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The place we store and protect our necessities and nonessentials

Florida Sand Hill Crane family uses our street for there daily family meetings
Florida Sand Hill Crane family uses our street for their daily family meetings

 

HQ for this Florida Sand Hill Crane family is our subdivision. HQ is our dwelling. Our home. The place we sleep. The place we store and protect our necessities and nonessentials. The place where we organize the paperwork of our life.

It seems the Sand Hill Crane family has two primary goals: to survive, and then to eventually mate. Their paperwork is on the light side. Their execution of their simple strategies – world class.

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A moment like this may never happen again. Ever.

Tommy Spaulding's best selling book
The keynote speaker yesterday was remarkable and was the former CEO of Up With People (and a NY Times bestselling author)

 

Professional speaker jeff noel backstage at The Breakers
Back behind the stage and three screens, waiting, and feeling great pressure to be remarkable

 

jeff noel professional speaker at The Breakers, Palm Beach, Florida
A moment like this may never happen again. Ever.

 

A moment like this may never happen again. Ever.

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Part of being organized is doing things that won’t have value

The Breakers at sunset in Palm Beach, Florida
Late afternoon arrival allowed an hour of exploration before room service dinner

 

The Breakers oceanfront pool
The ocean is only a few feet away

 

Ocean front meeting room at The Breakers
Yes, the ocean is visible from where I’ll be speaking from

 

Ocean front meeting room at The Breakers
No, seriously, the Atlantic Ocean is right there

 

jeff noel profesional speaker with beach front view
An ‘i was really there shot’ (because seriously, there’s never been a view from the stage like this is 14 years)

 

At 10am, the curtains will need to be drawn shut or the screens will be washed out.

Part of being organized is doing things that won’t have value until a future date – in this case last night for this morning. Going into today fully prepared. No surprises. No doubt.

Would have been so much easier to order an early room service dinner and chill in the room last night. And worry about logistics and vibe this morning.

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Well, it looks like luck, yet it is anything but

Dellar's Air Conditioning service
A highly trusted HVAC service provider is a true blessing

 

The harder we work to build effective and efficient systems and processes to run our personal HQ (our dwelling place), the luckier we get. Well, it looks like luck, yet it is anything but.

So glad odds fell in my favor and Bill Dellar could replace our 22-year old upstairs AC unit yesterday rather than today. Leaving for Palm Beach after 4pm on a Friday would have complicated things.

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How being organized can make paying for something, well, art

Apple Store App Easy Pay
Easy pay is art, ridiculously remarkable

 

Apple is making being organized an art form. Yesterday’s visit to the Apple store revealed a new process available to iPhone 5s users. You can use fingerprints to unlock your phone so you never again have to tap four numbers.

They allow you to use fingerprint recognition to use the Apple Store App. It goes like this:

  • visit Apple Store
  • pick a product off the shelf
  • use Apple Store App to scan the barcode
  • pay using the App
  • walk out
  • no human interaction is required
  • self-service to a whole new (remarkable) level

Remarkable.

Art.

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