Retire – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Time poor, home

Quiet leadership — In one month he went from being last to shaving 7 minutes off his 5k time. Text from Chapin’s Cross-Country coach.

Walt Disney Legacy Award tag line — One is easy. The other two take a lifetime of commitment.

A few times in our lifetime, someone comes along with a dramatic breakthrough, disrupting everything.

Am i time poor? And, does it even matter?

Time poor is when you are so busy, you cannot afford to waste any time.

You are living without any discretionary time.

No extra time to do something that isn’t required.

Now, i’m embarking on a time-rich life.

There’s a catch, however.

i only get one day at a time.

Every day i get on this planet isn’t one less day to be alive, it’s one more day to be alive.

Yee-ha!

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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.

Letting go of posturing, home

jeff noel author, runner — Finland, Summer 2009 (Senior Olympics), age 50. Ps. Sometimes my crucifix would pop out when i leaned over while wearing a tank top. Once i realized it was out, i’d tuck it back in.

Finland excels at Winter Sports. Previous photo shot from top of tallest platform.

Disney Institute speaker Jeff Noel — Seven years after the 1999 call, a Disney Institute fixture.

Is it possible to finally, for good, let go of habitual, societal posturing?

Probably no if you’re working. By the way, posturing is marketing, hustling. No harm, no foul. Just tiring. Because everyone is also shouting, “Pick me!”

But five months since my second and final retirement i just have no need to keep up. Nothing to prove.

Letting go of posturing is exhilarating.

My desire to visit LinkedIn multiple times each day is slowly fading. And yet of all social media channels, i trust LinkedIn the most.

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Hold on, home

Landscaped well equipment — A couple decades ago, our neighbor, a lifetime carpenter, constructed a dog-house-looking mini-shed for our Well Water equipment. Stumbled on this picture.

Told our friend Brian that it’s been a busy start to the year, and we’re five months into it.

And i’ve been so busy that i haven’t adequately been able to lean in and enjoy this space where i am no longer working.

Several important projects, several important travel arrangements, have consumed my energy and head-space.

This is nothing i’d change and it’s nothing i regret.

Simply multiple big things one after the other for five continuous months.

Ready for some light at the end of the projects and travel tunnel.

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The trap to be busy, home

The Store Is Now The Living Room — What was once a one-room corner grocery store was long ago converted into the living room. My first visit was in 1979. i’ve only known it as the living room. Cheryl’s Mom was born in this house and lived here until she moved to Senior Living at age 91.

Gotta do more, be more, get more.

More what?

Do, be, and get what makes your life whole.

Be careful with the trap of more.

More is rarely enough.

This lesson takes decades, at the earliest, to learn.

Be careful.

Pay attention.

Have fun.

Get and stay vibrant.

Then find a million ways to stay motivated to live with prioritized priorities.

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Paperwork playoffs, home

Disney speaker jeff noel's home office — Disney home office. The paperwork of life gets done here. Ps. Next up, office and office-closet shelves.

Proverbial two-minute warning…

This is the final post of the five-daily, differently-themed blog posts today.

You know what that means?

No, it doesn’t mean, I’m going to Disney World!

It means, let’s get busy closing out the office-closet file cabinets’ purging.

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