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.

jeff noel.com Is

We All Have A Truckload Of Responsibilities
We All Have A Truckload Of Responsibilities

jeff noel.com is:

  • An idea
  • One of Life’s Big Four Five
  • A Business
  • A Website
  • A Blog
  • A Way Of Thinking
  • Our Day-to-Day Responsibilies
  • A Movement

Mind, body, spirit, money – life’s big four choices, big four categories.

jeff noel.com is HQ – Headquarters, the “Office” so to speak for our lives. It’s the day to day stuff, the minutia.

It’s the routine, the planned, the unplanned, the emergencies, the daily grind. As simple as “What are we having for dinner tonight” to “I have to get the oil changed soon”.

Finding the right processes and the right structure is a moving target, for our entire lives. And we need to be flexible and creative, or we will drown in our pile of responsibilities.

WordPress WordCamp Notes Dec

WordCamp Phoenix Dec. 2009
WordCamp Phoenix Dec. 2009

Please disregard today’s post if you have no interest in learning how to blog or how to be a better blogger using WordPress. For about $10 per year you can own a GoDaddy domain name and add a free WordPress blog.

Some notes from a December 2009 WordPress Wordcamp streaming video feed.

  • Don’t use pronouns
  • Use nouns
  • www.DaveMoyer.org
  • www.wordcastpodcast.com
  • feedburner
  • WordPress.tv
  • Jim Christian, head SEO guy @ GoDaddy
  • Title Tag – make sure your keyword is first
  • Title Tag – it’s the first thing that shows up on Google
  • Title Tag – always make it 65 characters or less
  • Description Tag
  • (Keyword Tag) Link
  • SEO Press Releases
  • Caphyon Advanced Search – $100-$200 per year fee
  • Adwords Keywords Tool
  • Use Exact match
  • Google Trends
  • Touchgraph Browsers
  • Backlinks Analyzers
  • wpe.plugin
  • kungfugrip
  • tubemogul
  • wptouch = wp theme?
  • JohnHawkinsunrated
  • Merlin Mann 43folders.com
  • Write about everything but your company
  • Lorelle Van Fossen – wtfblogclutter
  • Blog Rules 1. There are no rules
  • H Tags
  • blogcluttermagazine
  • plagurismtoday.com
  • Lorelle on WordPress
  • 1. Blog for yourself
  • 2. Blog for like-minded people
  • Publish content with intent (her most important msg)
  • godaddy.com/wordcamp
  • godaddy.com/wordpress
  • Branding – It’s you. it’s your voice
  • Jason Cote WPCOOP.org
  • elance – php is #1 , wordpress is # 9, content writing #3 (WPCOOP.org)

Happy Mother’s Day

World's Best Mommy
World's Best Mommy

My Son’s Mother is amazing.

Just before our son was born in 2000, a colleague gave me the best piece of advice for raising children, and he said it was told to him by a very old and very wise woman.

“You only need to remember two things when it comes to raising children. You can’t hold them too much and you can’t love them too much.”

A few years later, I shared this story with a group and afterwards one man approached me and said, “There’s a third thing. Love their Mother.“

Why?

The World Isn't Going To Wait For You
The World Isn't Going To Wait For You

Why do we allow our childhood dreams to wither and die?

Is it because too many people tell us we can’t, we shouldn’t, it’s not worth it, you’ll fail, it’s too much work?

Ignoring the Internet would be like ignoring indoor plumbing. A long time ago, there wasn’t indoor plumbing. Guess where you went to the bathroom?

What if someone still didn’t embrace indoor plumbing?

The Internet is strangely similar to indoor plumbing.  It’s a tool that makes our lives infinitely easier.

And for the few who work the hardest, it gives them a voice.

And a better opportunity to live out their childhood dreams.

Streets Of Philadelphia

 

Gave A Speech To Change The World
Gave A Speech To Change The World

The movie, Philadelphia,  starring Tom Hanks, and featuring a song by Bruce Springsteen, won many awards, and was a ground-breaking, big budget Hollywood movie about Aids.

And of course all the Rocky movies with Sylvester Stallone, as Rocky Balboa – they were set on the streets on Philadelphia.

Spent the past two days there and never left the Hilton Hotel.

No streets of Philadelphia, no Rocky moments, no sight-seeing. Just work.

Are you thankful for the heavy load you are carrying?