Sunny with a chance of excellence

Jungle Cruise Skippers t-shirt
Screen shot from Disney’s Twitter feed.

 

Jungle Cruise attraction at Walt Disney World
Strolling through Adventureland midway through yesterday’s 10-mile run.

 

Sunny with a chance of excellence.

 

The word Disney was intentionally left out of my first book. And even though i worked at Disney for 30 incredible years, the book is not about Disney.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

What if you made purpose your bottomline?

Leadership Chain of Excellence
The ripple effect moves left to right.

 

What if you made purpose your bottomline?

Would your bottomline improve?

And can you defend why or why not?

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

Given the chance we almost always avoid it

Gapingvoid art
Metaphorically speaking, you need to want change as much as you want your next breath.

 

Given the chance to avoid change, we’ll likely take it.

Given the chance, we’ll interpret our opportunity to change as too difficult, too time consuming, too disruptive, and too painful.

Given the chance, we’d rather talk about how miserable uncomfortable we are than do anything that will change our circumstances.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

Leadership is more than business-centered

Bicycling near Magic Kingdom
Rethinking where and how i do routine life chores.

 

Dermatologist biopsy
Rode bicycle yesterday to dermatologist (photo), gym, dentist, and doctor.

 

We are creatures of habit.

Some of our “good” habits actually make our life more challenging because of the time we need to invest.

When we move to a new residence, we are likely to drive back to the old neighborhood to do business. What starts as a temporary solution until we get settled in our new place, could become a habit lasting until we die.

In our case we had to drive back to our original services (like Doctor and vet) for 20 years, simply because we moved to a rural area without infrastructure.

The infrastructure has been here for several years and yesterday i committed to the transition of establishing things so i can ride my bicycle about a mile to take care of business.

The biopsy results take one to two weeks.

A leisurely seven-minute bike ride trumps a 30-minue car ride. Multiply that by numerous chores, it insidiously adds up.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

How much work?

Book publishing first steps
Flashback to making the commitment to publish my first book. PS. Didn’t use the software above, but it was one of the ones i considered.

 

How much work are you willing to do to get there?

Be specific about the tradeoffs.

 

You know how people say you should never quit your day job? i worked over six years at two-plus hours a day, everyday, without missing a day – on top of my full-time Disney Institute career traveling nearly every week.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.