Dear Son – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Blogging’s hidden blessing, mind

Mid Life Celebration — Writing is a great way to process thoughts, hopes, dreams, etc.

Dear Son, to me, blogging’s hidden blessing is its love for the writer.

When i write, i’m talking to someone specific.

Namely, me.

You and mom are the ripple-effect, potential beneficiaries.

Yet for many people who blog, they are solely trying to make a living, so they’re talking only to potential customers. No harm, no foul.

But for an ordinary person like me, i’m talking to myself, Mom, and you.

Love.

All around.

Blogging’s blessing of love is mostly a solitary effort. Yet it can be freely shared. That is a writer’s distant hope. That love falls on loving ears.

The modest insight may bloom. It may not. If or when other loved ones read the writer’s thoughts, observations, insights, and musings, magic may happen.

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One day it will, mind

Examining A Disney World Parade — Can remember most of this day like it was yesterday.

One day it will.

Will what?

One day will come.

And it reminds me of a Garth Brooks song…

If Tomorrow Never Comes.

Chapin, on this day, April 11, 2026, if tomorrow never comes, you absolutely need to know this…

i could never be more proud to be your father.

You are extraordinary.

i am more proud of who you are, how you think, and what you’ll become than anything else i’ve witnessed in 67 years.

Note: These posts will publish June 11, 2026.

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The thing about everything, mind

Disney leadership keynote speaker — Make no small plans, for they have no power to stir your soul.

The thing about everything is that everything takes longer than you plan.

Noteworthy, there’s an exception to nearly every rule.

Exceptions are rare.

So something you plan to do happening in the time you thought it would take is rare. Even rarer is it happening faster than planned.

Then there’s the paradox of planned time and actual speed.

Let’s say you plan to live 80 years (planned time) but you live your life in 70 (actual speed).

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Paperwork playoffs, mind

jeff noel's work desk — Two folders from a 2019 engagement. Took only 4 sheets of paper to a (2018) lunch meeting at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge Resort. This was for a Deloitte engagement.

One box of 54 Mid Life Celebration books — 54 books, each uniquely signed, in gratitude for their passion. For Galen College of Nursing some years ago. Took them to their Louisville HQ for annual two-day Executive Leadership summit.

Shoulda, woulda, coulda…

Shoulda, woulda, coulda are side effects of a closed mindset.

Now in 2026, my two thoughts in retirement regarding a lifetime Disney paperwork collection…

Wait, and probably do nothing, ever.
Go, start purging, get it down to only what is pure gold.

Just told a former client yesterday that if it wasn’t for some more books i’d still like to write for our son, i’d likely pitch the whole collection.

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Purge like you mean it, mind

Purge: To rid, clear, or free.

Mentally.

Going through a lifetime of Disney paperwork, still.

Have done it many times, over my life.

First, when transferring from one Disney work location to another. When you pack for your move, you have an opportunity to purge stuff you haven’t looked at for some time. Or, you simply pack it and keep the stuff at your new location.

There’s an ebb and flow to this process.

i have found collecting and purging have similar qualities.

Collecting feels like building.

Purging feels like downsizing.

Both feel mentally empowering.

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