Leaving a trail for our son – Page 1154 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

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How does your day start? Do you have routines? Are they working well for you, just okay, or are they a disaster?

Routines can set you free, and they can also poison you. Figuring out how to live well is your responsibility, and there is no one right way.

Hard work and tough decisions. One of the many challenges that being alive brings as a prerequisite. We can never give up.

Here’s the catch though, figuring this out and living well, based on intuitively good morale principals, leads us to a better place than if we don’t make tough decisions.

For well over a year, I’ve been writing five daily blogs. Website traffic has steadily increased, with occasional spikes. But this past week has been confusing. The spike has been significantly higher. It reminds me that it takes a long time to become an overnight success.

And that if you’re not careful, it will arrive before you are ready.

Humbled

Something is happening. Can’t put a finger on it. It’s weird.

Things like this ever happen to you? Probably.

When good things happen, it’s my human nature to downplay our good fortune.

I was watching Lee, the American Idol finalist. As the judges showered him with praise, you could see in his eyes that he was humbled beyond belief.

He went from a store clerk to a future million-seller recording artist. In his mind, this is impossible. He feels undeserving. Unworthy.

Except for one thing.

God has graced him with a gift, as God does with all of us. It’s just that now Lee is crystal clear what it is.

And you?

World IBD Day

Today is World IBD day.

IBD is Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

IBD is Crohns Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.

Every one of us is touched in some way by health issues.

No one is immune.

But some are more immune than others.

IBD basically is the body’s immune system over-reacting. The immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in the digestive tract.

As much as I write for all of you readers, every once in awhile, I just like to take editorial license and write selfish things, like this.

In the hope that some day, IBD will have a cure.

Self-Indulgent Drive Home?

Saturday my son and I ran errands and spent the day doing stuff. I constantly remind him that were we live is a special place. Some people only get to visit once or twice in a lifetime. We drove through it on our way home.

Blog Tip

The tough economy will eventually get better. And life goes on, in spite of hardships. Social Media has overtaken pornography as the number one Internet activity. The 80-million blogs out there take up a huge Internet space. And blogging is the most effective and absolutely least expensive way to increase Search Engine Visibility.

Last week a friend made a comment about a locally famous person who blogs, insinuating that few people actually read his blog. His comment struck me in an unusual way. He thought comments left on blogs were an indicator of readership.

I shared that I enthusiastically read Seth Godin’s blog every single day (RSS feed), and that I’ve never posted a comment. Ever. I’ve emailed Seth a few times, and he responds within hours, amazingly.

People barely have time to read blogs, let alone respond with comments, which in many cases require signing into a comment screen (no thanks).

And it reminded me of the monthly rise in readership that has led to a 1,000% increase in one year.