Let’s see if you can solve this mathematical riddle:
My grandmother came from four brothers and sisters…
My grandmother then had two kids, my aunt and my mom…
My mom only had one kid, me…
And I, barring some late-life religious conversion or late-night sexual slip-up, will end up with zero kids.
So the riddle is…
4, 2, 1, 0… what’s the next number in this sequence?
I mean, is there even a number?
Or is the human race doomed? Because I don’t think my family is all that unique.
I look around at people of my generation and I see them either childless or with fewer kids than their parents had at the same age… and definitely fewer than their grandparents or great grandparents had.
Do you have your answer to the riddle?
Here’s mine, or rather, here’s my prediction about what comes after 0:
People will start having more kids again. 1, 2, and maybe 4. Yes, even in rich, modern, urban societies, the ones that offer all the pleasurable temptations and alternatives to a young man or woman to settling down and raising children.
The statistics don’t bear me out yet. But I’m seeing anecdotal evidence for it. People I know, younger than me, getting married earlier… having kids earlier… having more kids. Stuff that was unimaginable to me at their age.
The theory supports me also.
The human brain loves to think linearly. To find a pattern and to keep that pattern going to eternity, like watching a snowball roll down an endless hill.
We love to think in this way about other humans too.
Except humans are not like snowballs down a hill.
We also have the ability to consciously choose our action and shape our identity. To stop rolling, to even turn around, and start hiking up the hill again.
And in fact, that’s often what happens, more often than you might think. History is full of examples of groups of humans — Puritans, Bolsheviks, hippies — choosing their identity in direct opposition to what came before them, or to what’s around them now. Sometimes with great influence.
I’m not sure what my point is.
Maybe it’s that there’s a powerful persuasion lesson in the above, for anybody who would sit down and unpack it a bit.
Or maybe my point is simply to try to convince you to give my Daily Email Habit service a try.
Because if you have kids, or are planning on it, I figure it’s way nicer today than it was 40, 20, or even 10 years ago.
Back then, the only option for most people was to go to work in somebody else’s office, from 9-5, and sit in a car for an hour or two to get there. With the time left over, maybe they’d see their kids only for a few minutes before bed.
Today, there are real alternatives. It’s never been easier to work for yourself, at home, with yourself as a boss.
Now here’s my pitch:
If you’re gonna work for yourself, at home, and have more free time than you would if you had a regular job, then it makes sense to write daily emails.
Daily emails promote what you do and ensure a certain security and continuity. Daily emails nurture an audience of previous customers and ready prospects who know you and trust you and are willing to give you money in the future also.
And daily emails allow you to do that without you having to spend 16 hours a day hunting for new business all the time.
If that makes sense, I’d like to suggest you take a look at the following service. It will help you start and stick with sending daily emails. And it’s completely different to all previous methods I know of that promised the same: