So if I did everything okay, then this post published. As part of the
proof this came from email, I’ve kept my signature at the end.

Make it a great day!

Daniel Johnson, Jr.
513-373-4442
Cincinnati, Ohio

http://danieljohnsonjr.com/main/about

http://jazzmaniaproductions.com/

To connect others and help tell great stories

Welcome to episode 127 of the Journey Inside My Mind podcast!

Cover via Amazon

It’s hard to believe I started doing this over six years ago, and I wasn’t sure I’d come back. I was inspired to fire up the podcast recording software, play some music from Kutiman, and say a few words.

Journey Inside My Mind – Episode #127 – Host: Daniel Johnson, Jr.

Running time: 31:52.

Greetings from beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio!

Focus, Intention, Delivery update

• danieljohnsonjr.com
• newmediacincinnati.com
• jazzmaniaproductions.com

Some CRM consulting and other consulting this year.
Reading… A LOT. Favorite book this year has been Simon Sinek‘s Start With WHY.
My why: to connect others and help tell great stories

Random fact

Look at the following pattern:

1*9=09
2*9=18
3*9=27
4*9=36
5*9=45
6*9=54
7*9=63
8*9=72
9*9=81
10*9=90

Add up the resulting digits of a multiple of 9 and you’ll get 9.
To quickly add 9 to any number increase the tens digit and decrease the ones digit. (same as adding 10 and subtracting 1).

Music

Check out Kutiman’s ThruYou project (http://thru-you.com). Songs played:

+ “Mother of All Funk Chords”
+ “I M New”
+ “Someday”

If you liked this episode, share it with someone!

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So Google Video is doing the way of the dinosaur. I got an email saying that I could transfer videos I’d uploaded to YouTube.

Back in 2005 we had just gotten our first video camera and were looking for ways to experiment with making video. While driving home from the store one afternoon, we were listening to some music, and our daughter Keisha started making her doll Noelle rock out to it. Jennie was sitting in the back and caught it on video camera.

I took the video and put it behind the the 60-second intro of “No Use Denying” by the Cool Waters Band. Since that time, the CWB is no longer together, and the website mentioned in the video is no longer around – everything has been moved to journeyinsidemymind.com.

Originally released December 2005 to the Journey Inside My Mind podcast.

Welcome to episode 126 of the Journey Inside My Mind podcast! Just in time for the new year!

Running time: 45:30

Please send in questions, comments, suggestions, feedback to daniel AT journeyinsidemymind.com

Happy New Year from beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio!

Do stop over and leave comments on the blog: http://journeyinsidemymind.com

Feel free to connect with me directly on Facebook: http://facebook.com/danieljohnsonjr

or on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/danieljohnsonjr

… or follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/danieljohnsonjr

Check out my Virtual Business Card with everything that I can’t put on a regular business card here: http://danieljohnsonjr.com/main/about

2010 is gone and 2011 is here. I thought about recording this at the end of 2010 and calling it Looking Back, Looking Forward. 2010 was a great year in many ways for me and my family.

+ Theme for 2010: Be More Helpful. Later, I also added: Have Incurable, Tough-minded Optimism.

+ I also set out to read 52 books in a year. Didn’t make it by a long shot, but I did wind up reading 12 books! Still way more than I had read in 2009.

+ Public speaking: spoke at quite a few groups around town.

+ Had some great interviews and got to work at a payroll processing software solutions company, doing Microsoft Dynamics CRM for several months. Even though I was laid off, it changed the way I look at business and relationships.

+ New Media Cincinnati: urged the group to try hard enough to fail at things in 2010, to take risks. We had some great learning experiences and formed a Steering Committee to guide the direction of the group.

+ Theme for 2011: Focus – Intention – Deliver. Evaluating my attention – is what I’m doing right now getting me where I really want to go? Why am I involved in this activity? When I say I’m going to deliver on something, I will deliver. Ship and get over the “preciousness” of my work.

+ Read Seth Godin’s book “Linchpin”

+ Keep on reading at least 1 book per month.

+ Look for additional opportunities to speak in public.

+ Find meaningful work – whether it’s as a freelance/independent contractor or working for someone else. Get paid! (back to the whole focus and intention thought).

+ New Media Cincinnati: grow the Cincinnati social media community – in numbers and in digital literacy.

Music: some of the music in this episode came from Music Alley from Mevio:

MinusBlue, “Ocean Sky”

Moloko, “Pure Pleasure Seeker”

Doug Ross, “Distractions”

Eric Wilson, “Now”

Download the podcast directly here: Journey Inside My Mind – Episode #126 – Host: Daniel Johnson, Jr.

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*While this episode has been released on April 1, 2011, it was in fact, recorded on January 2, 2011.

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• Hope feeds the soul (quotesblog.blogspot.com)
• Connecting is easy – it’s what happens next that matters (danieljohnsonjr.com)

Image via WikiPedia, intended as fair-use

Hat-tip to my friend Trish, who shared this on her Tumblr blog, A Bit of Dayngr.

Over 8 years ago, our family was a huge fan of “Blue’s Clues“. If yours was, too, you might appreciate this revamped version.

Click here to see the embedded video.

Now tell me you wouldn’t pay to see this movie!

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Today is Friday, January 7, 2011.

On this date in 1948, American Singer Kenny Loggins was born.
On this date in 1957, American television host Katie Kouric was born.
On this date in 1964, American actor Nicolas Cage was born.
On this date in 1977, Dustin Diamond, who played Samuel “Screech” Powers in Saved by the Bell, was born.
And in 1999 on this date, the US Senate trial in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton began.

But, for you readers here…
On this date in 2002, I wrote my very first blog post. Ever. It’s not much, but it was a start. Here’s a glimpse of what the blog used to look like back in 2002, courtesy of the Wayback Machine.

Journey Inside My Mind Blog from 2002

Since then I’ve created over 12 other blog sites and mainly spend my time at danieljohnsonjr.com these days.

Here’s to another great year of the Journey Inside My Mind and to blogging in general!

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… will not be arriving today. So look for it tomorrow afternoon, k?

Yesterday our daughter was on Amazon.com, picking some mp3s out to add to her wish list. She’s really been into Kelly Clarkson lately, so I created this MP3 Clips widget.

It’s been a little while since I created something from their Associates affiliate program and put on one my websites. Take a listen and feel free to browse over and get your own mp3s.

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Welcome to episode 125 of the Journey Inside My Mind podcast! It’s been about three months since the last one, and SO MUCH has happened. Christmas is here, and it’s fitting to celebrate with some of my favorite music of the season. I’ve played a number of these tracks in the past five years around this time, and I hope you’ll enjoy them, too.

Running time: 37:18.

Please send in questions, comments, suggestions, feedback to daniel AT journeyinsidemymind DOT com.

Season’s Greetings from beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio!

Do stop over and leave comments on the blog: www.journeyinsidemymind.com

Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook: www.facebook.com/danieljohnsonjr

or on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/danieljohnsonjr

… or follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/danieljohnsonjr

Check out my Virtual Business Card with everything I can’t put on a regular business card here: www.danieljohnsonjr.com/main/about

Special thanks to Suzie Tyler for pointing me to Karmyn Tyler‘s new song “Let’s Keep Christ in Our Christmas This Year”. You can find it on www.CDBaby.com

Number One Fan, “Christmas Is Here”
Podsafe for Peace, ”If Every Day Were Christmas”
Aaron English, “Silent Night”
Jill Parr, “Do You Hear What I Hear” (also check out the Daily Audio Bible)
Ingrid Michaelson, “The Way I Am”
Karmyn Tyler, “Let’s Keep Christ in Our Christmas This Year”

Download the podcast directly here: Journey Inside My Mind – Episode #125 – Host: Daniel Johnson, Jr.

It’s not that I’ve just found this; it’s been sitting in our bookshelf collecting dust.

I’ve kept journals over the years, but the one I’ve held onto from high school – out of  all the ones I could have held onto – is this one from my junior year College Prep English class at Mount Healthy High School, with Mr. Burns.

Mr. Burns came into that class after first quarter of that year, replacing  a teacher that many kids and parents didn’t like. And he made us write. And write. And write some more.

One of the things he made us write was this journal. I always tried to figure out what to write, and he kept telling me that my entries were too much like a diary. As a teenager, and as an adult, I’ve used my writing as a way of searching out what goes on inside me.  This blog is called “Journey Inside My Mind”.

Finding and re-reading this journal provides a glimpse into who I was at 16-17, with all my insecurities and (although I wouldn’t have agreed at the time) immature thinking. But I see the promise of some things that have remained with me since that time.

One of the last entries in this journal is from Wednesday, May 20, 1987. We must have been talking about quotations, and Mr. Burns had charged us to come up with some of our own. Here’s what the young man I was at 17 came up with:

On bragging:

“We need more people who don’t open their mouths and put their “feats” in them.

On subjects:

It’s amazing that people are able to fail a subject in which our native tongue is taught.

On religion:

I have noticed that you pious people are always arguing. Why don’t you worry about convincing non-believers instead of each other?

On music:

Pleasant music annoints the soul and soothes the nerves.

On grades:

Grades are just labels which sometimes prove that school is not for learning. Too often a student would do anything to get a good grade, and sometimes that means not learning the material, remembering it, and being able to recall it.

On procrastination:

Procrastination is like acid. The only neutralizing agent is organization and timing.

On the opposite sex:

The perfect man / woman is an ideal. All men / women strive to be like him / her, but only a few ever succeed in the quest.

On the very last page, I found this quotation from one of my classmates:

To some a relationship is like tennis: after someone scores, it’s no longer love. — R. Combs