jeff noel – Page 1138 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

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?

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:

Working for The Walt Disney Company
Actually, simply being employed
Being healthy, as far as I know
Actually, simply being alive
Living in the United States
Actually, simply living in a free & safe country
Being married
Actually, simply being loved and able to love
Being a father
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 🙂

What’s the Point?

Huh?

Why are you here? Seriously.

On this planet, I mean, why are you here?

Crazy thing is, I know.

I can’t believe it took me nearly 50 years to figure it out. Better late than never, eh?

Do you know why you are here? Carpe cosmos, jeff noel 🙂

It’ll take all of us

Who said, “We can. We will. If we all work together”.

Does it even matter?

The premise here, is that we can not solve our Nation’s challenges and rise to meet our glorious Nation’s enormous opportunities, without the help of everyone.

Take nature. Look at an ant colony. Is there a single, solitary ant that doesn’t have a purpose?

I’m neither a scientist nor a genius. But I am observant.

In those three short sentences were the nine words, of the 2,401 President Barack Obama spoke at his inauguration, that really inspired me.

I won’t expect anyone else to be perfect until I become perfect myself. Ya with me?

Please don’t expect others, Washington DC, or anything, to be perfect. If you can’t do it, how can you expect someone else to?

Wow. I don’t know what got into me today. I do know, however that whatever it was, I’m sure it wasn’t perfect.

Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

To Search or Not to Search Engine

To search or not to search engine, that is the question.

The answer is……

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO for short. Most of you know this and I hate to be a bore about SEO; however, you may find a nugget in here somewhere.

For the rest of you on your blogging journey, here are some free (mostly) search engines and some free search engine tools:

OK, enough already. Just wanted to show you the tip of the Internet iceberg.

Surf’s up. Catch a wave, dude!

Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂