jeff noel – Page 1069 – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

One Bottle Per Person

Customer expectations are a funny thing sometimes. Some people are so hard to please and some are so easy to please and of course, some are in the middle.

“Good morning, can I get you anything?”, from the friendly, smiling Delta flight attendant – Orlando to Atlanta – sitting here in Business class. “May I please have another water, I’ll finish this one quickly. Thank you.”

The Internet has amazing ramifications, many extraordinarily positive. Like right now, I’m typing this jungle jeff blog post before we taxi away from our gate.

I’ll post this, take the cup of ice water and pour it in the sink. Not ready for another water, ice water is too cold, and an open plastic cup of water probably isn’t the best idea during take off.

Delta only loads one bottle per business class passenger. News to me, but I’m just so thankful to be alive that one bottle per person as the best they can do is so trivial, that it hardly seems worth blogging about.

Hardly.

Business class is reserved for Delta’s most loyal customers.

jungle jeff Is

jungle jeff Is:

An idea
One of Life’s Big Four
A Business
A Website
A Blog
A Way Of Thinking
Our Financial Responsibility
A Movement

Every ant in the ant mound and every bee in the bee hive makes a contribution. Same with humans. Generally speaking, society pays us money relative to our contribution.

With money, we can buy food, shelter, transportation, insurance, and help others.

Money isn’t the root of all evil, it is the love of money that is the trap. Making money is challenging. Investing it and growing it are even more so. But we need to figure it out – it’s our adult responsibility.

The Other Endowment

It’s called courage. Our creator also bestowed us with courage, so we could stand and fight, to defend ourselves – from a Saber-Toothed Tiger, or a brutal economy.

Yet the challenge most of us face, is the challenge of stealth proportions. The one we can not see, hear, touch or taste.

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The fear of success.

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You know what’s crazy, once we start to see, hear, touch and taste it, we wonder why we waited so long.

Two Reasons We Don’t Try Harder

Look, all of us dream big dreams. This is an endowment from our creator.

And when we were kids, we had no inhibitions about pretending and fantasizing. I mean, we were 100% okay walking around with chocolate smeared on our faces, and we couldn’t give a hoot if our clothes didn’t match.

Heck, we’d even walk around in public, naked. Or wear a smelly diaper. We didn’t care. Not for a nano-second.

But look at us now. Fear paralyzes us. And it all comes down to two simple reasons:

Fear of Failure
Fear of Success

It’s this fear of success that is the stealth robber of our childhood dreams.

We all have within us another endowment. One which needs our attention, before it’s too late.

Can You Take Initiative?

Humans are fearful creatures. Fear is a gift bestowed on us to help us survive.

Funny thing is though, Saber-Toothed Tigers are extinct, yet we live as if we might get eaten.

When we hear people complain about their boss, the Government, their colleagues, you know what that person is really complaining about?

They are really complaining about their own insecurities to take initiative and thrive, instead of simply surviving.

As people read this, a third will embrace it, a third will not care, and a third think I’m an idiot.

Life goes on.