One Question A Day? – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

January 30, home

At home, how is your January 2026 going compared to how you planned it to go?

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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.

Mirror of my lifetime, home

What do i see in the mirror of my lifetime at home?

Casual.

Curious.

Shy.

Active.

Sports.

Cross-country, solo bicycle ride with only $75 cash and no tent.

Married.

Poor. But won a low-interest mortgage lottery for low income, first-time homebuyers (1985).

Health was almost always top priority – it’s the only thing i was really good at.

Then work at Walt Disney World became top priority.

Parenting looked hopeless.

Then a priority realignment.

Then teaching at Disney Institute, 1999 start (1999-2014).

Then parenthood, 2000.

Converted from (inactive) Lutheran to active Catholic, also 2000.

Then daily writing in 2009.

Then early retirement (2014) from Disney to start my own (risky, never-guaranteed) keynote speaking business (2014-2026) to have more control of my global travel schedule.

Empty-nester.

Personal vibrancy.

Sunset of life.

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What would you build?

Inside Notre Dame Cathedral — Notre Dame. Paris. Yesterday.

What would you build?

If you knew you would not fail…

What would you build?

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Why are prioritized priorities important?

Jeff Noel's Colorful business card from 2009 — Everything matters. Nothing is optional, If Disney ran your life. First business card, 2009. Didn’t retire from Disney until 2014. Didn’t make a dime until after official Disney retirement.

Why are prioritized priorities important?

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What do you do at the peak of your home life?

What do you do at home when you are at your peak?

Enjoy every present moment knowing i have no regrets because i’ve structured my life’s priorities to automatically deliver life’s best outcomes.

Note: Obviously, life consistently delivers unexpected and awful news. The goal isn’t to create perfect weather. The goal is to create strong habits that leave you the last to be impacted and the first to recover from life’s disasters.

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