It takes a long time for lucky breaks to begin happening

Letter in mailbox
Had our 14-year old write a thank you note to the Director of Admissions two days ago.

 

After a third and final High School tour at 9am, i’ll begin the drive to Ft Lauderdale to deliver tomorrow’s Leadership Keynote Speech at the 2015 gMed Summit.

This is the first post-Disney retirement speech in which the audience is a mixture of attendees from many diverse healthcare providers.

This is the type of engagement in which future speaking opportunities generally come from.

Note to self: Hand-written thank you notes are rare, hence valuable.

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His destiny is to teach and inspire people to choose thriving

Disney Customer Service Speaker jeff noel
Photo from many years ago. Photographer unknown.

 

His destiny is to teach and inspire people to choose thriving.

Leaving tomorrow for Ft Lauderdale to deliver a 60-minute Leadership Keynote speech in two days.

To influence smart business people to change transform might be the loftiest, most impossible goal there is.

Kinda like a David versus Goliath.

Thank goodness for simple tools, like a sling and a stone.

Bring on the giant!

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Those thousands of Disney photos are great memories

Disney Institute classroom table cloth
A professional speaker’s office is a classroom or convention hall.

 

Tomorrow is the big day. Second audio visual check today. The one yesterday was helpful, but wasn’t in the exact room.

Today’s will be.

Presenters are the first ones in the room and the last to leave.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the one above stimulates wonderful memories of doing work that matters with people dedicated to making (business) dreams come true.

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Make it fun even if it’s foreign to you

Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker jeff noel
Jack the bear is a road warrior, and he gets a lot of practice.

 

Anyone who’s great at what they do makes it look easy.

But it ain’t easy.

Practicing was much easier in real time at Disney. When you work for Disney Institute as a professional speaker, you speak nearly every day.

When you are a solo entrepreneur, your speaking engagements are farther apart. The only way to practice then is to do it over and over again without an audience.

So that’s what i’m doing.

Morning, noon and night.

Day in, day out.

Fun.

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