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Hi there!
EntreGurus is celebrating 250 posts today and I wanted to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, for reading it and for coming along for such a joyous ride!
It’s an honor and a privilege to share a daily idea with you, and I hope so far you have experienced many a-ha moments and will continue to experience them as we go along.
In the spirit of fun and celebration, I want to share some fun stats with you.
If I were to put all the posts together in one document the results would be:
- 380 Pages
- 4,497 Paragraphs
- 17,265 Lines
- 157,055 Words (as a comparison, a regular business book averaging 200 pages has 50,000 words.)
- 738,558 Characters without counting spaces
- 892,369 Characters with spaces (this would be the equivalent of 6,374 tweets at 140 characters each.)
Crazy awesome, isn’t it?
I made this word cloud that shows the most used words throughout all the posts:
Click on the image to enlarge. Thanks to jasondavies.com/wordcloud for the awesome Word Cloud maker!
And here’s a table with the top 50 words throughout the posts. (Thanks to databasic.io/en/wordcounter for the great online app to count the times a word appears in a document!)
| RANK # | WORD | FREQUENCY | RANK # | WORD | FREQUENCY |
| 1 | time | 768 | 26 | every | 251 |
| 2 | today | 730 | 27 | go | 248 |
| 3 | one | 635 | 28 | mind | 244 |
| 4 | people | 565 | 29 | like | 236 |
| 5 | make | 520 | 30 | would | 231 |
| 6 | idea | 486 | 31 | better | 227 |
| 7 | work | 485 | 32 | important | 226 |
| 8 | get | 442 | 33 | person | 225 |
| 9 | take | 383 | 34 | new | 216 |
| 10 | want | 382 | 35 | ideas | 214 |
| 11 | way | 378 | 36 | book | 210 |
| 12 | action | 355 | 37 | good | 206 |
| 13 | think | 343 | 38 | many | 205 |
| 14 | things | 328 | 39 | give | 202 |
| 15 | know | 317 | 40 | see | 198 |
| 16 | us | 313 | 41 | much | 197 |
| 17 | day | 308 | 42 | keep | 195 |
| 18 | life | 306 | 43 | help | 192 |
| 19 | need | 293 | 44 | change | 192 |
| 20 | future | 292 | 45 | someone | 189 |
| 21 | success | 283 | 46 | others | 187 |
| 22 | something | 263 | 47 | great | 180 |
| 23 | business | 261 | 48 | done | 176 |
| 24 | best | 260 | 49 | find | 173 |
| 25 | says | 251 | 50 | say | 173 |
Please let me know in the comments here which one has been your favorite post so far and why — I’d love to write a post listing the most popular ideas from EntreGurus and feature your comment.
Thanks a lot again for reading, and I look forward to continuing to share with you the ideas from the books I read every day.
With much gratitude,
Here’s my favourite post so far: “3 Things all good listeners do – Part 3”
Here’s why: I realized that even though I really like the whole coaching idea and the principle of guiding people to find their own answers by asking smart questions and stop assuming you know the answer… I’m really really bad at it. I just cannot do it. The reflex is almost always this: to egotistically give an answer disregarding the entire context that’s unknown to me and, most of the time, to (mostly unconsciously) prove how smart I am and how I have all the answers. I won’t describe here why this is the wrong thing to do, but that’s why I like the third part of the good listeners post.
The question: “Is it really worth it?”, if you honestly answer it, will rule out most of the ego driven answers and prompt you to consider whether you’re really helping the other person or just making it worse in all the ways I chose not to detail here 😉
Happy anniversary!
There are so many good posts although the one that comes to mind for myself as one of my favorites is the one on persistence because it reminds me of myself. This also applies to anyone that is you want something badly you have to keep trying and never give up.
Personal responsibility, or the pervasive lack thereof, has been one of my concerns. “My response is my responsibility” is at the top of my list, followed closely by 50 others!!
You have done us all agreat service, Helena.