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.

June 30, 2026, mind

från lebowitz quote about books
Give a person a fish, feed them for a day. Teach them to fish, feed them forever.

Give someone a fish, feed them for one meal. Teach them to fish, feed them forever. – dad

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Blogging memories day 7, mind

jeff noel think differently
Flattered that Disney Institute was using my brand (lower right: .think .differently). Screenshot is post-2014.

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

A blinding flash of the obvious (BFO), creative, writing framework.

To wake up daily and have plenty to write about eventually gets challenging if you can’t scale it.

The BFO, creative writing idea-generation framework is just three things:

  1. What i learned yesterday.
  2. What i get to do today.
  3. What i hope for tomorrow.

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Blogging memories day 6, mind

Disney Executive Speakers
Last day teaching at Disney Institute was Oct 30, 2014. Last day at ‘work’ was October 31. Happy Halloween. It was scary to leave after 32 years. Thought i’d be there 42 years.

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

This has been a fun question to explore, now going on almost a week.

Lots of memories recalled in the initial few days of this experiment.

And now after 25 posts (5 days worth) completed, the memory bank is getting low.

Not for a lack of memorable things, but for lack of an organized process (to ease & facilitate recall) where i can see all the ideas on a single page.

Writing the last sentence just triggered an important memory, and an important question.

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Blogging memories day 5, mind

Disney Leadership Conference speakers
Disney Institute van.

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

My personal blogging was sporadic the first half-year (October 2008 – March 2009).

i remember my simple catalyst for personal blogging was to gain writing practice to write a book.

The book was a long-forgotten promise from 1979 as a College Junior.

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Blogging memories day 4, mind

Disney Institute speakers
Found this on a Google Search for Disney Institute. i am to the right of Mickey’s left ear.

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

My original 2007 Disney Institute blogging idea failed.

What a gift, in hindsight.

While never having any notion, nor desire, for blogging to become a personal resource, the Disney Institute blogging idea failure transformed my personal life.

Started “personal” blogging Fall 2008.

It was challenging to publish consistently and i wondered if consistency was even important.

Jumping a bit ahead…by April Fools Day 2009 i began a daily tradition that continues to this very day, August 26, 2026 – without ever missing a single day.

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