Living On The Edge!
Recently, I have read GaryVee’s CrushIt, which I highly recommend by the way. In his book, he talks about doing things you want to do and if you are doing exactly what you want to do “right now”, you should quit that or at least work very hard to do something else.
I have to admit I share the same life philosophies as GaryVee because I feel that you should be doing what you “really” want to do. Right now, I make a living from blogging and other online ventures because I ENJOY IT.
The thing I enjoy the most about blogging is that I don’t sell any “physical products”, need “employees” that I have to meet everyday (and baby-sit), and that your business is making money even if you take couple weeks off or off to sleep.
It has been a dream of mine actually since I was 9 years old, when I did sell some digital products online using my 9600-baud dial-up modem and Prodigy.
Most importantly, I happened to be at the right place at the right time, after the invention of internet and after the dot com boom. Had I been trying to start my blogging business back in 2000 or tried starting it now, the timing would have been off.
When I started blogging it was August of 2006. Blogging was well known around the internet but most people didn’t know even what “blog” meant. I would say that’s right before blogging sort of started taking off.
I saw the potential that blogging could bring over the next years and I took the chance to really “blog” it ALL.
Nowadays, virtually every company in the world have a blog if they want to have a visible online presence. And I still see a lot of room for growth as blogging has not “fully matured”.
The point of this blog post is that I like living on the edge. Even in real life, one of the favorite things I like to do is to go to the roof of a 90-story building and stand on the edge. Blogging is like that, even though it has matured a lot already, it’s one of those web technologies that’s on the bleeding edge of internet.
It’s a feeling of “thrill” and adrenaline pumping up from your toes to your brain. That’s what I call living your life and if you are not doing that every minute, perhaps you are not doing what you truly enjoy.
Of course, there are people who’s personality might be different and they enjoy being safe, having a stable job, and believing in what the masses say. I will tell you right now I am not one of them, I like being a bit off, odd, or even weird to some extent, all so I can be unique than anyone else in the world.
If you want to change your life now and start living on the edge, try GaryVee’s CrushIt, highly recommended for a drastic change in your life.
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