Glacier National Park (GNK). Lake McDonald, Sprauge fire 2017. Paddle-boarder and kayaker.
Glacier National Park, (GNP). Disney Characters brought from Orlando. Simply to make others smile as they walked by. Photo from outside my Apgar Village Inn room.
Glacier National Park (GNP). Sprauge fire September 2017. From inside my Apgar Village Inn room.
Effort drives success more than talent. That’s how i represented, at age 50, the USA in the 2009 Masters Track and Field World Championships in Finland. It’s how i published a book in 2013. It’s why i am currently (2020) the unofficial world record holder for most blog posts by a single author (record is 17,212 posts, i’m closing in on 21,000).
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This website is about our MIND. To read today’s post about our BODY, click here.
If you want to stay on this site and read more posts from this Blog, click here.
The “Magic” is our ability to keep the reality of the hard work invisible.
It’s not the Magic that makes it work, it’s the work that makes it Magic.
A recent Disney Talent Management article from July (no longer available on this site) illustrates many things which aren’t specifically called out, including:
Everything takes longer than hoped
Collaboration is key
Creativity is key
Vision is key
Transformation is key
Lots of keys to the Kingdom.
Focus and discipline.
Let me try to hammer home the point.
It’s as absurd as when non-athletic people say this when talking about athletic people, “They don’t need to worry about dieting.”
Having run consistently for the past 17 years, since turning 40, i can tell you that there isn’t a single day that i don’t:
Weigh myself
Consciously evaluate every food choice i make on a daily basis
Feel frustrated at how easily i gain weight
Secretly wish i didn’t have to work so hard just to maintain my weight
You had no idea right?
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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.
