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664+ Thank Yous

Thanks for taking the time.
Thanks for sharing your outstanding success.
Thanks for being a friend.

It was a most prodigious day.
I’ll be collecting all of the party links for you.

Meanwhile, I just want to say
that if troubles ever knock . . .
you can share them too.

If you find a time when things just seem to fall apart
and there’s no way to keep a cheery face,
when the sight of your own reflection
only breaks your heart,
and all of your dreams have given up the chase . . .
pick up the telephone, you know I’m always home,
any time of night or day.

Let me be the first to know. — Howard Jones, People

You are my inspiration.

Thank you for showing up in your own unique and wonderful ways,

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The party is Oct. 24th! Come for the surprises! Bring a link to your success!!!

Can You See the Future?

October 25, 2007 by Liz

about the future.

I can see the future. I know where I will be.

It’s not some magic or hocus pocus. It’s knowing who I am and who I will be.

With decades of data on situations I’ve gotten myself into and choice I’ve made, how hard could it be? As time goes by, seeing the future gets easier. Hardly any new decisions come my way. Each new fork in the road looks a lot like one that I’ve stood at some time ago. I’ve got the experience to know which part of the fork is good for me and which part of the fork I will probably take.

So these days I choose my future rather than letting it happen to me. I declare my direction and set off to make my declaration a reality.

I know the bits of myself that make accidents happen. I’ve decided they don’t figure into my future plans. No arguing on that point. They “ain’t” going to happen. It’s my level of commitment that I’m using as my predictor.

Can you see the future? Sure you can. See it. Try it on. Find one that fits your dreams. Then make it happen.

The Mic Is On: Happy 2nd Birthday to SOBs Everywhere!

October 24, 2007 by Liz

It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

TODAY, ALL DAY, IT’S A PARTY!!

Bring a Link! Bring a Link!

Thatâ€™s right, youâ€™re invited to bring a link to your most successful post. When you leave the link, please write a comment about how you chose the most successful post to bring.

Bring a link to a page, a picture, a post that demonstrates, celebrates, illuminates your success and outstanding-ness as a blogger.
Or bring that ebook, that manifesto, that photo, that priceless work that you want to offer as a birthday gift to everyone.

Iâ€™ll compile a list of all of the links when the party is over.

C’mon in and get to know us! There’s free beverages and snacks in the sidebar. Join the party. See who you meet. Stay and come back again.

Check out the Party Favors

Party Photos . . . Mr. Caper has set up a photo opp with Liz and there’s a cool video on how how to do it!
The Good Blogs has made an SOB widget!! Get the code for the SOB widget here.

Happy Birthday, all of you! Thank you for making everything so meaningful!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

The Secret to a Successful and Outstanding Blog

October 24, 2007 by Liz

How to Blog Series

Once upon a time in the real world, I started a blog. . . .

I thought it was going to be a writer’s project. I’ve been wrong before, plenty of times, but I don’t think I was ever quite so spectacularly off. I thought a blog would offer me a place to practice my writing and maybe allow me a chance to offer a thought. I thought a blog was a flat surface for communication. That’s not what I found.

I found the secret to a successful blog is more, and more touching than that.

Readers come for the information in a blog post. There’s no question of that. Readers read what writers write and writers write to teach, inform, entertain, mystify, motivate, and inspire. Every word we write, every idea we construct to share, moves from our minds to others on a fine silver thread of digital thought.

Still the thoughts alone would be sad and lonely without a heart to back them up.

It’s the heart and the passion that fuel the words, make the magnetic. It’s the heart that plays the beat that resonates to bring readers back. Even when our hearts find themselves in distant places, we still recognize our humanity and our relatedness. When we write with our heads and hearts together, people notice.

Heads engaged, hearts beating, a blog has power.

A truly successful and outstanding blog also has meaning. Somehow, in some way to each individual, a successful and outstanding blog makes a difference by adding something of value to being one who visits. You might call that spirit. You might call that direction or focus. I call that soul.

The soul of a blog is carried by the person who writes it and the folks who come to read it too.

That’s what I found, a successful and outstanding blog is head, heart, and soul. It’s all of what makes us human and worth paying attention to. Bring it who you are and the folks you meet will help you become more.

I know. It happened to me. It happens again every day.

Be irresistible
Thank you to everyone who has made this our successful blog.

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What We Have Is . . .

October 24, 2007 by Liz

A Successful-Blog Birthday Reflection

by Scot Herrick

Today, Liz Strauss is celebrating the birthday of Successful Blog and she
has asked that we share with her and her community something that is both
successful and outstanding with us in our lives.

Well, it turns out that today is the wedding anniversary with my wife, Kate.

If I were to look at my life and figure out what is both successful and outstanding, the relationship with Kate would be number one on my list.

It was, of course, not easy getting to this point in our lives. There have been previous relationships that have not worked out. In both my wifeâ€™s and my life there have been the challenges, the falls, and the triumphs â€” everything that is wonderful, hard, and fleeting.

It simply prepared us for each other.

I have searched a long time for the right relationship. It has been said that I have been unwilling to settle and have been willing to start over with nothing to find the right relationship. Iâ€™ve always questioned â€” and admired â€” how people could really believe that they have found the
love of their life.

I donâ€™t question that any more.

Tonight, Kate and I will enjoy a quiet anniversary dinner at a wonderful restaurant. In between the courses, weâ€™ll again weave the story of our relationship â€” the triumphs, sorrows, and laughter â€” that continues to add to the foundation we have built together. Weâ€™ll wonder at how all of this came together; grateful and knowing how the past has shaped what we now have, knowing that we share the future.

We will have no regrets and great confidence in our relationship together.

Because what we have is successful and outstanding.

Scot. Cube Rules

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Thank you, Scot!

The party is Oct. 24th! Come for the surprises! Bring a link to your success!!!

What Is Success with Aloha?

October 24, 2007 by Liz

Happy Hawaiian Successful-Blog Birthday!

from Rosa Say

Ho’omaika’i ‘ana Liz, congratulations! Your blog has lived up to its name of ‘successful’ in so many ways, counted by all of us you mentor and lift with lightness and laughter.

In today’s common use in Hawai’i, Pono is a word often associated with being successful, for Pono means rightness and balance. It is significant to note that although the widely accepted Hawaiian word for success is the more literal holomua, Pono is the word chosen when complete success is acknowledged, because it is accomplishment born of a value, one of conviction and intention. To say “we succeeded” one would say “Ua pono kaua.” To say “we succeeded with our work” one would say “Ua pono ka kaua hana.” Holomua becomes the word of choice for improvement or progress, and the striving for more. Complete success is not true success unless it is Pono: there is rightness inherent in your achievement. It has not come at too high a price either; the personal truth of intellectual honesty triumphs. That is where balance comes into play, in the kaona, or hidden meaning of the word, and within personal integrity.

Liz, you have created a home here at Successful Blog for a passionate and provocative community of thoughtful people, and they aspire to their thoughtfulness in every comment left for you, because you are Mea Ho’okipa, the ever gracious hostess. Your success is indeed Pono, and one we all share with you in the spirit of aloha.

I have now established three different blog homes for the Ho’ohana Community of lifelong learners, and I think of my HC (of which you are part Liz, and all your readers invited) as one of the most meaningful, humbling and profound successes of my life. I know you feel that way about this community too, and I join you in savoring the wonder of this day. How blessed we are to know this feeling of outstanding success, that which is Pono.

~ Rosa Say, Managing with Aloha

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Wow, Rosa, Thank you! I couldn’t agree more.

The party is Oct. 24th! Come for the surprises! Bring a link to your success!!!