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.

Disney teamwork, home

bags of Christmas goodies by Christmas tree
Couldn’t fit 40 goodie bags in the round box. Nice challenge to have.

Today, December 20, 2025 the Christmas goodie bags we assembled yesterday get delivered to Walt Disney World (WDW) Cast Members.

Chapin got to do the backstage (home backstage) work, feel the intent and anticipation, and now, enjoy the gift received when you make others happy.

Every Cast Member’s role contributes to the paying Guests’ experience and memories that last a lifetime. That’s a given. It’s the reason we (Disney) exist.

However, each individual Cast Member gets to choose to also do it backstage at work (WDW).

It’s bringing the ‘Disney Way’ full-circle.

It’s the essence of “If Disney Ran Your Life”.

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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.

Always dialed in

Great Horned Owl on a home's roof
An hour past sunset. Adjusted the camera setting to allow in more light.
Great Horned Owl on a home's roof
Walking up our driveway from the road, the silhouette froze me. With limited light, captured what i could.
7-second video: A true capture of the hour past sunset darkness.
12-second video: i made a sound and watch the Owl’s instant reaction.

Less than one mile from Walt Disney World.

A seemingly nonstop traffic hum from what i’ve nicknamed “The Disney Cast Member Parkway”.

A long list of nightly animals including bobcats, coyotes, raccoons, opossums, armadillos, bats, and an occasional owl.

The owls and bats are the only ones i see without the help of security cameras.

Note: Honestly, no idea how sightings like the Great Horned Owl above come into view. Who makes a habit of looking up, especially at night?

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Time, home

three men at a Mountain Lake
A picture is worth a thousand words. A dozen annual pictures of the same people at the same place, year after year…time well spent.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A dozen annual pictures (at Lake McDonald’s south shore, looking North at the Continental Divide) of the same people at the same place, year after year…time well spent.

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Home mantra

Home mantra…

You are the CEO of You, Inc.

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Home presence

12-second video: It’s hard to look away from something so mesmerizingly beautiful. But if you do, you won’t miss the encore behind you…
mountain sunset
Simply turn around 180-degrees. An easy half-spin. How amazing is this? Here’s a video of the same moments…
10-second video: Learned this presence on Sanibel Island decades ago. And over those decades, have learned to apply it to everything.

Home presence…

Presence of my priorities…

And eventually, the presence to prioritize them…

Wasn’t easy, but the presence to stay with it led to peace and contentment…personal vibrancy.

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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.