Perfect Life Project

Published and listed on Amazon

In 2007, more than 100 authors - from 10 countries and four continents - joined forces to write The Age of Conversation, a book about emerging media and marketing.  I was one of those co-authors.

Social Computing Magazine called it an “e-blockbuster.” Business Week said “Little did we know that social media would soon begin to tie us together digitally in ways that we are only just now beginning to understand. That’s why a new book called The Age of Conversation may be important to comprehending what’s going on in our society, economy and even polity today.”

If you don’t own a copy of the original, please consider ordering one from March 29 from this Amazon link. Dozens of bloggers around the net are promoting that purchase date in order to push the book up the Amazon charts. As a reminder, all book proceeds go to Variety, the children’s charity.

Being published was one of the goals I wrote about on my life-list last year. This effort was to contribute one chapter to the book and I will be doing so again soon in the 2008 version of Age of Conversation. But I still intend to have my own book published and am steadily making plans to do do so.

Meanwhile the team-effort continues with my fellow AoC authors.

Taking Responsibility for Happiness

Today I want to share one of the most important attributes of successful and happy people: Responsibility. Its a lesson I have taken years to learn but is most likely the greatest key to my current level of happiness and success. I believe the message can be summed up as thus: you must take responsibility for your actions and your life in order to enjoy true happiness.

Most of my life I have been what you would consider a confident person. I have rarely had any reluctance to take on new challenges or back myself to succeed. As a consequence of my self-belief and willingness I have been able to enjoy some remarkable experiences and varied success. This has included world travel at a young age, reasonable success in several sports and reasonable success in business. All satisfactory results but nothing world-beating or extraordinary.

A Little Bit of Background

I actually have a pretty good life by most standards. I live in Australia
in a beautiful and diverse coastal city. I am fortuntate enough to have a wonderful wife and two amazing and healthy sons. I own and operate a successful advertising agency and have recently launched a web-based start-up that is steadily gaining momentum.

I enjoy fairly good physical health too. At 38 years old I am fit and strong. I am a competitive cyclist, occasional surfer and snow skier and sometime golfer.

My parents and sister are all alive and very well and I see them regularly. No divorces in the family, very few problems to speak of.