Tag: Entrepreneur

As success becomes imminent, a new fear is born

Confidence
Yesterday, the 14-year old in the blue and white checked shirt demonstrated remarkable calm under pressure.

 

As success becomes imminent, a new fear is born. The fear of looking arrogant. A confident entrepreneurial startup founder must exude confidence.

Exude.

That’s pretty intense. And to some, intimidating. It reminds people of their decaying dreams.

It’s time to follow the fatherly advice i have consistently shared with our 14-year old.

Why focus on the ones who will say jealous things? And we all know how those behind-someone’s-back conversations go, because we’ve all been jealous, so it’s no secret.

It’s the difficult path that others laugh at.

Not because it’s difficult, but because it’s lonely.

And scary.

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Driven by tradition or creating tradition?

Disney Keynote Speaker jeff noel
Changing business focus on the fly meant needing to come up with the logo above.

 

Presidents Day (Washington’s Birthday) is a catalyst for a nice three day weekend. It’s funny how much we rely on tradition to manage our celebratory days.

An alluring aspect of becoming an entrepreneur is the notion of calling your own shots. You get to decide when you work and when you don’t.

Looks good on paper.

And when you love what you do, it doesn’t feel like work. So all weekend there was plenty of work love going on. First independent, paying gig is in 72 hours. And it happened unbelievably fast, without an infrastructure in place.

Do what you have to do, so you can do what you want to do.

Editor’s note (November 9, 2015): The above logo is not being used anywhere at jeffnoel.com. In fact, the logo features “.lead .differently”as the tag line.

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When the rubber meets the road

Motivational Speakers Orlando

 

(photo: Annual Singing Christmas Trees concert, 2014.)

Big events don’t fall from the sky. Massive effort is required. Trust, accessibility, values, and vision. They all work together for the greater good.

Couple calls and meetings (in this order as the day unfolded):

  1. Pitched crazy idea to Middle School teacher to enlist her student’s help, teach them, and fund raise.
  2. Recruiting consultants for work beyond MLC’s catalytic keynote speeches.
  3. Requested permission to use large, not-for-profit venue.
  4. Put out feelers for a go-to meeting planner.

Today will be more of the same.

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PS. Here’s a real time (Mar 27) update to the above post written Dec 17: None of the four “great ideas” panned out. Paying engagements were contracted that made numbers 1 & 3 dramatically less pressing. Discovered that i do not wish to partner with anyone else on content creation (as of now). And #4 is premature – a great resource is available when and if the time becomes right.

Being Brave Means Doing Things That Others Find Questionable Or Even Objectionable

Press on by whatever means necessary.

Boomers, our leadership journey – whether as a parent, volunteer, or corporate professional – rises and falls on our ability to press on in spite of what others may think. Much of what we need to do, others simply won’t understand. Why would we let that ignorance stifle our life?

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