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.

Australia Day 22, home

Mountains
L-R: Reynolds and Clements. From Oberlin summit. Jackson is the distant middle mountain, one of only six Glacier peaks over 10,000’.

i want and need prioritized priorities as much as my next breath.

dad

Not until you are fed up with your private life-at-home history and your home-life’s present will you be ready to burn the ships and move forward at home, never looking back.

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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.

Australia Day 21, home

colorful painted wall
Sunshine Coast Health precinct.
4-second video: McDonald’s and Australian flags.

Be mindful of unexpected changes in yourself and others. Work like a champion to over-focus on solving whatever comes your way.

dad

They say, “People change” and “People never change”.

Both are true.

Be mindful.

Happy present moment.

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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.

Australia Day 20, home

Disney Keynote Speaker Jeff noel
The hypothesis to the Disney Difference. It’s the way i summarize it.
mountains
Know how to be the only one on the trail to take a photo like this on of Glacier’s most popular trails? Over-focus on what the other hikers under-focus on or ignore. Easy-peasy (for everything in life) once over-focusing becomes a habit.

Be an artist in your own home.

dad

Aging should bestow wisdom.

But only if you over-focus on aging.

Over-focusing on aging in our home life means you are intentional where others are less intention, or completely ignorant, on pursuing home vibrancy.

At home, we reap what we sow.

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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.

Australia Day 19, home

Teddy bear at beach
L-R: Jack, Cheryl, Chapin. Sanibel. Year unknown, perhaps 2013.

Walking is the perfect exercise. Running is second. Humans were created to do both.

dad

Plan for the worst. Hope for the best.

Running, i hope we remain lifelong friends and soulmates.

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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.

Australia Day 18, home

Eye surgery business card
Need to pick a cataract surgeon. One of two Dr Kumar referrals.
Eye surgery business card
The other referral.
Woman next to green car
We had a few days between our WSU Residence Hall apartment contract ending and our next accommodations. We lived out of the car trunk and slept in our two-person tent at a little used County Park, not far from WSU.

Find a million ways to sustain and improve your childlike dreams, wishes, and magic.

dad

Like i say in my first book, (paraphrasing) “Remember your childhood dreams? Maybe you should dust one of them off and go for it.”

rethink * reprioritize * recommit

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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.