Why this journal is important!

"...anybody who makes it, anybody who does achieve any level of success, that says to the rest of the world, 'This is possible.'" - Oprah Winfrey *

This quote summarizes my strong belief that any accomplishment one person can make or has made, anybody else can too. I think an interesting and saddening phenomenon is that most people disassociate themselves from people who've accomplished incredible feats. One of the major reasons I think this happens is because we only learn about 'extra-ordinary' people after they've become 'extra-ordinary'. We don't see or fully understand where they came from and how they got to where they are today.

As such, I think a powerful application of online journals (blogs) is to document, in real-time, ordinary people setting out to do extra-ordinary things. In the end, I hope my blog can work toward this end. I invite you to ask any questions you have about what I'm doing or how I'm doing it. I would also love to hear about what you'd like to see in this blog.

*Source: An interview with Oprah Winfrey on WCVB-TV 5 News CityLine (Boston, January 13, 2002).