Author: jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.

Why is peace and contentment important?

peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich
We had $200 cash when we started our 17-day honeymoon bicycle trip. A few days into it: a Washington State Park wooden picnic table, a loaf of bread, a jug of peanut butter, and a few left-over marshmallows from the previous night’s campfire. Contented. At peace.

Why is peace and contentment important?

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Random photo, spirit

When you change what you see, what you see changes.

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The closer to death, spirit

family of three next to a hiking trailhead sign
Finally in 2025, we all got to visit Sperry Chalet together.

The closer to you get to death, the less you care what others think about the way you found, or didn’t find, peace and contentment.

Why?

Because you’ll be dead soon and nothing will matter.

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What do good people do?

Jeff Noel keynote speech 72-hour challenge
For many years, every speech i’ve given, this is the final slide.

What do good people do?

Good people do good things.

Don’t overthink its simplicity and elementary-status.

Ps. You can over-focus on it (and you absolutely should), but be careful about dismissing its childish sound. You’re welcome.

Note: No sense in offering time-tested, world-class, Disney business insights in my keynotes without a sincere challenge to the audience to apply them. And because i had never seen any keynote speakers doing it, i decided to set my own standard. It felt (and continues to feel) like a good and decent thing to do.

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What does it look like?

18-second video: A college fraternity brother is getting conflicting results about CJD. While he awaits final answers, doing what i can to remind him and his wife that we are thinking of, and praying for, them.

What does it look like?

What does what look like?

What does “living like you mean it” look like?

Living like you mean it looks a lot like snowflakes. No two snowflakes are exactly the same (as the saying goes anyway). No two people, no two ways, no two actions are exactly the same.

However, make a pile of snowflakes and it simply looks white.

Make a pile of “living like you mean it” actions and it simply looks invisible to most people. Or, if not invisible, perhaps it simply looks like good and decent living.

Yet one of your actions can have a loving effect on only two people. And only those two people will ever know that in that moment you were “living like you mean it”.

Insight: A busy life can make over-focusing tempting to ignore or delay (possibly forever).

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