Blog vs Article Directory

It has been 3 days since blogjer has had its last post. Pretty silent on the comment section, but traffic wise, it had almost the similar number. I’m not busy or on any outstation, but I’m doing something else. When I feel bored of blogging (it happens sometime), I’ll put my effort on my article directories. I think most of you know what it is. Initially, this blog was setup for the same purpose, to promote and blog about article directories, but somehow after 5 posts, I couldn’t write about it any longer. I have ideas, but I have no plan, and I’m lack of bandwidth to get it done. Sounds familiar to you? This is what I call ‘bidan terjun’ blogger, with no blueprint, no plan, no long term goal (except money) and no determination for success. Furthermore, at that time, my interest has grown to other areas such as SEO, corporations, technologies and etc. So this is how blogjer.com looks like now. Full or ‘rojak’ contents.

Is it different now?
If you ask me now, whether I do have any plan, goal or determination, I’ll say partially YES. I won’t say it’s a full YES, because I didn’t even know what the blogging blueprint meant at the first place, but… I do understand the concept though. It may not be as complete and as well known bloggers or internet marketers, but at least I have something on my head (and my keynote), even though I often missed it. It’s been 1.5 years, since I started online, time flies!!

I’d like to recall a quote that I found on one of my colleague’s signature.

Success came from Good Judgement, Good Judgment came from Experience and Experience came from Bad Judgement.

It’s Tom Horning’s quote, with some modification in front of it. In my opinion, it is better this way. It is experience that matters, even though it comes from bad judgement. The process of learning and hence experimenting, includes trying this and that, buying this and that (buying good e-book is among the hardest judgement) and trying and failing. On certain occasions, you have a great result immediately, while on the other, you failed miserably. Internet marketing is like our life, it is full of uncertainty and that makes the experience expensive! Continuous effort will determine where you’re at on the later stage.

Some folks said, the longer you’re in the industry, the better you’ll be. But is this correct most of the time? Each human is not born identical, and so how do we absorb and keep our past experience? Ok, how do you capture the experience? Through your brain? Yeah, you can, but can you ask how long and how much you can keep and how fast you can utilize it whenever needed? Unless you have the correct system to document your experience, your experience will be just simply a waste of time (partially). I keep saying partially, because experience is still worthy, it is not totally wasteful.

This is where documentation really works to help you keep those experience. You’ll need all those experience to help you make good judgements which in turn will determine your success. I made a big mistake when I had never documented whatever things that I’ve done. So when it became a success, I have problem to replicate it, or when I was able to replicate it, it wasn’t as successful as the first one.

I think I have been talking too much. Before ended, please remember the quote, yea!

p/s: I never thought that it was very difficult to came out with inspirational or motivational articles