jeff noel – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Day 8 CCL, home

Sunset climbs up mountains. It took me over five decades before i stumbled on this.

RV park bathhouse at sunset — As the sun goes down, the distant mountain shadows go up.

6-second video: ‘Home Sweet Home’. An RV Park is our location, but we do not own, nor rent, an RV. We our in an adjoining cabin circle.

Change the world?

No.

Seriously, you (we, me) are not gonna do it, no matter how romantic it sounds.

Look in the mirror of your soul.

.think .differently

Then why is “change the world” such a popular and inspiring mantra?

Simple.

Herd mentality.

What if you (we, me) did another look in the mirror and changed yourself (ourselves, myself) to make a simple change in vernacular.

Even then, it’s still an ‘impossible’ statement.

But listen how this sounds…

Change your world.

Change your world vs change the world.

You (we, me) change the world by changing our world.

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Day 7 CCL, home

Mountain saloon and cafe — Home Ranch Bottoms is being revitalized. This is our first stop inside. Driven past it a bunch of times going to and from Polebridge.

Newspaper — Home Ranch Bottoms. What does that even mean? Seriously.

Newspaper article — Starting to make sense now. Right?

10-second video: Home Ranch Bottoms stage.

Without a person’s or place’s history there’s no context.

No context is dangerous.

Kinda like thinking customer satisfaction is not dangerous.

i did a TEDx Talk about why going the extra mile is a flawed concept and what to do instead.

So much context for any TED speaker (or any person). Most have no idea the history the speaker (or person) brings to the stage (life).

Insight/BFO (blinding fact of the obvious): Most do not care. This is a fact. It’s easy to live with and accept. It’s also easy to ignore and or forget. However, context is like adding color, or sound, or touch (As if you were there) to a black and white photo.

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Day 6 CCL, home

6-second video: Mt. Cannon, Hidden Lake, time-lapse, present moments.

41-second video: Our first ‘360 family video’. From the saddle between Reynolds Mountain and Dragons Tail.

26-second video: A 360-recap video.

Apple Watch fitness app — A superb 4.5-hour morning walk.

If you’re not going to do something about prioritizing your priorities, stop thinking about it.

Over-focused thinking is the art of breaking down complex concepts into basic, fundamental truths.

It’s uncommon to over-focus on the same things (you and) others under-focus on or ignore.

Why?

Because (you and most) humans are habitually busy, distracted, medicated, and entertained.

Using questions, paradox, and common sense takes you beyond the surface, past dogma, and allows you to see things you’ve never seen before.

Over-focusing removes layers of complexity and identifies systemic root causes.

Over-focusing is not easy. It requires a commitment to challenge everything. This fanaticism is why people are labeled rebels, disrupters, antagonists.

Rebels believe there is a better way…to do everything.

Their mindset fundamentally is growth — everything can be better. And not only better than now, but much better than now.

It’s the thinking of those who are willing to start over (anew) and build from the ground up, unencumbered by tradition, dogma, criticism.

It’s summarized in my key takeaway from a 1980 Outward Bound trip during a week-long college spring break:

If i never try anything, i never learn anything. If i never take a risk, i stay where i am.

Ps. Did you chose Glacier or did Glacier choose you?

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Day 5 CCL, home

two people on a mountain trail — L-R: Piegan, Matahpi, Going-to-the-Sun, Heavy Runner. Photo: At the Reynolds saddle.

Happy present moment.

Such a simple, easy thing to say.

Yet.

Yet nearly impossible for humans to live with.

Note: Gonna go on the record to say it’s absolutely impossible. Except for the few, the proud, the brave.

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Day 4 CCL, home

sunset tinged clouds — From our ‘Cabin’…which is ‘home’ for the entire month of September.

Want to know if you are living your best life?

Couple of metrics come to mind immediately, intuitively:

You feel a vibrancy, an energy, a peace, that is the best version of anything you’ve ever lived. Consistently (daily).
You own every decision. No one is deciding for you.
You absolutely embrace being the CEO of You, Inc.

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