Gary Halbert said titles are the most important part of a copy. I was just thinking… well, why the hell am I talking about Gary Halbert? Out of those thousands and perhaps millions of people, I listened to some of his speech and he became kind of an authority in copywriting in my perspective. So, Gary Halbert said that, so that must be so. In consequent, people tend to have all kinds of authorities. Authorities, that lead people into doing stuff because “they know”. But, I was thinking, can there really be authorities? Especially, with say social sciences. Can somebody accurately predict Economics? Can somebody know exactly how the market reacts to certain things. Or, say, psychological actions of people? In the modern world, it goes like “You must do exactly this and that and that” or “You must change that part and do that” etc. But how much sense does that make? What if we’re doing all that just trying to please somebody? They say, you should always do what you love to do. But can you actually be doing that all the time? Should we listen to ourselves or some bullshit authority? Perhaps neither?

On a different note, I’m sitting in a new place and some file is downloading and so I was bored so I thought I would blog something. Yeah, the place, by the way, is where I would live for some time. Well, the general rule is, I’d stay around for some time and see if this sticks or not, and, hopefully, if it does, I’d live here more. But that’s offtopic. Wait, no, nothing is offtopic on this blog. In terms of this blog, I think I should stop posting crap here and just post the good stuff. Or, maybe nothing at all. Maybe I don’t need a blog at all. I dunno yet.

Okay, so, what else. Hope you don’t mind that rant on the top. I was thinking what’s on top of my head and blogging it out, etc and so it might come out boring. Oh, well, in fact, I don’t care if you think this is boring or not. Not in this case. But I have to improve my writing anyway. Eh, this is complicated.

P.S. The title of this article is supposed to grab your eye so it’s an oxymoron (or something).

P.P.S. And yeah, I know I’m crazy (the voices in my head disagree, though). Just kiddin’..

The calendar says it’s nearly the middle of June which means that almost two weeks have passed since my last motivational post. I couldn’t say I’m very happy with the results so far. I have released a few things already and I’m up to releasing another one soon. This last one should keep me busy for a while. However, it feels like everything could have been done in a day or two. I’m kinda thinking I need to learn allocating my time better. I have tasks to do but I just delay and delay till it’s too late and I leave it for another day. That’s one of the problems. Currently I’m thinking about writing detailed TODO lists for each day (this hour you do that, that hour you do that and that hour you do whatever you want) but writing them takes up time and plus I wanna have a more flexible schedule. Writing just simple TODO lists (you have to have this, that, and that done by the end of the day and I don’t care when and how) sounds better but again that sometimes results in delaying tasks.

Another problem I face is choosing which things to do. As I said, I have some ideas and they seem to be all good but as I start thinking more over them I just keep finding these difficult and often useless. Needless to say, that results in a loss of productivity.

Solutions to these are needed as I still have a hell lot of time left. I know it’s kind of vain and it often just keeps wasting ones time but it’s like I should try listening to some motivational stuff to keep me going. In any case, I know I’ll get these solved eventually. Whatever.

Moreover, it seems very lame to be blogging with no definite topic. That just keeps me off writing new entries and I feel like I should concentrate on something. I’ll see what I can do about that. I just don’t want that to be one of those lame niche topics that the whole net is full of. But yeah, we’ll see.

Enfin, it’s my 31th post on this blog. The first one was on the 12th of January and that means that 5 months have passed and that’s roughly one post every five days. Not too bad but I would have liked it to be more. But that’s still pretty good like for a not (yet) niche-oriented blog. To relate to the 30-posts thing, I have heard some blogging-guru (was that ProBlogger) suggesting to make 30 high-quality posts at the very beginning and only then start marketing your blog so even though I’m not sure whether all my posts are high quality, I’ve hit the mark, yay. Let’s see where everything goes from here. ;)

Oh, and before I forgot, if you’ve started wondering why there is this weird ø symbol in my blog’s title (I have even added it to my Wordpress theme - Bluido), it’s not really my idea. I have bothered it from Eli on BlueHatSeo (yeah, I do read that kind of stuff). Not only it can help in the explained way, it should help in attention-grabbing and that’s what this is all about. Plus, it made it easier to make the theme like that. :)

Hey, it’s the 31th of May, and this means that tomorrow is summer. Well, only by the calendar (the Gregorian calendar is not very accurate anyway), though.

In all cases, I have quite a fair amount of ideas in my mind. Only a small amount of them can be used but that still requires work. Also, I come up with new ideas all the time and I’ve even lost track on some of them (gotta always keep my notes). The problem is, I am more into the planning side. I’ve read some people talk about how they are action oriented and how that always pays off. Moreover, there is another point I need to make. Thinking and talking about how I am this way or that way won’t make the situation better. It’s good to determine ones weaknesses but from there the way to go is not to think about them anymore and act as if they didn’t exist. So, long story short, I have set myself the task of developing my projects at a fast pace this summer. It’s not only that I have set this goal, I’ll do it.

I’m not saying that I’ll be doing stuff 24/7 but hey, I’ll be doing stuff and that’s an improvement. Just so that you know, I’m not going to post everything on my blog. That’s the advice a lot of successful people give and I’m gonna use it in this case. But I just hope to keep up this blog with various news too. :)

Today, not unusually, I have been surfing more than 4 hours. And afterwards, I got into thinking about all this…

I just spend my time mainly going in circle around the very same few websites over and over again. It’s actually kind of stupid; yeah, I visit a lot of new sites but that’s only to get some particular information and leave without returning anytime again while I just surf my few ‘usual’ sites just for the sake of it. The thing is, I tend to get into some community based sites really often and I just keep returning to see if, for example, I got any answers to my post, etc. Also, in this surfing pattern there is also a lot of room for new websites which would make the surfing experience more interesting for me but for some reason I just don’t pick them up and continue with my usual ones.
It would be okay, but at the end of the day I realize I haven’t actually learnt anything new (which is probably the main purpose of the net) and have just wasted a few hours reading stuff that doesn’t tell anything.

Anyway, this is kinda meaningless as I have no idea on how to change this pattern. But the is a huge time-waste and I just don’t think it’s the way it should be. That’s why I went on with this…