jeff noel’s Hometown, Walt Disney World

jeff noel's Hometown, Walt Disney World

At Disney’s Contemporary Resort, jeff noel was standing in the shade on a hot, humid Central Florida afternoon, and the flags and monorail caught his eye for no apparent reason. Just weeks before the 2007 Masters Track & Field World Championships in Italy, noel’s workout included six repetitions of the Contemporary’s 14 flights of stairs, all two-steps at a time, with two sets at three steps at a time. Two weeks later, from overtraining, noel became injured and couldn’t go to Italy.

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Setting Your Bar Low, But Impossible, Is Perfect

Can you begin your walking journey 4 days this week?

This is not a Mid Life Celebration contradiction. If walking four days a week for one week is something you’ve never done, consider it impossible and set out to do your impossible. Then set another impossible goal – to do it two weeks in a row.

By typical standards, this is a ridiculously “low bar” goal. But for you, it may be the triumph of your lifetime. Build on it. Go.

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jeff noel Writes To Himself, For Himself (And No One Knew, Nor Cared)

Walt Disney's Carousel Of Progress
Keep Moving Forward - Walt Disney

No doubt many visitors have come and gone, finding jeff noel’s five main Mid Life Celebration blogs too offensive, too painful, too pushy, too true, too egotistical, too whatever blah, blah, blah.

And no doubt, a disproportionately small group of midlife Baby Boomers have found noel’s five daily blogs refreshingly inspirational. Life is hard. Life is good. Can’t have one without the other. Go.

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Healthy, Active Midlife Baby Boomers Are Just A Bunch Of Lucky Showoffs

What a load of carp (yes, misspelled on purpose)

It would seem healthy, active midlife Baby Boomers (like jeff noel) are just a bunch of lucky showoffs. But from where noel stands, what is really happening is that living an unhealthy life seems so ungrateful to the gift bestowed us. Certain Boomers have no choice. No choice but to get and stay healthy. It’s the only way they can live with personal integrity.

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