writing

Getting Back Into the Grove of Writing

When I started this blog, I thought I knew what I wanted to write about. Productivity, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Lifestyle Design…. But that wasn’t me being myself. It as me trying to be someone else. Sure, I’ve got a lot of passion for mens’ leadership and self improvement. But lifestyle designer, not really a fit. My writing style is generally… how I feel. I type what I feel. I express myself based on what I’m thinking at a given moment.

Seems like at the start of 2010 I was writing about 1 article every week. But that quickly dropped off at the end of March. Since March 30th I’ve posted 4 new blog updates. If you want advice on how not to grow your blog, posting four blog articles over an eight month period probably isn’t a good idea.

Part of the reason for not posting is trying to write about things that aren’t purely on my heart. I was trying to write about things I wanted to be interested about. the other half has been my business. I’ve been full time freelance web design/web developer this year. It’s been exciting, but it’s also been time consuming.

During this time some other idea’s for writing have crossed my mind, such as my A Mans Journey; a blog concept about the journey of self improvement which I’m working on putting together and kicking off Jan 1st 2011. I’d like to write more on my business blog about my thoughts about web design and development. But I haven’t posted on MK3Y.com since……. who knows??

So really, what’s the reason behind having a personal blog? Maybe just to ramble about what interests me. I’ve had this since since 2004 and it’s gone through a few different iterations, and it’s about to go thru one more.

I’m turning this site more into a personal thought bin on the world. You want to know about me, here is where you will find it.

Besides, if you believe all the social media snake oil, then controlling your online reputation should be important. So why not make it interesting?

So with that, one of the things I hope to do here, is get myself back into the creative spirit. Back into the groove of writing. I love to write. But I haven’t been practicing my writing. And really, to become a good writer, you’ve got to write a lot of crap to get to the real jewels. So that’s my intent with my personal blog.

Looks like there is road-work ahead.

link Posted: November 23, 2010 in: Thoughts On

LOST

Feeling Lost in my own skin

If you’ve noticed the Popular Posts to the right of this blog you’ll see a post entitled “Multi-Level Marketing Will Leave You Broke“. So it shouldn’t be any surprise to you to learn that I was once heavily involved in multi-level money wasting. It was about 4 years when I finally quit that business. And while the business plan wasn’t the best, there are things I miss about it. I miss the atmosphere of confidence. Attending those weekly meetings really opened up some doors for me in networking and communicating with people and being less of an introvert.

Over the last year since getting married and starting my new business my social circles have changed a number of times. Being in business for yourself means networking. Especially if you want to grow said business. It also means shaking hands, meeting with clients, making proposals and selling people on your services.

For a time I could boldly and confidently communicate with clients and with people Continue Reading…

link Posted: November 3, 2010 in: Self Development, Thoughts On

The Art of Self Motivation

You know it’s easier to stay up than it is to get up. For the past couple of months I’ve been wearing myself out, and not keeping up with things that I really should be. For example, when I wrote my article Fatties Don’t Climb Mountains; I made the declaration that I was going to give up caffeine and get my weight in check.  Well so much for that, because that lasted about a week. The reason why it didn’t last was lack of proper motivation and discipline.  For the past two weeks however I’ve been attempting to correct my lack of motivation. And so far it’s going great. Let me outline my success so far Continue Reading…

link Posted: July 15, 2010 in: Lifestyle

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Dream Big, Act Big

Today’s post comes from a guest Maren Kate  an entrepreneur who blogs about her escapades at Escapingthe9to5.com where she chides people to dream big, act bigger and run screaming from the status quo. My kind of thinker. Enjoy.

It is a wonderful thing to dream, but it’s an even better thing to act upon those dreams. Throughout my life I’ve dreamed of a certain lifestyle, certain freedoms and the chance to do the extraordinary, but it wasn’t until after college that I realized dreams were just realities waited to be acted upon. This realization changed my life, up until about 21 I’d always assumed that you could dream but life happened to you regardless. This couldn’t be further from the truth and as I ‘wake up’ more and more from the fog of ‘the real world’ I see that your life can be as big as you dream it but your dreams can only be as big as you are willing to act upon.

This is actually reason for celebration, it means you don’t have to wake up everyday and think ‘what will life hand me today’ instead you can literally happen to life, all it takes are baby steps. The way I act upon my dreams is three fold, I’ll explain my ‘action plan’ below: Continue Reading…

link Posted: March 30, 2010 in: Self Development

Car Crazy

My Car Obession

I don’t know about you but the lines on the New Audi RS5 are amazingly sexy. My mother hates when men uses the word sexy to describe objects. Is it me, or is it slightly gross that your mother would have an opinion on the word sexy.

Anyways, I love cars. I’ve owned two Camaro’s a 1989 Camaro and a 1987 IROC-Z which I was particularly found of. These two cars spawned my love for all things American Muscle. I later ended up purchasing an 1994 Pontiac Trans Am (I learned the LT1 is a horrible motor btw.) and a 2001 Mustang GT convertible which I was also very fond of. These cars spawned a real love for the road and for SPEED.

Needless to say, plenty of speeding tickets later, and a job loss which resulting in rapid decline of income, and I was reduced to driving a hand me down mini-van for three years until I got myself back on my feet.

The first car I was able to afford after that, I purchased really out of neccisity. I had gotten more into outdoor activities and adopted my dog Shelby, so I bought a used 1992 Oldsmobile Bravada from a friend. It was nice owning a car again that I enjoyed and actually paid for.

Leather seats, all-wheel drive, sunroof, it was a fun little truck for me and shelby to hit the trails in. Continue Reading…

link Posted: March 30, 2010 in: Geekdom

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