Death – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

One day it will, work

Magic Kingdom Barber Shop — i always talk about the balance between pixie dust and reality. Reality is quite harsh sometimes.

Repetition is the mother of all learning.

Mind, body, spirit, work, home…

One day will be the last.

True north includes never taking our infinite blessings for granted

Living in constant gratitude, to me, is the secret to happiness.

i have found it impossible to be unhappy when i am grateful.

When you hear me say happy present moment, it’s the fruit from being grateful and present and aware.

Personal leadership has many methods and messages.

i recommend mind, body, spirit, work, and home as life’s five big choices. You can think of those five as a team working together.

When all five are contributing well, vibrancy is the result.

When one of the five isn’t contributing well, vibrancy is elusive.

When two of the five aren’t contributing well, life is hard.

Yet for most of society, this is normal. So a ‘hard life’ becomes an acceptable standard.

You know where true north is.

And if tomorrow never comes, i have no regrets in wishing i had tried harder or sooner to show you.

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Paperwork playoffs, work

Consulting framework — A sheet of paper, three hand-drawn lines (6 boxes) and then brainstorm the DNA of past, present, future. The future isn’t listed on this sheet (yet).

In personal leadership, it matters little to walk to do the preaching, if not the walking is the preaching.

As paid work has instantly become a low-to-no priority big life choice, letting go is only natural.

However from my observations, most retirees procrastinate.

As i’ve always said, waiting and doing nothing are the twin siblings of self-destruction.

Just because i have room to continue storing all this ‘junk’, doesn’t mean it’s smart to let it sit. And then after i die, someone else has to go through it or ‘bulldoze’ it.

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Let’s make “SYDK” a category, work

rustic cabin and people playing cards — That remarkable time when Sperry Chalet, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), a special card game called Dominion, and our Son happened simultaneously.

Funny how stress can make obvious, important things invisible.

My stress?

First, i need to re-label the topic.

Instead of stress, i’m using opportunity and challenge interchangeably.

My current and biggest opportunity is learning how to lean into the discomfort of life-stage changes. And to thrive in the change.

Looking on all five blogs what is obvious was invisible to me until 10 minutes ago.

All five blogs have “Quotes” as the most used category.

All five blogs have “Dear Son” as the second-most used category.

In hindsight, it’s a blinding flash of the obvious.

Note: What is also invisible is that “Quotes” and “Dear Son” are wonderfully codependent. Hadn’t recognized that until just now. Cool.

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Shit you didn’t know, work

father and son closeup — My five daily. differently-themed “Mid Life Celebration, LLC” Blogs started as a project for our Son

child with teddy bear at beach — Jack the Bear, Castaway Cay 2011.

Windermere Prep Cross Country — What a person learns through perseverance can pale in comparison to the person watching from the sidelines. Cross Country wasn’t my idea.

handwritten Personal values list — Our instructor, a seasoned attorney, carries a $100 bill and tells people when riding elevators he’ll give it to them if they can share their personal values before the door opens. Scribbled note: Honesty, behave admirably, personal responsibility, self-control, initiative.

child by a disney trash can — One of hundreds of Disney parks trips from home.

family and dog in mini van — 2005 road trip to Sanibel…Jack the Bear on Chapin’s lap…

Thank you post card note — Wrote this and tucked it under Chapin’s blanket so he’d see it before falling asleep.

Family by Christmas tree — Chapin’s first Christmas as a college student. Life is a blur. Enjoy that. Having Chapin along for our life-ride has been icing on the cake. So insanely lucky.

Dear Son,

Shit you didn’t know…

How could you?

You were just a kid.

What you didn’t know is…

How being your dad inspired and guided everything i did (and why i did it)…

Told you High School freshman year you had to get involved in some after school activity. Never told you what it needed to be other than it was with a group of others that met daily after school.

You didn’t during first semester. And i didn’t make you.

But i insisted you do it second semester.

Further, i reminded you that you could pick anything you wanted.

And i also revealed that if you didn’t pick, i would pick for you.

And i would pick track and field.

Why?

Not because i wanted you to become a runner.

But because track and field offered many different choices.

You picked Shot Put.

Which i thought was a brilliant choice.

Coach Sharrod Williams talked you into cross-country to start your sophomore year.

Never saw that coming.

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Sell me on how, work

bead jar jeff noel — My home-office desk honors a “bead jar”. So much commitment, discipline, vision, and forethought.

Disney Keynote Speakers — The bead jar never travels. Jack the Bear has been around the world.

jeff noel disney speakers — This bead jar has been in front of me every day since August 2000.

If Disney ran your life…

How can you be qualified to lead an expedition if you cannot explain ‘true north” and why it’s the most important thing?

How can you start by focusing on ‘what to do’ and ‘how to do it’ when you don’t know “true north”?

Oh wait, people do it this way because that’s how most do it.

In my 25-year keynote speaking and business advising career, inside 2,000 different organizations to varying degrees of depth and breadth, i witnessed only 1/1000 (yes, thousandth) know why they exist.

Side note: Disney and Advent Health (formerly Florida Hospital) are the only two. That’s two out of 2,000.

True north is why you exist. It’s why your company exists.

When you know and are 100% committed to why you exist, your what and how will reveal themselves. Your what and your how will also reveal when it needs refreshed, revised, or replaced.

But your true north never changes.

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