man in the glassSo I have been doing a lot of thinking lately, looking at my life and where I am at right now. There are a few times I get really melancholic, last weeks of the year is one of those periods, and well… since my b-day is coming up next week and I will be turning 35 it seems like the “appropriate” time for melancholy to set in, although this time it feels different. This time around I feel like facing up and take control.

Today I came across a blog I hadn´t really paid a lot of attention to before, but tonight it completely sucked me in, having me read a lot of posts, watching videos, visiting links they referred to and a lot of thought patterns seem to have been set straight. Doors seem to have opened and are awaiting for me to enter and dig deeper.

About a month or two ago same thing happened to me, I got sucked into the content of a blog and stayed up reading till 4 or 5 in the morning, posted on it and even commented on how strange I find it that a blog of his caliber, with the high quality information he offers to people who want to make money online, “only” has around 2200 feed subscribers, while others in the same niche have thousands and thousands of subscribers offering not even a tenth of the information.

The power of the Internet is huge

Anybody can publish anything, and as long as you put it in a nice wrapping, you might even get a large group of followers, people who believe in you and your words. Add a flashy design, spend money on advertisement and feed greedy readers with what they think they need in order to become a success as well and you have yourself a hit. A money-making machine for yourself, without even having to really share how you make your own money, after all, you want all those gullible people to hang around so they spend more money you can stick in your pocket.

If you read blogs in the niche you can see it everywhere, people either throw in the towel after having tried and tried over again, losing money on shitty products and schemes they were told to buy by their favorite “Guru”, who is showing their huge stats and earnings so he “must know what he is talking about”.

Or they actually open their eyes, start reading between the lines, wake up and smell the coffee so to say and come to realize they are nothing but a money-generating stat for somebody else.

Reading the Blogger Unleashed tonight reminded me of a poem I want to share with you guys. It is a poem I have known for a long time and every time I get into “struggling mode”, I read it, reminding myself of my life credo of being true to myself. It reminds me of what matters to me in life and how I want to achieve things. It also has me reconsider my chosen path and ways to do things.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do …

The Guy in the Glass

 

by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934

 

When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf,

 

And the world makes you King for a day,

 

Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,

 

And see what that guy has to say.

 

 

 

For it isn’t your Father, or Mother, or Wife,

 

Who judgement upon you must pass.

 

The feller whose verdict counts most in your life

 

Is the guy staring back from the glass.

 

 

 

He’s the feller to please, never mind all the rest,

 

For he’s with you clear up to the end,

 

And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test

 

If the guy in the glass is your friend.

 

 

 

You may be like Jack Horner and “chisel” a plum,

 

And think you’re a wonderful guy,

 

But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum

 

If you can’t look him straight in the eye.

 

 

 

You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,

 

And get pats on the back as you pass,

 

But your final reward will be heartaches and tears

 

If you’ve cheated the guy in the glass.

 

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