Going back to re-work a few things and re-organize a bit, but we’re getting really excited.

Block Out The Noise: And Take Back Your Life will be done soon.  This book focuses on showing you how to recognize and eliminate the subliminal noise that bombards us daily and controls our lives.  It is especially appropriate in this recession.

I am also working on (though a little slower) on turning our seminar series from a few years ago into a follow-up book in the series, Block Out The Noise: Building Your Ideal Life.  We’ve had such great feedback throughout the years that we’re really anxious to see it in written form.

Time for some kid-time with a trip to the park or maybe the fair, but then back to writing for me.

Where has the time gone?  We’ve been so busy trying to improve/grow our businesses that this blog has become an after-thought - a search engine friendly archive of sorts.

Let’s see if we can change that.  Hard to remember that, at one point, this lil blog had 30,000 reads a month at one time and my content was being picked up and re-blogged by users all over the world.

Our “Building Your Ideal Life” slideshow once had 20,000 viewers and was one of the top viewed slides at Slideshare.

But then came facebook and LinkedIn and of course, kids, family, businesses and a trip around the sun.  Lots of growth, lots of learning, lots of posting, but very little blogging.

So I don’t know if we’ll see 30,000 again but I’m going to take the first step and kick the dust off.  I am working on my first book in a series for Block Out The Noise so I will be talking about that a lot and my thoughts may be incoherent as I get back into Freud, Maslow, Skinner, et al.

Let’s see how it goes.

Reminder that GM is closing dealerships and this year’s economic stimulus package allows you to save big bucks on a new car purchase through Dec 31.  The stimulus incentive will deduct your sales tax (if you have sales tax in your state).  For us, that’s $2600 on our new suburban we purchased in September which is probably $800+ real tax credit in 2010 for us.

Which reminds me, only 10 weeks left to save on Disney annual resident passes which are being extended to 15 month passes.  Our car tax savings will pay for half the cost of Disney for our family for over a year.

A win-win as we inject that money directly back into the economy (the intention of the stimulus) and our family gets much needed time together at discounted prices at a place we really enjoy.

I used this phrase just a minute ago on our business blog, and like usual, I had to wonder, what the hell does that mean?

So you may sleep as well as I do tonight:

The word ‘lo’ as used in this phrase is a shortening of ‘look’. So, lo and behold! has the meaning of look! - behold!.

As so elegantly put in The Princess Bride when the hero Wesley knocks out Fezzik (Andre the Giant who was 7 feet, 500 lbs) - now we can all ‘rest well and dream of large women!’