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.

The math is the math, home

Honeymoon bicycle trip
Organized the car to drive from Washington State University to Walt Disney World. Five full days across the United States, with no sight-seeing stops. 1984.

Everything is not as it appears.

Over-focus on the same things you used to under-focus on or ignore.

My goal now is to have 100% fidelity to the lifestyle i envision since retiring (a 2nd time) in December 2025.

Will continue to speak if these four things align:

  1. It’s in Orlando
  2. Date works
  3. Fee is reasonable
  4. Client is fun and easy to work with

That’s my story and i’m sticking to it.

.hpm

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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.

Prioritized priorities to the rescue

Two loaded down 18-speed Trek touring bicycles from 1983 Honeymoon
Two loaded down 18-speed Trek touring bicycles from 1983 Honeymoon.

Married 1983.

Honeymooned for 2.5 weeks in the Puget Sound and Vancouver Island, via bicycle trekking, a year later in 1984.

Reasons.

Mostly time and money reasons.

The possibility to speak on Vancouver Island this October is alluring.

And yet, after doing the ‘math’, the possibility isn’t close to adding up.

Perhaps i write more about it tomorrow. We’ll see.

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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.

Reprise: Random photo day, home

Family
Halfway through High School Senior year.

High school is on my mind today as a milestone High School reunion, in Allentown, is approaching in less than one month.

Cheryl and her cousins Michael, Maryann, and Matthew graduated from Allentown’s Dieruff High School.

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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.

Random photo day, home

Infant flipping the middle finger to photographer
As funny as it is sickening, no?

Random photo.

The source is some public place.

Can’t recall where or when.

What i do remember is feeling that the person who decided to put it in public is brave, crazy, and probably fun.

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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.

Habits and ambitions, home

Disney Institute wisdom
Habits create our life.

Best habit?

Focus and discipline combo.

  1. Focus on the basics.
  2. Discipline yourself to never take your eye off the ball (basics).

Over-focus on the same things you used to under-focus on or ignore.

Do the basics brilliantly.

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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.