JeffNoel.org “archived blogs” widget showing earliest posts began October 2008. This was the first website i wrote a blog post on.
Wrote my very first blog post October 17, 2008.
Jeff Noel.org was the only ‘JeffNoel’ internet real estate available.
The big three domain categories in priority value order:
.com
.org
.net
Jeff Noel.com was registered to an Arizona, State Farm Agent.
Jeff Noel.net to a musician.
Jeff Noel.org was the only one of the three ‘big ones’ that was available. Jumped on it.
Then jumped on GoDaddy’s “Domain Name Backorder” feature. For a nominal fee, you pay to get in line (first come, first served) to secure an abandoned or expired domain name. GoDaddy gives owners 60 days, with multiple reminders and notices. After 60 days, if you’re first in line, you automatically secure it.
That’s why i didn’t get Jeff Noel.com until March 2009.
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Mid Life Celebration business card design ideas 2008
After 2007 flew by, i began my Plan B plan in 2008, starting my own business. The 2008-09 Real Estate and Banking collapse led to unexpected Disney Leadership layoffs. After 25 years, i suddenly felt vulnerable for the very first time. If this craziness ever repeated, i wanted to have Plan B ready to launch.
Three-week countdown, spirit…
Spiritually, emotionally, it’s literally impossible to comprehend the daily blogging effort.
i’ve published over 31,000 blog posts in my lifetime.
The odds of never crossing a line in 31k attempts?
Low. Impossibly low.
The odds of crossing a line in 31k attempts?
High, almost certainly gonna happen.
The spiritual and emotional risks of doing what no one else wanted to do…
This “what if i unintentionally publish something controversial or confidential?”
Heavy emotional toll simply from ‘worrying’ about crossing an invisible, imaginary line.
Trusted my Disney experience, Disney wisdom, and Disney insight that i could proceed without crossing a line.
Then again, lines are often in the eyes of the beholder.
But i moved forward anyway.
How could i not?
My mantra then and still to this day, “What would Walt do?”
So i kept moving forward.
Just like Walt.
Then why organizational resistance?
Well, here’s a headliner…
What if we cross a line we can’t see until after the fact?
We are too conservative to go first.
We are too big and slow to go first.
Because nearly two decades ago in 2007, everyone was afraid of ‘social media’.
It wasn’t called social media in 2007.
We just called it “The Internet”.
The World Wide Web.
Scary.
No one at Disney Institute embraced blogging.
No one at Disney Institute wanted to go first.
Except me.
So i went.
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Grinnell Point dominates the right side. Grinnell Point is the eastern, low side of Mount Grinnell. Continental Divide is everything left of Grinnell Point.
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