I’ve been testing writing guest posts for a few other high-traffic sites. In one test, I churned a post out quickly, taking about 1.5 hours to write it. It got me a few hundred visitors.
In another test, I spent 18 hours writing an awesomely detailed post, including case studies, a video, and concrete examples. Result: 100,000+ visitors.
I spent 12x the amount of time writing the good one. But I got 250x the results.
The next steps, after a vision emerges is not to make plan. Not to figure out how.
The next steps are to greet your vision warmly. To welcome it into your heart. To simply let it live in you as you walk about your life for several days. To make friends with it. To let it know you’ll be on it’s side. To see what it wants to say. To see what life brings you. To marinate in it, walk with it, listen to it, receive it, welcome it, sit still with it.
Those are the next steps.
Wow! This take on creating a vision could have not come at a better time for me, after leaving myself so ripped open writing my last post on here.
This is an article on a goal-setting site with a free PDF download that walks you through goal setting for 2011. The writing in this is not all that great (I think English is her second or third language), but the ideas are solid. I’m going to talking a lot about goals in the upcoming weeks, and I thought I would share some of the links I’ve found as I go.
This is an interesting idea, and very inspiring — a simple way to bring dignity back to those who live without a home.
I cant let that fear dominate my actions. [...] I have to hang out, being afraid, and going about my business anyway.
Seth Godin defines anxiety and worry as "Practicing failure in advance." And that’s the most perfect description I’ve ever heard.
Thanks to Mark Bebout for this one.
