thoughts on my "brand" the enchanted frog

David and I attended an internet marketing course yesterday. After all, as the book is self published through Trafford, online will be the way the book is purchased until we are able to get it into bookstores.

At this course anybody who wanted to could go on stage and promote their "brand" for 30 - 60 seconds. Well, as more people than they had time for wanted to do this I got maybe 40 seconds so couldn't say everything I wanted to but this is very good material for a blog that other people can add their thoughts to.

So our brand for the book "Some Day My Prince Will .com" is an enchanted frog with a crown on his head, sitting at a computer and with a magic wand above his head with fairy dust coming down and enchanting him (after all, he was writing to me on match.com). To me, he represents that love can be fun (both finding it and after it has arrived), it represents that the fairy tale can be real and that we all need to live our lives in a state of enchantment, hope and inspiration and to always see the glass as half full. It represents to both David and I our belief that anything is possible if you keep an open heart and an open mind.

Another thought occurred to me with the concept of fun and thinking like a child. When a child falls off the swingset in the playground, they might cry for a few moments but then they usually get right back on it. They don't spend years being wounded or afraid to try another swing. Why can't adults be the same way? When we have heartbreak in love (and who among us hasn't), we tend to close our hearts at least for awhile. What if finding an enchanted frog, or ruby red magic slippers, was just as easy as getting back up and believing we can? As Obama says "yes we can!". In life, "shit happens", but why must a person lose twice or more by reliving the pain and closing their heart.

Our book (I am the main author but David has contributed close to 50% of it in either his emails or the chapter that is devoted to him so I do call it ours), tells the story of how we both opened our hearts to find each other. My hope is to help others find this enchanted way of looking at life and relationships.

So....this is a blog, a new one just started on Friday. I would love to have contributions and thoughts and stories from other people.