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.

Book and keynote notes, mind

disney customer service speaker
Recently uploaded a ton of photos from old-school digital storage blocks. Photo: Me onstage during keynote.
disney customer service speaker
My attempt to put the audience at ease using ‘Jungle Cruise humor’. “Security wanted me to ask if anyone here lost a big wad of cash with a rubber band around it.” Inevitably multiple people will raise their hand. Then i pull out a large rubber band from my pocket. And announce, “They found your rubber band.”

Go The Extra Inch might be a Keynote title that i always use.

Over-Focus might be the best book title.

Go The Extra Inch might be the best subtitle for the book title, Over-Focus.

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Opposites, mind

mountains
Thoughts precede questions. Historically obvious questions have early origins. Those early origin answers formed dogma and tradition.

i don’t have the answers, i have the thoughts.

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What’s in your wallet?

Home office desk
Simple. Artful. Challenging to do. More challenging to sustain. For a lifetime?

You know that CapitalOne commercial punchline, “What’s in your wallet?”

Let’s assume you know. But if you don’t know, it’s here.

Got the slogan in your head now. Perfect.

Next question (and read it like “What’s in your wallet?”)…

What’s in your drawer?

Your office desk drawer…and your brain’s ‘desk drawer’.

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Glacier cleansing

Apple email folders list screenshot
21 subfolders under a single folder, Z.Glacier 2024. All but one also has subfolders.
email folder list screenshot
One subfolder has 15 additional folders.
Apple email folders list screenshot
This subfolder has 11 subfolders. Ten of those 11 also have subfolders.
Apple email folders list screenshot
Email folders grew insidiously slow over the years. So slow for so long. Never noticed. Until the past few years. Took five days this week to rupture my email beliefs. Why? i do not want anyone else to have to cleanup after me. i don’t want anyone to struggle to find important stuff.

It is mentally reasonable to save important files.

Digital files.

Old school paper files.

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Back for more

Car odometer
This car is 35 years old. It may take a decade or more to reach 200,000 miles.

The mechanic i’ve trusted for two decades retired.

He was a 40-minute drive away. But the drive was always worth it. Why? i trusted him. Randy is the only mechanic (and he eventually opened his own shop) i’ve ever trusted. Ever.

Two old Toyotas, rarely driven, don’t need much work.

Boy, it would be sweet to have another trusted mechanic one mile from home.

Note: i do not expect it to happen. But i am willing to do my best to adapt to the hand i’ve been dealt.

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