Author: jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.

Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer?

They followed their passion, apparently, no matter the cost…

Sometimes, my thoughts here are (intense) reflections of the recent past and (impossible) hopes for the coming day.

It’s been a very rewarding week at The University of Iowa. You could just feel the excitement and energy in the air, everywhere you went.

The teacher sets the tone for the day.

The toughest thing about being a teacher is never seeing the audience again. Never knowing if the excitement led to positive change.

The second toughest thing is knowing that if the audience is bored, the teacher is boring them.

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Is This What You Love?

To teach is to learn twice…

Rather than writing, which you would think is my passion – the real passion is teaching.

And like the Biblical parable – The harvest is great but the laborers are few – my message is not eagerly received by the general population.

Who wants some yahoo telling them they have a lot of work to do, or they’ll die with disproportional regret?

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How’s Your Love (of) Life?

Let your life-song sing…

Dear Son, make today great. It’s up to you. No one else.

When you’re young, your parents and other Family adults help you have good times.

As you get older, there will be the transfer of responsibility. It doesn’t happen on your 16th or 18th or even on your 21st birthday. It happens one innocent day at a time…

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