Tag: Father

Thanksgiving in July?

Thanksgiving in July?

Absolutely.

Actually, what about Thanksgiving every single day?

I’m sitting here at the in-store McDonald’s at a local Central Florida Wal-Mart.  Getting new tires.

Here are a few things I’m thankful for:

  1. Working for The Walt Disney Company
  2. Actually, simply being employed
  3. Being healthy, as far as I know
  4. Actually, simply being alive
  5. Living in the United States
  6. Actually, simply living in a free & safe country
  7. Being married
  8. Actually, simply being loved and able to love
  9. Being a father
  10. Actually, simply having the privilege to nurture & teach a child

Well, this isn’t exactly the post I had in mind when I woke up this morning; however, it’s the post that my fingers type as I enjoy another vacation day, in the land of the free.

With Independence Day on Saturday, I guess my subconscious took over the typing controls.

I’m OK with today’s plan not working out.  Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

What’s the Point?

What’s the Point? 

Huh?

Why are you here?  Seriously.

On this planet, I mean, why are you here?

Crazy thing is, I know.

I can’t believe it took me nearly 50 years to figure it out.  Better late than never, eh?

Do you know why you are here?  Carpe cosmos, jeff noel  🙂

It’ll take all of us

Who said,  “We can.  We will.  If we all work together”.

Does it even matter?

The premise here, is that we can not solve our Nation’s challenges and rise to meet our glorious Nation’s enormous opportunities, without the help of everyone.

Take nature.  Look at an ant colony.  Is there a single, solitary ant that doesn’t have a purpose?

I’m neither a scientist nor a genius.  But I am observant.

In those three short sentences were the nine words, of the 2,401 President Barack Obama spoke at his inauguration, that really inspired me.

I won’t expect anyone else to be perfect until I become perfect myself.    Ya with me?

Please don’t expect others, Washington DC, or anything, to be perfect.  If you can’t do it, how can you expect someone else to?

Wow.  I don’t know what got into me today.  I do know, however that  whatever it was, I’m sure it wasn’t perfect.

Carpe diem, jeff noel  🙂

Pushy?

Pushy?

I don’t want to push anyone who doesn’t want to be pushed.

And yet, there is a certain human instinct in all of us, I believe.  

In fact, there are actually a multitude of instinctual impulses, or desires, in our human brains.

The one I’m referring to now is the one that has to do with being pushed.

There are most likely exceptions, but I think that humans actually want someone to push them, to challenge them, to help them see things they can’t yet see, or do things they can’t yet do.

Seriously.

I know it may sound crazy, but deep down, I believe that you believe this too.

It’s for this reason that I’d like to steer you to Lane 8.org for today’s look at a subconscious yearning.

The stronger and faster a cave man was, the more likely he could find and subdue (kill) an edible animal.

This led to a meal, which lead to sustenance, which gave strength to survive another day in a harsh environment.

After telling you all that, may I please wish you a great weekend, full of whatever brings you peace, joy and love. 

But please, by all means, visit your grocery store to get you next meal.  🙂

Carpe diem, jeff noel  🙂

Awesome Friday

It was an awesome Friday.  Don’t have time right now to tell the whole story, but for me to say it was awesome is pretty significant in my mind.

But then again, I’m thought of by many as “crazy”, the way many thought Walt Disney was “crazy”, or Barack Obama is crazy.

One of the things that was significant today was the tremendous validation for my efforts to make the world a better place.

What a blast. Making these jeff noel You Tube videos.  This one is border line blooper.  But then again, I had so much fun this morning at physical therapy – the reason I was at Florida Hospital Celebration Health – that I’m totally ok with it.

It beats not making these You Tube videos and wondering what it must take to do them.   Ya with me?

It’s Friday night as I post this.  Carpe PM, jeff noel  🙂