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In your life, you can recall your defining moments. And you’ll have a few more…
Christmas day was a defining moment in the history of civilization. No matter your belief, it doesn’t change that a poor boy was born in a manger. Some say he was a Prophet, no one argues that he was a radical (disruptive) thinker.
But when you come to be able to use His name, unafraid, and never pushy, you have yet another defining moment.
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How organized do you have to be, to make a bold claim?
And not only make your claim, but deliver on it.
And not only deliver on it, but do it so consistently, that you actually become who you claim to be. For real.
And everybody knows it.
And life is good…
Especially when you nurture the right attitude, which is the theme at the Next Blog
Patience is a blessing. Patience is also a virtue.
How long are you willing to work at reaching your big dreams?
Correct answer….
At least 30 years.
Yep.
The dream came to me in 1980.
To write a book, to leave a legacy, and to teach our children life’s most basic, and important lessons.
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You are an expert at something. You can do something as well or better than most others. Right? Seriously, it’s a unique human proposition that everyone has some special “gift”.
Remember when you where first discovering your gift? Maybe, you weren’t even aware of it until you started to, over time, get increasing better at it.
I remember starting to blog back in November 2008. And then on April 1, 2009, began to write more blog posts, and committed to writing five-a-day, every day, for 100 days. You know the story. I never stopped.
Website visits, website hits, and page views began to slowly rise. There was a time when 100 daily visits was a milestone. Then 10,000 monthly visits. The 20,000, 30,000 and recently 40,000.
The 50,000 monthly visits milestone will not happen.
The jump from the 40’s bypassed the 50’s. And it appears the 60’s won’t last long either. Why? Because….
“What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.” – Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, a British essayist, wrote the first English language dictionary. He married a widow 20 years his senior and lived in poverty before achieving success with his essays when he was in his forties. Johnson died in 1784.
Dream Big. Get Started. Never Stop.
Use your “gift” to it’s highest potential. I know you can do it, and so do you!
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Yesterday, our good friend Skip, posed a question in the comments. Knowing that many of you might not catch the comments, wanted to share it right here, right now – not for nuthin’:
Jeff, how do you define success for your five blogs?
Readership? Participation? Pro vs Con comments?
What is your ultimate goal with these five blogs? Make people think? Make people change? Help people change themselves?
Why should we care that you have produced five blogs per day (without missing a single day) for over one year?
Some of your readers weren’t around when you started this quest. Help us understand the importance of this endeavor.
Great questions Skip. Seriously. All of them have been answered already. As time goes by, the answers get buried deeper and deeper in the past posts.
It’s one of life’s challenges, to sort out what to believe and from whom.
Summary, just for you:
1. I write for Chapin (and myself).
2. The big goal is to challenge 3% of the male Baby Boomers to do something GREAT before they die.
3. The ultimate purpose is to raise enough money until a cure is found for Crohn’s disease.
Note. Superficial measures of success are the things you first described.
There is no reason to care what I do, unless a person is looking for an honest to God real person who practices what he preaches. Ain’t many of them around, I fear. If there are, they are quietly changing the world – and perhaps they ought to make some noise because the world needs many “real” people trying to serve a greater good.
And by real, I mean someone not motivated by personal wealth, who makes mistakes, and never gives up, and pushes/pulls others to do the same.
Does that help? 🙂