Vacation – Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker

Endless Junior year

i think i wanna be a college junior for the rest of my life. A Junior is confident in a way freshmen and sophomores can’t be. Juniors are thinking about the future more seriously than ever, but they always have another year to sort it out.

A Senior is too much pressure for me. The future is here. Gotta get a job and do real life stuff.

As a sophomore you’re still learning. Still a relative newbie.

Freshmen, well, they’re too uncertain, unconfident, inexperienced.

Junior year is the sweet spot.

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2024’s final week, mind

Mickey Mouse and Jeff Noel at Disney Institute — Mickey just told me he and Minnie have never had Christmas week off.

Have had the past decade of Christmas weeks off.

Ten straight years.

The full week from Christmas Eve to New Years Day.

Off.

Why?

Started a business in 2009. Then retired from Walt Disney World in 2014.

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Work while others play

Man looking at magic kingdom Christmas tree — This view – at this time of day – never gets old.

Disney Traditions is Day One for Cast Members. All Cast Members receive a handful of key messages. On Christmas Eve (today), recalling this one:

We work while others play.
Disney Traditions

Was at Disney 13 years before asking for Christmas week off. Didn’t get it.

Didn’t even ask until my 13th year.

Can you imagine?

Got it, finally, in year 14.

Very intentional about waiting 13 years to ask.

Why?

Because we work while others play.

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Want to go on a Disney Cruise for Thanksgiving?

Florida voting 2016 — Yesterday’s voting location.

While i was voting yesterday, a text came in…

“Do you want to go on a Disney Cruise for Thanksgiving?”

Twist my arm, right?

Hours later the text said we’re good to go.

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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.

The juxtoposition is stunning

Mitchell's Sandcastles Breakers Cabin — Before sunrise yesterday getting ready for 8am departure for WDW.

From a cottage on Florida’s Sanibel Island to a cabin in Montana’s Glacier National Park, within 48 hours.

The juxtaposition is stunning.

From one beautiful place to another.

Same thing happens in life except it’s roughly 48 years between the juxtaposition of youth and middle age.

Stunningly beautiful?

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