Tag: Inspire

Midlife Baby Boomers, How’s Your LinkedIn Profile?

From the very beginning, all the pieces look similar

Here’s what a professional antagonist looks like up close and personal. Midlife Baby Boomers, how’s your LinkedIn profile?

Boring. Plain vanilla. Ordinary. And this is assuming you even have a LinkedIn profile. The best time to be putting creative feelers out in the workplace is when you don’t have to. Hello, that would be now!

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You Automatically Knew The Answer To Yesterday’s Question, Didn’t You?

Oh sure, he's more qualified, he's got an extra eye.

Professional antagonist is a quality jeff noel has (naturally) spent his entire life (52 years) honing. It wasn’t something noel set out to become. It evolved, slowly, steadily, tirelessly.

Noel lists a few other unconventional resume nuggets:

  • Aggressively unfancy
  • Beginner’s luck runs in the family
  • Goal in life: Become the kind of person my Dog thinks I am

The beauty of thinking this way is that it becomes a habit. Most teams have people who have been trained to think alike. Dangerous.

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Ever Seen This Quality On A Business Person’s Resume?

Orange County Mayor's husband, Chapin Noel, jeff noel

That t-shirt slogan yesterday really has had jeff noel thinking, which says a lot because he already is a hyper-thinker. Who has the audacity to put this on their resume?: “Professional Antagonist”

I’m guessing the one on the right?

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jeff noel Saw This On A T-Shirt And Thought It Encompassed A Key Leadership Insight

My Dog isn't "really smart", I just spend more time training him than most

The t-shirt slogan caught jeff noel’s eye, like a bug attracted to the bright night light: “Sorry, I just practice more than you”.

At the end of the day, that’s it, isn’t it? Hard work IS the shortcut to success.

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jeff noel Says Letting Go Of Worry Has Catapulted His Desire To Be Creative

There's a lot of stuff people won't remember about jeff noel. PS. Same for you too.

What jeff noel finds most interesting is how he has let go of worrying about whether readers find it obnoxious that he uses jeff noel and a few other key words, like midlife and Baby Boomers, repeatedly.

In the big picture, while noel may be 2 years, 10 months into Mid Life Celebration, LLC, the reality is that these are the early startup years. The years few will recall or care about.

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