I\’m not much of a celebrity-watcher. I don\’t read tabloids and I couldn\’t care less who\’s dating whom in Hollywoodland.
But I\’m still pleased to see that so many celebrities have chosen to use Twitter.
I\’m pleased because those celebrities are bringing lots of regular folk like you and me with them. Those people might have come to chat with Oprah or Ashton Kutcher but they\’ll hang around and talk with the rest of us. That can only be good for everyone.
I\’m also pleased because it\’s democratic. Now anyone can speak to a celebrity and stars can speak to the public directly, without having to sit through interviews or see reporters take their words out of context. The mainstream media is going to have to work a little harder for our attention.
But mostly I\’m pleased because you can learn something very valuable reading celebrity time-lines.
I\’m not talking about what some star had for lunch or even what movie they\’re appearing in next.
I\’m talking about the secret to their success. You can see it in every celebrity\’s time-line and just about every one of their tweets.
Have you spotted it?
It\’s that they love what they\’re doing.
Their tweets are happy. They\’re generous with their praise and their encouragement. They\’re upbeat, positive and optimistic.
You\’ll have to look pretty hard to find a message in a celebrity\’s time-line that\’s rude about someone else.
Sure, it\’s easy to be happy when you\’re rich, famous and successful. But that\’s not how it works. Those people are successful, rich and famous because they discovered something they love to do it, and they\’re doing it.
That\’s a lesson for all of us.
If you want to succeed at anything, the first – and most important — step is to identify what you\’re passionate about. It doesn\’t have to be acting or singing or writing thrillers. It could be cooking vegetables, racing cars or knitting sweaters. If you love doing it, when you write about it in a blog, in e-books or on Twitter what you say will be informative, enthusiastic and fun. People will want to read and listen. You\’ll have a ball telling them.
And when you build an audience that way, the revenue won\’t be far beyond… and you\’ll be a star too.