Three-week countdown, home

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Secured this domain name in March 2009. Just weeks before April Fools’ Day. Can you imagine that? Previously, a State Farm Agent owned JeffNoel.com. He let it expire and 60 days later, March 2009, i secured it.
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Finland, Summer 2009 (Senior Olympics). At the top of the tallest Lahti ski jump, pictured next…
Lahti, Finland's world famous ski jump ramps (Summer 2009)
Lahti, Finland’s world famous ski jump ramps (Summer 2009).
jeff noel, The Internet's Only Five A Day Blogger
Early days screen shot for Mid Life Celebration, LLC. So amateur.
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1. Mind 2. Body 3. Spirit 4. Money (work) 5. HQ (home)
colorful hand drawn business card
Mind, Body. Spirit. Money (work). HQ (home). HQ is the large square outlining the other four squares. Ps. Used our son’s crayons to create the squares.
Prolific Blogger jeff noel from Disney
The website header photo is of airport merchandise shop cash register display of small stones.
Mid Life Celebration website in 2010
Slow and steady evolution. Been evolving since 2008.

Three-week countdown, home…

At home, it’s literally impossible to comprehend the daily blogging effort.

Daily blogging began as a 100-day, self-imposed writer’s bootcamp.

Challenged myself to write five daily, differently-themed blogs on five different websites.

The goal was simply to gain writing practice before attempting to write my first book.

You wouldn’t commit to running a half marathon and just showing up on race day. No, you would run many miles, for many days and months before race day.

Same concept for the 100-day blogging challenge. Critical to know that prior to April Fools’ Day 2009, my consecutive-day total for publishing five daily blogs was two.

Two consecutive days. Not four. Not even three. Two.

Definitely impossible.

That’s why i intentionally chose April Fools’ Day.

i’d have to be a fool to think i could write 500 blog posts in 100 days.

To say our home life was ‘busy’ is freakishly understated.

Like many of our Disney colleagues, we all were simply trying to live the American dream.

Also like many of our Disney colleagues, we were insanely ambitious and ‘wanted it all’.

So i asked myself, “Why not pile on top of every ‘busy thing’ in your life a 100-day, write-and-publish five daily, differently-themed blog posts?”

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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.

May 1, 2025, home

desk with Pixar UP house light
This was a nice surprise from Cheryl.
desk with Pixar UP house light
Pixar’s UP is semi-autobiographical.

Writing can change you.

Anything can change you.

You know this.

So do i.

So i keep writing.

And changing.

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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 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:

  1. 31,000 blog posts
  2. 30,000 Tweets
  3. A short, pithy, paradoxical book
  4. 100-episode podcast
  5. A TED Talk

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

  1. 30-years at Disney, including 15 at Disney Institute
  2. 25-years as a Disney Keynote speaker and executive resource
  3. 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
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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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.

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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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.