Okay, so here I am sitting at my computer. It is Friday night at 8:16pm, according to my computer clock, which is always right as far as I can tell, because it is hooked up to the great internet time-telling machine in the sky that makes sure all the trains (er, clocks) run on time. Yee haw!
Anyway, I have been thinking about this blog all week, thinking about new blog posts to write about, and asking myself strange and annoying questions such as, “How often should I post on here?” “How often is the RIGHT amount?” “What are the RIGHT topics to write about?” “What’s the RIGHT thing to do?” And other such perfectionistic type questions that basically have led me no where fast anytime I have indulged in them throughout my life, including now.
But rather than settling for that sort of mental tennis match, which I inevitably lose, I’m taking the initiative right now, and I’m writing this post! Perfectionism, be gone!
Just tonight I created a list of ideas for this blog. I am going to post them right now, and over time perhaps I will strikethrough ideas as they manifest as blog posts, or perhaps link to them so that you can see what a wonderful manifester of blog-cookie goodness I am (By the way, “blog-cookie” and “Blog-writing monster” ideas are my way of riffing off a character from Sesame Street when I was a kid, Cookie Monster, who always came on the scene and announced that world-famous life mission statement, “Me Want Cookie!”) :
My Blog Ideas for myhappinessobsession.com:
Add email sign up list plugin, and then send emails to people who want to stay updated on what I post here.Share this blog with people from my current music artist list, invite them to head on over here if they wish.- Put ads on here that I can feel good about (mildly guilty thoughts settle in at the admission that, yes, I would love to monetize this… but as I wrote in my first post, I find that money helps encourage productivity, and I would like to be productive at writing for this blog).
- Ideas for posts to write:
- What I’ve learned from my cat (Believe it or not, this is a real post idea with real points to make!)
- History of Money (Mine, that is)… (Damn, I feel extremely stupid putting this one up for some reason, but I think this could actually be a very good post… not because I was born money-rich or anything, but because I have been cleaning up my mindset for a long time from the shitty negative beliefs about money I held as a child)
- A post on exercising (despite this very bland description, this post is actually going to be quite cool. It deals with habits, commitment,
going for what you want, and living life on your terms) - My money management strategies (as is the case for the one above, this is not because I’m such a genius at it — AS IF– but because I at least have gained some control in this area and think it’s possible someone else could appreciate reading my ideas about this)
- Book Selling! (No, not ACTUALLY selling books… this refers to an activity I did at my grade school of the same name where we would literally stand in the front of the class and talk about the books we read. I learn a lot from books and perhaps it will turn you on to a book or two.)
- Poetry Corner (where I share original poetry and rhymes — some lofty, some UN-lofty, some probably pretty good, some maybe not so good.)
- Film Critics Corner (Yeah, I’m not a film critic type. I love movies too much. As with book selling, I like the idea of being able to share about things I’ve watched or read, the things I learn from them.)
- A History of My Failures – An Ongoing Saga (This may seem facetious, and in a way, it is… but this could be a very awesome chance to fall on my sword and clear up embarrassment etc… and all of us shall be better for it!)
- My Secret Lives (The idea hit me that it might be nice to talk about dreams I’ve had throughout my life of things I wish I could be… maybe this will turn into a bucket-list sort of post, or perhaps it will end up on the scrap heap, I do not yet know)
- My Happiness Obsession: How I came to be me (Life lessons I have learned on the road to happiness… hint: that road started out headed completely in the other direction!)
- Something other than just written words (like, I am a professional musician, have lots of videos and the like… but so far have enjoyed keeping this blog VERY simple and word-centric)
- And as if these last ideas don’t seem ludicrous enough, here are some blog entry ideas I would really have to be STUPID to actually write (but I put here anyway just in case):
- Why I Don’t Want to Host Saturday Night Live (and other lies I tell myself)
- Obscurity Blues: Living Life as a Guy with “Potential” (Honestly, this post idea occurs to me as EXTREMELY pathetic, as well as embarrassing)
- Why I Suck at Success (Yeah, this is a bit of exaggeration, but I think I could make some good points as I reveal my own human foibles… maybe you will relate)
- Overthinking Everything, and Why this SUCKS (An extremely stupid idea for a post, and one that I have already addressed here… but who knows?)
Right. So now you know my inner plans for global blog-world domination (Said in a voice highly reminiscent of the old Animaniacs cartoon “Pinky and the Brain,” in which Brain says, “And now, Pinky, we shall make plans to take over the world!”). Actually, I have no idea whether I will use these ideas. No, scratch that. I’m pretty sure I will use some of them. Anyway, there’s no real plan here, I just find it mildly appealing, as well as unusual, for me to actually share what I’m thinking of doing on this blog BEFORE it happens. Muah ha ha!
p.s. After reading over this post, at this time I am impressed with one very obvious fact: how completely self-absorbed all these post ideas are. It’s just brimming with “Me” -ness. I bet the words “I” and “Me” and “My” (reminds me of the Beatles tune) appear here more than any other. But I can’t help it! This is a blog about me! It’s MY happiness obsession! As I promised from the start, it’s not a blog ABOUT happiness generally. I told you it would be personal! (Still, I honestly hope you don’t think I’m a self-absorbed egotist and a narcissist, because outside of this blog, I really do my best to be a good person whom people find pleasant). Thank you and good night.