Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker
One million+ people globally while at Disney Institute.
All my personal posts 2008-2016.
East coast to west coast took 18 hours. West coast to east coast took 12 hours.
“You are so lucky. You get to travel for your job”, people often say. Yes. I LOVE my job.
To quote folk singer Dan Fogelberg from his 1981 hit, Auld Lang Syne, “The audience was heavenly, but the traveling was hell”.
Ever seen or heard the phrase, “Life is good”?
Twice this week, I walked past the airport store by the same name, Life Is Good.
Life is good. Not easy. Not by a long shot. But, it is good.
In fact, it’s not easy to write five blogs every single day, but I do. Have you been to Lane 8 yet?
Make your day great. It’s up to you. Expect things to go “wrong”, and roll with it. As long as you’re still alive, it can’t be a complete failure.
It’s an old cliche, “There’s not enough time in the day”.
Amen.
Why? Not sure. It’s one of life’s big mysteries.
There are people, wise people indeed, who have figured out how to live without many things that you and I think are essential to happiness.
How did they do it? What do they know that we don’t?
Well, the experiment paid off. The website traffic numbers went back up, quickly.
So this was intriguing, “How does one keep their blog(s) relevant enough to compete with the pros”?
“How do you keep traffic increasing? How do you figure out what people want”?
Just a month earlier, in May, I delved into You Tube, slowly at first, but now have 120+ videos posted.
Went to a Writer’s Retreat, started Twitter and Facebook, in July. These activities led to record numbers.
In August, represented the United States at the WMA Master’s Track & Field World Championships in Lathi, Finland.
Another record month. Now in September, the posts are purposefully shorter, with fewer tags. And for some reason, web traffic is breaking records, dramatically.
The only thing I can attribute this to is YOU, the reader of these blogs. Thank you. Your interest is humbling. For real.
As I was saying yesterday, the 100-day challenge started April 1. By June, I was ready to stop writing five daily blog posts.
Seriously, can you imagine waking up early and sitting down to crank out five blog posts, seven days a week?
And when you’re done, go for a five mile run, breakfast, shower, and then go give speeches to change the world.
The good news, I’ve always been a morning person.
The bad news, I stopped doing 5-a-day. Stopped posting on the two lowest traffic blogs. Didn’t think it mattered.
GoDaddy website statistics quickly showed a web traffic decline.
And anyway, the 100-day goal had nearly been achieved. But now a new experiment. If I restarted the five blog posts per day, would the numbers go up?