To provoke thinking and facilitate discovery is to earn my keep

Cedar Crest College sign
Many people believe a higher degree will lead to greater opportunity. Do the math. (photo: Last week while running in Allentown, PA)

 

This week will be interesting because today is the first work Monday after the long holiday break. Expecting to hear updates on several important business conversations that got placed on hold for the past 10 days.

Patience, confidence, and optimism are real things when it’s your business. Otherwise, they are merely theories we’ve studied.

This has me thinking about insights that can be gathered from observing where colleagues, who were receiving their company subsidized MBA’s, were seven years ago and where they are now.

No one liked my comments that MBA’s are generally a false hope and an insanely time and energy intensive commitment with literally zero ROI.

i say this with deep respect and admiration for every individual. i also say this because my primary function, and obligation, as a teacher is to provoke people to .think .differently

 

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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.

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From the ashes we build anew

Middle school field trip
Middle schoolers go to high school and before you know it, they’re gone.

 

For two weekends in a row, i’ve not worked the way i have for the past seven years. Since late 2008, i’ve been working two jobs, seven days a week.

And for the past year, while traveling for Disney Institute is no longer a necessity, the challenging journey without a map – using nothing but experience and instinct as a solo entrepreneur – has required a level of performance i had only hoped i would possess when the terrain got rugged.

But since throwing an iPhone 6 into the swimming pool, i’m looking at my own work habits and questioning many things. My son deserves that i look in the mirror.

 

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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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Don’t say a thing

Last night at the birthday eve dinner at Japan's Teppen Edo
Last night at the birthday eve dinner at Japan’s Teppen Edo

 

Our best teaching tool for others is our personal example. Mind, body, spirit, money, hq.

Show the way without saying a thing.

Be amazed and be amazing today.

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