A NEW LIFE at 76 & Beyond
the concept and plan for this latest book
has been floating in my mind for 10 to 20 years.
The general content or intent with it
has been to capture stories from my life
and to share lessons I have learned
that will benefit the readers who are searching
to
TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES
CHANGE THEIR LIVES
CLIMB OUT OF WHATEVER PIT(S) THEY ARE IN
when they are reading
All three of these things I have found while reading
200 or more
a) Motivational books
b) Self-Help books
c) Biographies
d) Auto-Biographies
e) books from my 8 chosen professions/careers from 1960 until today and beyond
Among the thousands of paperback and hardbound books or manuals that are located in every room of my house or in boxes in my attic spaces or my Creativity Studio/Room, now mostly a chaotic storage space
The following photos and descriptions represent what I have called for 30+ years my TREE HOUSE OF BOOKS.
this website page includes much more information about my house and visually share background from my life for this current book you are reading
http://www.cre8ng.com/materials/alan-background/travel-house/my-tree-house-of-books
Here are the floor plans of my "TREE HOUSE of BOOKS" indicating where the books are located on shelves, in closets, in boxes waiting to be better stored and attic spaces or my Creativity Studio/Room
while I have been experimenting with creating them for 10 to 15 years
with video cameras, digital cameras or LIVE VIDEOs on Facebook.
He is currently one of three people who have created a very meaningful and valuable MASTER MIND group in Toronto.
During our electronic chats he asked me about my involvement with any MASTER MIND GROUPS, which I have been in the past 30 years.
In order to answer some of his questions my memory was sparked as to when I first became aware of MASTER MIND GROUPS. Scanning through my fuzzy memory and then looking through my bookcase that holds hundreds of Motivational and/or Self-Help books from the very first I bought and read in 1967 or so to some I have bought in recent years I found the source I was looking for:
Napoleon Hill's THINK & GROW RICH one of the very first motivational/self-help books I bought and read and have re-read at least some chapters of several times over the past 40+ years.
My first exposure to these books and the concept of MASTER MIND GROUPS was in Napoleon Hill's classic book published decades ago.
One of the lessons, self-descriptors or personal traits of mine I have discovered and rediscovered over the past 41 years has been that I am by nature and choice
AN AMBIVERT
not an Extravert
nor an Intravert
My VERT-ness depends upon many factors in the situation and who I am involved with in the moment.
Another way of saying that is I tend to be a LONER mostly yet a JOINER when I choose to be at least for short times.
That introspective observation has led me to CREATE VIRTUAL MASTER MIND GROUPS for myself which is what Napoleon Hill primarily did mostly including a long list of famous successful people (mostly men 100 years ago).
His members came from a list of successful men that Andrew Carnegie game him and provided letters of introduction to in the challenge he gave Napoleon Hill to study and discover key secrets behind Success based upon interviewing, getting to know and studying the lives of the list, this list found in THINK & GROW RICH in his preface that he titled:
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
Yesterday the AHA! exploded in my mind
use Napoleon Hill's book THINK & GROW RICH
to help me write my own book about attempting
to CHANGE MY LIFE ONCE MORE at 74.
I am going to begin by using the contents of his book using my own stories and some references to the stories he used in his.
Instead of calling my book
THINK & GROW RICH in the 21st Century
or
THINK & GROW RICH REVISITED
or
SON/Daughter of THINK & GROW RICH REVISITED
I have chosen the working title for this book
A NEW LIFE at 76 & Beyond
That was also based upon an AHA! from this morning
sparked by a Facebook message from a creativity colleague
that I have known for about 40 years through CPSI,
Diane Fraley
I shared with her a short comic animated video
asking if that would be her next development
with her cartooning of lessons she has learned in her life.
Her response was
"...perhaps in another life."
Viola!
Two separate independent AHAs! have given me the structure for this book.
As I have done several times in the past 10 years I am going to use a BLOG to capture and share the rough drafts to finished chapters of this book as I create it.
I did this over a period of about 18 months to create my book
MY ANGELS & MY DEMONS
that I first published in 3 ebook formats with help of 3 colleagues in two different countries in July 2017 and in printed form with a local writer friend using LULU self-publishing systems.
Thank you for reading so far.
PLEASE write feedback or comments as a reader.
They will truly help me as I create and polish this book into a valuable finished book.
I will definitely give credit in the forward or acknowledgements to EVERYONE who shares their feedback and comments.
Thanks for reading so far.
has been floating in my mind for 10 to 20 years.
The general content or intent with it
has been to capture stories from my life
and to share lessons I have learned
that will benefit the readers who are searching
to
TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES
CHANGE THEIR LIVES
CLIMB OUT OF WHATEVER PIT(S) THEY ARE IN
when they are reading
All three of these things I have found while reading
200 or more
a) Motivational books
b) Self-Help books
c) Biographies
d) Auto-Biographies
e) books from my 8 chosen professions/careers from 1960 until today and beyond
Among the thousands of paperback and hardbound books or manuals that are located in every room of my house or in boxes in my attic spaces or my Creativity Studio/Room, now mostly a chaotic storage space
The following photos and descriptions represent what I have called for 30+ years my TREE HOUSE OF BOOKS.
this website page includes much more information about my house and visually share background from my life for this current book you are reading
http://www.cre8ng.com/materials/alan-background/travel-house/my-tree-house-of-books
Here are the floor plans of my "TREE HOUSE of BOOKS" indicating where the books are located on shelves, in closets, in boxes waiting to be better stored and attic spaces or my Creativity Studio/Room
This week I have had a new idea about how to structure this book and what metaphor(s) or analogies I will use to created the structure of it.
I have been corresponding with a creativity colleague form Canada who I have known for many years through our mutual involvement with a mix of Creativity Conferences
CPSI - Creative Problem Solving Institute soon to hold its 65th Conference in 2019
Mindcamp held north of Toronto at a YMCA Camp that will be holding its 16th in 2019
ACRE & EDU ACRE - creativity conferences that are held in South Africa or Namibia.
ACRE just held its 24th, my 20th that I presented at
EDU ACRE just held its 13th
Namibia ACRE that has been held in 2012 and 2017
He and I have been discussing how he can help me improve and expand my knowledge of creating videos for marketing and training through various social media: Facebook, LinkedIN, YouTube, or websites.
He has over the past few years become very good at creating great videos
Mindcamp held north of Toronto at a YMCA Camp that will be holding its 16th in 2019
ACRE & EDU ACRE - creativity conferences that are held in South Africa or Namibia.
ACRE just held its 24th, my 20th that I presented at
EDU ACRE just held its 13th
Namibia ACRE that has been held in 2012 and 2017
He and I have been discussing how he can help me improve and expand my knowledge of creating videos for marketing and training through various social media: Facebook, LinkedIN, YouTube, or websites.
He has over the past few years become very good at creating great videos
with video cameras, digital cameras or LIVE VIDEOs on Facebook.
He is currently one of three people who have created a very meaningful and valuable MASTER MIND group in Toronto.
During our electronic chats he asked me about my involvement with any MASTER MIND GROUPS, which I have been in the past 30 years.
In order to answer some of his questions my memory was sparked as to when I first became aware of MASTER MIND GROUPS. Scanning through my fuzzy memory and then looking through my bookcase that holds hundreds of Motivational and/or Self-Help books from the very first I bought and read in 1967 or so to some I have bought in recent years I found the source I was looking for:
Napoleon Hill's THINK & GROW RICH one of the very first motivational/self-help books I bought and read and have re-read at least some chapters of several times over the past 40+ years.
My first exposure to these books and the concept of MASTER MIND GROUPS was in Napoleon Hill's classic book published decades ago.
One of the lessons, self-descriptors or personal traits of mine I have discovered and rediscovered over the past 41 years has been that I am by nature and choice
AN AMBIVERT
not an Extravert
nor an Intravert
My VERT-ness depends upon many factors in the situation and who I am involved with in the moment.
Another way of saying that is I tend to be a LONER mostly yet a JOINER when I choose to be at least for short times.
That introspective observation has led me to CREATE VIRTUAL MASTER MIND GROUPS for myself which is what Napoleon Hill primarily did mostly including a long list of famous successful people (mostly men 100 years ago).
His members came from a list of successful men that Andrew Carnegie game him and provided letters of introduction to in the challenge he gave Napoleon Hill to study and discover key secrets behind Success based upon interviewing, getting to know and studying the lives of the list, this list found in THINK & GROW RICH in his preface that he titled:
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
Yesterday the AHA! exploded in my mind
use Napoleon Hill's book THINK & GROW RICH
to help me write my own book about attempting
to CHANGE MY LIFE ONCE MORE at 74.
I am going to begin by using the contents of his book using my own stories and some references to the stories he used in his.
Instead of calling my book
THINK & GROW RICH in the 21st Century
or
THINK & GROW RICH REVISITED
or
SON/Daughter of THINK & GROW RICH REVISITED
I have chosen the working title for this book
A NEW LIFE at 76 & Beyond
That was also based upon an AHA! from this morning
sparked by a Facebook message from a creativity colleague
that I have known for about 40 years through CPSI,
Diane Fraley
I shared with her a short comic animated video
asking if that would be her next development
with her cartooning of lessons she has learned in her life.
Her response was
"...perhaps in another life."
Viola!
Two separate independent AHAs! have given me the structure for this book.
As I have done several times in the past 10 years I am going to use a BLOG to capture and share the rough drafts to finished chapters of this book as I create it.
I did this over a period of about 18 months to create my book
MY ANGELS & MY DEMONS
that I first published in 3 ebook formats with help of 3 colleagues in two different countries in July 2017 and in printed form with a local writer friend using LULU self-publishing systems.
Thank you for reading so far.
PLEASE write feedback or comments as a reader.
They will truly help me as I create and polish this book into a valuable finished book.
I will definitely give credit in the forward or acknowledgements to EVERYONE who shares their feedback and comments.
Thanks for reading so far.
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