Month: June 2020

Extended, personal leadership retreat

Glacier National Park, driving North from Apgar along Glacier’s Western border.

What is one positive outcome from Covid-19?

There are many, just like there are many downsides…i’m unemployed for the rest of the year. Focusing on loss will not change the loss. Focusing on possibilities will attract possibilities.

For example…

Thanks to a personalized, extended, individual leadership retreat this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Thinking things i’ve never had a chance to consider in 60 years.

The questions that will be discovered are questions never considered before, not even remotely.

Never. Ever.

How cool is that?

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Where great ideas come from

Moss type plant in Montana mountains
Moss type plant on Glacier trail.

Where do great ideas come from?

Anywhere, anytime, and from anyone.

However…

No great ideas starts out great.

So great ideas come from bad to mediocre ideas.

The crazy thoughts.

The impulsive thoughts.

The ridiculous dreams.

The what ifs.

The yes, ands.

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Bonus year?

Glacier National Park mountains
From the backside of Mt Reynolds, with Heavy Runner lower right, and Going-to-theSun Mountain upper right.
disney speaker jeff noel
What is the blessing of a bonus year?

To live to see Covid-19.

To live to see the world storming, forming, norming, and performing.

To potentially spend another Summer in Glacier, with Cheryl and Chapin.

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Well-played, well-lived

rainbow in mountain landscape
East side Glacier National Park near Two Medicine.

Life, well lived, is long enough.

Seneca

We often chase after things that don’t matter. We do not understand this until after we get them. This is called a midlife crisis. Be careful. Read this if you are in the midst of a life crisis now.

Live well, with intention, with purpose, and over-focus on the things you used to under-focus on or ignore.

For example, if you love to write, but don’t, figure it out.

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Last wakeup call you did what?

Disney speaker jeff noel in Glacier National Park
In the absence of a wakeup call, you can create conditions to simulate intense awareness.

Last wakeup call in 2008-09 (real estate/banking collapse) while you were at Disney Institute (DI) you did what?

  • Brainstormed a plan B in case there ever was another unexpected layoff.
  • Picked the best idea from the creative list
  • Stopped at SunTrust Bank on the way home from DI to seek “starting a business first step advice”
  • Visited SunBiz.org, registered my business and scheduled the LLC to begin January 1, 2009.
  • Grabbed some domain name real estate at GoDaddy in 2008
  • Installed WordPress.org and began blogging October 17, 2008.
  • April Fools Day 2009, began self-imposed, 100-day writer’s bootcamp to write 5 daily, differently-themed blog posts.
  • Created social media accounts, including Twitter and LinkedIn.
  • After a 30-year delay, wrote the first sentence to my book, finished it 2 years later, and after 2 more years of fear, mustered the courage to publish it Thanksgiving 2013.
  • In 2008, made a promise to retire from Disney in 6 years at age 55, and begin a solo speaking/writing career in earnst.
  • Now at at 60, after 5 incredibly transformational solo years, my one-month-ago-Disney-retired wife (35 years at WDW) and i are blessed to be able to ride out Covid-19.
  • As a currently unemployed speaker, there’s solace in knowing Covid-19 will pass.
  • My/our hope for the future has never been greater.

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