Author: jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.

January 30, body

Physically, how is January 2026 going compared to how you thought it would go?

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This website is about our BODY. To read today’s post about our SPIRIT, click here.

Goodness, body

Large family gathered at their dinner table
The photographer sat next to me before and after she captured this moment.

My food goal every Thanksgiving is to feel satisfied, not stuffed. Put one in the win column again this year. Goodness is doing the basics brilliantly.

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This website is about our BODY. To read today’s post about our SPIRIT, click here.

Thankful for food

Apple Watch fitness app on someone's wrist
Yesterday’s Thanksgiving morning 6-mile walk. Walked four more doing yard work. A ten-mile day wasn’t a goal.

There’s food and then there’s fuel.

Same thing with two paradoxical names and applications.

Nutrition in every ‘healthy’ category.

The ‘food is medicine’ mantra.

If you’re gonna eat — and we dang sure will — what if we made remarkably smart, strategic, lifetime choices on everything from food sources, timing, amounts, snacks, etc?

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This website is about our BODY. To read today’s post about our SPIRIT, click here.

Physical thanksgiving

Physical vibrancy is challenging to achieve.

Why?

Life.

Busy.

Assorted setbacks.

Few familiar role models.

Distractions, entertainment, medications.

Is it possible that any human could be thankful for a sedentary life?

Regular movement, adequate rest, and balanced fuel (nutrition) — these three are thanksgiving-worthy. Daily. Without end.

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This website is about our BODY. To read today’s post about our SPIRIT, click here.

Speed limit mindset, body

Apple Watch fitness app
Yesterday’s walk, one way to DU.
Inflatable snowmen and an Apple Watch
Kept the app running and by 4pm we are nearing a half-marathon.
Apple Watch fitness app
Half-Marathon: 8 miles round trip to DU, then 5 more miles without leaving our yard. In 9 hours, countless reps of bending, stooping, reaching, lunging and carrying.

Speed limit mindset with physical health?

How much is too much?

If Disney Ran Your Life…

Everything matters. Nothing is optional.

Have fun.

Set the bar for moving, fueling, and eating to its highest level.

Push boundaries.

Break Reinvent rules.

Don’t strive to be the strongest or fastest, strive to be physically vibrant.

Find a million ways to stay motivated.

Vibrant is better than sedentary.

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This website is about our BODY. To read today’s post about our SPIRIT, click here.