The End of a Matter

A verse in the Bible declares that the end of a matter is more beautiful than its beginning.  For quite a while, I have known that my project of blogging would conclude after six months rather than the initial goal of a year.  The six months are now complete from April 15, 2010, to October 15, 2010—but my regular readers will know that I have cheated a little, especially recently, to artificially reset the posting dates of a few entries.  My decision is based on a need to re-channel my energy toward more pressing concerns—most obviously, to becoming healthier and to continue steady work on my book manuscript.  The demands of work also press insistently, so much so that finding the 20 minutes daily that this blog requires is sometimes pretty hard.  But blogging has been a lot of fun.  Not only that, I have been able through Century Hypothesis to clarify some of my own shortcut beliefs and practices that help me from day to day.  I hope these have been entertaining to readers, mostly family, though I am quite certain that I did not gain 100% agreement.  I'm much more confident of 100% love and, I hope, respect—which is what I really want.  So, what is the title Century Hypothesis about?  It's a point of view about human potential, about what you and I can accomplish.  We too often wrongly assume that a high level of achievement, goodness, or character requires an investment of time and effort that's beyond us.  But the number 100, such a round and beautiful number, is within reach.  A modest and conceivable number of 100 tries can take us quite far.  This is post 184 of Century Hypothesis, for example—substantial but not heroic.  To invest 100 times in anything is not asking too much.  The path from try #1 to #100 is long but achievable.  As of this final post, I still hold the Century Hypothesis as tenable: that a century (100) of tries is within every person's grasp, and that the hindsight view can be breathtaking.