Brand Thy Self

This morning, I entered a 30-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by Jeanette Cates that starts today, June 1, 2010. Hence, the commitment to share with you a little bit of my story for the next 30 days.

I found out about the Challenge from a newsletter on blogging and internet marketing. I subscribe to about 20 internet marketing newsletters so I can keep my finger on the pulse of industry. When I read about the Challenge, I knew that it I could really use it to keep focused on creating content for this blog in sharing with you my story of how I got here and where I’m going with this.

So, I’ll continue on from where I left off yesterday…

You see… even though I was making good money, I was getting burned out.

By 1999, I was certifiably going stir crazy!

At the time, I had a successful career in Information Technology consulting, work was plentiful and the money was flowing really good… But I had to work really hard for it!

I frequently worked long nights and weekend, and even taking assignments out of town away from my family. And it seemed like the more money I made, the more I spent and so it felt like I could never get ahead. It was very stressful on me and my family. I stopped exercising, gained a lot of weight, and was pretty depressed.

I knew I wanted to have more balance in my life, but didn’t know how to get it.

Ever felt like that? Like you know you are meant for something more than where you are now?

There must be someway to move on to greater things than “Working for The Man!”

I was clueless, with little direction in life, and no real workable plan for the future. I couldn’t hear my life’s calling, couldn’t see where my life was heading, and just felt completely lost.

I’ve talked to friends and others who have had similar experiences, and we agreed with all the pressures, it felt like you were “going to pop”!

At the start of the new Millennium, I was beyond stir crazy. With so much external pressures, I “lost it”.

It literally felt like I was going to Pop!!

I can smile nowadays when I look back on it, on what I did, how I “lost it”,

Sooooo….. How did I “lose it” and what did I do?

Please subscribe to my feed and in the next 30 days, I hope to entertain and enlighten you with my story of struggle, hope, faith, more struggle, some disillusionment, lots of perseverance, (and did I mention even more struggle), dedication, and eventually, success.

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Hello to all the wonderful people on our beautiful Inter-Gallactic spaceship we call Planet Earth.

Thank you for coming to my personal blog and taking the time to read the words, look at the pictures and watch the videos that I’m sharing with you daily in the next 30 days. Yes, yes…. that is my commitment to you, my audience, whether you’re a new reader, a casual follower, or already an adoringly loyal fan!

In the next 30 days, you’ll see where I am, learn about the story of how I got here, and get an exclusive sneak peak preview of exactly where we’re going to next!

Why should you be interested enough to keep coming back here for the next 30 days and beyond?

If you’re my family member or a good friend, well… to be honest, I hope you just care…

… but seriously, it’s a world full of channel surfers where you have 10 seconds to grab someone’s attention or off they go. I can’t depend on everybody else just loving me that way, so I gotta make it interesting for the rest of ya’ll to care enough to keep coming back here.

Fortunately, that’ll be easy! MY STORY REALLY IS VERY INTERESTING… and in more ways than one!

Please subscribe to my feed and in the next 30 days, I hope to entertain and enlighten you with my story of struggle, hope, faith, more struggle, some disillusionment, lots of perseverance, (and did I mention even more struggle), dedication, and eventually, success.

I’ll try to keep these updates short (not 140 characters short) but still short enough to share an insight or two and a sprinkle of humor here and there. 

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