Day 3: The Shape of Blogs to Come

Today was a Game Changing day in the realm of the Blogrimage. First of all, it was St. Patrick's Day so Katelyn, Amy, Jesse, and I went to Dublin House to celebrate the Saint that evangelized the Celts in the traditional manner. While there I was telling Jesse of my frustrations with my blogrimage, my lack of passion for it, and how I wished I would have done something different. Jesse gave me some excellent advice, but first gave me some excellent answers to the question "What would you do if you couldn't fail".

Jesse said that if he couldn't fail, he would do a 30 Day Blogrimage about him pulling off the perfect art heist, which upon completion of the blogrimage would then be executed. He would blog about him finding a getaway car, a tech man, and other members of the team, then would blog about the planning of the heist. Secondly, if Jesse couldn't fail he would become the bass player for Miley Cyrus. I'm not going to elaborate on that one, but apparently being a part of her band is a pretty sweet gig.

After these excellent answers Jesse gave me some advice that will carry on for the rest of my blogrimage and, dare I say, the rest of my life. He said, "Joe, there is a blogrimage that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." Then he followed up with, "Don't let your pride keep you from choosing life. I place before you this day a blogrimage of death and one of life, now choose life so that you and your readers may live." Thank you Richard Jesse Mutzebaugh IV, your words have freed me.

My new blogrimage will be something that I'm very passionate for, and that passion has only grown recently. As I've said before, I've been reading a book called The 4 Hour Workweek, which I highly recommend. The book is about freeing your life to do the things you want, eliminating useless work, automating essential tasks, and creating income autopilots. I have wanted to start my own business for a long time, and this book is showing me how to create a self sustaining, nearly fully automated business.

So the goal of my blogrimage will be that at the end of 30 days I have a step by step business plan written up for a business I can start and begin income autopilot. I may not be able to implement it in 30 days, depending on how much money I need to start it, but I want to have everything ready so that once I do have the capital, I'll be able to just say "Go" and start it. That means I want to know how much things cost, what manufacturers to use, where I will advertise, what product to sell, and all other details necessary to starting a business.

I've read that you retain 30% of what you see, 50% of what you hear and see, 70% of what you say (teach), and 90% of what you teach and do. Hopefully writing/teaching these concepts will help me retain and understand them better, and you might learn something too!