What makes my life

Why o why do all marketeers try to call things very commonly known other names? What wil it help me to have to figure out what web ‘n walk means. Why don’t they just call it complete internet? Why is a car with a slightly bigger wheel an SUV instead of a slightly bigger car with al slightly bigger wheel? If it makes sense, sure give it another name. Otherwise, please stick to your language. It would make things a lot easier more understandable an probalby more profittable. Why… just ask.

Decluttering is not that difficult. It’s like changing your habits not more not less. One simple tip that can be done on a day to day basis is this.

Commit yourself to doing this. As soon as one new piece of info or junk arrives in you in stream at least work away two older items befor starting with this one. Chances come and go but leaving chances stacked up on a day to day basis is not a good way of dealing with your chances.

I got of to a bad start. No posts for days. So I’m only human. I need to get the habit. I will be posting this evening again.

If you have read my previous article on decluttering for beginnners you must know this will not be an easy task. Another tip on how to change your behaviour in order to help declutter and make more structure for yourself.

3. Claim some time to do this task

A lot of the time people think that doing something new can be done during your other tasks. But that is not true. Because if it could be done during your other tasks wouldn’n you have done it already? So claim you hour a day by putting it on your calendar and telling everyone around you that you are claiming this time to achieve your goal. This might be one of the biggest steps to take to acknowledge that decluttering and structuring takes time. Be confident you will get your precious minutes back, with intrest.

More to read on this issue.

A tip if you’d also like some of those short checklists to help achieve more:

• Less Stress: Declutter Your Desk: simple article 30 seconds read and a no-brainer.
  
• Detach yourself from stuff: 1 min read on why your attachment does not help you to achieve your goals.
• Professional purgers’ organizing tip: 3 mi read on how to delete stuff from your life in general.

You can read a lot about decluttering and structuring yourlife. All those people used to working in a clean environment are perfect in describing it is so easy and it is just a simple trick. In real life I feel like a kid in a candy store when reading about decluttering and structuring your life. I’d like to but I feel I can not and I keep failing. Where to start and what to do when I fail? I felt like helping myself and those wishing they would be better on structuring and decluttering by writing some articles on what to do. This wil not be a top 10 tricks or a quick how to hack your way through life. I tend to focus on real behavioral change without any academic claims.

1. Its a habit change not a trick.

When you like to live a more structured life with time for yourself realize that you are about to change your habits. This is not done overnight and it will not feel as help in te beginning. It’s like quitting to smoke which I did so I must know how this works. Whenever you stop you feel a sense of euforia. Great, I have stopped smoking (or started decluttering). Then after a few hours you feel the urge to smoke. It gets stronger and stronger and finally you grab a sigarette and smoke it. This works the same with decluttering. You started to declutter great. You picked up a big brown bag and dropped everything in this bag just to get rid of it. Then new stuff keeps coming in. You keep working to put everything in the right place but eventually you cannot keep up. You feel like you have failed and both when you stop smoking as wel as when you start to declutter you give up on your effort feeling a failure. This is all because what you are trying to change is your behaviour. This is one of the most difficult things to change. You are acustomed to your behaviour as are others. They act to you in a way with their expectations of your reactions taken in acount. They will not help you. It’s is your wish not their command. Be prepared to work on your behaviour.

2. Quit quittin’

This is the easiest part which is just as much the most difficult part. When you have set your hopes on a goal accept your own failure and start over again and again. The same when you quit smoking. If you have failed yourself and taken a cigarette smoke it, enjoy it and then try to quit for a longer period of time. Over time this period wil be hours, days, weeks and all of a sudden you haven’n smoked in a year. Same with decluttering. When everything is a mess again. Pick out the old big brown bag again and start cleaning. Only then you can help yourself. Start over and over again. The time between the times you have to start over again keeps getting longer and longer until you feel you never have to pick that bag again. But don’t fear it, someday you will need it again.

Could it be possible to do more with my budget? London based entrepreneur Marius Loredan thinks he has found the key. Marius has thought about how he could promote his business. He can only generate as much traffic as his budget alows him. So he figured he should use the rest of us to help eachother.

It is all based on the thought: “A page is only a page, it will be indexed only once by search engines, how much info can you add to a single page? How can you run a business from only a single page? but with a blog site, you can add a lot of information”

MillionBlogs.org allows users to create their own fully functional weblog based on the word/phrase purchased. It should be useful because users could sell/rent advertising space for other interested webmasters and the visitors will find MillionBlogs as an unique informational platform with news and info from various sources.

“I would like to believe that MillionBlogs.org will become a very popular informational platform with blogs providing the latest news from different niches, a place where you don’t have to access 20 different websites to get the info you want.”

Marius, this is what we all are used to call “The Internet”. You can have your own keyword (a domainname), you own your site, you are allowed to sell your own blog, sell your own advertising etcetera. What is new? The only thing I see is that you are creating an artificial scarcity and in return I get the benefit that others will be contributing to my marketing budget? This is in my opinion not more than a pyramid scheme.

I stumbled upon the Varnish project. I read through the material and I like what I read. HTTP Accelerator. Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. Varnish is targeted primarily at the FreeBSD 6 and Linux 2.6 platforms, and will take full advantage of the virtual memory system and advanced I/O features offered by these operating systems.

But I am left with one simpel question. What does it do?

Since I am new to Wordpress I did not know I had to look for a layout / theme that is widget ready. Therefor I had a theme that was not widget ready but nice. So now I have a widget ready layout.

I added a better Tagging Engine called Simple Tags. This is hte basis of a better tagging of articles. This is needed for a tagcloud on the site. Great plug-in and it integrates perfectly. Now I can batch edit tags. This will surely help my get a better vision on what’s hot and what’s not on my blog.

I just added Google analytics. So far one of the additions I wish has been received. What’s up next. I’ll be posting whenever there are some visitors ;-). Starting a weblog is nog easy.