Category: Leaving a trail for our Son

All Mid Life Celebration posts from 2008 – 2014.

Take everything we own

woman on a loading dock with boxes
August, 1984. Clothes. Personal effects. Kitchen stuff. No furniture. No appliances. We were leaving a Washington State University Residence Hall. Residence Hall Director, Cheryl, pictured here. It was a fully furnished and stocked apartment.

Take everything we own, to Orlando, Florida.

That’s what we paid for. Because that’s what we needed.

We didn’t have much, yet our growth-mindset whispered, “You have it all.”

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Why is attitude important?

social media post by Jeff Noel
2013…my first book easily could have been called Mid life Crisis. Why have a problem if you could have a challenge and or opportunity instead? Why?

Why is attitude important?

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Random photo, mind

Cheryl with her cousin, her cousin’s son and daughter-in law.

Today’s posts are simply random photos as i scroll through each blog’s media library. There are thousands of photos in each blog’s media library. It’s tedious to view them. It’s also kinda fun. Almost therapeutic. Presently sitting outside in November’s 75-degree weather at dinner time (5pm).

Cheryl is in France.

Chapin finished his Disney shift and is out for the evening.

Now it’s just me, finally finishing today’s blogs.

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The closer to death, mind

A critical slide in my signature Disney Customer Service Keynote. The slide summarizes the content below.

The closer to you get to death, the less you give a hoot what others think about the way you think and what you think about.

Why?

You finally realize you cannot control others’ thinking. Plus, most of us don’t know what others truly think — another late in life revelation.

Review: We live our life the way we want. None of us is gonna change who we are. (yes, exceptions exist)

To be clear, we probably have a few exceptional people we would actually change for.

So why stop caring what others think?

Because you’ll be dead soon and none of it will matter.

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Unconventional

Jeff Noel's TEDx Talk ID Badge at Disney University.
In my lifetime, have only heard one human say, “Going the extra mile is a flawed concept.” And that human is me.

Unconventional definition is Googled here.

Unconventional paragraph…

Unconventional. Olympic Gold. Good people do good things. Proactive. Aggressively unfancy.

Today’s posts are from a month’s old note i saved. Wrote these words while brainstorming a new LinkedIn profile headline…

Unconventional. Olympic Gold. Good people do good things. Proactive. Aggressively unfancy.

The first brainstorm idea was “unconventional”. This photo is from the Googled unconventional search results…

photo of words describing unconventional
Some of my favorite words are in this pic. All describing the space i like to live in.

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