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.

Glacier checklists, spirit

Grinnell Glacier overlook
Grinnell Glacier overlook, August 2016. Dave was the first friend who joined me for a week. After three previous family summer visits, this fourth summer, Dave and i hiked Highline Trail for the first time ever, for both of us.

Glacier checklists.

There’s an emotional (spiritual) essence to this (2026) Summer’s visit.

i must balance two things, maybe three:

  1. The loving farewell tour in a place we’ve spent 500 nights.
  2. The obvious implication (assumption) that i need to be a tour guide during the third week. For the record, i dread this responsibility.
  3. Our super special friends arrive after we’ve been there two weeks. We will have our mountain legs and lungs. They will not. Not even close. How do i manage our semi-peak hiking fitness with 100% rookies, day 1?

This blogging stuff is like having a personal trainer, a personal coach, a therapist, physician, etc, etc.

i like LOVE it!

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July 1, 2026, spirit

smiling Jesus painting
Stumbled across this in a hotel gift shop.

What’s one thing that’s surprised you about summer 2026?

How much time i’m spending outside even though we’re having above-average June temps.

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Wildcard day, spirit

Tree slowly overtaking chain link fence
Growth so slow, no one notices.

What’s a blogging challenge few, if any, know about?

The cost from having ten WordPress websites.

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June 30, 2026, spirit

quote about petting every dog
Life goals i think it’s called. Not my goal but it sure made me smile. This was from my wife’s cousin’s first community yard sale. It was another person’s table.

We’ve had three yellow Labrador Retrievers in our life.

My goal was, and remains, to become the kind of person our three Labs thought i was. – dad

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Blogging memories day 7, spirit

Disney Institute Team in Detroit 2011
Stumbled upon the 2011 photo from a Disney Institute engagement in Detroit. Development can be as simple as encouraging others to have fun.

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

In addition to fostering my personal peace, i have fond, powerful memories of:

Igniting personal creativity.

Captaining my own ship.

Making decisions with a small-business owner mindset.

Also have memories of colleagues doing the traditional MBA studies to ‘elevate’ their business acumen.

And i recall thinking, my self-directed MBA won’t deliver a paper-diploma.

However, it will deliver a remarkably more valuable diploma.

A diploma called a small, profit-producing business that can do nothing but become more profitable.

Everyone’s gotta eat and pay rent.

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