A New Beginning
If you’ve been reading this blog, you know I stopped writing for about a month. Although originally due to a medical problem, this hiatus turned out to be one of the best things I could have done.
For about a month before I stopped, I was wondering where this blog was going. I noticed that, with a few exceptions, successful blogs tended to be very focused. Absolutelee was not.
I’m okay with the fact my blog was unfocused for the first three months of its life. I’m a great believer in getting your hands dirty and letting the details sort themselves out. I guess this is all part of my being a big picture person instead of a detail oriented person.
Toward the middle of May, however, just before I stopped writing, I was getting the feeling that I was writing just to write, just to create another post.
Now, a professional writer gets this feeling every now and then–it’s just part of having to create words on a schedule.
I was having this feeling nearly all of the time.
I looked at other blogs for inspiration about what I should be doing and why.
It should come as no surprise that what other bloggers were doing was no help to me. How could it be?
Most blogs are incestuous, at best.
Take all of the How To Make Money Blogging blogs.
With the exception of John Chow, Andrew Wee, Zac Johnson, and a couple of others, all of these How To Make Money Blogging blogs remind me of a giant bottle full of earthworms and no earth. The worms are all trying to feed off of each other, but there’s no food to be had.
I definitely did not want to join that crowd!
And then we have the Look-How-Cool-I-Am-Blogging blogs, and the Wouldn’t-You-Like-To-Be-Me blogging blogs.
Oh my God!
So, I needed some time away from blogging, and my body responded. How’s that for synchonicity!
When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
I was in my favorite place on earth, the Border’s bookstore three blocks from my house. I tend to haunt a few sections, travel, food and wine, business and self-help, and fiction. At the time I was in the business, self-help section.
A very thin book up on the top shelf caught my eye. Actually, the color, a bright yellow-orange, caught my eye. I reached up and took the book down.
It was The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace Wattles.
I had heard of the book, mainly because of the book, The Secret.
I wondered at the book’s size, less than 100 pages. I opened the book and read around at random. Something about the authority of the speaker’s voice caught my attention. I bought the book, took it home, and read it that day.
I’ve read the book four of five times since.
To say that it’s made an impression on me would be an understatement.
Wallace Wattles has impressed me so much, that I’ve decided to put his method to work, exclusively. By exclusively, I mean I’m willing to take him at his word and do exactly what he says.
He’s 100% on the money. I can feel it.
I’m so impressed by Wattles, I’ve decided to devote my blog to explaining and exploring his method for making money. (Actually, it would work for anything you want to materialize in your life. He focuses on making money for reasons we’ll discuss later.)
So, there it is. In the midst of my forced hiatus from blogging, I found the answer to a nagging question. What is the focus of Absolutelee? Well, now I’ve found the focus.
Just to make it clear I’m making a break with the past–more like I’m metamorphosing from larvae to butterfly–I have recategorized all of my past posts into the category “Old Stuff.” I’ll use categories consistent with Wattles’ book for the new stuff. Also, I’m changing the theme (or at least I should have it changed by the time you read this).
Namaste!
(Looks like the theme hasn’t changed, yet. It will. Just hang in there.)
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July 10th, 2007 at 10:50 am
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