Category: Dear Son

Dear Prayer

Disney Leadership Speakers
Two days ago, September 9, 2016. (i know this will post Dec 11, 2016.

 

Dear Prayer,

i distinctly remember how overwhelmingly full Church was on Sunday September 16, 2001.

They say attitude is everything. Cliche, right?

On that Monday after 9/11, with a tone of unease, many colleagues remarked how crowded their Church was – what with all the inconveniences from chaotic parking, seating, exiting. Not to mention the subtle distaste (i felt from their tone) they harbored for fair-weather Christians.

And yet i couldn’t help but rejoice in this vision:

Wouldn’t it be great if Church was like that every Sunday? Why, we’d have to build or enlarge so many more Churches to accommodate the overflowing capacity. Wouldn’t that be glorious?

 

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Dear running

Runners on red dirt road
Photo taken an hour after today’s post was written.

 

Dear running,

If i remember this correctly, we met when i was 10 years old on the Thomasville Elementary School playground in 1969. Apparently i, like every other child on the playground, was too impatient to walk between playground apparatus so we ran.

But it was that one fateful morning when the Physical Education teacher took my class of 5th graders to the parking lot to time each child in the 50-yard dash that something changed.

Unbeknownst to me, i learned that day that out of the 30 other children in class, the teacher said i had the fastest time.

This was the day i learned about attitude.

Thank you.

 

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Dear Future me

Teen running red dirt road
No regrets. Being active as a 57-year old allowed me to be his running partner at the start.

 

Dear Future me,

Don’t think you have forever to do all the things in life you want to do.

You will be wise to eliminate these three reactionary excuse starters:

  • i shoulda
  • i coulda
  • i woulda

Looking back and regretting something that you should have done, could have done, or would have done – ugh, now that is a terrible ending to your life’s story.

Find a million ways to figure this out.

 

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Dear younger me

 

(This video is worth a 2nd look, it was posted 1st at Lane 8 yesterday)

Dear younger me,

When your midlife crisis finally hits, don’t panic, it’ll be one of the best things that’s ever happened to you. From it, you’ll do three transformational things, in this order:

rethink •  reprioritize  •  recommit

This will inspire you to write your first (of many books) book, create a 10-year plan (to be completed between your 50th and 60th birthdays), and start your own business which will require you to leave Disney after 30 years of service.

PS. You’ll discover that waiting two years to write the book and taking two more years to muster the guts to publish it will eventually be something you smile about.

 

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Dear Morning

Disney's Bay Lake sunrise
Yesterday’s walk at Disney’s Contemporary Resort marina. Discovery Island on right horizon.

 

Dear Morning,

You are my favorite part of the day. I’d be lost without you. Thank you for the sunrise you bring every morning. i love watching darkness turn to light, and dawn turn to sunrise.

Never gets old.

PS. Sometimes i lie in bed just waiting for the alarm clock to go off.

 

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This website is about our mental attitude. To easily leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.