Category: Dear Son

Catch vs coach

i “caught” them without a unifying goal. Then i coached them until their common purpose became obvious.

You have to become your own catcher.

You must also be your own coach.

Sometimes they look the same – catcher and coacher.

And often, someone else serves as your best coach or catcher.

Make your life come to life by treating your life-story as art.

Speaking of art, here’s a bonus. A song i recently stumbled upon. Barren, simple, emotional. Art.

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Happy 28th HQ anniversary

Yep.

Bought our lot in 1990, moved into our present home on January 25, 1992. Happy 28th.

Revisiting yesterday’s leadership train of thought about my top values.

Here’s a list i began teaching our son in 2004-ish. This list began in 2002 with one value, honesty. Numbers two, three, and four were added when sleepovers became a thing in 2005-ish. Initiative added a couple years later. Fun added somewhere 2016-ish.

  1. Honesty
  2. Behave admirably
  3. Personal responsibility
  4. Self-control
  5. Initiative
  6. Fun
  7. (Bonus) Contribution (June 2019)

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Dear Son…What? How? Why?

radical career question
From the Frieberg’s email yesterday. Genius insight.
Disney Institute Speakers
Yesterday from Twitter. By the way, i spent 15 years here (hand-picked by Disney Institute) teaching Fortune 500 companies how Disney creates great leaders, engaging cultures, wowed-Guests, loyal fans, and innovative ideas.

Dear Son, these are better questions for your teachers (including me and Mom) to ask you.

What do you want to solve?

How can it be done?

Why does it matter?

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Being organized has a dirty little secret

prolific blogging
Number of consecutive days without missing a single day.
prolific bloggers
Number of blog posts from when you write five daily, differently-themed posts without missing a single day for 3,546 days.
Prolific blogging jeff noel
This photo added today Feb. 17: 15 days ago, i tallied this “official” blog post total. Some days i wrote more than five posts. There are also 682 posts written on my second tier blogs.

Being organized has a dirty little secret.

You can never coast.

PS. Since this post was written on December 17, 2018, the numbers have grown by 60 and 300 respectively to 3,606 and 18,030. And astonishingly (to me), the actual total as of today is 19,102.

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Being decently organized is a full-time job

High School Senior trip
Up high.

 

High School Senior trip
Down low.

 

family
Virgin non-stop Orlando to London.

 

HS senior trip
HS senior trip…last night at 6:00pm.

 

Disney Speaker jeff
Last night at 6:50pm.

 

Peter Pan quote
Peter Pan quote at High School Theater wall.

 

HS theater
Last night, 7:00pm.

 

Peter Pan play
Last night, 7:05pm.

 

Lyft
Took a Lyft home at intermission (8:30pm)…too many things to do before bedtime. Cheryl stayed.

 

Being decently organized is a full-time job.

And creative.

And fun.

 

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