What’s going to happen in 2012?
Back in the 1990s I publicly predicted that you couldn’t make money on the Internet.
I was wrong.
In the mid 1990s I predicted that no one would buy an e-book.
I was wrong.
A decade ago I predicted e-books would become available with multimedia inside of them: audio, video, words, pictures, and a moving world that comes alive with a click.
I was right.
Knowing I’m not always accurate but I might get one or two predictions right, and that it’s 3 am as I write this, I tapped into the field of all possibilities and this is what I saw for 2012…
1. The world will continue pretty much as it is.
2. Mainstream media will report on a tragedy and, on slow news days, will do a new story on an old tragedy.
3. Old school marketing will remain effective even in new school technology.
4. People will complain about most things, even when good things happen.
5. A new cookbook, self-help book, and children’s book will be published.
6. There will be controversy over politics.
7. There will be a war overseas.
8. There will be a new ipad app, and a new version of the ipad.
9. There will be bad weather where it hasn’t happened in 100 years, and good weather, too.
10. Most people will remain the same; continuing to attract what they always attracted since they will continue to think and act like they have always done.
As you might guess from my somewhat tongue-in-cheek list, the above predictions could have been given each and every year for the last few years. The point being, unless you do something different, you and the world will pretty much roll along as it always has.
My suggestion?
Do something different right now.
The future you create begins by what you think and do today.
You are creating 2012 today.
What will you do different?
Ao Akua,
PS — I’m doing something different. Check out my first singer-songwriter music album right here.
Member BBB 2003 - 2012
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2012 is my year, Joe!
Instead of back breaking labor on my hands and knees, I’m putting all that knowledge into information products and will make more in 2012 than in the previous 10 years combined!
Check out Lundholmlandscaping.wordpress.com for a small taste of what’s to come.
Hi Joe,
Yes Absolutely you are right….
we have to prepare our mind to face 2012….
Steve Forbes say…..
The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not Material things.
It is the Human Mind, The Human spirit
The Human imagination and our faith in the future…….
I mean what are the changes of #8 happening?
Hahaha!
But on the real, the reason why I love your update Joe is because of how true it is that there needs to make progress in your life.
Standing in one place is going against life, since the basis of life is advancement (seed becomes tree, child becomes adult, blueprint becomes physical design).
And that is success.
To coin Earl Nightingale, success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal.
We need to get in the flow of things, that is, taking inspired ACTION regularly.
Thank you Joe.
Love,
Musa
That’s funny. For a minute there I thought you were going to be serious and really tell us something profound. Not that you haven’t. I was just expecting something out of the ordinary for you. That’s why I love to read what you write. Thanks Joe for keeping it real.
Michelle