December 8th, 2009
All I want for Christmas is what I already have in a storage locker 500 km away. My guitars, keyboard, books, paints, printer and scanner…and the remainder of my wardrobe. Anything else is gravy, although I wouldn’t complain about a never-ending supply of Merlot and extra-aged cheddar.
Living in a new city where I am virtually a stranger, I find myself drawn to the same places, activities and people I knew in another time, another place, where I became a performing singer/songwriter, a published writer and part of a creative community. With nothing but what I could cram into my Toyota Yaris, dog included, I’m doing just fine. After checking out several open mics, I want to make music again. In order to distract myself from the absence of musical instruments, I started writing another novel. You don’t need anything but a pen and a notebook to do that. And I finally got my second online course, Cash Control 101, up and running.
Quite often, what we think we want for Christmas is simply an escape from what we really want for life; that is, stuff that helps us fill time rather than invest it. Is an Xbox 360 going to make your dreams come true when you want to be the designer behind the games making $200,000/year? The new TV may be great to watch, but who cares if your dream is to write the screenplays?
If you’re a little tired of all the consumerism, big credit card payments and wastefulness that can arise at this time of year, why not consider what you truly want for your life and give yourself the gift of moving forward in that direction? What will truly make you happier than you are right now?
#16 of 101 Reasons to be Yourself – Make Music.
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October 28th, 2009
National Novel Writing Month begins this Sunday. Bookmark this site! http://www.nanowrimo.org/.
I’ve mentioned this before and I will almost certainly mention this again – Joining NaNoWriMo is a great way to get the ball rolling on the book you’ve wanted to write forever. And to wrap it up, there is also National Novel Editing Month http://www.nanoedmo.net/xoops2/. They kindly wait until March to give you a chance to follow up with rewrites or a mental vacation.
Why wait? Get that juicy, crazy, funny, gory, delectable, mysterious, romantic novel out of your head and onto the page once and for all!
Happy Novelling!
25. Writing Yes, this page is a repeat. So is this one: 60. Accomplishment.
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October 22nd, 2009
Maybe I’m taking this whole Google-duplicate-content-means-losing-your-page-rank thing too seriously. I mean, I’m not exactly a search engine optimization expert in the first place – I didn’t even know what that was a few months ago. I just thought it would be fun to write articles and blogs to promote my book and now my online courses but then I got sucked in to the crazy world of online marketing.
So now I don’t want to post my articles on my blog because it might mess up any page rankings I may have achieved with late-night keyword searches and other internet marketing geekiness (which is kind of fun, actually).
This is what I will do. Post a link to the article directories that publish my stuff. I know, it seems like you’re getting the runaround, going to the blog, reading the post then getting sent elsewhere to get to the point. Maybe I’ll go back to not giving a toss about page rankings again, but for now, here’s the latest, Hitting “The Wall” and How to Get Over It!, published on SelfGrowth.com. It’s been submitted to PositiveArticles.com and EzineArticles.com as well.
This article came about because I hit the wall on more than one project last week and used a different strategy on each to get over it. (That’s the point of the article – to share my strategies.) There is one more biggie to wrap up that boils down to plain old procrastination, so here I am writing about it instead of doing it. I guess the next article to look forward to is probably going to have something to do with – you guessed it – procrastination or laziness or some such thing.
Until next time, here is #50 of 101 Reasons to be Yourself – Get Over It
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