Drucker: the suicide rate will be 50% lower ten years after...

[FrancescoBellafante]

Drucker: the suicide rate will be 50% lower ten years after the movie, currently titled committed, is released to the public. That release will occur on or before Christmas of 2010.

Therefore, the suicide rate will be 50% lower by Christmas of 2020 or sooner.

That is the intended and desired outcome. I could call it a goal, or a promise. I can push that idea and call it a guarantee. A la Peter Drucker I could even say I am predicting the future because I am out to create that particular future.

I am intentionally tying the creating of a film to being part of the cause of a precipitous drop in the suicide rate to invent a rich and full life for myself that will benefit others.

Simply put, this vision of a future I am creating, puts me in a position to HAVE IT ALL... now, all the time.

It was only six weeks ago yesterday when I picked up the phone to make a call to get back into the "business" of making films. I will write more later about the ten month period of time between quitting my job as a full time consultant and finally picking up the phone to make that call, but for now I will add I have produced some solid results:

In the last six weeks I have:

• earned (and am earning) wages, on a freelance basis, helping to develop an independent film with two NYC-based, award winning filmmakers
• met (and am in conversation) with the writer/producer/director of an upcoming independent feature project being shot in Philadelphia to discuss how I may be able to contribute
• connected with an established Philadelphia filmmaker to discuss ways I may contribute to another upcoming independent feature to be shot in the area
• created everything you see on this site and half a dozen others with next to no knowledge of how to do any of this "web stuff" despite my previous IT experience
• connected with an extraordinary guy named Tom Wootton, the person behind Bipolar Advantage to discuss ways that we might partner to work together to help people struggling with "mental illness"
• obtained a $5K commitment to invest in bringing committed to the big screen
• dropped my weight from 201 to 183 by altering my diet and exercise regime

Putting this new Drucker on this blog will cause me to take things to the next level. I have an old statement somewhere else on this blog saying something about "getting a no" from Jeff Skoll before March 2, 2008. Jeff Skoll is the founder and CEO of Participant Productions, a place I would love for committed to end up.

The second call I made to get back into film landed me a gig on a production where the primary producer has an existing relationship with Participant.

As early as mid-January, I've had a potential "inside the box" approach through established protocols to pitch a story idea. I obviously don't want a "no" from anyone least of all, Jeff Skoll. I threw that "promise" out there to cause myself to be ready to get a "yes" by that date... for a meeting to discuss a potential "true-story" development deal.

That date is less than two weeks away.

I can guarantee the NO, that's a layup... the YES for a meeting... that's different.

Back to work...