I was going to write this really inspiring post to finish off this year and send some positive energy into the new year, but after writing several drafts I decided that maybe images are more powerful.

Sometimes a million words are meaningless

it is not until we ourselves find something in those words that means something to us on a personal level, that hits a string for those words to become important, inspiring or what not. Words have to touch us personally for them to have an effect on us. The same string of words might be a total inspiration to me and to you those same words might be a load of bullsh*t and viceversa.

There has to be a true connection, some sort of relation for words to become important and I have come across a video by Will Smith that I wanted to share with you… I connected with his words, I was touched by them and believe his message is pretty pretty powerful.

It is a message I hope to keep in mind the new year:

To all my readers, friends and family, please know you are in my mind! I wish you all the best for the new year and may your dreams come true..

No… I did not mean to say “may your dreams come true” ….

KNOW WHAT YOUR DREAMS REALLY ARE

AND THEN MAKE THEM COME TRUE

Does that ever happen to you, that you have been sitting behind your computer screen with your mind completely blocked, not being able to come up with what to write next and than at the most inconvenient  moment possible, the ideas will come popping up.

That is what just happened to me, I had been working for quite a while and needed to come up with the next article to write on this blog. But after having stared at the screen with my mind completely blank I started looking around for inspiration.
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How cool would it be to have a way to automatically record all your thoughts?
It has happened to me so many times that I would be doing something away from the computer and all these great sentences and thoughts would get into my mind. Good ideas to blog about, interesting questions and different views, only to find they had vanished into thin air as soon as I turned on the old laptop.

I have notebooks and bits of paper just about everywhere you can imagine. The living room, kitchen and lately even in the bathroom; there is nothing like a relaxing shower to have my mind wonder off. My purse is filled with quick notes dotted down on napkins and the same goes for my car.

All these notebooks and bits of paper are filled with short keyword phrases that I can’t seem to be able to put together once I finally sit down and start typing. They are only causing more clutter and frustration.

Those wonderful sentences that lifted my spirit while still inside my head, turn into dry and empty string of words without a soul…

The day I bought this domain I thought it would serve me as a spot to collect all these random thoughts, a fixed place where I could gather all the information and advice found on the Internet and felt was interesting.

But after blogging only for a short period of time, it feels like that initial goal just is not enough anymore, or maybe it is because the process of growth has already started kicking in and I’d better catch up fast. At least that is how it feels to me.

The everlasting search for new input and knowledge has put my mind on overload, but at the same time I feel so enriched when I stumble upon a really awesome blog packed with little gems. Many times they have information on how to improve the quality of blogging, SEO tricks, design how-to´s or newbie blog no-no´s, making me laugh inside about my own stupidities.

The posts that really inspire me are the ones that give me a sense of recognition, letting me know there is actually a real person sitting on the other side of the screen, no matter how far away you can almost feel their passion for what they do, and reading between the lines you realize they really care about what they send out into the world.

And by doing so, they make you go back in time, read stuff they have written weeks, months or even years ago, not wanting to miss out on a single word. Every time you go back to their blog, you just hope there will be a new fresh post to enjoy and think about and if there isn’t, you know you are given some extra time to read through their archives, before taking in more freshly written content.

Today I had to think about the goal I have with my blog, and while the road hasn’t yet been completely set nor clarified, I know in my heart what I desire this blog to become: A Blog with a Soul, reaching out to others and maybe even touch them with my words.

I am convinced I will get there, one post at a time.