Yesterday, today and tomorrow

snow covered street
Photo from January 2022 in Apgar, MT. Walked and jogged shirtless this morning at Walt Disney World. This goes public early June. Past, present, and future.

What keeps you motivated into your 14 consecutive year, writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts?

Mentally, there are two ever-refreshing models: (1) a 72-hour window and (2) a camera roll.

(1) Each day reflects on a present 72-hour window…

  1. What i learned yesterday
  2. What i get to do today
  3. What i hope for tomorrow

(2) The Camera roll:

  • Photos & videos from yesterday
  • Photos in folders related to whatever topic today inspires
  • Or random scroll through 170k photos & videos

Some days all five posts unpack a single event or topic.

Other days each post is different and unrelated to an event or topic.

These two methods got randomly revealed after finishing the original 100-day self-imposed writer’s bootcamp.

Note: There was never any desire nor intention to write past the 100-day goal. Additionally, never thought the 100-day goal was achievable. But in true jeff-land dreaming, knew there was only one way to live with no regret – go for the impossible goal.

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The beauty of mental creativity

small town historical welcome sign
Are we born with creativity or do we develop it? Both. Note, born and raised here. What a creative origin story, right?

The beauty of mental creativity is no rules are required.

Two things must happen…

  1. You must accept (your) enlightenment to this fact.
  2. You must act.

You must (you get to) create rules that don’t exist – rules that transform your thinking in unencumbered and dramatic ways.

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Never grow all the way up

September in Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park (GNP). Rising Sun, 2017, winterized.
September in Glacier National Park
GNP. Iconic Wild Goose Island in St Mary Lake. Rising Sun is less than a mile from here.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood in maturity.

Thomas Huxley

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Can’t stop the feeling

jeff noel and Pluto
California trippin’, in a good way.

Can’t stop the feeling.

What feeling?

The one that is trippin’ me out.

In a good way.

That personal, extended, individualized leadership retreat that Covid-19 is offering.

The types of innovation from Clay Christenen, 1997:

  1. Sustain – getting better
  2. Efficiency – do more with less
  3. Creation – new stuff

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Where great ideas come from

Moss type plant in Montana mountains
Moss type plant on Glacier trail.

Where do great ideas come from?

Anywhere, anytime, and from anyone.

However…

No great ideas starts out great.

So great ideas come from bad to mediocre ideas.

The crazy thoughts.

The impulsive thoughts.

The ridiculous dreams.

The what ifs.

The yes, ands.

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