Rewards – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

To keep writing or stop, home

Disney business book author jeff noel — Years ago…Had a few extra minutes of writing at Cinderella Castle before making the return trip to Town Square.

What happens if i stop daily writing?

Who am i if i am not a writer who writes about .thinking .differently, having fun, and leaning into discomfort?

Ps. Received first Social Security payment yesterday. Fixed-income lifestyle is now locked in.

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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.

What i hope for today, home

Back to today’s starting line…

Five weeks into the beginning of the 18th consecutive year writing five daily, differently-themed blogs, the question is simple…

How much more writing do you have do, want to do, need to do?

Still don’t know.

Leaning towards continuing through at least Summer 2026, possibly through December.

Why?

To capture this major life transition to fixed-income, no more working lifestyle.

Time will tell.

It always does.

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What i wish for today, home

Two week countdown, home

Disney Speakers — Teaching at Disneyland Paris, 2012. My partner Sara sitting alone at the head table. The audience is conducting a table activity.

Disney Service Excellence Speakers — From Iowa, to Paris, to Infinity and Beyond…2012.

Paris 2012, Pixar Remy art — Paris Spring 2012.

Disney Institute Speakers — From Paris to New York…how did this ever happen to a small town kid? Disney Institute Speaker team on stage at Madison Square Garden Theater.

Prioritized priorities are an incredibly vibrant way to run anything. A company. A personal life.

Doing this trip trumps any sort of financial efficiency.

Why?

Because time is sometimes more valuable than money.

The clock is always ticking.

Note to self…

Please be careful.

And intentional.

Happy present moment.

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HE is Risen, home

Food for Families — Our 19th consecutive year delivering “Food For Families”. Yesterday morning at Ocoee High School.

A Publix Supermarket produce manager started “Food For Families” because he saw so much edible, but just-expired food get thrown away.

Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can do.

‘Only’ three times each year for 19 years. Not a lot in the big picture.

But 57 events is better than zero, or five.

We did what we could do, without becoming clergy or full-time volunteers.

Noteworthy: Three giant American Holidays in Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiving. Historically, these days do not start out by serving others. Not only were we donating time, but also focus. It’s humbling to change a lifetime routine. For nearly two decades, we received more than we gave on those mornings where others came first.

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