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.

Casual effort in HQ contaminates the other four

Iowa River dam in Iowa City
The past is water over the dam. The future is up to us.

 

The in-box of life just keeps filling up. Day after day. Relentless. This is why HQ organization is so critical to balancing our mind, body, spirit and career.

Get too far behind or too disorganized on what’s a priority and what isn’t and everything else is contaminated.

We stress out so our attitude gets tainted. We don’t have time to exercise, so our health insidiously declines. We don’t have time to pray or be still, so our focus becomes more on ourselves and less on others. We struggle to keep up at work and we are passed by for opportunities and growth.

We know this.

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She said she just had to chuckle at their attempt to model world class leadership

Young girl from TV commercial
Business folk get a small handful of extraordinary leaders in their lifetime

 

She said she just had to chuckle at their attempt to model world class leadership. So I asked her why.

She said because they were so obviously unprepared it was embarrassing, and because she acted oblivious to it all, they both thought she was not aware.

It was a big, once-a-year, close-out-the-year type meeting. One of those meetings that reflects the entire body of a year’s worth of art work.

Ever have that happen?

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The paradox of being an author – saying a lot without writing a lot

Mid Life Celebration book table of contents
Simplicity is a core value – demonstrating it is harder than it looks

 

Infinite wisdom:

I would have loved to have written you a shorter letter but did not have the time.

The paradox of being an author – saying a lot without writing a lot.

PS. Sent an email to the publisher last night (a Sunday) green lighting the whole project: manuscript, front/back covers, spin, copyright page.

This is a big deal and one that fear is shouting, are you sure you want to do this?

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