2025 – Page 3 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

April 2, 2025, home

Jeff Noel’s original business card — My first business card, late 2008. Incorporated the business January 1, 2009. Life has never been the same. i started growing up that day.

Alan is kind, generous, and thoughtful. Unspeakably grateful for his desire to share something that might have a profound impact.

Specifically, my ability to help anyone pursuing what i’ve pursued.

He’s aware of my body of ~~work~~ tangible assets:

31,000 blog posts
30,000 Tweets
A short, pithy, paradoxical book
100-episode podcast
A TED Talk

He’s also aware of my body of ~~work~~ intangible assets:

30-years at Disney, including 15 at Disney Institute
25-years as a Disney Keynote speaker and executive resource
2,000+- Speeches to over 1,000,000 people

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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.

April 1, 2025, home

car dealership showroom — Sitting in a car. In a dealership showroom. Staying there until another customer seemed to want to look in the front seat, which rarely happened.

Bluey cartoon painted on car dealership kiddie room.

walt disney quote painted on a wall — Love that Honda embraces my boss.

Bluey and friends painted on a car dealership wall — This was a cool experience at the dealership’s kiddie area a few days ago. Ps.Tonight, we just finished watching four episodes of Bluey in our front room.

It’s over.

Can you fathom?

i cannot.

Yet, weirdly, i can.

My peace i bring to you.

My peace i give to you.

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March 31, 2025, home

Catches seafood restaurant sign — Catches was a Comfort Inn employee dinner recommendation. It was perfect. We got there just before the 9:00pm closing.

Never made it to today’s second dealership option. Didn’t need to.

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Prioritizing Glacier

New MacBook Air set up screen — Not ready yet, but this will be the first step.

Screenshot of text thread — Used voice dictation to send myself this text. The idea came into my consciousness. And i was afraid i would lose it if i didn’t capture it right away.

How do you prioritize Glacier?

(How would anyone?)

Easy.

Remember that 1973 National Boy Scout Jamboree in Idaho?

How can i not?

Impossible not to remember.

That’s why prioritizing Glacier is easy.

So easy.

Like breathing.

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Glacier 2025, home

six hikers sitting next to mountain lake — Tee-shirt hiking is our favorite. You can see the top of a glacier here. There are only 24 remaining. Only Jackson Glacier is visible from the 50-mile Going-to-the-Sun Road that cuts West to East though Glacier.

16-second video: One of my favorite, and most easily accessible hikes.

Nightly lodging is more than double from previous years.

There are a handful of factors that are coming together in 2025 that have me .thinking .differently about how to manage our Glacier love.

There’s also a ticking clock.

Even something as unexpected as an injury could dramatically change or prohibit future Glacier visits.

The question i’d like to avoid is, “Will i (we) regret not maximizing this years’s visits, even with the increased costs?”

Presently, we are healthy. i can see well. We have sufficient funds. We have discretionary time.

Blessed beyond measure to have this decision-making challenge.

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