In yesterday’s email, i shared that i am committed to taking the high road.
Fifty days into the 100-day self-imposed writer’s bootcamp that began on April Fools’s Day 2009, i went to the pair of three-ringed binders in my closet for inspiration.
Inside each binder contains six months (at one page per day, 183 pages each) of wisdom i collected between my high school years (1974-1977), college years (1977-1983) and my earlier years at Disney World (1984-1999).
The original book idea was to publish one of those “page-a-day” motivational wisdom books as a legacy to my children.
On May 20, 2009, i found a photocopied item in one of the binders that seemed appropriate, so i typed it into WordPress and posted it. By the way, the photocopy was old and inaccurate, attributing the item to anonymous. There was no cut and paste from a website and there was no checking for authenticity on Google. i was new to the Internet and the Internet was like the wild west – most companies in 2009 did not have a social media policy for their employees.
Why?
Because the newly-found ease and unprecedented proliferation of social sharing – of anything and everything – combined for a perfect storm of ambiguity.
Meanwhile, that 100-day challenge, which i did not expect to successfully complete (because of previously failed attempts to write consistently) turned into something i could have never dreamt up.
It continued on the 101st day and hasn’t stopped. Not even for a single day.
That was nearly eight years ago and over 2,700 blog posts at Mid Life Celebration. When you add the other four daily blogs i write, i have over 12,000 posts on the Internet.
One post out of 2,700 (or 12,000+) does not make for a premeditated effort to infringe on anything.
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The paradox of leaders empowering their staff. Keynote slides from my very first speech post Disney.
April Fool’s Day 2016 is 29 days away. Highly unlikely this blogging streak is secretly incredible. No one cares. So in the scheme of the Universe it is absolutely a secret.
Dear Son, the trail i’m leaving may be something you discover one day, and for years to come you may lean on it for understanding, perspective, hope, and motivation.
There is also the distinct possibility, you never care about any of this. It’s a body of work that has accumulated one single, solitary day at a time. It may become overwhelming for you.
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Imagine the perimeter of the four boxes being a fifth box – that’s our HQ, or head quarters, the paperwork of life.
i think the reason i kept writing after 100 days was because…
i am preparing to die.
We are all going to die.
This isn’t a radical or secret revelation. It’s simply the truth.
And we are either planning to die well or we are avoiding planning to die well.
i’m not saying the circumstances that will cause our death will be pleasant, i’m saying that regardless of how we die, we can have our affairs, our spirit, our relationships, in decent order.
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Hours before the deadly Paris attacks on Friday the 13th, November 2015.
Easy to forget who’s in charge. i’m in charge of what i write, how often i write, who i write for, why i write, and the outcome i seek from writing. After nearly seven years of writing and almost 13,000 blog posts, i do not write for an audience. An audience is welcomed, but not required, for me to be inspired to write.
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