jeff noel – Page 77 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Fear of success?

If we lived life unafraid of death, what would change?

We don’t fear death as much as we fear something else.

We fear having to change into who we know we really want to be.

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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.

Home patience

Home patience.

This is the patience required to thrive with peace and contentment.

This is the patience required to manage a new life-phase — retirement. And i mean full-retirement, not semi-retirement like the past decade after Disney.

This is the patience required to create new habits after a lifetime of steady, decent income.

This is the patience required to watch others reaping what they sowed, including me and my family.

This is the patience required to acknowledge that if today was my last day, am i ready in every way.

This is the patience required to manage new territory and what seems like rarely-improving human customer service. The tech side, to me, is ever increasing in its ability to make life easier, more convenient, and better.

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Stopping hints

Disney Customer Service Keynote speaker onstage — Canada, 2015. Filling in for Lee Cockerell who was ill and needed someone to cover his commitment. There’s also a chance this was one of my own Disney Customer Service Keynote Speeches. Can’t recall exactly.

Hints, to know when to stop blogging prolifically:

When daily blogging feels like work.
That’s it. That’s the only hint that i hear.

Happy present moment.

Bonus and subconscious hint: When i wonder if prolific blogging keeps me from finishing my ‘impossible’ book project.

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How much is just right?

The question every generation wrestles with…

How much is just right?

When you think about what you want to do with your life, remember this, if you underestimate your potential, you’ll waste it.

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Half a lap

high school track sprint in black and white — 1977. Can’t tell if this is the 440 or the 220 finish tape. The background bleachers indicate this is the 220.

Was a good 100 yard sprinter in High School. Then senior year, Tim Hawkins took my spot as our team’s fastest 100-yard dash sprinter.

It was healthy to have my “bubble burst”.

i was a very good 220 yard sprinter. Was never beaten by a teammate. Ever. A few rival schools had faster 220 sprinters.

Humbly (hopefully), i was an excellent 440 sprinter.

Note: Sophomore year a rival team put their soon-to-be 100-yard Pennsylvania High School 1975 State Champion against me. It was my only loss in three years of York County competition, including being three-time County Champion. Scott Fitskee was second in the 220 and Long Jump at States. 1975 results here.

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