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The thing about jeff noel’s running ambitions – the impossible part – was that he dreamt big, got started and hasn’t stopped in 12 straight years.

There’s an impossible part to our health and wellness goals. We must never, ever quit. We must exercise for the rest of our lives. Impossible, right? Go.

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Remember how in 1999, jeff noel began running one mailbox a day, at a pace slower than walking? Well, several years of running later, he had a creative idea. Would the successful business concepts Disney uses to make Magic work for running success. Disney was (and still is) in his DNA after all.

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The mailboxes in our neighborhood are 100 meters apart. Running one mailbox a day for a week and than adding another mailbox each week would take a month to run – without stopping – the equivalent of one lap.

All I wanted to do in those early weeks was simply “wake up all the muscles, ligaments and tendons”. Not too difficult, right?

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The 1999 cholesterol report served as a wake up call. Get healthy or you’re in big trouble. About 25 years prior (1974), a neighbor’s wife started running – to another neighbor’s mailbox and done. She did this daily for a week. The second week she ran to the second neighbor’s mailbox. For a week. It took weeks before she ran the equivalent of 400 meters, or, one lap around a track.

I remember thinking how ridiculous this seemed, since I was a ninth-grade track runner at the time. What I never saw coming is that I would adopt this as my plan of attack too, as those years later.

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Whether or not you’re a fan of The Walt Disney Company, one thing remains undeniable, Disney is an excellent company. Having worked there for nearly three decades, I understand, and can articulate very simply, and apply, the secret recipe for success.

Some things are undeniable.

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