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An Interview With Tim Ferriss
Over the last few weeks, I have quietly been reading The 4-Hour Workweek
The New Rich is a group of people that use the power of automation and mobility to generate income in far less time than the normal 9 – 5 job. Best of all, it provides a way to travel the world without feeling stuck at home due to your “real job.”
After finishing it, I decided to contact Tim Ferriss to do an …
5 Questions For My Readers
It’s All About The Readers
Any blogger knows, the readers are what make everything. Without them, you are stuck writing posts that never get any feedback. This can make it especially tough when starting out in the blogosphere.
So I got to thinking this morning and realized that I hardly know anything about my readers. Don’t get be wrong, I try to learn as much about all of you by following up with your comments and visiting your blogs. But still, I have only grown to know a few of you personally.
Therefore, I have decided to ask you, the readers, some questions. I hope that you take the time to leave a comment and answer the questions. I think it will be a great way to introduce yourself, not only to me but to all of my other readers.
You will automatically get a backlink (this blog is dofollow) to your site which can never hurt. If enough people link to this post, you might even get some pagerank passed on to your blog (let’s hope).
And now for the questions:
1. What Is Your Name and Age?
2. Where Do You Live?
3. What Is Your Blog About?
Introducing My New Series
Last week, I made the post Life After The Cubicle. In it, introduced a new series I will be running here on Life of Justin.
After a few adjustments, I have finally figured out the details on how it is going to work.
A One Of A Kind Series
Life After The Cubicle is a newsletter series documenting my journey to make a living online and travel the world. Along the way, I hope to write a book about the whole thing.
Each “episode” will contain stories, pictures, videos, and any other type of media that can be delivered electronically. Who knows, we might even ship something to your door (just kidding).
Not only will the series document my journey, but it will also offer useful tips and information to help others succeed at quitting their office jobs. No longer do we need to settle for sitting in a cube all day.
Are You Ready To Be A Blogger?
5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself
Blogging is a fun and creative hobby. However, authors usually spend more time than they expect running their blogs. It can be very time consuming, especially in the beginning stages. It takes a lot of dedication, and more importantly, patience. Here are 5 questions to ask yourself before you make the jump into blogging.
1. Do You Have The Passion?
Running a blog takes hard work, dedication, and more importantly passion. You have to be passionate about what your doing or you will never success.
A New Journey Starts Today
Today is officially the first day of the rest of my life. I am finally free of the cubicle and all the crap that goes along with it. I no longer have to be the “tech” guy that everyone comes to for problems and stupid questions. Office politics are a thing of the past. Instead, I can focus on blogging and making it a full-time job.
Taking A Look Back
I couldn’t help but spend some time this morning looking back at some of my old posts. Any avid reader of this blog knows that I used to blog about my job constantly. Just take a look at the jobs category and you can check some of my older posts out.
My personal evaluation really summed up how I felt at the time. And lets not forget the ways I tried to get fired. That post was written almost five months ago. It really surprises me how I managed to stay there as long as I did.
I Will Not Die
Any follower of this blog knows, that over the last year I have had some struggles with office jobs. I have wanted nothing more than to leave my cubicle job to get out and actually do something with my life. Luckily, I managed to build enough courage and motivation last week to give my notice and start pursing a full-time career as a blogger.
With all of that said, I wanted to share a story very similar to mine. A few days ago, I received an email from Dereck Coatney. He is a blogger that shares the same visions as myself when it comes to jobs and life in general. So here is his story…
Cubicle Unhappy to Biking Expedition
Also known as C.U.B.E., is the name of Dereck’s expedition. Check out this page to see some YouTube videos he created for the journey. He also did an interview over at LifeReboot.com that really explains the details of what it is that he wants to do.
News From the Weekend
I hope everyone had a good weekend. I managed to get drunk, watch football, rip my blog theme apart, and completely rebuild most of it from the beginning up. I guess it was a pretty constructive weekend…
What’s New With the Theme?
Believe it or not, the entire theme itself is different. After hours on end of looking at php and css code, I managed to make it look VERY close to the old theme.
The first major difference is that the sidebar has been cleaned up and simplified. I wanted to incorporate a E-mail form so people can subscribe to receive updates, tips, and awesome information about anything I can think of. I even squeezed in links to all of my social network profiles.
I also added some new features to the homepage such as the Popular Posts section at the top. I wanted a way to showcase some of my best posts at the top along with some awesome pictures.
13 Reasons To Follow Me on Twitter
Lately I have been getting a lot more in to Twitter. Or maybe I am just that much more bored at work and need something new to waste time on. Anyways, I like how easy it is to use and really makes staying in touch a lot easier. So, I decided to come up with a short list on why you should follow me:
1. The sheer randomness of my tweets.
Yes, there about as random as the posts on this blog. But hey, it makes life interesting.
2. It lets you know where in the world I am (I travel a lot)
Life of Justin has a lot to do with my adventures, so I tweet as much as I can while I am on the road.
3. Because I’m hilarious and you like to laugh
At least I try to be. You could always laugh at the fact that I actually thing of myself as being hilarious.
This Blog is Now DoFollow
Four Reasons I Made The Change
First off, you might ask what does DoFollow mean?
Normally, when someone comments on a blog, the link the person receives back to their site is marked a “NoFollow,” which Google does not count. This was done to help limit the amount of spam people leave on websites. The problem with this is it takes away a lot of incentive for readers to leave feedback since they feel they do not get anything out of it.
Why I Made The Change to Dofollow:
1. It Helps Your Readers
Blogging is all about building friendships with fellow bloggers and helping one another. It’s like a big community and we try to share our success with others who have just started. One important way to help those who are just getting started, is by giving them a backlink to their site. I think it is really important to reward those who come to your blog and leave a meaniful comment about your post. It’s a way of saying “Thanks, I really appreciate the fact you read my post.”
Blogging: What’s In It For You?
Five Things That Keep Me Going
People often send me E-mails or ask me in person why I blog? Is it for the money, the fame, the non-existent fortune? Well, I really wanted to sit down and think about it.
photo credit: Wyetha
The Freedom To Express Myself
By far the most important thing I get out of this blog, is the ability to express myself. I find myself to be an unsual, creative, and funny (once in a great while) type of person. I love to write about topics that people can relate to. More importantly, I really enjoy writing about things others want to say, but keep to themselves. Writing about my office job, believe it or not, has reminded me that a lot of people are in the same situation. Therefore, I love to write funny things I do to help cheer everyone else up that is stuck sitting in there small, scary, cubicle.
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