The Evolving Blogger

Short Stuff from Southcoast, MA – Blogging is great therapy! When I first started blogging back in 2009, it was to support my marketing consulting business. I played around with and blogged about a concept I developed called business engineering and gave myself the title of marketing engineer. Through that exercise, I hope I informed as much as I learned. Around March of this year, I switched gears to where I am now.

Since then, I’ve been, as the title of this blog page states – In Search of a Personal Stability Zone. Am I any more stable than when I first started? It’s not for me to say. However, I do feel I’ve worked a couple of things out in my head. It’s also given me a lot more topic ideas to blog about.

So, here I am today. This is the first of the short stuff posts I’ve been meaning to do. Why? There’s too many things I want to look into and right now it’s better for me to do hit and run postings on as many topics as I can rather than go deep on a couple. Besides, everyone’s attention span is smaller than it used to be. Too much social networking – so little time! But, if I stumble on something I want to linger longer on – I will! Blogging is great therapy and it’s helped me to be more aware of certain things and balancing writing about topics readers want to read rather than writing about stuff I want to write.

With that in mind, I’m contemplating renaming this blog site (still a working title) to: The Evolving Blogger. My mission, should I decide to accept it, will be to blog about my thoughts on what we need to smile, survive and succeed in the 21^st Century. Hopefully, those thoughts will be sought out by and subscribed to by blog readers. What prompted this yet another change or adjustment? My – A Twisted Finger of Fickle Fate - post back in April of this year. It had the highest hit rate of any post ever. It’s been read by almost five times as many people as the other posts. All of the other posts are pretty much a close second individually. Maybe it was more about how I wrote it than what I wrote about. Maybe it was enchanting?

In Guy Kawasaki’s latest book - Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions – he speaks of enchantment as likability, trustworthiness, and a great cause. In my upcoming posts I will attempt to increase the likeability of my topics, gain your trust and explore the great causes; the one’s you’re interested in. Here’s a couple of working titles that may give me an opportunity to get you smiling, as well as, offer opinions on surviving in business and a few ideas I’ve come across to help in succeeding as a human being.

Thoughts on Sustaining Better Health, Lifestyles and Legacies

• The Longer the Whiskers, the Fatter the Cat. – Food for thought about how we eat.
• What to do if Your Child Wants to be an Artist – A report from the Island of Misfit Toys.

Opinions on Doing Business the Way We Forget to

• Cukes or Zukes? Cabbage or Lettuce? - Attracting, training and rewarding super employees.
• Busy Better Be Profitable! - Actions require accountability.

Stories to Ponder & Pass Along

• My Buddhist-Quaker Teacher - Thanking someone who is no longer around to thank.
• A Roundabout Legacy of Place - UMass Dartmouth’s architecture doesn’t inspire straight answers.

REMEMBER: If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time. – Benjamin Franklin said that!

Please stay tuned as I evolve, adapt and move on.