If Disney Ran Your Life

Fireside chat with Jody & jeff. Informal backstage Season 3 review.  Debriefing events and activities is common. Jody and i do it all the time. We have never recorded a debrief, until now. Jody is a former 8-year Park Ranger and i have been a lifetime outdoors person. Chatting fireside is hard to beat. Reflecting, to improve, is hard to beat too.

Self reflection. Balance & Personal Vibrancy. Review of 12 Season 3 questions and 72-hour challenges. Disney Story about flipping the proverbial organizational pyramid upside down to put employees in charge. The Disney story illustrates the 1990's organizational self-reflection that led to us admitting we were asking the wrong questions. Better questions transformed our Company. Now imagine applyi...

Going into the wilderness and off the grid to hike and camp facilitates being mindful and present. But what do you do the rest of the year while going full speed with a life full of conveniences and distractions?

Disney outdistances their competition by over-focusing on the same things their competitors under-focus on or ignore. Disney is massively intentional where others are unintentional. This over-focusing is transferable to personal life. Your biggest competitor is your current self. Who you are now competes with who you want to become.

If Disney ran your life, you'd be expected to take small risks all day, everyday. Risk taking is not a luxury. Not every risk pays off. You get credit for a win just for trying. Make risk taking a habit that becomes so comfortable you no longer realize you are always taking small daily risks. We also explore Jeff Bezos's Day One mentality. What if every day was your organization's very first day?

How much effort is too much? What about when you're tired? What about when you think no one will notice, is good enough good enough? Jeff learned from a wise Magic Kingdom leader during the busiest season that every customer interaction needs to be an A+, and most importantly, WHY it needs to be an A+. The same world-class devotion to business life should be mandatory in your personal life.  

1. What is your most inspiring, unfilled dream? 2. Why is it important? 3. How bad do you want it? Honest answers to simple yet direct questions can transform what you do next. What you do next can change everything.

If time dictates your balance, you are doing it wrong. Time does not determine if you have balance in your life. But if it isn't time, where does balance come from? In this episode, Jeff reveals the secret of how to achieve balance. And it may not be what you think. If Disney Ran Your Life, you would take a radical new approach to achieve balance in your life.

As a speaker at Disney Institute, I helped organizations discover organizational vibrancy. What if we applied the same principles to our own life to discover personal vibrancy? If Disney Ran Your Life, what would you do differently to change your culture and add more to your life? Organizations suffer from a lack of risk-taking, lack of perseverance, and the inability to dream big. Many individual...

In this episode, Jeff Noel examines personal vibrancy and discusses whether or not personal balance is a myth.  Jeff shares stories from his career at Disney and explains how you can apply Disney lessons to your life to add balance and personal vibrancy.  If you pursue excellence at work and lower the bar at home, you are cheating yourself and your family. 

Welcome to If Disney Ran Your Life with Jeff Noel. After a wonderful 30 year career at Walt Disney World, including 15 years teaching at the Disney Institute, Jeff Noel shares how Disney impacted his personal life.  Hear inside stories from a life at Disney and realize how you would think differently about everything if Disney ran your life.  Jeff Noel will share what he learned working at Disney...

Jeff Noel and Jody Maberry introduce you to If Disney Ran Your Life. Recorded in Fantasyland as a placeholder episode between Season 2 and 3. Seasons 1 & 2 were removed from iTunes and put in the IDRYL vault. New episodes, starting with Season 3, coming January 25, 2020.