I haven’t updated this blog over a month and I think that sometimes the best way to learn something is to give it a rest for a while, and when you go to try it again, you are better than when you left off. I think this has something to do with your perception of what you are doing (this applies to almost anything in life, not just blogging). When you do something for a long time you get a bit of tunnel vision and you have to take a step back and reevaluate what your goals and aspirations in life are.

When I started this blog I told myself a gigantic lie. This lie was that I was only going to use this blog to tell the story of making money and not to become what actually makes me the money. I then proceeded to try to get my site really popular. Tip #1- If you want to make a site popular, it works better to make a good site and let people come to it than have a crappy site and try to promote it. Tip #2 - If you want your site to make money by telling people how much money you make online, I have news for you…It’s been done. Not only has it been done, but unless you have some sort of new information that hasn’t been written about on all of the top Make Money blogs, you are almost guaranteed to fail at making the kind of money that makes it worth it to continue spending your precious time updating and promoting your blog.

I knew deep down that I would not make any substantial amount of money from this site but I tried (yah for $26.32) but in trying I learned a lot about websites and the more inner workings of the internet.

I also learned a few things about life in my month long hiatus. First - I realized that unless something directly benefits you should get rid of or stop doing whatever that thing is. Second - I learned that having what seem to be unrealistic goals will get very good reactions that have absolutely no weight because you can tell that people don’t believe you can achieve them. Third - I want to be able to actually do whatever I want whenever I want, and that will take quite a bit more money than $15/hour every hour of everyday, and at the same time require me to use less of my time to do it. I need to find a way to make tons of money with very little work, or, my preferred way, to make a ridiculous lump sum of money after a period of work no longer than 1 year. Fourth - If you have seen The Last Lecture you will already know that brick walls are put in your way to sift out who really want something from those who don’t want that something as badly as you do. Fifth and finally - If you only focus on what matters in life you will be a much happier person. This means that, unless you lead a very sad life, Blogcatalog friends, reading John Chow dot com, and Entrecard are out, just to name a few.

I never would have thought that I would have done a thing like this but I have, I watched something that was featured on Oprah (gasp!!). I opened my mind to the fact that other people might just know something that I don’t.

I watched The Secret and am in the process of reading (well, if listening to it counts) the book. Now if you know what the book/movie is about you will know the great power of the law of attraction but what really got me was that I knew all of the principals in the book/movie and actually got goosebumps while watching the movie! I have always known that if you think about what you want, you will get it. I have personal experiences in my life of this. I’m not going to get into the specifics because they sound a little to pompous for my liking but the law of attraction is how I got both my car and truck, and also how I have been hired at any job I have ever had.

I know how crazy it sounds to think something into existence (it still sounds crazy to me, even though I have seen the product of it) but if you actually take the principal to heart you will see results. All you have to do is think about what you want and that is what you will get. If you you think about what you don’t want, that is also what you will get (even if you are thinking about what you don’t want in a positive way, i.e. “I want to get out of debt”).

This is the principal behind this website as well. I simply know that this website will be a gateway to making money for me, whether the money comes from ads on the site or through something else, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that I can and will be able to make $15/hour 24/7 within a year. I basically expect that I will be wildly successful and therefore have started to believe it.

There are many names for The Secret; Law of attraction, autosuggestion, positive thinking, or just expecting things to happen, but they all have the same basic idea, that what you think about is what you will receive.

I strongly recommend watching the movie, reading the book, or better yet, both. If you don’t know about The Secret the principals of it will change you life (if you let them) for the better and if you do know what The Secret is all about, this will just reconfirm how powerful The Secret really is.

DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated with anything to do with The Secret and do not, by any means, 100% blind faith believe everything in the book/movie. There are quite a few things that are a little too nutty for me to believe but for the most part I do believe in the principals (especially because I have seen examples in my own life) and have put into practice some of the things suggested in The Secret that I didn’t know.

Now I may have a somewhat biased opinion on the matter but I spent a lot of time yesterday going to other blogs in the “make money/business” niche and I came to the conclusion that I am better than about 75% of them. In this niche, you get the blog that someone put together just to make money. Nothing but ads. Everywhere. Very small articles that say pretty much nothing which are also littered with ads. Then you get the person that started the blog and has yet to do much of anything on it. There are very infrequently updated with information that you can get anywhere else, more easily and faster. And then there is the boring blog. There is a reason why some bloggers make money from their blog and others don’t; the ones who make money are interesting. The monotony of some blogs makes me look at one post and never go to the site again.

Since I would consider this blog to be neither full of ads, infrequently updated or boring I would have to say that my blog is better than probably 75% of all blogs. I would also say that this blog will be better than more 75% of blogs in not too long just because I only stared the blog a few weeks ago and there aren’t all that many posts yet. So move over John Chow and Jeremy Schoemaker there’s a new kid in town.

Well, after a lot of researching, reading and a great deal of trial and error I have finally made my first post. When I started I had very little knowledge in the area of making websites besides a web page design course in about grade 10, but I thought that I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting myself into. After buying my domain and hosting I had quite a steep learning curve. In school we had only made very basic HTML pages with very basic code, not to mention that when I was in grade 10 it was 2003 or 2004 (don’t remember the semester) and it’s now 2008. Anyone who knows anything about technology could tell you that I was a caveman coming to a very strange future. I wasn’t aware that people had stopped writing code for each page and now have programs do all their work for them (for example I didn’t even know what wordpress was). If I have already lost you, don’t worry because this is what I am trying to help people with; building a successful business from the ground up. This is the documentation of every step I have and will be taking to make money (not just online either) with no previous experience simply because I have no previous experience. I want to help people achieve not only their financial goals but also help people live a happier and more fulfilling life. Stay tuned because I am still working some things out with the site but I will have more posts in the coming days and weeks.

P.S. I will not try to sell you anything directly through this site. The only thing I will sell from this site is ad space. However if I do try to sell something, it will only be something that I have used and know works well because I truly do want to help people reach their personal and financial goals.