Leap over the EDGE!!

It was Apollonaire that beckoned to his students:

Come to the edge, he said.
They said, we are afraid.
Come to the edge, he said.
They came,
He pushed them
And they flew.”

I have been blogging since June 30 of 2008; it is now 9 October – 3 short months and some 9 days later. I now have three blogs that I maintain which were all set up for different reasons. I am a writer; I love & enjoy writing. I have kept a journal for around 20 to 30 years of my life – all hard copies until this year when I decided to have a go at an online journal – my first blog – the Rat Pit. This blog was set up to detail our journey out of the Rat Race.

One month later on July 29 2008, my father was admitted for surgery – an Aortic Bypass that went drastically wrong and sent our family into a spin. It was during one of my sleepless nights, that I decided to set up a blog to monitor my father’s progress to keep my family from all over the globe up-2-date with his recovery – my second blog – Te Tawiri-o-te-rangi

After returning home from my father’s bedside, I meet with a young lady that had just begun the first leg of her PhD, who asked if she could meet with me regarding some aspects of her research. We met, we talked & I advised her to set up a Blog detailing her PhD journey. It would allow me to pop in every now and then to see how she was going. After that conversation I decided that it was more than appropriate for me to take my own advice: so I set up my third blog – The Pit Of Knowledge – to monitor my own progress with my PhD.

This is the thing, although I have three blogs to my name – they really do not reach a wide audience at all. So, I hunted down some information to help me become really good at blogging – not just writing – but blogging, in the hope that I could derive another stream of income from something that I enjoy doing – writing!! Thus, I have just finished compiling a document of some 70+ pages about blogging - or rather - how to become successful at blogging in 2008.

So, do these techniques work?

I am going to try them & monitor my progress with another blog that I am about to set up – a blog about blogging!! I will call this blog: Leap over the Edge. Follow me & see if these techniques really work. Check out my 3 sites and you will see very little traffic. So, beginning today, [Thursday 9 October] I am going to implement the techniques contained in the compilation - i will keep a journal of that journey right here in this blog!!

My commitment:

# Set up a new blog to trial & error the techniques in this document

# Apply all the techniques contained in this document to all four of my blogs

# Keep a log at Leap over the Edge of my progress with each technique as they are applied

# I will endeavour to update this blog once per week or as often as i trial each technique

# Make this a BREAKTHROUGH GOAL for this quarter

# Edit & re-write this document at the end of the quarter

# Compile a new PDF/E-BOOK of how I applied each technique

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