Milestones – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Nice work for 15 years

Disney Keynote Speaker Jeff Noel — Halloween, 2014.

There was a time when my personal record for consecutive days writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts was two (2) days.
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A week away from starting year 16.

Which means 15 years is the next milestone, a week away.

Let’s do the math from April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2024:

15 years x 365 = 5,475 consecutive days
4 leap years since 2009 (2012, 2016, 2020, 2024)
5,475 + 4 = 5,479 total consecutive days
5,479 days x 5 daily blogs = 27,395 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.

Probably, yes

Person with feet up on patio table — As i write today’s post, here’s the glimpse into the “office”.

Unshared breadcrumb life insights?

Probably.

Yes.

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Legendary Service Training

Disney speaker Jeff Noel with his book at Orlando Magic Arena — Third to last Disney Institute gig. Retired October 31, 2014.

Mid Life Celebration, the book at Orlando Magic Arena — Center court.

A terrible photograph.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

Like all things in life, depends on your focus.

Taken a week before Disney retirement after 30+ years and one year after book release announcement, this photo timestamps a date and place: October 2014 at Orlando’s Amway Center.

Some fascinating stats:

Envisioned it in college
Took 30 years to write first sentence
Took two years to write
Took two additional years for the guts to publish
Never mentioned Disney, not once, intentionally
Written father to son as life-guide in case i died
Never written to make money

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Thanksgiving Day, 2013

19-second video: For about 10 seconds in the very center, you can see the Grizzly moving slowly. Highline Trail and Going-to-the-Sun Road also clearly visible.

In 1979 i made a promise to write a book to my kids.

In 2009, 30 years later, a career wakeup call was a painful reminder the first sentence had yet to be written.

Additionally, there was only one child to write to, not several.

Only my Son and i knew the status:

Thirty years to write the first sentence
Two more years to write the book
Two more years to get the courage to publish

Had it published on Amazon in October 2013, knowing the official reveal to Cheryl with a physical copy would purposefully happen on Thanksgiving (2013) morning.

She had heard me talk so much about it, but never saw any tangible result. She thought i silently abandoned it.

Cheryl was shocked to hold a copy in her hands.

Was filled with gratitude – thanksgiving – that i finally did what i said i was gonna do.

Thanksgiving, on multiple levels, was the perfect day to tell Cheryl, and the world.

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