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Day Six Part Two - Inspired by Steve Pavlina
As part of learning how to make this blog work, I have been bust researching as much as I can about other successful blog writers.
One name which keeps cropping up is Steve Pavlina, who writes a personal development blog www.stevepavlina.com
Steve is a superb writer and I was so inspired by an article I read this evening, that I have decided to post a link to it right here, right now.
In the article, Steve tells us how he was at rock bottom before he got the courage to go his own way and started to earn his income from the web, and that, of course, will be familiar to anyone reading my story.
But he also teaches a powerful lesson - don't focus on making money, focus instead on creating (content) and delivering it to as many people as possible (traffic).
It's a long read, so get a coffee now before you click the link, enjoy it and pleaser register so you can post comments, because I really want to know what you think.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/12/how-to-make-lots-of-money-durin...
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Read Steve's article. He makes a lot of good points.
Confused me a bit when he first spoke against being an affiliate, and later suggested incorporating it, but I guess his point was that creating and delivering value needed to be the primary thing, and if they were, judicially choosing others' created value to deliver, was an added option.
In any case, my conscience wouldn't allow me to promote something when I wasn't clear what ideas it was putting forward, its quality or its truth. So it was a point already settled for me.
I know what Steve means by being enslaved to a job, shackled to it by fear, never thinking of any alternative except perhaps to swap one job for another. BUT, I don't think a job is ALWAYS a bad idea. It's one's attitude to a job that is important. The thing is to be in control of it, and not it of you.
If it's something you enjoy doing, and you are being well-treated, and you're learning, a job can be a very good thing - if only to train and inspire you to set up your own enterprise. Or to become so good at it or some aspect of it, that you can write your own ticket in the corporate world and get the payment and treatment you deserve on your terms.
Besides that, there are those jobs we'd want to hope someone would be willing to do, or the community would be impoverished without them. Jobs where setting up your own enterprise would definitely not be the thing. Like being President, or an ambassador, or an upholder of the law. Jobs in which someone is willing to be answerable to the community for the good of the community.
I think Steve is right about the economic recession, and the bail-out and stimulous packages. Don't know a great deal about economics, but I consider his arguments there to be good common sense.
Wow, this has gotten to be rather long. But you did say you'd like to know what we think!