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How Long Have You Been Blogging? - Poll!

6 January, 2009 - Blogging - 24 Comments

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I’m often fascinated by the amount of growth that blogging is seeing, and I’m even more fascinated when I think of the amount of people I’ve met during my years in the blogosphere.

Maybe it’s just me, but every six months or so I seem to find new waves of blogging friends. Back when I first started taking blogging seriously, I was a part of a bunch of close blogging friends who would often link to each others posts and chat on social networks. I’ve mentioned them before, but I’ll do so again because that first group was close to my heart. Jane May. Jeff Kee and Steven Welton, just to name a few. Then that group broke up. Some people sold their blogs. Others had a change in niche. And others quit blogging for no other reason than “they weren’t succeeding”.

But then a new group came along. And once again, that group fell apart as some bloggers grew in to other groups, quit or changed direction.

Today, the group of bloggers I tend to mix with are the likes of Sid Savara, Rowell Dionicio, Davina Haisell, Barbara Swafford, Hunter Nuttall and Cath Lawson. There are many other bloggers who I interact with daily and whose blogs I comment on, and indeed who comment on my blog, but those six bloggers and me all tend to comment on each others blogs. As much as I hate to imagine it, I’m sure this group will eventually go their own ways. (Sorry to the guys I just mentioned up there, I don’t want to imagine a blogosphere without you but past experience has shown me one of you will quit, two of you will become so successful you sell up and live on an island, and well… you get the idea).

So as I stop to consider all that blogging has brought me, I ask a simple question: How long have you been blogging? Please vote in the poll and also let us know your thoughts regarding the friendships you’ve built. Do you have a group you tend to feel closest to? Is there a person you see writing comments on all the blogs you comment on? Let us know in the comments!

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Posted on 6 January, 2009 by Jamie Harrop
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Our Desire Affects Our Ability to Achieve

5 January, 2009 - Motivation - 11 Comments

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This is a guest post by my recent Twitter friend and blog subscriber, Mike of Mike’s Life. Mike is a forty-something, married, father of two. He lives in the hot part of central Europe, and has been running a conventional business for the last eight years. He started his blog in December 2008 in the hope of staving off impending bankruptcy during 2009, and to start a new career writing for a living - something he has always enjoyed. For reasons which are apparent on the blog, he cannot reveal his real identity, but has promised to do so before the end of 2009!

Within reason, you can achieve almost anything, as long as you have sufficient desire to do so. We can talk about self motivation techniques; we can receive motivation from other people, but ultimately the overriding factor in whether or not we achieve our objective, boils down to how much we desire it.

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Posted on 5 January, 2009 by Jamie Harrop
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What I learnt about Blogging in December & January Goals

3 January, 2009 - Blogging - 21 Comments

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Happy Saturday friends! I hope you’re all doing fantastic, sticking to your goals and resolutions, and recovering well from the holiday season. It is a stressful time, isn’t it? All the buying presents, wrapping presents, cooking, party hosting, beer drinking, wine tasting and game playing. Wow. Sure sounds stressful. Or not. I wonder why we get so stressed at this time of year then?

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Posted on 3 January, 2009 by Jamie Harrop
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Standing On My Decking…

31 December, 2008 - Motivation - 3 Comments

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Stiff from the days frost, I struggled to slide open the door. But as I did, I felt the cold, frigid air hit me. And then a smell. A smell of a burning stove.

As I looked down the valley from my garden decking, I could see nothing but fog. Visibility down to less than a quarter mile.

The night was still. I could see a Christmas tree in the house over my garden fence, and the faint flashing glow of the lights in the window upstairs.

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Posted on 31 December, 2008 by Jamie Harrop
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Blogging Questions Answered - Part 1

30 December, 2008 - Blogging, Polls - 7 Comments

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Hey friends! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday, didn’t eat too much, didn’t exercise too little, and didn’t fall in to the trap of waiting until Thursday to set yourself some new goals. Like me. Yes, it’s official. As a Generation-Y work-from-home(r), office lounger and aspiring cook, I ate far too much and exercised far too little. Unless you count Wii Boxing as a workout. (My back is still aching! Wimp!).

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Posted on 30 December, 2008 by Jamie Harrop
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