Tag: Running

1982 Wedding

1980's wedding photo
1982…left Walt Disney World to make it home for my Dad’s second wedding.

Was gonna hitch-hike from WDW to Spring Grove (PA).

But luckily heard that two of my fellow MKCP (Magic Kingdom College Program) colleagues were driving home to South Carolina.

As luck would have it, my newly married younger sister lived in South Carolina.

From there i had a ride home with people i knew. Hadn’t yet met my new brother in law.

Don’t recall the drive home, but i do remember it was August, 1982.

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Australia Day 19, mind

Small town welcome sign
Born and raised in a small town.

Of the few things that brand who i am, runner is in the top five. Servant, husband, father, teacher, runner.

dad

i do not know why i love to run, i only know it offers a freedom i cannot live without.

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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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So What Did jeff noel Do With This Insight?

jeff noel Thought "What If" You Applied Walt Disney's Business Practices To Running

One of life’s greatest mysteries: common sense is rarely common practice. This was one of Walt Disney’s secret weapons against his competitors. Walt Disney instilled in his associates a relentless focus on the basics and the never-ending discipline to not get bored with business basics.

noel began running only 100 meters per day. It was months before he was running several miles a day. What enabled noel to manage his high cholesterol was finding creative ways to stay motivated when the inevitable boredom and desire to quit would come. And it always does.

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jeff noel, Please Give Your Audience An Example Of How You Applied Disney Excellence To Midlife?

How Does One Stay At The Top Of Their Game For A Lifetime?

Dear Boomer friends, we all know the unfair surprising number of health related challenges midlife brings. High cholesterol struck jeff noel 12 years ago, and with a family history of heart disease, noel needed to refocus on excellent diet and exercise habits.

Diet and exercise gurus teach the “how to” diet, “how to” exercise – this is good. But health gurus, for whatever reason, neglect the critical success factor that noel preaches at Lane 8 – getting healthy is one thing, staying there is a lifetime event.

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