Why the World Championships? – reprise (3.5 years later)

chasing childhood dreams

these 5th graders are dreaming many impossible dreams, and watching the adults in their lives

How long do we need to stay motivated to sustain a personally satisfying level of overall wellbeing? Are you still motivated for this life challenge?

Looking back 3 1/2 years, it would seem the idea of competing at a ridiculously high level would be better left to elite athletes.

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Merry Christmas 2011 From Lane 8

Some see stacked rocks and harmony. Others see a Christmas tree and joy.

As they hiked through Zion National Park, jeff noel and his son spotted four insignificant and small stones, carefully stacked by someone desiring to leave a message for others to contemplate and enjoy. At the time, October, Christmas was not on noel’s mind. Today, totally. Merry Christmas from everyone at Lane 8.

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Lane 8′s jeff noel Recommends Building A Story So You Can Add Details To Make It Interesting

Have fun creating a story, your story. One your loved ones will learn many lessons from.

As a world class professional speaker, jeff noel has studied, learned from and practiced with, the world’s greatest storytelling company. Stories are created using story boards, or some might call them bubble maps – an easily changeable (post-it notes for example) structure and process for thinking big at first and then spicing things up with the smaller details to add richness, texture and interest.

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Can You Build And Hurry At The Same Time?

World-class business insights can be applied to anything, even running. Spot the runner(s)?

Yesterday the “D” word was dropped: Desire? Destiny? Disney? Determined? Ever wonder if you could you apply corporate lessons to running?

A strong foundation is a critical success factor. Duh! But this is often the first reason we fail. We don’t build a good foundation. Why? Because we’re in a hurry.

So, can you build and hurry at the same time? Maybe.

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Fool

Lane 8 jeff noel

So, in my infinite stupidity, a few moths of “training” later, I get the heat assignment. This time, there are no slow pokes in the race, unless you count me.

But, being an optimist and dreamer – with adrenaline coursing through my veins, the starter fires his pistol and we’re off.

Maybe 150 meters into it, early on the backstretch, POP!

The season is over. And right then and there, I promise to never ripe another hamstring.

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Can You Do One Push-Up?

So the next day at work, sharing the story with a colleague, who was also miserably out of shape, I said, “Look at us, we need to start working out. Can you do a push-up? I mean, right now. Let’s start right here, right now – here in the hallway. One push-up”.

He said, “Sure, I can do one push-up. Are you kiddin’ me? But I ain’t doing it here.”

Come on, I said, we’ll do one push-up a day for a week. The second week, we’ll do two push-ups a day. Third week, three a day, etc.

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April @ Lane 8

No alarm ever sounded. Wished it would have.

Hey Dad, why did you abandon exercise?

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The Blog Whisperer Is jeff noel

It was scary just standing there. Can’t imagine going down on skis…

The Blog Whisperer is jeff noel. No one on the Internet writes 5 differently-themed blogs 365 days a year. Nor do they include a personal photo in every post.

jeff noel, founder of Mid Life Celebration, LLC has a book to write. The unwritten and unspoken message to you is that, all along, I’ve been pursuing several impossible goals.

March was put up or shut up month. Did you? Good luck in April…

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Impossible Goals Defined

Maybe it’s impossible for you to do a ‘zip-line’…

You know what? I assumed everyone got this, until a recent revelation. So here’s my definition of an impossible goal. An impossible goal isn’t something no one has ever done before.

An impossible goal is something you’ve never done before.

Big difference. Maybe you’ve never walked a 5k before. Maybe that’s your impossible goal.

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jeffrey noel Runner

jeffrey noel is like the long version of jeff noel. This is how you raise your Google page rank:

  1. Titles
  2. Content
  3. Tags

So, in this post example, you’ll see jeffrey noel in all 3 places.

There’s a 4th thing to do. More important than the other 3 put together. Blog. A lot.

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