Tag: Blogging

What makes a blog abnormal?

Disney Customer Service Speaker jeff noel
Two weeks ago, for posterity.

 

Have you ever been accused of being weird?

This blog isn’t normal.

Why?

Because this blog is the first of five daily blogs and is a gateway to four other blogs, each one interconnected horizontally.

This is difficult for people to understand.

Why?

Because no one does it this way.

This one is about mind and it connects to body, which connects to spirit, which connects to work life, which connects to home life.

Scrolling vertically, which is our normal behavior, will allow you to read this blog chronologically.

But here’s the unique feature embedded at the end of each individual post. It looks like this:

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When a person navigates vertically (scrolling down) there’s never a need to click on the hyperlinked and bolded word Blog.

But here’s how that unique ‘thing’ comes to life – you click on the bolded, hyperlinked word and you automatically navigate horizontally.

Try it…

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Promises made equal promises broken

Midlife Celebration
A serious wakeup call may be the only hope we have of changing.

 

Imagine taking 30 years to fulfill a promise to ourselves (and our family).

That’s how long it took me.

The guilt would come and go until it literally it disappeared altogether.

Thank goodness for a serious midlife wakeup call.

Baby Boomers suffer from chronic self-bullying.

Lies.

Inspiring promises we made to ourselves but never kept. Never delivered on.

Imagine a rose bush full of wonderful buds, but for some reason, the buds never open. Ever.

The original promise was in 1979 as a college Junior. “i promise to write a book about the most important things in life, for my children”.

i never intended to become a prolific blogger. In fact, it was consistent failure (and not writing consistently) that led to a crazy, self-imposed writing challenge on April Fools Day 2009… write five differently-themed blogs (about balance) for 100 straight days.

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We have these moments in life that surprise us at first

Amazon Book pricing
Book price reduction went live yesterday, April 6, 2015. Dropped to $10.99 from $19.99 at author’s request.

 

The following is from two nights ago…decided it is blog worthy today…

Typing this in the dark.

We have these moments in life that surprise us at first but then they don’t.

Lying in bed right now, on this Easter Sunday night, a moment.

And the thing is, our little moments are insignificant to the rest of the world.

But they astonish us.

Six years ago, couldn’t write my way out of a wet paper bag.

But started writing anyway.  And as a result, in just five more days, the 11,000th blog post will go public.

Relish your insignificant moments, because no one else will.

But that doesn’t mean your moment isn’t significant.

It is.

And use your moment to create more moments.

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Five days away from the five-a-day milestone

Moo Business cards featuring GapingVoid

 

(photo: After six years, still don’t have a business card. Ordered some yesterday.)

Five days away from the five-a-day milestone. The key insight is this:

Our path never plays out the way we dream. It’s either better or worse. Our job is keep moving forward.

We can never make progress if we stop.

Duh.

Sounds so logical.

Yet why do we quit so soon after we begin these ambitious journeys?

And what happens to the folks who refuse to quit?

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