Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel. Disney’s California Adventure skyline too.
Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel far right) and Disney’s California Adventure skyline.
Bicycling across the Country (1983).
From not being able to afford a tent for the 1982 cross-country bicycle trip, to having a Disneyland Hotel room facing Disneyland, Downtown Disney, and Disney’s California Adventure…
How did this happen?
Feeling deep humility and gratitude for the opportunity to do work that matters.
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Lord, please reign down your humility as i balance the need to reassure clients that i’m their best choice for a remarkable Disney Keynote Speaker with the desire to not boast.
And in this equation, there is also the need to explain the logic behind my fees.
There are plenty of less expensive options.
Keep me humble as i remind decision makers what they already intuitively know:
You get what you pay for. And, excellence comes with a cost.
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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.
This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.
Met Brian at My French Cafe near Disney University yesterday. He said a wonderful prayer for me, not knowing the burdens nor the triumphs.
Dear Heavenly Father, please reign down humility. i am astounded by Your generous blessings in the past three weeks. It is almost more than i can bear.
Dear readers, this does not mean i live in the absence of heavy, worrisome burdens. i do.
And i’d love an abundance of humility to graciously accept them both.
And to be abundantly thankful for both.
PS. Brian, in the photo, and i met 30 years ago when our dogs met for the first time in our sprawling neighborhood. The odds of us ever meeting were slim to none. Our Yellow Labs ended up contributing two litters to society.
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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.
This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.
Tonight, December 1, 2015, my Family will be attending.
Dear Heavenly Father, please bless two people (keeping them anonymous) with Your wisdom and guidance. And please also bless them with Your Grace, Your Mercy, and Your Never Ending Love.
Being famous comes with a price that is difficult to see coming, and never goes away until you are no longer famous.
Fame can change people.
Fame can lift you up.
Fame can insidiously destroy you.
Being a Disney Cast Member provides even the newest, least experienced Cast Member with a certain fame – more like admiration and appreciation from others who have dreamt what it would be like to be a part of the Disney team. Yet it’s fame nonetheless. It feels good. It can also feel uncomfortable.
This undeserved “fame” is heightened depending on your role and your longevity at Disney.
Additionally, if you become an official spokesperson (like a Disney Institute Keynote Speaker), and your career blossoms to 30 years, of which the last 15 years were spent speaking to the world’s most admired brands – over one-million people – you become famous in the audience’s eyes. People line up afterwards to speak with and get a photo with you.
It would have been easy for me to think i was special, different, and above the common daily life.
Which is why humility is one of only three “skills” i list on LinkedIn.
The first shall be last, and the last shall be first. Be a servant to all. And serve humbly.
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In the gray box above, in upper left corner shows lowest heart rate the past 30 days was 36 beats/min.
Hoping tomorrow that there will be no pain in the warmup. Generally, three miles slow jog, then two to three more miles of various intervals to ramp up to race speed. So yeah, about a six mile warmup to run 800 meters.
