Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
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.
UniSC (see top center) means nothing to Americans.
Pop International?
What does that mean?
Simply a quick blog post title idea from the Pop Tarts Bowl riff yesterday. Nothing more than that. In fact, not sure how the title applies to today’s message…
UniSC.
Means…
University of the Sunshine Coast.
Located in Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia.
Closing out 2024 as i type this.
Today a year ago, we were a couple weeks from flying to Australia. Us for a three-week visit. Chapin for six months.
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This website is about our WORK. To ponder today’s post about our HOME, click here.
33-second video: We named this spot ‘Periwinkle Island’. The idea came from Sanibel Island’s Periwinkle Way, highlighted in yellow below….
Upper right red arrow is our route over the Sanibel Causeway. The Causeway is 3 miles long. Leaving the Florida mainland is always a small thrill because we will be living on an island for the next week. The first island intersection is Periwinkle Way. We hang a right to drive to Mitchell’s SandCastles at the end of the second red arrow.
The most important part of leadership is the leader’s vision. Vision is applied at home too. Even for a flower bed. We planted store-bought plants last year. Flowers go to seed (just like weeds). Left unchecked, they multiply. That’s my vision. We picked periwinkles because they’re in our top three favorite Florida flowers.
Every organization has five foundational pillars.
Each pillar has several architectural blueprints, totaling 19 between the five pillars.
Leadership is the first pillar and vision is the first architectural blueprint.
It’s a lot easier to lead and a lot easier for people to follow when everyone is clear about why you exist, where you’re going, and why that’s important.
The thing with Nature is that it was here long before humans.
So long before humans it’s incomprehensible how long before.
Nature leads the way the cosmos sees fit.
i have a Nature theory from six decades studying it.
Nature takes care of itself.
In its own time.
In its own way.
Rejuvenation, adaptation, evolution.
This is how i know Periwinkle Island will flourish when the rains come.
There’s a catch though. i have to keep the ‘weeds’ (nature’s landscape shapers) from choking out the periwinkles. i’m actually trying to influence Nature so the Periwinkles choke out the ‘weeds’.
Note: Sanibel’s Periwinkle Way is prolifically lined with Palm trees and Periwinkle ‘weeds’, everywhere.
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This website is about our WORK. To ponder today’s post about our HOME, click here.
August, 1984. Just weeks before we drove across the United States for five days to get to Orlando and Walt Disney World. To begin carving out a life with lifelong careers at Disney.
One provocative idea is what you need for a:
TED Talk
Book
Website
Social Media
Note to self: Get on it, jeff. Write your next “punchy” book. i mean, now that you’re starting to feel better. lol
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This website is about our WORK. To ponder today’s post about our HOME, click here.
When i typed my (personally owned) URL that had to do with our homeowners association, this is where visitors get redirected because…
DNS means Domain Name Server.
Yesterday’s experience was the nudge i needed to delete my GoDaddy Legacy (2008) account and the four domain names and their associated URL’s.
There’s pain in negative work experiences, disappointments, and unproductive work sacrifices.
Pain teaches us.
The more pain we experience, the more education we get.
We can learn which pain is an investment and which pain is bankruptcy.
Investment pain is pain we welcome because we know believe it leads somewhere good. Perfect example is the 2008 decision to start my own business so that in 2014 (after 30 years at Disney) i could retire from Disney and go out on my own. Doing the same thing i did at Disney Institute, but being in charge of everything, especially my travel schedule.
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This website is about our WORK. To ponder today’s post about our HOME, click here.
