The Drawing Board

It's great to start over.  Every day is a new chance to excel.  Sometimes though, when you've had to reset, revamp, reconnoiter, re-evaluate and recommit several times, discouragement can set in.

Will I ever get a grasp on the basics of blogging?

Will I ever find the time to watch all those videos so I don't have to reinvent the wheel?

Will my kid EVER involve himself in this blog?  It's business, but it's business for him; to secure his future.

Fortunately for me, there's always THE DRAWING BOARD.  I've been thinking about the Drawing Board ever since I looked at a post from Colman Carpenter, and was overwhelmed with a desire to try his client's cheese!  Colman thinks he needs to go back to the drawing board, because I wanted to try his client's cheese more than I wanted to improve his site metrics, but to my way of thinking, Colman has hit a home run.  I cain't find Comte Cheese, so I'm going to his website to see where I can get it.  My point is this:
By putting his clients' interest first and foremost, Colman stimulated a higher impulse within me; which was to try their product.  He wanted me to admire his site and I do--so much so that I wanted to be able to indicate in my feedback to the Comte folks that the site led me to the cheese, and not the other way around!  http://www.comte-usa.com/

I'm no closer to making a hat that looks like SpongeBob, but I haven't given up on that, either!  I'm gonna keep going back to the Drawing Board until I get it right.  I've made some butt-ugly hats in the process, but when I started, I couldn't make anything more than an aggravatingly ruffled doily.  I despise doilies.  They remind me of the more unpleasant aspects of aging.  Hats are for active people.  I admire Meladora's Creations, because its origins arise from necessity--a woman who left her country for broader horizons.  She found a way to contribute to the family coffers based on an enjoyable hobby.  She is now a global entrepreneur.

When you watch her tutorial videos, you see where she went back to the Drawing Board as often as necessary; often as a result of some truly unkind thumbs-down type of feedback!  It illustrates the reason we have a love-hate relationship with the thing.  It takes courage to go back there, fortitude to stay there until improvement happens, and motivation to come away from there with something new, fresh and innovative!

I'm going to pop in on +Colman Carpenter and ask him about the lack of hashtags associated with his posts.  He may not have had time to acquaint himself with their awesome power.  I thought they were merely a nuisance until I started paying attention to the likes of Mark Vang, Craig Fifield, and John Kellden.  Now I know they are indispensable.  The trick is to employ them elegantly and unobtrusively.  That's the innovation I want to bring forward.



A lot of people think Tony Robbins is a New-Age shill, but I don't agree.  Some of us need to know how to stop fighting with ourselves.  If you are your own worst enemy, usually you are the last to know.  I saw a meme of a man with his nose just clearing a brick wall.  He was perched precariously upon a pile of ladders.

I don't always know how to make the best use of my resources.  I know that in the scheme of things, as an American I am not poor!  However, I believe I should be more able.  More able to provide my sons with the extracurricular stuff that will help them become resourceful, self-starting adults.  More able to travel.  More able to seek education regarding what interests me.  More able to stop fighting an uphill battle, and win a damn war once in a while.

Thanks for taking the time to read this blog.

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