jeff noel
Revised June 2020 bio:
.think differently about everything...
Balance is not a myth...live your life with personal vibrancy...Jeff's greatest wish for his young son, his greatest wish for everyone.
Jeff Noel wrote this book as a life-guide for his son in case anything bad ever happened to Jeff. A simple, balanced, and "differently-wise" guide to life's five big buckets: mind, body, spirit, work, and home. If something bad ever happened to Jeff, he didn't want his son asking, "What would dad have said about this?"
Jeff Noel is a 30-year Disney veteran, including 15 years teaching at Disney Institute, the training arm of the Walt Disney Company. Jeff's taken Disney best business principles - that he learned, did, and taught - and applied them to his personal life.
Happy present moment.
(hidden bonus - the original bio)...
.think .differently and keep the old, longer, original 2013 bio...you'll notice the word "Disney" isn't used a single time (in this bio or in the book) because Jeff over-focused on never blurring the lines between his role as a global Disney professional development keynote speaker and consultant and his ideas about personal development.
World-record note: Since writing this bio in 2013, Jeff has continued to publish five personal, daily, differently-themed blog posts (one each for mind, body, spirit, work, and home). He is thousand of posts over the existing (2020) world record for mosts blog posts by a single author. Guinness World Records requires a 200-word count minimum per post. Jeff works hard to never write a single post anywhere near 200 words.
Here we go with the original...
A series of devastaing midlife wakeup calls, guilt, and serendipity led to the realization that the author wasn't going to live forever.
We all know what is self-evident, yet we live like we are completely unaware. Life is full of excuses and excuses lead to regret, regret leads to second chances, and second chances lead to opportunity.
But there's a catch at this point. Second chances require someone's permission.
Jeff Noel, born 1959, is an expert at all of these.
America's unheralded work life balance expert, jeff is a servant, husband, dad, boomer, speaker, author, runner. He believes work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else. Allergic to most pollens and mediocrity, he can't wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning.
Since 1999, he has spoken to over one million people worldwide.
He lives behind Orlando's most famous theme park and for the past 30 years has thrived in one of the world's most admired companies.
Jeff enrolled in a 100-day writer's boot camp on April Fool's day 2009. The only requirement was to write five blog posts a day for 100 consecutive days. Not only did he miraculously accomplish the goal, he has yet to stop writing five daily, differently-themed blogs.
If you do the math, this is more than five consecutive years and 10,000 posts (and counting).
Just between you and me, he suffers from writer's flood.
Why?
Because he has an insatiable desire to help others think deeper, smile more, and feel grateful everyday, all day.
