It’s only rock and roll

Rolling Stones album
Their 12th album, released 1974.

It’s only rock and roll but i like it.

Rolling Stones

Prolific writing feels like rock and roll to me.

What?

i like it.

i love writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts.

The next milestone for “playing rock and roll” is 6,000 consecutive days.

It’s not a goal.

Never was. Never will be.

But if i don’t die, 6,000 consecutive days is gonna happen.

And if i die before it happens, then the real goal was realized…

To “play rock and roll until the day that i die.”

Weird math: 6,000 days is 30,000 blog posts. Insane.

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i wouldn’t

Why in God’s name would you stop doing something you love to do?

dad

Besides the obvious reasons already shared the past two days, why would i stop?

i wouldn’t.

So i’m not.

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April Fools Day, reprise

To thine own self be true.

Shakespeare

Nobody cares.

Which is perfect, actually.

Did you know you can’t comment on any of my blog posts?

Did you know you can’t socially share them either?

Did you know i’ve been “blogging” for some time now?

Did you know i write to myself as the primary audience? And for our son in case i ain’t around later in life?

That’s why today is a fun day to “talk about” it.

Magic is when something unexpectedly surprising and delightful happens. i knew the day to stop blogging might come, but never knew if, or when.

Now i know.

The decision happened fast.

Definitely surprising.

Definitely unexpected.

Too early to tell if it’s delightful.

That’s the fun part of life, the adventure that the future offers.

Make no mistake, since 2009 the thought of stopping surfaced occasionally. Sometimes years between the thoughts. Sometimes weeks.

And most recently, three days ago, two days ago, yesterday, and now today.

Ps. Have been asking what would mornings (or in recent years, afternoons) look like with an extra two hours not devoted to writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts.

Simultaneously, a fair question to ask is how much is enough?

Seriously, 15 years, well over 27,000 blog posts.

By the way, since April Fools Day 2009, my published blog post total is more than 10,000 posts over the “official” world record of 17,212.

Nobody cares.

But, privately, it’s fun to know it’s true.

Today would have been the start of year 16.

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15 years of prolific blogging

Social media post about Led Zeppelin
Can you imagine having your first six albums simultaneously on the charts? Staggering accomplishments often go unnoticed. How cool is that!?

Prolific writing has been a great servant.

dad

Life ebbs and flows, like the tide, like the clouds, like the weather.

We know this.

We sometimes dread this.

We sometimes embrace this.

i’m embracing it.

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29,000 blog posts

Numbers on a post it note
29k written. 28k published, as of March 8, 2024.
15-second video: Yesterday. Friday. Quittin’ time for most people. Still thinking, past quittin’ time. Thinking is my highest priority work task. The “Severance question” has to do with an analogy from a recent client conversation.

The pinnacle work effort is when your effort never feels like work.

dad

The top photo is an illustration of what can happen when you love doing something that doesn’t feel like work.

i wrote five daily, differently-themed blog posts for five years while i worked and traveled the globe full-time at Disney Institute.

Every time i thought about starting a morning by skipping writing due to a demanding schedule, one thought always convinced me to not skip a day.

The thought?

This is what i’d be doing if i wasn’t doing this

Can’t imagine there ever being a morning where i don’t feel like reflecting on what i learned yesterday, what i get to do today, and what i hope for tomorrow.

i knew when i was at the pinnacle of my Disney and Disney Institute career…i’d need/want to start every morning expressing my gratitude for another day by thinking and writing about it.

Will i do it until the morning i don’t wake up for?

Seems like a safe bet.

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