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.

Harsh Reality

Three dinners.

No celebration, no milestone, no promotion, no holiday. It’s simply been a long day/week/month/year and you don’t feel like cooking. So you go to a nice, but def not fancy, place. Outback, Chilis, etc.

One’s amazing. One’s awful. One goes just the way you thought it would go.

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Day One

dark image with the word SERVE
dark image with the word Day One

9:00 AM.

Monday.

Disney University.

A classroom with 50 people, including two instructors.

Everyone is brand new, first day at Disney, except the instructors. A full-day class called Disney Traditions. Every brand new Disney employee (Cast Member) attends this on Day One, no exceptions.

It’s January 25…1982.

By the end of the day everyone, including me, was crystal clear about our top three priorities, in priority order.

  1. Make people happy
  2. Pick up trash.
  3. Do the job you were hired to do.

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Aiming for less of everything

Post-it note on a water bottle
Aiming for less of most things. However, water consumption is not one of them. Cheryl added this “insider’s message” to my nightstand water bottle #2 this morning.

Finished yesterday’s posts with this sentiment…

“i feel a cosmic energy shift in my commitment to minimalism.”

“Note: i envision less of everything is more of everything. It sounds paradoxical. Which is in my wheelhouse. So that feels like money in the bank.”

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Art’s paradox

This song (see artist and title at top of photo), while sitting on our patio, inspired this post and the video below…
49-second video: Thank you Joni, for the impromptu inspiration.

The paradox of Art is that art is a circus.

It’s a freak show.

You go to the freak show to see the thing no one’s seen before.

Freakish attracts human attention.

Humans are curious.

Freakish is exciting.

Art?

Totally.

Who knew?

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Simple temperance

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One of the first things i read this morning. This has been on my mind for decades.

How true is this for most of us?

We crowd our space with things and spend the rest of our lives waiting upon those things as if we are their servant.

Our things (our stuff) ask little, except:

  1. Do not get rid of me.
  2. Never stop worrying about what will happen if you discard me.
  3. Keep expanding the kingdom of things (stuff).

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