Every year since 2007, something extraordinary has happened in my career.

2007—Published my book.

2008—My book won two Indie Excellence Awards. One for best business book of the year and one was an honorable mention for best book. Forever I can call myself an award-winning author.

2009—Westlake Today named me Man of the Year.

2010—I received the Soaring Spirit Award from Looking Beyond.

I received an email from the organizers of TEDxPasadena asking me if I would be interested in becoming a TED speaker. I was honored. Of course I wanted to, but there was one caveat. It was just an invitation to be considered for the event.

I filled out the form and sent in a proposal, and last week at 10:15PM, I received an email from Kristi telling me that my proposal was accepted by TEDxPasadena. I am very honored to be speaking on October 22nd of this year, the day after my birthday, which means I have to be a good boy on my birthday. Probably a quiet dinner with my friends. I have been focusing this year on my writing and just taking it easy, so this TED thing came out of the blue. On Thursday, I put a tweet out and received a few congratulatory responses. When I told my buddy Sy, he didn’t believe me.

So now I am going to work on my speech with my speaking partner Rich and we’ll see what happens.

Timelapse - Lighthouse (Oct 2012) from IMK Digital Multimedia on Vimeo.