A debt of gratitude list

Le Westin Montreal lobby sign
The date, time, and place stamped on the digital lobby sign.

 

Old Harbor Montreal
The small yellow image, a walker, caught my eye.

 

Montreal war veteran memorial.
Closer inspection revealed a military tribute monument. Two days prior was Remembrance Day (Veteran’s Day in America).

 

Teddy Bear in Montreal airport
An airport tradition for a decade or more.

 

Freedom Tower from JFK tarmac.
Freedom Tower from JFK tarmac yesterday.

 

A debt of gratitude:

To my wife, for covering the home front, solo, for three days.

To our son, for, well, just being a son, and a studious ninth-grader.

To Lee Cockerell, for his referral; otherwise there would not have been a Montreal trip.

To Manon Richard for being a superb event planner. Superb.

To Michel for guiding me the entire day and having me want for nothing. Remarkable.

To Westin and Delta for doing what they do so well.

To our Military, for providing safe passage in North America.

To God, for the blessing of having a purposeful way to contribute to society.

Editor’s note: The above list was started yesterday during a two-hour layover at JFK airport. Little did i know as i wrote about “safe passage in North America” that hours later tragedy would hit Paris.

 

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Everywhere we look and even where we don’t look

Hundreds of photos in the past 48 hours. A few from yesterday. Some Disney images will be easy to see, some will not, like in the second photo, an iconic letter.

 

Disneyland Hotel Hallway

 

Disneyland Hotel Convention Center

 

Disneyland Hotel Convention Center Hidden Mickeys

 

Disneyland Hotel Convention Center

 

Disneyland Hotel Convention Center

 

Spend 30 years as a Disney insider and there isn’t much you don’t know about Disney. And your appreciation for what it takes to create Magic is literally unrivaled.

And yet.

And yet your appreciation for what it takes never dulls nor fades. Like the past few days at every turn. In fact, what’s remarkable is that your appreciation becomes greater because you have a new lens.

The lens of a profitable (for the very first time in seven years) entrepreneur.

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Mid Life Celebration book goes everywhere Orlando based motivational speaker jeff noel goes

Mid Life Celebration book at Denver airport

 

(photo: Mid Life Celebration book goes everywhere Orlando based motivational speaker jeff noel goes)

Life is a grand adventure full of boring, routine, mundane, repetitive things.

It’s our job to sift through the chaff.

The diamonds are in there.

It may take five, ten, even 15 years to find them.

And when we make it a habit, we find diamonds every single day.

But we use the seemingly endless time commitment as an overwhelming obstacle… and quit.

The time is gong to pass anyway, why not keep going?

This is one of many speaking topics motivational speakers use to help others transform their lives.

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Doing meaningful work changes our expectations about what is normal or fair

Delta app flight info
Easter Sunday 2014 (April 20)

 

This Easter morning final preparations for an eight day tip to Disneyland.

Working while others play is a way of life for many.

Some go their entire career never having weekends as predictable days off.

Doing meaningful work changes our expectations about what is normal or fair.

More than anything, getting to do what you love is more than fair.

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