Create a Blog

About a ebook on Blogging that really helped me get up an running. Great step by step guide to setting up a blog… for the ultimate beginner, if anyone is interested in how and doesn’t think they can.

Blogging Blueprint Review

Check it out. And subscribe with the little box in the right hand corner, while you’re there. :)

What are your two wishes?

Check it out. Comment. Subscribe. :)

Note to self:

• identifiable logo
• Customer header with popping colors and tag line
• Mini logo up in box next to url thingy next to site name- (what’s that called?)
• Stumble it/Digg/ Whatever else logos on right side bar and along bottom of each post
• Number of comments more prominent?
• Enlarge/ Change font to individual post title (in different color?)
• Custom twitter page with logo
• threaded comments

• Hook up Outlook with email address through dreamithelife.com
  (HOW??)
  *Fix broken stumbleupon link
• make sure subscribe to comments fixed
• Change Google Analytics email to match website address… how?? Is it possible?

on twitter. From a recommendation from someone that randomly followed me…. he’s a young designer, looking to expand his portfolio… and very nice and responsive. Looking at having him develop a logo for me, and a custom header for my site, and maybe tweak the rest of my site a bit more to my liking. I want it to be simple, yet unique and branded. I’m excited… I love the internet.

After discussing with him my excitement in internet business, and entrepreneurship. I emailed him asking for his creative ideas for blog topics. He’s this incredibly brilliant writer and creative person, and has been wanting to work with me and write with me for as long as I can remember. I’ve been excited about the prospects of maybe working with him on some project, or at least be able to bounce ideas off each other about writing and words and such. After I made my first affiliate marketing site to experiment with making money, I told him a made my blog. And I wanted his thoughts on ideas for it. Since he has been virtually self employed (and at some points very, very successful writer) for 30+ years, I figured he’s be fun to talk about writing. But his pervasive negativity and narrow mindedness continues to surprise, and disappoint me. Instead of talking about ideas, he left me a message that he just doesn’t “get” this blog thing. He “gets” direct money making sites, but he’s very narrow minded about blogging in general. I used to have these same thoughts, but I’ve been self educating about the whole blog world and internet business for the past few weeks. He told me that he doesn’t understand the point of it all, that he thought someone has to have something to say in order to have a platform such a blog, a degree or PhD, a background as a political analyst. He went on and on about all the reasons I can’t do it, and why it won’t work. And it’s so sad. He got to me because he pokes at my insecurities (as usual). I worry that I don’t have anything important enough to say, I worry that I won’t be able to come up with interesting, intriguing content consistently for long periods of time. But those are just my insecurities. I know that simply being human is my qualification to write, and if I didn’t have anything to say, I wouldn’t have had the drive to get as far as I have. He even said, “I want to be positive about this”, but his words had the opposite tone- negative, questioning, unsupportive. He’s incapable of being supportive of something out of his scope of knowledge. He’s not into blogging, and doesn’t follow or know anyone that does.

It seems like whenever I trust him with my truest feelings, his negativity and doubt and fear just seems to bring me down once again. And then I shake my head and remember that it’s best that I keep him at a distance. It just sucks to not have 100% support, even though I know that he doesn’t know what he does, and really means well. That’s just what makes it confusing.

Has been posted .

This is kinda fun.

If I could only I could learn how to do more web design and html, faster, I’d be good.

Good thing I’m not writing a productivity blog!

I think I set up the email subscriptions on my new blog site. Do any of my handy dandy 43T friends want to try subscribing so I can test it out to see if it works?

My blog is here
and you can subscribe via email on the upper right hand corner.

I’ve been trying to figure out feedburner on google, and am having the most difficult time with it!! I don’t really get the rss feed thing… I kinda set up a google reader, but I’m still new to thing and trying to figure it out as I go.

Funny, as my first blog is all on positivity, and I’m so frustrated with trying to figure this all out!! Ha! :D

This is so frustrating! There is so much I want to do, and I know how I want it to be… but I can’t figure out certain programs. Argh.

Wrote my first blog entry, that I want to now share with my 43T friends. :)

Dreamin’ the Life

It just came out ... of me. I wanted my first post to be something meaningful, that meant a lot to me, and captures the spirit of what I want my blog to be about. And I think I got it.

It felt so good to speak so truthfully and authentically…. it seems like this will be an eye opening and therapeutic endeavor. And if my words can enlighten or inspire just one person, I’ll feel like it was worthwhile.

I’d love and appreciate any comments on my new blog… if any of you feel like wandering over there and checking it out! :D

This has been a few weeks in the making… I got inspired by Amber at www.epicself.com a couple months ago, and decided to purchase my first domain. I didn’t even know how to purchase a domain a few short months ago, and since then I’ve been researching and self educating like mad. I’m obsessed. I used to think blogs were these self indulgent, narcissistic arenas where one can just talk about themselves and hope others will read it. And they are, but I’ve opened my eyes to how inspiring they can be too. I got my site to go live yesterday, figured out how to install Wordpress, picked a basic theme that wasn’t blue and white. I’m actually ready to post my first blog. But, I have such high standards for myself.

I’ve been studying successful self development bloggers recently and I know I want to blog to:

• inspire others
• get to know myself better
• make money online

The third will come later, but I think getting into the blogosphere (and particularly the personal development niche of the blogosphere) is a good place to start. I want to network with other PD bloggers, I want to expand my mind and learn about all things personal development. I think I’ve found a new passion recently, and I’m incredibly excited by it.

All I know about my blog is that I want it to have a positive, inspiring message, while still conveying that I am a work in progress and don’t know it all. I want it to be simple and clean and visually appealing with lots of awesome pictures included in the posts. I want it to focus on personal development, (mind body and spirit). The perfectionist in my is saying that I need my very first blog post to be perfect and incredible and compelling and well written and laid out perfectly. But the truth is, I am still learning. And even if my blog isn’t the custom layout, with incredible graphics and easy to use, it’s okay. I just need to start somewhere, and my plan is that in this process of beginning to blog, I will learn how to become awesome at it…