In the book “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron, it talks about the use of morning pages to get started writing in the morning when you first get up.
It is a way to take the thoughts jumping around in your head and to put them “on paper” so that those thoughts get out of your head and you can actually then look at them and see what a load of huey most of them are.
It is sort of like taking out the trash in the morning, or taking a shower to clean the body and feel refreshed. The unedited and spontaneous scribbling to just “talk” to someone when you don’t really feel like really “talking” to someone.
As Anne Frank said in her famous diary, “Paper is more patient than man.” Which wasn’t her original thought, but it is where I heard it first.
Anyway, getting a cup of coffee, sitting up in bed or on the porch and writing down your random thoughts on a blog is a great way to do your morning pagers. The great thing is, your “work” doesn’t get lost nor does it take up physical space and you can decide whether or not to actually “publish” it for public view or keep to yourself as a “draft”.
No matter what you do, it is catalogued by date and by category so that you can revist that morning at a later time. I think it is a brilliant way to start the day.
One thing I thought about this morning is that this blogging platform has two purposes. The first is to just blog about what you want to blog about and for whatever reason and the second is to be able to make money with it. As the blog’s creator says, “You are actually doing both at the same time.”
It is possible to make money from blogging in different ways, either through promoting and selling the blogging platform itself, or by talking about something else you want to make money from promoting, or both at the same time.
For me, I do better if I just blog for the art of it. When I get caught up in trying to make a buck every time I write a blog or do a video, then what I write about suffers.
They talk about choosing the intention of what you are doing and to do that. So, blogging “artistically” without the intention of making money is obviously a valid pursuit.
Plus there is the fact that when selling something in the affiliate and network marketing niche the first line of promotion should be simply product based and not based on how much money you can make from promoting it, although I can’t think of a business that produces something without the intention to selling it.
I enjoy writing about things I think about and don’t like getting caught up in an angle to make money because that draws me away from the real intention behind a blog in connection with my project Boredom to Brilliance.
The blog gets you into the action of creativity.
Right now I am blogging at six in the morning, my eyes are closed and I am just typing away on the keyboard, looking only to format my writing as I go.
This morning my eyes are a bit irritated and it is going to be a very hot and humid day. The hedge needs to be trimmed, the lawn needs to be mowed and there yard needs to be trimmed, all work that is actually enjoyable when you take your time and doing it in the right spirit, but in this heat…well, not so much fun.
But, blogging is cool work, if you want to call it work.
Nothing is work if you love what you are doing and doing something you love is an attractive way of living. I cannot live any other way.
Blogging can become a wonderful hobby, you are your own publisher, you can create an entire newspaper, your own radio station and your own video station with a blog. It is really the best place to blast your creativity and share it with the world, or not.
But, probably the most interesting aspect about a blog is that it is a book about you written by you and published by you. At the end of a year, you have written a book, by the end of 5 years you have produced a series and by the end of 10 years you have written a novel, by the end of a lifetime you have become a literary force.
So a blog can be a permanent fixture of your life and it is a great hobby to have for kids, young people and people growing older. I really believe in the blog and I believe in this blogging platform because it has the ability to help people earn extra money at the same time, and because it is something very personal and valuable to you You and those who sell it will never want to stop using it because their work would then just simply, disappear.
In today’s world I think people don’t do enough reading and writing. Today, everyone is watching TV or listening to radio, and it is a mumbo jumbo of 3 second sound bites, video clips and distorted facts that are serving to reduce the human mind to a lump of fat lard.
The value of writing has been lost because people are told in school to do it and it is seen as drudgery because you know you are going to be judged on it. We aren’t taught to read and write because it is fun, we are told to do these things because of a threat of getting a bad grade. Writing for results is something I have always not been into.
So, those are my thoughts this morning, just randomly coming out the ends of my fingertips. I am so glad I learned how to type in high school. I don’t know where I would be without it, I just wished I had learned to play the piano as well as I type, but I guess it is a bit more complicated than typing….but there too, it would be cool to be able to keep a record of your playing wouldn’t it? Anyway…
…a demain!