part of the dilemma of running a blog network on your own (yes no more partners now except for my lovely vie) is that you tend to micromanage and end yourself with a stack of endless “chores”. of course you only have 24 hours a day and if you’re like the rest of us you spend 1/3 of that time sleeping. that leaves us with only 16 hours left but then there are those long meals in front of the tv and going out to the beach, walking the dog, playing with the dog, swimming in the pool, et cetera et cetera. life such we call it. so most of the time you end up with only a couple of hours left for this thing i like to call money making (read: work).
of course you can hire people to blog for you. but you still have to edit every post unless you hire professional bloggers with top dollars. but what if you can’t afford that? even if you can afford that, you’re still stuck with wordpress upgrades, plugin updates, tweaking the design, seo, social networking, and so on. that’s definitely something you can never outsource, right?
wrong.
it all comes down to one question. do you want perfection (which has many different definitions, different for each individual) or do you want success? i like to think of perfection in terms of art. if you want to treat your blog (or blogs) as art then extending your arms by hiring others can be a tricky thing. over time the blog will not be so “you” anymore. it will be a group identity. you can never call it your own anymore. but if you want success, on the other hand, think of hiring others as leverage. leverage, as many would agree is “doing more with less” or in my simple terms “getting somebody else to do your dirty work”.
you can view it any way you want, but in my case i think it’s the motive that counts. if you realize that you want something bigger but at the same time find yourself incapable of expanding your own efforts, why not hire people who can. yes you will lose money, but that’s priceless freedom you’re purchasing there, buddy. and if your motivations are good you could be helping another right at the same time. you could be feeding a hungry blogger, or a designer, etc.
so, do you leverage yourself? i’m curious to find out.
we flew from dps to ckg today and found ourselves stuck in traffic for 4 hrs. we’re back in indo!! blehh.. anyway my dad is needing an angioplasty tomorrow so i’m spending a week here to take care of him.
the network is doing good even though there are a few bumps along the road. we’re starting to resync again and things should be on the up again in no time.
but people.. don’t get me started. met a few very interesting characters in the past few weeks but also had to deal with many not so interesting demons.
i should shut up and go to sleep before i push away my positive vibes again.
adios.
the problem with making money while you sleep is that you’re tempted not to ever wake up. this is a potential problem because when something isn’t properly maintained it will eventually start to shrink. and i can’t afford anything shrinking right now especially when there’s still many steps ahead before i can finally become the world’s first hegemon.
anyways…
i’m feeling complacent at the moment and it’s probably success’ worst enemy. as far as i’m concerned i make money when i sleep, when i crap, when i have sex, and even when i’m not thinking about money. money money money, gosh i hate money so much i want to make it disappear. right now i use my cards most of the time so i don’t have to touch money, but i’m still not big enough to that point where i can have my “men” take care of my little (and large) dealings.
pshhh…
i better get back to work then. for starters i upgraded everything today, my blogs, my servers, my lifestyle, my security and my physique lol. good start for a brand new year.
what are you guys up to? hit me up, will ya?
people decaying around me. or is it my vision that’s decaying? structures crumbling down. the earth cracks and swallows everything dead and living into oblivion.
absolute horror.
darkness imprisoning me
all that I see
absolute horror
i cannot live
i cannot die
irapped in myself
body my holding cell
landmine has taken my sight
taken my speech
taken my hearing
taken my arms
taken my legs
taken my soul
left me with life in hell
~metallica
but yet there’s still that light at the end of the tunnel. it’s out of focus but it’s bright enough to spark new life into this darkness.
why?
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for life
because it’s easier to ask for fish then to learn how to fish. i say this to all the morons out there who never want to listen to what wiser people have to say and keep hounding their friends and family for help a.k.a. money.
why is it that people don’t want to fucking listen and learn to grow the fuck up so they can take care of themselves? i see people who can’t even take care of themselves getting married, having children and end up having to take care of their ailing parents. sometimes they even buy expensive cars or property for the sake of feeding their ego, ending in deep debts for the rest of their lives. life is truly fucked up around here.
i was fucked up too, so shut up and don’t tell me i don’t know what it’s like. i’ve been there all right, but i got out of that world, and i did by listening, by learning from wiser, smarter people, not by being an ass and doing things my own stupid way.
when i was poor i used to hate rich people, but now the richer i get (not just financially) i start to hate poor people. not necessarily because they’re poor, but because 99 percent of the time poor people have poor minds. they don’t wanna fucking think for fuck’s sake, for their unborn baby’s sake. invest in your own damn mind for once, stop wasting money for elaborate weddings and expensive dinners when you can’t even afford it.
ok enough of the f-word but i’m just pissed that a lot of my ‘friends’ refuse to listen when i try to help them out of their misery but then come back to me a few weeks, months, years later asking for help. and why does help always come in the form of money?
so basically people want fish, but no one wants to give a shit about fishing.
‘help me mister my baby hasn’t eaten for 3 days. ‘
fuck those people. they should think about using condoms before they make babies.
JErm is a web designer and an ex-9-to-5-er semi-retiring in Bali. He runs a small 
