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Making decisions should be ridiculously easy.

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Intentionally hone your decision making matrix.

Why?

Two reasons:

  1. Reduce decision fatigue
  2. Make prioritized decisions

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Nothing more required

As CEO of You, Inc, you get to make every final decision.

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Nothing more required.

That’s what i tell myself after 15 years.

Dude, the world record is 17,212.

After publishing over 10,000 more posts than the world record, you know what?

The question is now, “What do you want to do with your remaining days?”

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When to move on

Disney Keynote Speaker jeff noel having fun in a cab
Kendal (RIP) and me on a Disney Institute road trip, probably 2013 or 2014. Kendal and i birthed the term, Extra Inch”.
Man shirtless in a house
Jack Noel, 1967. In our dining room. Our son’s teddy Bear has the same name as ‘Jack’, my dad. The two never met.

There’s a time to sow and a time to reap. It’s time to reap.

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Have been asking what would mornings (or in recent years, afternoons) look like with an extra two hours not devoted to writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts.

Simultaneously, a fair question to ask is how much is enough?

Seriously, 15 years, well over 27,000 blog posts.

By the way, my published blog post total is more than 10,000 posts over the “official” world record of 17,212.

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Preacher’s Golden Rule

Disney keynote speaker jeff noel doing a snow angel
Recently fell down and am so grateful to not have done any damage. To anything.

Preacher’s Golden Rule: Only preach what you practice.

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Preach to me what you know from your experience.

Please do not preach to me with you theory, dreams, dogma.

If you don’t consistently, constantly do what you are preaching, why are you telling others to behave that way?

Asking for a friend.

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Shaman at work

5-second video: Betty White was a “Rock Star”. She’s the only “celebrity” i ever asked to get a photo with. You probably know the story of how Cheryl and i took Luther (our 1st of 3 Yellow Labs) to see Betty in her Suite, at her request.
sand hill crane close up
Later in the day, while chilling in the back yard, pulled up a chair in the shade and watched the “Nature Channel”.

My method is simple. It’s compelling. And it makes everyone’s life better.

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It’s common for potential (and existing) clients to think Disney gurus are miracle workers.

That’s like thinking Lebron James could make any person an NBA All-Star, or Taylor Swift could make any person the next “Taylor Swift”.

It doesn’t work like that.

And i know you know that, but when people are paying you for your help, and you have a rockstar heritage, well, people forget what’s obvious.

Desperate people want miracles.

Why?

Because they’ve been trying to not be desperate for a long time. Far too long. Painfully long.

Now they are simply irrational.

Money can’t buy you love.

Money can’t buy you an instant solution.

But money can buy you a business shaman.

It’s your only hope.

Pro-tip when hiring a business shaman: Be prepared to do the reps. Like your organization’s life depends on it. Because it does.

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