Category: Professionally Speaking

Midlife Celebration’s jeff noel Has Never Felt More Desire To Write Differently

jeff noel, prolific blogger, aims For Excellence

Midlife Celebration’s jeff noel has never felt more desire to write differently. His passion to simply write, same as it was April 1, 2009 – the day the 100-day writing challenge began. What’s different now is that an incredible foundation, 4,500+ (prolific) blog posts, has relieved the urgency of leaving a foundational trail for his son (11).

With the foundation done, it’s time for some midlife creativity and Baby Boomer innovation. The desire to strike out on a generational game-changing path quickens his pulse. Vince Lombardi must have felt the same way.

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For Baby Boomers, Personal Leadership Begins With Choosing Between A Midlife Crisis Or A Midlife Celebration

Our Brain Affects Our Attitude How Much?

Midlife offers baby boomers two personal leadership choices. Have a midlife crisis or a midlife celebration. What’s the difference? Prolific Blogger jeff noel says it’s an attitude, a passion for life. To choose between victim or victor.

Excellent personal leadership is hard. Good and very good personal leadership are much easier. But jeff noel cautions that good and very good aren’t good enough. Not if you want to look back with few regrets.

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So We Live To See Another Day, Then What?

Hey, please stay with me here…

As we grow older, the instinct to mate and reproduce impacts our lives. If survival is our task, reproduction is every living thing’s purpose.

After our task & purpose, in a civilized world without saber-toothed tigers, we decide where we want to go. This is the game changer between mediocrity and peace.

All of this has to do with leadership. I’m asking you to think deeply on this and discern the difference between managing and leading. Start with yourself. How well do you lead yourself?

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Crazy How Fast It Adds Up

The other day, in doing the math, an epiphany:

  • 12 years, Professional Speaker
  • Speaking 48 weeks a year
  • Averaging, conservatively, 500 people per week
  • 12 x 48 x 500 = 288,000

This number could actually be double, 576,000, but I’d rather err on conservative side.

Speaking at Church, roughly 1,200 people each time. Keynotes can have 3,000, more commonly though, 300-800. A workshop, maybe 40.

Crazy how it adds up. Bet it’s true for you as well, in whatever it is you do.

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All Are Professional Speakers

Yo, you talkin’ to me?

I keep telling our son (10) they are all paid to be Professional Speakers:

 

  1. The Disney Jungle Cruise Skipper
  2. The Corporate Professional Speaker
  3. The Entrepreneurial Professional Speaker

Each is paid according to their contribution, relative talent, and generalized skill. The first two are also structured according to established and customary labor agreements and pay scales.

What separates the 3rd from the first two is their contribution. A purpose and mission so important, clear, concise and compelling, that their fee is exponentially more significant.

What the 3rd lacks, is the convenience of infrastructure and established credibility.

As we work through our decades before ‘retirement’, we are faced with choices on how much we want to contribute. Or have we forgotten?

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