jeff noel – Page 55 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

The paperwork of life

Post-it note with handwriting — Days later, still working to close my Old GoDaddy Legacy account. Multiple calls, on multiple days, to multiple people. A few emails too. The drag from ‘administrative friction’ puts unproductive strain on our time and psyche.

Oil leak on concrete under a car — Same unwelcome drag when one issue, car repair, becomes a series of domino-effect unresolved administrative chores. Pictured here is a new oil leak, after $3,600 (and three weeks). Will have to return to Action Gator Tire and begin again to ask, “Why is this happening? It wasn’t happening before i brought it to you. Please exceed my expectations, if possible.”

iPhone alarm clock setting — Getting eight hours of sleep is a daily ‘to-do’. It is never on a list though. It’s an automatic (atomic) habit. Actually got nine hours last night. Yay me. Day seven, Flu-A. Sleep is recovery medicine.

The cosmos.

Inexplicable.

Hard to articulate.

But i feel a cosmic energy shift in my commitment to minimalism.

Note: i envision less of everything is more of everything. It sounds paradoxical. Which is in my wheelhouse. So that feels like money in the bank.

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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.

More room, less space

woman holding a touring bicycle near an ocean — For two and a half weeks, this was all we had. Photo: Gazing out at the Pacific Ocean from a “San Juan” Island. A belated (by 14 months) honeymoon trip bicycling across Washington State, West to East. Note: Cheryl is also holding my bike while i snapped this pic.

Over the decades Americans have gradually lived in bigger houses, with less space.

Bigger dwelling.

Less space.

Paradox.

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What pain at home

GoDaddy admin screen — The pain of being a sole proprietor. Everything is on you.

When you change your priorities for the better, you might think your change seems inspiring to others. Instead, it probably makes them uncomfortable because they are confronted with their own priorities.

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2024’s final week, home

Bob Iger and Jeff Noel from 2005 at Disney Resort — Bob met with Disney’s Board of Directors at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort. i met with several dozen global business leaders to teach them Disney’s Business behind the Magic, also at ‘The Grand’.

Marty Sklar and Jeff Noel at Disney Resort — Marty Sklar needed a Disney Institute (DI) handler for his Walt Disney World Keynote. DI leadership picked me. In a story for another time, i didn’t feel i had time in my Disney schedule to do it for two days.

The Disney leaders i learned from are broad and often times deep.

This is an exceptional opportunity only a large, world-class company affords.

Grateful.

Merry Christmas, dude.

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All i want for Christmas

mother and son next to Christmas tree — December 25, 2025. Today.

All i want for Christmas is what any parent wants for their Family.

Note: Yes, well aware this publishes long after Dec. 25, 2024. August 15, 2025 to be exact.

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