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40 days and 40 nights equals seven years

Prevailing customer service wisdom — Photo: Disney Institute’s LinkedIn update yesterday.

Does 40 days and 40 nights equal seven years?

It does.

In exactly 40 days, we arrival at April Fools Day.

And on that day seven years ago, i began what literally seemed impossible.

For 100 consecutive days, write five daily, differently-themed blog posts about life’s five big choices: mind, body, spirit, money, and hq.

We:

No one i know writes five daily, differently-themed blogs. Does this make me a great leader?

No.

Does it mean i initiated a serious change?

Yes.

Does writing five a day for seven years make me a leader?

No.

Does it mean i initiated serious change?

Yes.

Insight: Be careful in judging your efforts and your initiative based on someone else’s standards. Follow the trail or make a trail.

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

Only four days from beginning the eighth year

iPhone calculator screen shot — Come April 1, 2016, this is how many blog posts i’ve written in seven years.

Ever do something that was impossible at first, miraculously accomplish it, but then it grew into something even more impossible?

Only four days until the beginning of the eighth year.

Seven years (2,557 days, including two leap years) of writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts equals 12,785 posts.

There are also 100 days worth of (500) posts that are written and in the que to publish. Yes, i suffer from writer’s flood. Some days, writing only five posts isn’t enough.

So in reality, i’ve written 13,285 posts.

Sick.

Impossible.

No end in sight.

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About every three years i’m tempted to skip a day of blogging

Looking out Jet window at dusk — The good news? It was a 10-mile drive to work from home. Beats an all day air-travel day.

About every three years i’m tempted to skip a day of blogging. Today was one of those days. While it’s only 8:30pm (yes, pm), i’m running on fumes.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good tired.

Yet, i’d love to close my eyes, right now, until morning.

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Twenty-three days and counting down to the 8th year

Advent definition screen shot — Advent is the arrival of something.

We see inspirational messages about how someone started doing something unremarkable but over time it actually became remarkable because the person is still doing the same thing.

In a Universe full of “i got tired of it and stopped”, there’s a chance that the arrival – advent – of the eighth consecutive year of writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts could be the start of something remarkable.

It never was, and still isn’t, the goal.

That’s probably the coolest part of the whole thing.

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