Back to basics.

See, even Seth Godin is on about money and what to spend your time on.
I just read his post called ‘The Wealthy Gardener’.

So here he goes;

At a seminar at the local library, someone asked, “how do I make a lot of money blogging?”

My guess is that at last week’s seminar, the one on growing orchids, no one raised his hand and said, “how do I make a lot of money growing orchids?”

Sure, people make money growing orchids. Some people probably get rich growing orchids. Not many though. And my guess is that the people who do make money gardening probably didn’t set out to do so.

Blogging is much the same way. The best bloggers make money, but mostly as a side effect, not as a direct result of setting out to use a blog to make a profit. It’s just too long a ramp up time, too frustrating and too uncertain to be the best path to make a living.

If it makes you happy (and your readers happy) it’s a great place to start. Step by step you get better at it, and then you discover the ancillary benefits. But the ancillary benefits (ie money) kick in best when you don’t set out solely to achieve those.

And Seth and I are spot on.
I think we so blind ourselves with looking for get rich quick schemes that we forget that at the moment we are not well equipped to do anything quick and especially not getting rich.

We are dumbed down and sluggish and unfortunately we have to work at everything we do.
I think until we enter the new ‘WE’ paradigm we are kind of stuck with working our way slowly to wherever we want to go.
That means that at the moment every money activity still requires work and you might as well do something you like doing, have a life, discover the ancillary benefits and give up looking for instant miracles in the money department.

So I write my blog because I like it and I get some neat reactions when my posts really hit a nerve. Cool.
It also supports Life Leverage and what we teach and that is cool too.

Has it given me other things too? You bet.
I am learning again, I am up with the play with new technology, I even twitter and I feel good about myself and proud of my internet savviness.

And on top of that, I being internet savvy because of my blog means Life Leverage launched its own e-learning site. How is that for ancillary benefits?

And I being internet savvy also has me involved with another beautiful exciting initiative for women in business called Entrepreneurette, a social network site where women in business meet.

Just like my friends with the Marimba, I am having fun.

Now some mindgym.
Do an audit. During a whole week enter in your diary every day the times you get to spend on things you really like doing and note down what those things are.
Notice how much effort it takes to make time to do what you want every day.

Then decide, are you a slave or are you free? And please do tell me what you are finding out.