Do You Ask, Why Not Me
Personal Development August 20th, 2007
Okay, it’s Monday morning and your back at your evil J O B. You have your coffee, your blog, and an overwhelming sense that you can do better than where you are right now. Your tired of doing what you somehow find yourself doing at the moment. What you want to do is something fun and creative. You want to get paid for being who you are and not what you pretend to be. You ask yourself, “Why not Me”. How do I know this about you? I know this because that’s me too.
Most all of us have to do a self check at some point to understand who we really are and who we really want to be. The questions can be hard. The answers can be harder and not everyone will be willing to bridge the gap to make a change in their life. The truth is you were created with talents and abilities that don’t get utilized effectively and at some point you have to come face to face with that and decide what you are going to do about it.
You are reading this blog because you want to do something more or different than you are doing today. You believe you have the skills, the desire, and the talent to do more than sit in a cubical all day answering emails and filling out performance reports. Deep down you know that if you will just decide to push on your invisible comfort zone, then you will grow into the person you are suppose to be. All you have to do is decide and then take action.
To illustrate the point, here is a Big Idea interview with Alton Brown from the Food Network where he talks about when he decided to be who he really was and not just who he found himself to be. Alton Brown knew he wanted to do more than what he found himself doing and he decided to make a change. Now, after much work and desire, he is one of the most well known stars of the Food Network. If you need a lift today or a word of encouragement, then check out this very honest interview. It is one of my favorite inspirational clips. I guarantee it will be your’s as well.
Now, in all of this keep in mind that when we serve others we increase our value exponentially and push ourselves much farther than we would if we only tried to serve ourselves. So today, focus on how you can serve others and bring value to their lives. Decide to be more than you have been and be willing to feel afraid of stepping outside your comfort zone. You don’t have to be on the Food Network to be a success, but you do have to decide and then take action.
You can do it. You know you can and so do I.
See you on the beach,
Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com
P.S. Even though I am not a big fan of using Blogspot as a professional blogging platform, I am a fan of FoodWishes.com where I originally found this clip. So a big thanks to Chef John.
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August 20th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Hello Charles, thanks for the plug. Just curious about your statement “Even though I am not a big fan of using Blogspot as a professional blogging platform” What is your main issue with this platform? I’m pretty new to video blogging and would love your take on this. Thanks again!
August 20th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
John, My main issue with Blogspot, WordPress.com, Typepad.com, Tumblr, and the like is that they ultimately have control over your blog. Period. If they decide to change their policies, or just pull the plug on your blog, then you have no real recourse. That may be okay for a hobby blog or a “temporary” project, but when I see a blog like yours that is so well thought out, it just makes me nervous. As you continue to produce quality content for your blog, it’s value grows. A blog with value is an asset and should be thought of as something worth protecting. I recommend WordPress (the software, not WordPress.com) to everyone I meet. It is easy to use, easy to customize, and easy to backup as part of a business protection process. I know blogspot makes it easy to setup a blog, but easy come is easy go as they say and that just isn’t groovey in my opinion.
Let me know if you having any other questions.
Charles
August 20th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Thanks for the wisdom. I do have the domain Foodwishes.com. If I choose to convert all my content to that domain using something like wordpress. What about my existing blogspot traffic? Do I have to start all over re: links, my page rank, technorati rank, etc.
I know I’m only a 4/10 blog and get about 500-600 visitors a day, but I am concerned about moving to a new URL. What are your thoughts? Can I redirect from blogspot to Foodwishes.com?
Thanks! I owe you a special request recipe demo!
August 20th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Yes, that is a legitimate consideration. Search engines like Google consider each page on a domain as a separate entity that gets rated alone. So, really that means that even though you redirect foodwishes.com to foodwishes.blogspot.com, the two are considered separate entities. My recommendation if you ever considered making a change would be to run parallel sites until you had effectively transitioned yourself off of blogspot. You could post to both sites and include a “moving” message and link to the new site for all the existing readers and you could link from the blogspot site to the foodwishes site which would be like borrowing PR from yourself. Once you finally decided to make the move final, you would want to create a final post on blogspot linking to the new site to let everyone know where they can find your new site. I agree that you would take an initial page rank hit, but with good in coming links, and your good content, it would be a temporary issue. I have more to say about moving RSS feeds, but I’ll save that for later.
Charles
August 20th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
nice post, love the blog!
August 21st, 2007 at 12:24 am
Thanks for all the info.