Rock LinesThanks- Cleveland.com! April 29th, 2012

I want to thank the Editor and staff at Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer). My recent Rock Lines Blog featuring David Spero, Dick Clark, Rock Hall of Fame and other topics was chosen as their Featured Blog of the Week out of 100's of other postings from various bloggers daily.

I realize there are a few typos and it's not one of my best (in my opinion) blogs, but; I am still thrilled. This is the second time I have had this honor, but a first for The Rock Lines Blog. Previously, my second business blog ever written on Cleveland.com was chosen as Featured Blog of the Week.

Many of the side projects I jumped into in 2011 took away from my writing in both time and creativity.

I wanted to get back to regularly writing blogs and a couple of books. It seemed impossible.

I've suffered from writers block before but this was on a much larger scale. Burnout, disappointment in poor business decisions and my closet friend passing had me in a strange funk.

Prior to writing the Rock Lines Blog that received recognition business topics were jumping through my head. I was able to spend most of last weekend writing. Perseverance had overtaken doubt. Suddenly, I realized I was back to my old form. Excitement, joy and happiness overshadowed me.

Questions remained. Had I lost my readers through meager and untimely posts? Was anybody looking forward to my thoughts? Did anyone care?

Then on Monday, I noticed my Rock Lines Blog was chosen as Featured Blog of the Week. Unbelievable timing! The response from my readers was the largest to date during the history of writing over 200 various blogs in various social media.

I can make a difference and so can you. Persevering is the key. It all starts within each one of us. We never know where life leads us, but after recognizing and enduring setbacks we do become stronger!

Oh, by the way- The best is yet to come!

Until We Meet Again, Jim Carver
Author: The Legacy of David A. Wells-The Lexington High School "Band of Gold"
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