What’s your one word focus for 2010? via @purposecoach


My friend Jerome Daley, @PurposeCoach, posed a great question last week. He heard a guy talk on the radio about having a one word mission for 2010 and asked readers, “What’s yours?”

What a great idea. Can you summarize your focus for this year in one word?

Mine is “complete.” The verb and the adjective.

What’s yours?

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Life Online: Forecast for 2010


[Photo Flickr Andy Hay]

Here are my latest random and unscientific thoughts about life and business online in 2010.

If 2009 was the year of 140 character tweets, I predict 2010 will be the year of who-cares-if-we-tweet. It will be a year of questioning and evaluating, planning and stratgy. I think many people jumped into the Twitter fray last year just because Oprah and everyone else was doing it. Now they are asking, “What am I doing here?” Case in point, Brand Republic reports Nielson Online research showing 60% of Twitter users stop using the service within one month after signup.

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Tim Challies and 10 Million Words


booksI love books so when I read about Tim Challies’ new blog project, 10 Million Words, I signed up for the RSS, joined the Facebook group, and followed on Twitter.

10 Million Words is Tim’s commitment to read and recap (beginning Jan 1, 2010) all of America’s bestsellers in an effort to shed light on modern culture.

I admire Tim Challies because he has been blogging every day for seven years over at challies.com. [Did you catch that, every day for seven years.] Holy moly, that is a lot of blog writing. Add to that the new commitment to read and recap all the bestsellers. Now (in my eyes) he’s superhuman.

I look forward to these book reviews and good discussion, what a great idea.

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