Author: jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.

Life is kinda funny

Little girl watering a large flower bed
My classic photo: The $2.99 K-Mart poster, years before Cheryl became pregnant.
Little boy walking in flowers with a butterfly net
A decade after the previous classic photo, here’s another classic photo: The real-life version of my vision from that $2.99 K-Mart poster.

Life is kinda funny.

Different opinions.

Different values.

Different beliefs.

Different actions.

Different outcomes.

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Up your game?

Lion sleeping on a rock
Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Couple days ago.

Most of us don’t know what we don’t know.

Breakthroughs are possible when a person recognizes how much they don’t know, and fanatically pursues closing the gap.

If you’re not fanatical about what you do, yet you think you’re pretty good, maybe it’s time to up your game.

Note: Fanaticism is the only approach that figures out how to keep moving forward when the going gets tough. And the going always gets tough.

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Favorite Leader activity

Nuclear reactor looking parking garage design
Medical City at Lake Nona, Florida. Couple days ago. Client meeting.

Another voice-dictated post here, while on today’s 8-mile walk:

The favorite leader activity revolves around a couple of steps: Ask every participant to recall their favorite leader. This can be a family member, teacher, coach, colleague, work boss, any of that sort of thing. Then they self-reflect and write some notes about why that person is their favorite leader. The next step is to find a partner at a different table and each person takes three minutes to share who their favorite leader is, and why. Then everybody goes back to their original chair and we debrief: What were some of the things that you heard or said? Note: it wouldn’t hurt to flip chart all the traits and characteristics the participants share. The next step would be to ask each participant to brainstorm what it would take for their direct reports to someday in the future pick them as their favorite leader from their experience at Glacier Park Lodge during their summer of 2025. As a bonus, either at the tail end of this activity or perhaps at the end of whatever the session is (half-day, full-day, multi-day) do the 45-day commitment letter activity.

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Work well

Hidden Mickey on a vegetable tray
Zooming out for more context.

Work well.

Do you?

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