Author: jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.

Three-week countdown, mind

father and son
Cats In The Cradle. No wait, cat’s on my head.

Three-week countdown, mind…

Mentally, it’s literally impossible to comprehend the daily blogging effort that began so long ago.

The mental effort to stay engaged and motivated without missing a single day…

For over 6,200 consecutive days.

By the way it’s three weeks until year 17 ends and year 18 starts.

Do the math: 365 days x 17 years = 6,205.

Daily.

Writing.

Five differently-themed blog posts on five seperate websites.

Can remember it like it was almost 17 years ago.

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Just one photo, mind

mountains

Today’s posts consist of one random, any year, photo from Glacier. This post is the exception so that i can let you know i didn’t forget to write something on the other four.

Also, there will likely be written captions, but maybe not.

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Planned freedom, mind

mountains
Not far from Granite Park Chalet. Oberlin is in center horizon.

Planned freedom.

Heard the phrase “planned freedom” yesterday listening to Michael Eisner talk about the summer camp he attended growing up. His father also attended. Michael’s three sons attended. The camp is 100+ years old now. The 2005 recording, called ‘Camp‘, was recorded by Disney Records.

A legendary Camp Director built ‘planned freedom’ into every camper’s daily schedule.

This unstructured time’s origin stems from the belief that young people – boys in this example -need time to follow their interests. And camp allowed for many choices of activities, or, no activities at all. Perhaps, instead, opting to play cards back at their tent with friends.

The goal was to let each camper exercise their own agency with their ‘unplanned time’.

How they planned it was a freedom centered on self-discovery.

‘Unplanned freedom’, in my opinion is what (potentially) leads adults to a growth-mindset lifestyle.

And a growth-mindset lifestyle, from the magic of doubling in my opinion, leads to a freedom only mental vibrancy provides.

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Teach hope, mind

buffalo herd
The western edge of The Great Plains sometimes reveals a species that once dominated The Great Plains by the millions. Now, only dozens are found here and there. Here (above) is a few miles west of Browning, Montana on the Blackfeet Nation.

Teach hope…

Hope, to me, is a growth-mindset daily set to auto-maintain, auto-renew, and auto-improve.

Let your daily habits be your life’s syllabus.

Let your life’s syllabus teach, without you ever saying a word, unless absolutely necessary.

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Harvest hope, mind

mountain lake
Many Glacier valley and Lake Sherburne. First time i saw this i didn’t see it. It was nightfall. Had just ridden a charter bus, full of Boy Scouts, across Montana. It was summer 1973. My first visit to Glacier.

It is challenging for me to feel deserving of remarkable, priceless gifts.

That said, an important goal (hope) has always been to meet this lifelong challenge and make it disappear.

Disciplined, habitual, and compounded hope have finally destroyed this guilt-ridden emotion.

This ‘greatest harvest’ blindsided me.

The greatest harvest produced was, and is, the unexpected, and authentic, example of my life from the lifetime personal vibrancy pursuit.

To be a teacher during my life, using words only when necessary.

In my journey, i have taught myself what to do, why, and how to improve.

In my journey, i have also taught what to not do, why, and how to recover and move forward.

Blessed beyond measure.

Thank you, growth-mindset.

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