Training and Development – Page 7 – Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker

jungle jeff is on purpose

jungle jeff is on purpose.

Are you on purpose? If you are, fantastic. If you’re not, there’s hope. Surely you believe there’s hope.

Walt Disney’s “Small World” is a classic song of hope.

Here are a few things I did to get and stay “on purpose”:

Thought about my purpose. A lot.
Observed others who where on purpose.
Observed others who weren’t.
Evaluated the pros & cons for both.
Committed to figuring it out.
Visualized it. Tasted it. Felt it.
Never gave up.
Wrote it down. Crafted every word.
Eventually, made it ridiculously simple (from 463 words to two).
Lived it. Living it. Carpe diem.

Did I get it right the very first time? No.

Was is hard to do? Yes.

Did it take a long time? Yes.

In my opinion, if you want to unleash your fullest potential, you will do the hard work to figure this out.

Walt Disney and jungle jeff have a lot in common. Carpe diem, jungle jeff :).

jungle jeff Road Trip

jungle jeff is on a road trip.

While it was never a childhood dream to be a professional speaker, there is no other profession I have more passion around.

As our young son grows and dreams big dreams, it’s my role (and my wife’s), to teach him how to live on purpose and with purpose.

Business leader’s have that same responsibility. In fact every leader, in every organization does.

On purpose. With purpose.

Are you crystal clear on where you are headed? Better yet, would your team say you are?

Today’s program begins with key leadership deliverables. And it starts with your vision.

Do you believe in your vision? Are you willing to do whatever it takes? Are others compelled to follow you? Are they inspired by it? Will they do whatever it takes?

Do you communicate your vision constantly? Passionately? With purpose? On purpose?

I know an eight year old who would answer yes to all of the above. Eight. Ya with me? Eight.

Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

Without Passion

“Without passion, a person gambles with their future”. — jeff noel

This morning as I checked Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, it hit me. There’s a person who Tweets about cooking. “Miss D”, I’ll call her, has a passion that is so clearly visible that I had to tell her it inspires me.

It doesn’t inspire me to cook.

Then what?

It inspires me to be inspired – with big dreams.

Yesterday, I purchased a Macbook for our son’s ninth birthday this week. He doesn’t know he’s getting it. In fact he won’t be expecting it because he knows how expensive they are.

But I’ve been planting seeds. “You should think of ways you can make money”.

So tell me, when is it too early to challenge a child to be thinking about earning money? How crazy is it to encourage children to look at ways other than cutting grass, raking leaves, or doing chores?

Disney’s best leaders are the ones who have passion so clear and so deep, that their team believes anything is possible.

At home, it’s the same way for me. “I believe if your goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough”. — jeff noel Carpe diem! 🙂

jungle jeff & Corporate Blogs

Last Sunday, on the connecting flight from Paris to Helsinki, I flew Finnair.

Like Delta Airline’s Sky Magazine, Finnair has a similar publication in every seat back pocket.

In usual fashion, my eyes gravitated to what many would overlook.

Here’s the photo – a picture’s worth a 1,000 words:

Happy corporate blogging. Carpe diem, jungle jeff 🙂

PS. For any potential critics out there that might be saying, “So what’s your point jungle jeff? I thought you said August was going to be about how you are applying what Disney has taught you to raising your son”?

And I say, “Exactly. Did I mention my son has started blogging”?

And did I mention, “He’s eight”?

Carpe diem, jungle jeff 🙂

It’s What You Learn After You Think You…

“It’s what you learn after you think you know it all that counts”.

That quote belongs to John Wooden, former UCLA Men’s Basketball Coach, and ESPN’s recipient of “Coach of the Century”.

Not the basketball coach of the century. THE Coach of the century, any sport.

Our son is pretty certain I know just about everything. Maybe that will last another year or two. Maybe not.

I can’t wait to tell him stories and show him pictures and videos of all that is the same and all that is different here in Lahti, Finland.

In fact, it seems everything is the same here. And still, everything is different.

Everything Disney does is the same as every other company. And yet, everything Disney does is different.

If there are young children in your life, and this doesn’t mean only parents, have you ever stopped to contemplate your role in their learning about similarities and differences?

Or are you like me – tempted to think I know it all?

Carpe diem, jungle jeff 🙂