jeff noel – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

GNP May arrival

Poster framed on a wall — My final Disney Pin Trading lanyard from 2014. Top right corner Walt is barely visible. We walk under this everyday, including on this morning’s walk to the Lyft in our driveway.

7-second video: Back for our first ever Spring trip.

Couple at mountain lake — 4pm today. Doesn’t look like Spring but today is cinco de Mayo.

Text thread — Shot this video minutes after getting Jody’s text.

8-second video: Inside joke to Jody Maberry.

Lean into the discomfort of doing mostly uncommon habits.
dad

First time experiences happen everyday.

We rarely pause to reflect that each new day has never happened before.

If you lean into this, jeff, you will see and think (and possibly do) things for the first time.

What a gift, huh?

If you aren’t present daily for this jeff, you default to your daily habits — you know, the stuff you think and do without thinking.

Same ‘ole, same ‘ole is its nickname.

Good news though. Your same ‘old, same ‘old is respectably present.

Enjoy today.

No doubt you will.

Note to self: Thank you for inspiring me to enjoy the path less traveled.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Too good, at home

airline web page — Easy-peasy: In one week we return from Glacier. Then a three-day break at home. Then a three-day out-of-state client engagement. Guess what’s after that? Our son is flying back from Australia to attend his College graduation. We wouldn’t miss it. And after we spend a week together in Baltimore, i’m off to Nova Scotia.

Magic happens with conviction and commitment. But don’t push it on others.
dad

Politics and religion remind me of zealots.

The zealots make me nauseous.

Conversely, my zeal inspires me.

Why?

Because it’s self-imposed.

No one but me is looking at my deficiencies and my opportunities.

As it should be.

Religious and political zealots, to me, forget that their right to be a zealot does not make them a deity.

Note: Talking lofty stuff is scary. Exciting too. And if i really want to pursue lofty stuff, i need a coach that pushes me hard. Writing lofty stuff is the echo of my own voice talking to me as my coach.

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It all started with a retina tear

Dr Gokul Kumar — Everything starts somewhere.

I hope we never lose sight that everything started with a Mouse.
Walt Disney

So ironic that right after returning from a month-long 2023 Summer visit i lost left-eye eye sight.

And yesterday, right after getting an excellent eye exam, we are days away from returning to Glacier.

How cool is that?

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Think about it for a minute

Conference presenter — Regina is the CEO and reached out to me with an offer i historically turn down. However, her initial email front-loaded answers to all my questions and i agreed to it.

Security camera clip screen — The dream since 2009 when i started the business was to leave my driveway and return on the same day. This is an example of a vision realized.

If you can’t recall what’s important in your own words, how will another’s words guide your life, your passion?
dad

Thinking about it?

What?

This post’s title.

Think about it for a minute.

Are you using your own homemade life-recipe or something off-the-shelf?

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Home altitude

toy Stitch figurine in mountains — Hope to see this again (Autumn on GTTSR) in 2024. Missed it in 2023.

The beauty in prioritizing daily writing is simple. You get to explore life deeper and broader than 99.99% of humanity.
dad

i’m gonna die soon and this acknowledgment has freed me to say whatever comes to mind. No filter. No expectations. No worries.

And…

And i have established a “private” structure and process for prolifically saying what’s on my mind.

The beauty is i could care less if anyone reads this.

i write for three people: me, Cheryl, and our son.

So if you’re reading this, i hope what is thought about, and written for those three people, perhaps helps you .think .differently about everything.

.hpm

Can totally see this being tomorrow’s lead off quote here.

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