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.

Running for Mayor?

Politics.

Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em.

So, I’ve decided to become part of the solution rather than part of the problem.

I’m runnin’ for Mayor!

Yep!

Mayor of Margaritaville!

Gotta go for now.  Hitting the campaign trail, but first, breakfast – it’s the most important meal of the day, eh?

Carpe diem, my potential Parrothead friends, jeff noel  🙂

Seriously?

Blown away?  Seriously?

Yep!

Why?

Excellent question grasshopper.

Please visit today’s post at Lane 8.org to find out why.

I really appreciate you visiting  jeff noel.com and any of the other blogs I post daily.

It is my sincere intent to help make the world a better place before my time here is up.

Carpe diem, jeff noel  🙂

PS.  I work desperately hard to practice what I preach.  Desperately hard.

PSS.  The other reason I’m blown away is that Friday’s web site statistics produced a record setting day for web site traffic at www.MidLifeCelebration.com .  I don’t want to reveal it at this time because it will quite possibly sound like I’m bragging.

Blown Away

Blown Away.

I’ll explain this tomorrow.

Gotta go for now.

Peace, jeff noel  🙂

Why the Smiley Face Every Time?

Why the smiley face every time?

Five blogs per day.  Five smiley faces per day.

Why?

This past school year, our eight-year old son read most nights.  He was responsible for logging what he read, how many pages and the elapsed time spent reading.  He also was responsible  for getting my wife or I to sign our name for each entry.

I always signed my name with a smiley face.

One day I stopped doing it, thinking it was silly, or maybe immature.

Later, my wife told me that our son spoke to her about it, and wondered why I had stopped.

So I asked my son why he even noticed, because I didn’t think he did.

Well guess what?  He did notice.  He liked them, and he missed  them.  And I’m back to adding a smiley face every time I sign my name.

Carpe diem, jeff noel  🙂

PS.  Life is what happens while we’re busy making other plans.  🙂

Thanksgiving in July?

Thanksgiving in July?

Absolutely.

Actually, what about Thanksgiving every single day?

I’m sitting here at the in-store McDonald’s at a local Central Florida Wal-Mart.  Getting new tires.

Here are a few things I’m thankful for:

  1. Working for The Walt Disney Company
  2. Actually, simply being employed
  3. Being healthy, as far as I know
  4. Actually, simply being alive
  5. Living in the United States
  6. Actually, simply living in a free & safe country
  7. Being married
  8. Actually, simply being loved and able to love
  9. Being a father
  10. Actually, simply having the privilege to nurture & teach a child

Well, this isn’t exactly the post I had in mind when I woke up this morning; however, it’s the post that my fingers type as I enjoy another vacation day, in the land of the free.

With Independence Day on Saturday, I guess my subconscious took over the typing controls.

I’m OK with today’s plan not working out.  Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂