Nine Months Later – Page 5 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Eight Posts Yesterday

Blah, blah, blah, right?

The Internet’s only Five-a-Day Blogger”…..

It started as a 100-day challenge to become a better writer, after a Father told his young son, “If you want to be a better reader, you should read a lot.”

So what happens yesterday? Not five daily blogs, but eight.

Recently, had a discussion and we talked about the future of books:

Books will be relics on display in Museums
eBooks will dominate
Kindle will destroy the publishing industry
The publishing industry will watch it happen
Librarians will lose their jobs
Unless they become Cybrarians
There were 177,000 books published last year
People think it’s hard to write a book
Authors think their book will sell many copies
Barnes & Noble will go out of business eventually
People get ready (Bob Marley reference)

“Books” will be written one day at a time. In public, for the public.

Books will be free. Writers will be poor. And writers will come to realize that there are far too many choices.

A whole new paradigm is being created.

One page per day, almost like reality TV. People will read blogs, and over time, they will have “read a book” and not even know it.

Eventually, this new paradigm will give way to the next.

Inspiration From Email?

I’m “off” today and spending a little time on enhancing the whole social networking thing. Here’s a second jeff noel blog post for today, inspired by my reply to an email I received ten minutes ago:

Just this morning, when our son’s third-grade teacher asked me how I was doing and I said, “Excellent!”, I followed up with her, to be clear, by saying, “I have the weight of the world on my shoulders like everyone else, but I’m not going to let in interfere with my day.”

Pick any one my five daily blogs, read about 10-15 posts, and then tell me it can’t help you if you made reading it (them) the same habit I make writing it (them).

Or, you can do what you always do.

By the way, I have been involved in a career, with the same organization, for 26 years. Did you catch that? The same organization.

Seriously, you would think that blogging is my job. It’s not. It’s a newly (a year ago) discovered tool to help me become a world-class Dad.

Whatever you choose, may all the blessings and success you deserve, come your way.

If You Could Not Fail

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

We’ve all heard this question posed to us in our lifetimes.

Some of us have heard it so many times, we no longer hear it, no longer even consider it a valid question.

You now why?

Because nothing in life is guaranteed, except that we will die and taxes will increase.

Giving in, and quitting are so common place. Or, people won’t even start in the first place.

Why?

Because we can fail at everything.

But what if we didn’t fail?

How would our lives be transformed? And more importantly, how would the lives of others be transformed?

They Said It, Not Me

Some people label me as optimistic.

Some as having a positive attitude.

Others, say I’m audacious.

And some say, “That bird is crazy.”

Whatever you call it, “They said it, not me.”

I Wonder What You Said

Hello everyone. Are you still excited about 2010? Were you lying in your bed this morning wondering, “When is that alarm clock ever going to go off? Just bring it on!”

Funny isn’t? Or maybe it’s crazy. Can you imagine having something you can’t wait to get started on?

And so, I just re-read the big question from yesterday.

“How are you doing with your impossible goal?”