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Disney taught me balance is essential at work

Best Disney Institute Keynote Speakers
Without a home screen like this one, there no way to know who’s phone it is should it ever become lost.

 

Disney taught me balance is essential at work:

1. Leaders
2. Employees
3 Customers
4. Reputation (brand)
5. Improvement (innovation)

After two decades of not being able to find a personal role model there, i spent my final decade figuring it out on my own.

1. Mind
2. Body
3. Spirit
4. Work
5. Home

Personal leadership BFO (blinding flash of the obvious):

Life is hard.

If we can’t lead ourselves well, odds are low we’ll be able to lead others well.

What if hearing your alarm clock go off this morning sounded like music to your ears?

Balance is not a myth.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our home health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my mental attitude website, click here.

 

i am no longer going to work hard for a promotion at Disney

Disney's jungle cruise skippers
January 25, 1982 i became “jungle jeff”. The rest, as they say, is history. Photo: Cheryl Noel, last week at Disneyland.

 

Somewhere in the 22nd (2007-ish) year in my 30-year Disney career i made a life-altering decision:

“i am no longer going to work hard for a Disney promotion.”

Instead, i worked hard to be the very best at my current position as a professional speaker. A position i loved, felt privileged to have, and found joy every day doing it.

Insight: Letting go of a life-long habit, but redirecting it to create a different (yet similar) habit, changed my life.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our home health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my mental attitude website, click here.

 

Closing in on push comes to shove

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Small World in the background.

 

Disney Leadership Expert Speakers
Just a random moment, over-focusing on a simple opportunity.

 

Disney Leadership Expert Speakers
At Disney we like to say, “The closer you look, the better it gets.”

 

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Seriously. We were just walking to It’s a Small World.

 

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Disneyland’s special Small World Holiday celebration.

 

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First time (and possibly last time) ever seeing it this way. Thank you Disneyland.

 

Disneyland Sleeping Beauty Castle
The last photo inside Disneyland yesterday.

 

Closing in on push comes to shove. Really need to get that first Disney Business Culture book written and published.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our home health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my mental attitude website, click here.

 

Who doesn’t like fun surprises?

 

Who doesn’t like fun surprises?

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our home health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my mental attitude website, click here.

 

If Disney ran your home

Top Disney Creativity Keynote Speakers
Love that Mickey is doing the signature thumbs up pose.

 

If Disney ran your home, we’d ask four simple questions:

  1. What is your most important strategy for generating creative ideas?
  2. What are your four core filters for vetting every idea?
  3. How scalable are your structural systems for implementing ideas?
  4. What are your leaders committed to in order to continuously improve your company?

There are many more questions but these are the baseline starting points.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our home health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my mental attitude website, click here.