Tag: vision

Chasing and catching a balanced life

jeff noel motivational speaker
Four boxes fit inside a bigger box holding them all together.

 

Juggling multiple out-of-control things in our life makes balance feel impossible.

The secret with balance is to create a life-architecture that gets you here:

Only having one out of control thing at a time.

Life will always be challenging and overwhelming. It will be dramatically less so when we are intentionally proactive with all five areas of our life: mind, body, spirit, work, home.

Control your controllables and let go of the uncontrollables.

Blinding flash of the obvious: You control your attitude, your health, your spirit, your career, and your home.

 

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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.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

How much work?

Book publishing first steps
Flashback to making the commitment to publish my first book. PS. Didn’t use the software above, but it was one of the ones i considered.

 

How much work are you willing to do to get there?

Be specific about the tradeoffs.

 

You know how people say you should never quit your day job? i worked over six years at two-plus hours a day, everyday, without missing a day – on top of my full-time Disney Institute career traveling nearly every week.

 

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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.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

I have (pick one)

Orlando custom home construction
Foreground, the foundation pour is about to begin.

 

I have (pick only one):

I have a strategic plan.

(or)

I have a dream.

What if Martin Luther King had chosen 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.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

You know the saying, “Impossible is nothing”?

Map My Run screen shot
Routinely running 8-10 miles three times a week was impossible until i (got older) retired.

 

Most of us are buried (daily) with things to do so we race through our stress-filled days.

i remember many years decades of wondering if it was possible to break free and design a life that was different, and better, than the rat race i was living.

Turns out, it’s not impossible.

 

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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.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

Now and then at Walt Disney World (reprise)

Disney Bob Iger quote
Excerpt from January 8, 2016 article. PS. Bob’s vision is for Disney to become the most admired company in the world.

 

Switching gears from Bob Iger to one of my potential clients, also a CEO.

The CEO is calculating. That’s why she has lasted this long and that’s why her business does well economically while many in her industry suffer. She is exceptionally smart, driven, patient, and creative.

It will be interesting to see what happens when we get closer to how much it’s going to cost.

My gut (which isn’t 100% accurate, but it’s close) tells me she’s trying to use time (and patience) as a creative way to get me to lower my price, simply because i’ve invested so many months (near a year now) in tasting the strong possibility of a contract.

Interesting thing though. i’m cut from the same cloth. The person who will prevail is the one who can walk away.

While i hope things will work out, i’ve already envisioned life without this contract.

In a competitive world, i can’t help but wonder if she envisions her organization’s future culture without my help.

Boldness contains many benefits. Boldness also contains the possibility for a crash and burn.

 

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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.

This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.