Money makes us feel better, right?
It's a choice we make. Live to Work or Work to Live. Neither is safe bacause we all end up as rotting corpses.
Yesterday I was so jack-tired of marking, I stopped and did a bit of online retail therapy. I bought these two marketing books. AU$50 incl. shipping. Expensive but it I felt great for 1 minute and then it was back to marking and wondering why I’d just blown $50. Happy … then sad. Two minutes. Maybe it’ll be the best investment I’ll ever make.
While I do love authoring websites and designing logos, making films, teaching, music etc., blah blah who cares – I also want to see if it’s really possible to make money just by Blogging. There are a lot of 6 (and now 7) figure salaried bloggers out there – so much so that even the law wants its share. But those guys aren’t really just Blogging. They are using their Blog to warm markets for their products – usually e-books or stupid PDF files that no publisher will touch. The Pro-bloggers tell us to share our skills with others and yet not one of them has a skill aside from making money through blogging. But are they happy just blogging? I think so. They feel wanted. Wouldn’t you be happy if you felt that way? …
What’s particularly intriguing about the making money blogging franchise is that if you litter your Blog text with keywords like becoming a millionnaire or work from home or get rich quick – the spooky Google Ads (right) start echoing what you are talking about and all the thieves come out – advertising their wares. I enjoy these little bloggy moments so much that I subscribed to ProBlogger’s 31 day Blogging course and I’m trying to do a BLOG every day – no matter how big, small or relevant my postings. It’s a lot of fun.
Millionnaires work way too hard anyway and often have no friends. A good way to lose friends is to join get-rich quick schemes like Amway, Landmark Forums or Scientology. I check out Problogger’s tweets every day and he just seems to be workin’ around the clock. My late father worked his fingers to the bone and it’s … just pointless. He died the same week his Super came through. There’s go to be a lesson there.
No. I won’t be making work or money a priority any time soon. Feet give us more freedom than money. But you have to walk . . . Don’t run or you’ll wear them out.
