If Disney Ran Your Life

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. 

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 individuals suffer from the same problems. 

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

How important is our attitude? Why is attitude important? How do you rate your attitude?

Who's the most positive person you know? 

Season 4 unpacks what influences our attitude, how we can intentionally over-focus on maximizing all the elements of life that impact what we think.

We answer and explore the only logical answer for, "Who's the most positive person you know?"

Expanding on last episode's value proposition for a positive attitude, Jody and jeff unpack questions about your daily habits that you've never been asked or haven't been asked in a long time.

Jody & jeff unpack the grade you gave yourself for your attitude consumption, how your consumption drives your thoughts and how your thoughts drive your behaviors. 

At Disney, everything matters. If Disney ran your life, you would be world-class intentional on everything you read, listen to, watch, as well as your friends, how you speak, and especially your goals.

The concluding season If Disney Ran Your life podcast. Unplanned, massive change can consume your life. How you react provides wonderful opportunity to rethink everything.

Are your priorities crystal clear? Are your priorities prioritized. Magic happens when you get two yesses.

If Disney Ran Your Life is a podcast dedicated to destroying the pervasive and perverse societal belief that balance is a myth.

This episode concludes the 100-episode arc.

Two simple Disney stories illustrate how much opportunity lies in front of you. Now you know. Do something great.

Bonus episode from Glacier National Park: Trying things that might not work is standard operating procedure for personal vibrancy. This is a 9-minute warmup episode before recording Season 6, Episode 5.

Recorded at Granite Park Campground, August 2020.

We end this 100-episode podcast exactly as we started:

Episode one began with three simple questions: Who is Jeff, what does he do, why does it matter?

Episode 100 concludes If Disney Ran Your Life with three simple questions: Who are you, what do you do, why does it matter?