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Well here we are reaching the end of another year. This year I was bullied, bashed and otherwise abused into making a blog by those around me. At first I thought, what a vacuous concept… talking to oneself over the web. As I have progressed into it, I have grown in confidence and had quite some success in the blogging world … well ok … I had a few good days.
So what did you like from me this year. I have dug into my Google Analytics file and found the stuff you thought was the most interesting… even if from a quantitative point of view. So here we are the best of me for 2007:
10. What to do when it all goes to sh**
This post surprised me. It was really an idea I had when I was thinking of my own life and how things have gone bad for me in the past. It was my daughters birthday and my mother in law had ripped her bumper bar off her brand new car. We acted fast and got out of the mess instead of the mess consuming us.
This post is one by my wife. So here’s to you hot mama.
This is really an anchor page for this whole site. It describes what I am all about. Heaps of people of have read this article and for this reason it’s available from my articles page.
7. Problem Solving by Changing your mind
I really like this post. It was an attempt to take my ideas around perspective shifting and make them into common sense steps. Did it work… probably not… but I am getting there.
6. Solving Life Problems: 5 Essential Skills you need to make it
When I was gearing up to write this post I realised that I had been telling a story. In fact I had inadvertently been writing a book. I am only half way there so I thought let’s see if people want to read more about what I write. This proved to be a fairly safe bet at this early stage so I am going to keep writing in 2008 and see how it goes from there. If you haven’t downloaded this book yet I would recommend that you do it now! It will give you an overview of what life skills are all about.
I focused on giving and receiving in this article and it proved to be a very popular choice. At the time I wrote it, I crashed my server! Giving… a contentious issue but one that is relevant today.
4. Sowing good seeds for the future
A lot of people thought that sowing into the future on a daily basis was a good idea. For this reason, this post became very popular in a short space of time. About 3000 people read it in a short period of time which for this tiny blog was a total surprise.
3. 7 Signs of a failing relationship and what you can do about it
The seven signs were worked out in about 10 minutes from my own and my wife’s point of view. I have had many many broken relationships and restored most of them. Then again, was I prepared when my server crashed on this article and I was locked out of my bluehost account for a period of time? No I wasn’t. I learned something very valuable about blogging from writing this article. Make it so it’s understandable, readable and you will eventually find people will read what you write. Thanks to the 4000 people who read this article in that hour or two!
2. 4 ways to come up with cool ideas
You know what… never judge your posts on what happens today. I wrote this post way back in September and nobody except John from Business Opportunities and Ideas read it. John was gracious enough to hat tip me on his blog and I noticed it began to grow and grow and grow. Sometime last week it hit a peak and became my second most viewed post. The cool thing is that I live by these principles and to see it grow as it has gives me a lot of satisfaction.
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1. Having a William Shatner Attitude: Knowing what your worth
Okay so I stole Brian Clark’s technique… and it worked. I was reading the news as I do everyday when I read a comment by Shatner saying that if they make a Star Trek movie without him in it it would tank. I laughed so hard and then remembered how Brian had used Yogi to great effect in one of his posts. I leveraged Shatner’s fame and attitude to make a point about how you should believe in yourself and know your own ability (without being a blowhard). I love Shatner’s attitude. To me it says, ‘I am a winner and there isn’t a damned thing you can do about it!’ This one crashed my bluehost servers for 10 minutes. Thanks to the 5000+ people who love Shatner as much as I do.
Sadly the posts I most wanted to see make it didn’t. I want reveal what these were but if you are a long term reader you will note changes. I cannot make people like my boring content anymore than I can make them love Shatner. These posts you can easily find by looking under different categories and you will see why. My novel experiment tanked and since has been cancelled. In the same manner my creative projects bombed badly … so they too have died. Yet, in this mix I have learned that I love blogging and interacting with people even if they think I suck. Since August I have been pumping out gold and I will continue to do so throughout next year. Thanks to all who read anything I wrote and I wish you a happy new year.
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