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What day is it? April 2 or January 2? It’s both. Work with me here. I’m writing this January 2nd. There is much work to be done this year – bet you were feeling the same 90 days ago too.
Have you accomplished in this year’s first 90 days what you thought you would?
A year from now, you’ll have wished you would have started today.
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Know the difference between what you want out of life and what you don’t want out of life.
Work diligently to create greater distance between the two, so that at the end of your day, most of your time was focused on what you want.
Spending time on what you don’t want is, well, a waste of time.
One of the keys to being organized is having the right attitude.
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 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.
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?
“Don’t die with a book still in you.” — jeff noel
“Outside a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
How many people want to write a book?
How many believe they can write a book?
How many actually do?
Two days ago, I said to my wife, “You know, depending on your definition of a book, I’ve already written five.”
And you know what Cheryl said? And by the way, this is one of the million things that I love about Cheryl, because she’s so smart, she said, “I know.”
Tomorrow, I’ll share a free link to Roger Parker’s checklist for getting a book published. That is, unless you have no story to tell. But I sincerely doubt that.
Everyone has a story to tell.
Don’t die with a book in you.