, is indescribably real and strong.
The loss of a pet, for some people, is heartbreaking, gut wrenching.
Journaling, is therapeutic for some people.
Two out of three isn’t bad.
Tags: Animal Lovers, Carter, Faith, Hope, Loss of a Pet, Love, Pets
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Are We Trained For Them?
We all have addictions.
“No we don’t”, is the echo we can hear from some of you.
“Yes we do”, is the echo we can hear from some others, including myself.
Is it hereditary? Click here to read this article that suggests it is.
Pick your poison:
Approval, chocolate, work, sex, TV, food, Internet, exercise, reading, pessimism, optimism, Love, Faith, Hope, Money, shopping, volunteering, excuses, greed, jealously, alcohol, drugs, caffeine, pain, pleasure, video games, gambling, competition, failure, success, nicotine, etc.
Tags: AA, Addiction, Addictive Behavior, Adults, Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, Approval, caffeine, chocolate, Drugs, Excuses, exercise, Failure, Faith, Food, Gambling, Gaming, Genes, greed, Help, Hereditary, Hereditary Addiction, Hope, Internet, jealously, Jeff Noel, Kids, Love, Mid Life, Money, Nicotine, Optimism, pain, Pessimism, pleasure, reading, sex, shopping, Success, teens, TV, Twelve Step Programs, Video Games, Volunteering, Work
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Blessed Beyond Measure
A word is worth a thousand pictures.
Cheryl.
Cheryl, my wife.
They don’t make ‘em prettier or smarter.
I’m blaming her for loving me.
Tags: Cheryl Noel, Faith, Family, Hope, Jeff Noel, Love
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Knock Knock
When is your funeral? No idea, right?
Exactly. None of us know.
And because, for most people, death is paralyzingly scary, we ignore it. As if it will go away if we don’t think about it.
I think about death everyday. This helps me appreciate the gift of life today and the opportunity to do the best I can.
Every day is a failure. Every day is a triumph. Every day is a gift.
Will you unwrap yours and enjoy it today?
Tags: Blogger Dude, Death, Dying, Faith, Five Blogs, Five Daily Blogs, Florida, Funeral, Hope, Jeff Noel, Keynote Speeches, Orlando, Randy Pausch, Wellness Expert
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
It's Who You Know
Heard this phrase the other night, probably on the TV as I was walking though a room, and I wrote it down.
“The art of compromise.”
We can take guesses as to what this means, or we can simply make up our own meaning. That’s what I did, and came up with five different ways:
- Compromising our mind, intellect
- Compromising our body, health
- Compromising our spirit, faith
- Compromising our money, career
- Compromising just about everything, CEO of Me, Inc.
The comment’s intent targeted the Senators power to say “no” to President Obama – relationships and the passing of President Obama’s Health Care Bill.
Some Senators held their vote until they got a really good deal for their state. This had people debating it’s fairness, and the Senator’s enormous power to say, “No.”
At the end of the day, it’s really about relationships and who you know.
Or maybe, just maybe, it’s about who you no.
Tags: Art, Backward, Body, Career, Compromise, Compromising, Disney World, Fail, Faith, Five-a-day Blogger, Florida, Forward, Give In, Health, HQ, Intellect, Jeff Noel, Mind, Money, Move, One take You Tube videos, Orlando, Our, Personal Leadership, Relationships, Settle, Spirit, Succeed, The Art Of, Vacation, Walt Disney
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Fog
The truth hurts. The truth can also set us free.
“Yeah, yeah, whatever!”
Can’t you just hear people saying this, or thinking it? I say it too. We all do sometimes.
In fact, I’ve said this all my life.
“Yeah, yeah, whatever.”
Until a few years ago when things began to change.
One close friend describes me as, “A Transformed man.”
Just yesterday, at jeffnoel.org (spirit) I posted about the fog, the semi-conscious state many of us seem to go through life with. Some may call it auto-pilot.
As we are into the fourth day of the new year already, wanted to remind everyone that the goal from all this writing is:
- To leave a trail for a young child
- To help others with their goals
- To eventually raise money to find a cure
These things have the ability to help transform anyone. At the moment, it’s working slowly, but powerfully.
Tags: Balance, eBooks, Faith, Five-a-day Blogger, Florida, Free, Goodness, Hope, HQ, Jeff Noel, jungle jeff, Lane 8, Man, Men, Mid Life, Mid Life Celebration, Mid Life Crisis, One-Take-You Tube video guy, Orlando, Purpose, Tenacity, Transform, Transformational, Well Being, Wellness Challenge
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Bring On 2010
Finally.
Some will say, “Finally, 2009 is over.”
Some will say, “Finally, 2010 is here.”
Some may say both.
Where would you put yourself?
It seems, time and time again, it all comes down to attitude.
Tags: 2009, 2010, Attitude, Central Florida, Daily Blogs, Dreams, Effort, Faith, Final, Finally, Five-a-day Blogger, Florida, Hope, Hopelessness, Jeff Noel, jungle jeff, Lane 8, Mid Life Celebration, One take You Tube videos, Optimism, Orlando, Pessimism, Resolution, Walt Disney World Resort
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
Merry Christmas 2009
Merry Christmas from jeff noel.com
Wishing you and yours:
PEACE in your Soul.
JOY in your Spirit.
LOVE in your Heart.
Tags: Central Florida, Christmas, Faith, Five-a-day Blogger, Florida, Google jeff noel, Hope, HQ, Jeff Noel, Joy, jungle jeff, Lane 8, Love, Merry Christmas, Mid Life Celebration, One take You Tube videos, Orlando, Peace, Walt Disney World Parade, Z Radio, Z88
Posted in December 2009 | No Comments »
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Is jeff noel aggressively unfancy? Well, one thing for certain, I’m certainly not too funny when I blog. But I sure do try to be aggressively unfancy.
And the concept of being unfancy is one most of us have never heard of. We have, but not in those exact words.
Aggressively unfancy means, to me, a person who is not focused on looking smart or sexy. Sort of an ordinary person who deep down inside understands that they are blessed beyond measure simply by being alive. And that that is more than enough.
Having a roof over your head, food on your plate, someone to love and someone to love you back. Ya with me? (this one’s for you MDJ)
Having a car that starts every time, someone in your life who is more important than you, a clean shirt and indoor plumbing – these things make us rich. And potentially, aggressively unfancy. But certainly not funny. Ya with me? (this one’s for everyone)
Tags: Aggressively, Baby Boomer, Blessed beyond Measure, Blessings, Common, Dad, Faith, Father's Day, Hope, Jeff Noel, jungle jeff, Lane 8, Love, Masters, Not fancy, Ordinary, Orlando, Public Speaker, Salt of the earth, Sexy, Smart, Unfancy
Posted in October 2009 | No Comments »