Connecting with Ideas, Contemplating Choices & Finding Self

For the past couple of days, I have been running around the blogging streets commenting and hopping around inside forums. This is the most that I have been attempting since April 2 when I decided to go into blogging. While I wanted to hang out, read some posts and take note of the information and opportunities there, I felt the buzz of downloading information take over. Oh no, here it goes again. Soon I got drunk on the mass overload of e-stuff to choose from, my conscious began to spin and the process of wondering what I was doing started to perplex me.

Is this going to help me with blogging now?

I needed some fresh ideas and found some premium content that would otherwise cost me hundreds of dollars and decided to go for it. Downloaded a couple of e-books and felt the guilt of dollars that could have been someone else’s slip away. Little do they know that there are people like me who feel they have to compensate another for the opportunity that is given. Thus, it’s the giving mindset which I’m compelled to follow. However within the dark corridors of many threads, my voice could not be heard.

Swimming into the Abyss

Truly, money making forums are filled with hungry, eager learners and their desire is so strong, they will not hesitate to voice themselves for what they want. Quite an outspoken crowd! I found a corner where a newbie like me could flip through the pages and browse quietly as the information drop from my screen into the matrix intertwining me deep inside it’s reality.

You may have remembered my million dollar loss. So I felt grateful for the freebies that were available for me to download. I also noticed there were some still currently on the market. Then there were many others now closed to the public or distributed as incentives for building mailing lists. Certainly, the authors must care! But I don’t see an enforcer anywhere. It seems to be OK. I just kept my mouth shut instead.

Members are practically peddling products inside the forums and this behavior goes as far as to distribute a whole darn system FREE. This was great if I needed it, especially if I can’t afford it but I felt they were no good to me unless I actually implemented them to profit instantly. The more information I had, the more it only steers me away from blogging effectively. Thus, the topics I found were divisions of future monetization strategies. It’s not for newbies who wanted to maintain a good memorable blogging future to start though.

Too Many Choices

The temptation of experimenting with topics on affiliate marketing, joint ventures, search engine optimization and even private label rights proved to me to be so strong, I had to close my browser. I took a break and tried to picture the system I was in.

What is my weakness? Should I be focusing on myself at all?

I can hear my father say in the back of my head, ‘You got to be good first before you can be good to someone else.‘ Thus, that’s a value which I think is trivial to understanding marketing as a whole. It’s you baby. It’s always been about you. Whether you are aware of it or not, everything you do online is about the value of your future. Your investment in yourself will eventually rise or fall. You decide.

An Exchange

The market is full of people and we’re all different and unique, yet we have certain traits which resembles one another in a very close way. At times, it’s not quite but it’s enough to align ourselves with each other and we can speak about it. Communicate. Barter. Trade.

Take the forum for instance as the trading ground for sharing your ideas, looking for ideas and making money through your personal value of giving. While this is all abstract, bear with me, I’m trying to be as humanely as possible. It just never occurred to me how hungry we are to succeed. Each road we’re on at the moment is different from everyone else’s yet once we align, finding that similarity which reciprocates itself through the same mental concept makes the attraction of marketing a reality.

Thus, I’m touching on attraction marketing here if you can see. While I’m not a big student of the law, I’m aware of it’s concepts overpowering the web almost as a bible is to someone who hasn’t read it. However, I’m talking about relations here. Connections. Actions from the environment which we truly want to connect and live in.

No matter what you do, whenever you’re a part of something, you’re going to grow. Good or bad. It is the same for actions. I may not make the money I want to now but I’m persistent and positive that each day, I’m one step closer. That thought alone saves me from giving up the hard work which I have been pouring into blogging recently.

I hope you keep at what you’re doing too and not give up so abruptly. Times like those are great for asking yourself, is this what you want to look back on? That alone will clear your conscious of defeat and brush the cobwebs which are spinning around your head.

Take a Break

It’s OK to stop for half a day. You’ll be surprised by the inspirations which comes. Mostly, you’ll be amaze by the engaging thoughts which you have pounded into yourself. Instead, try to sit still. It’s hard isn’t it? That’s the reality of what you’ve been doing. Myself as well.

Quitting isn’t going to make it go away. It’s only going to make it worse.

Think of it this way. It’s a child. He or she is mad. It’s no fun playing anymore. Most likely, he or she is going to quit. Who wants to deal with boredom? I think this is where you have to grab a hold of yourself and say, ‘No need to be so serious’. Allow yourself some time to recollect your conscious and start over again.

Every time you start over, it’s a refreshed view. So you got yourself an empty template. What are you gonna do?

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