J. Morris Hicks, engineer. writer. big picture guy.

Why do I say Victory Lap? Because this website has accomplished far more than I ever imagined at the beginning—February 10, 2011. My publisher at BenBella, Glenn Yeffeth, suggested in January of that year that I consider starting a blog to promote book sales. To help me get started, he recommended a book, Crush It, by Gary Vaynerchuk and the rest is history.

Not only has this blog promoted book sales, it has helped me develop my own “voice” in the world of what we humans should be eating and why. While developing that “big picture” voice, I have done far more writing in the past two years than I did while writing the book in 2010. Our book contains about 55,000 words, but this humble WordPress blog-site contains close to a million.

This blog has also enabled me to reach the requisite 10,000 hours of study—in order to become an authority in field of study. At least, that’s what Malcolm Gladwell postulated in his book, Outliers. And now that I have made that investment, I feel much more prepared to speak, consult and embrace activism as I do all that I can to execute the mission as stated in the book and on this site—promoting health, hope and harmony on planet Earth.

WordPress tells me every day how many visitors I had from all over the globe.

Making a difference. This is probably the single most important measure of success. And I can tell you that it really does feel good to know that you’re making a difference. With my blog now being seen regularly in over 100 countries, I frequently receive notes of gratitude from faraway places like Russia, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and Brazil.

Opening doors. In Vaynerchuk’s book that I mentioned earlier, I remember him writing about measuring the success of a blogging effort. He recommended not obsessing about site traffic in terms of visitors or followers. While you may only have fifty followers of your site, one of those followers might be the CEO of General Motors. You just never know who might be affected by the information you are sharing.

Example. Just last week, I was invited by the former head of one of the world’s largest publishing companies to join him as his partner in a new business venture. He verbalized that invitation during our first in-person meeting in New York last week. Our initial correspondence began with an email that he sent to me on 1-12-13.

Dear Jim, Your blogs are giving me an exceptional education. You grasp the “big picture” and convey all of its ramifications in such an eloquent way — for which I thank you! I believe that we share a common, noble cause — to change the world — as you so aptly put it: Promoting health, hope and harmony on planet Earth, and the long term sustainability of the human race — “Healthy Eating, Healthy World.”Although now in my eighties, I still have big dreams, audacious earth shattering goals and great expectations.”

My daily streak will end on February 11 with my 737th consecutive daily blog. But hpjmh.com will not be going dark. It will still be around for a very long time—hopefully long after I am gone. In the meantime, I will continue blogging, updating and adding pages—always focusing on my mission of promoting health, hope and harmony on planet Earth.

• Health for the people
• Hope for the future of our species, which is dependent on…
• Harmony for all living things that share our HOME

As for the origin of my “health, hope and harmony” phrase, it came to me in the middle of the night during my first few weeks of blogging. I was thinking of the “faith, hope and charity” phrase when I thought of the HHH alliteration—and it just clicked. I now sign all of my books with my trademark H³ (H cubed).

Consecutive daily blogs

See the first link below where I explained the meaning of the phrase for the first time. It was before I had concluded that it’s really not about saving the planet, it’s about preserving her ability to sustain the longterm sustainability of the human race.

• Health, Hope and Harmony — and the food we eat (posted on 3-2-11)
• Click here for more “Harmony Project” blogs. The most recent three will be listed first and you can click the arrow at the bottom of the page to see the next three and so forth. There are currently a total of 13.
• One of my blogs that mentioned the 10,000 hour rule that I spoke about earlier.
• Want to help support our mission? Click here for a few ideas

Handy 4-piece take-charge-of-your-health kit—from Amazon.com

• The movie that’s changing the lives of millions: Forks Over Knives DVD 
• Healthy Eating, Healthy World, The “big picture” about food (our book)
• An essential scientific resource: The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell
• Dr. McDougall’s new book, The Starch Solution, with lots of great recipes.

Want to find out how healthy your family is eating? Take our free 4Leaf Diagnostic Survey. It takes less than five minutes and you can score it yourself. After taking the survey, please give me your feedback as it will be helpful in the development of our future 4Leaf app for smartphones. Send feedback to jmorrishicks@me.com

International. We’re now reaching people in over 100 countries. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter or get daily blog notices by “following” us in the top of the right-hand column. For occasional updates, join our periodic mailing list.

J. Morris Hicks, working daily to promote health, hope and harmony on planet Earth.

For help in your own quest to take charge of your health, you might find some useful information at our 4Leaf page or some great recipes at Lisa’s 4Leaf Kitchen.

Got a question? Let me hear from you at jmorrishicks@me.com. Or give me a call on my cell at 917-399-9700.

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Blogging daily at hpjmh.com…from the seaside village of Stonington, Connecticut – Be well and have a great day.

—J. Morris Hicks, board member, T. Colin Campbell Foundation