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.

What follows goodbye?

iPhone calculator
The number of days in 16 years, plus four leap years.

What follows goodbye?

Following goodbyes, there are planned ‘hellos’.

Hellos…

  1. Old dreams collecting dust
  2. New dreams recently dreamt up

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Five big goodbyes

Five big goodbyes:

  1. Disney
  2. Blogging
  3. Glacier
  4. Work
  5. Family

Perhaps those five goodbyes are serendipitously chronological?

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Saying goodbye’s purpose

Saying goodbye’s purpose is to avoid regret.

Saying goodbye’s purpose is to carry peace in your heart.

Saying goodbye’s purpose is to plan for the worst and hope for the best.

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Orchestrating Glacier

Expedia billing screen shot
Orchestrating July 19-Sept 2. Side note: Rental car fees have tripled.

The main thing i’m orchestrating this year (2025) is how to visit my favorite places in Glacier and say goodbye to them.

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11 years of Disney retirement

Main Street at Walt Disney World
The final walk through ‘the Tunnel’ and down Main Street before ‘opening’.
Disney Keynote speaker Jeff Noel
Entered the Tunnel by Fantasyland Cafeteria. Walked up a stairwell and stepped onstage to an empty Magic Kingdom.
Walt Disney Legacy Award name tag
Fantasyland. October 31, 2014. Maybe 7am.
work schedule
Photo: Disney Institute schedule screen shot. Top right, Friday, October 31 column. Lower right, “Congrats!”
two men in front of vision and mission signs
One last visit to Disney Institute HQ to turn in Disney iPhone, laptop, etc. Rod is an attorney and helped DI during our best growth years.
halloween card
Angie is crafty. She made this for my Disney Institute farewell day.

Over-focus on the same things you used to under-focus on or ignore.

Disney taught me to use dates to create memorable milestones.

Halloween was an over-focused, intentional choice.

i wanted to be able to say, “After 30 years at Disney, it was really scary to leave.“

And since October 31, 2014, i have.

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