A thriver's guide to physical health and wellness
World-class tips, tactics, strategies and serious motivation
Chevron Gas Station sign reminds us life can be very busy
Our health should take a back seat to nothing.
Health is wealth. – Anna Felegy (my wife’s Grammy, RIP 1989)
Repetition is the mother of all learning.
Our health should take a back seat to nothing.
Mind and body done, next, a short, pithy post about our emotional spirit, click here.
Everything we owned starting out. (WSU, Aug. 1984)
All told, 48 boxes for the Trucking company – Washington State to Florida.
Moving day…
Becoming full-time Disney Cast Members in 1984 was (and still is) very exciting. We worked hard, like all young folks starting out, establishing ourselves and building our careers, a sense of community, and a home.
One of the inherent dangers with blind ambition is the mismanagement of time, primarily from shifting priorities – or the (false) perception thereof.
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Somewhere about 25-30 weeks into it, the epiphany.
We never said the push-ups had to be in a row. This allowed jeff noel to keep going at a make it or break it point.
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(An archived post from exactly 2 years ago today):
It hit me a few years ago.
The answer.
And I was reminded of it yesterday, when I casually shared it with a friend who wants to lose 50 pounds.
Your carrot has to be huge. It has to be one you’ll chase for the rest of your life.
Until I die?
Yes!
My big carrot?
It ain’t the world championships.
What then?
Being a role model for my son. Honoring our creator who gave us the gift of our body. Seeing our son graduate from high school. Etc.
The world championships? A smaller, several year carrot.
Make today a day you stop by the produce section and get yourself some vegetables. Carpe diem, jeff noel 
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April! Isn’t Springtime wonderful? Spring fever. Spring break. Spring into action.
jeff noel needs to spring into book writing. If things work out as planned, you’ll find regular posts here, dedicated to “Health Is Wealth” – a saying Cheryl’s Grammy (94) used to always say.
I just can’t guarantee things will work out as planned.
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Things that matter. Things that don’t.
It’s so hard to tell the difference sometimes.
But as we get older, it ought to start to become crystal clear, health is wealth.
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Health Is Wealth
Health is wealth.
That’s what the 93-year old woman said.
She always said it.
She had a wisdom about her that only comes from seeing it all. A lifetime of sorting through the “meaning of life”.
In 1989, Cheryl and I returned to Pennsylvania for our Best Man’s wedding.
It was during that trip that Grammy died in my arms.
And for some unknown reason this morning, I’m recalling what Grammy always said like it was yesterday.
Mind, body, spirit, money, and hq...
You see four of them below. The fifth is the "box" the holds the other four...
America's unheralded work life balance expert. jeff noel, 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.