Just Make It Better

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Whether a regular reader or not, this post will give you some insights on blogging, business and getting back to being yourself. I’m shifting things here at JMIB. Read on to hear about why and what is coming – it’s worth it.

Initially created to explore writing, entrepreneurship and help people, I’m afraid this site has become my emotions translated into a blog.

Making it into a full fledged business without bastardizing it would be nearly impossible given my subject matter. To keep it as is, monetization would be solely based on traffic. And for everyone that doesn’t know anything about the world of blogging and monetization: developing said traffic is extremely rare and difficult, and easiest when built off of scammy work or tedious, off-putting effort.

Two things I am not about.

The market is saturated with writers clambering for some inkling of attention. They distract themselves from their own purpose and clutter up an outlet for those who are actually decent.

I’m unwilling to leave comments on how great someone’s post is (especially when it’s not, and everyone commenting is clearly doing so in an effort to be seen, rather than contribute anything worthwhile) when I’m not really impressed, nor do I care about what mindless SEO fodder they’re perpetuating.

Blogging solely for income or Internet fame is, for most, a waste of time.

(Content is NOT KING, if it were Hollywood wouldn’t keep making money off of Saw sequels.)

For the past few months, discussing JMIB, running it and working it into a business has done nothing but make my head hurt and my relationships suffer.

I wanted to see about this as an entrepreneurial pursuit, but I don’t think it’s going to work. At least not right now. At best it has become an amazing vehicle for me to go to things with Hugh & Seth. Perhaps then it will lead to more.

[I digress – for those who think about blogging as a possible business -

Those that do succeed while maintaining their authenticity, do so because they have a very clear product (tangible or information-based) that parlays into a specific market of followers and out of them comes customers. They also have luck, great networking skills, confidence and passion to get them out of bed at five AM to get massive shit done. And they deserve their success. Having met a few, they aren't any better than you or I, so it's definitely possible to win at this game.

But there are way more easier ways to become an entreprenuer. And for now, I'm focusing on that route.]

BTW, FOR ALL YOU SCANNERS – THIS IS WHERE IT YOU SHOULD READ

I am going back to doing things like in the beginning of JMIB’s inception:

Sharing stories and ideas that really have made my world better.

I don’t try to write like some super copy editor, slimming my work down to dazzling headlines and researched sources. That is not what I am good at and trying it has me feeling like a sell out.

I am good at baring my soul & telling my truth.

In the hopes that someone is moved enough to redirect the course of their life and live how they wished they always could. To become the happiest person. To always be more than what they ever dreamed.

I write Just Make It Better because this is my effort to find and apply the knowledge that will change my world and the one around me. I aim to learn as much as I can, while staying open to the idea that I know nothing and everything I know isn’t right. Through this, and my writing, I aim to save you yours.

Because I see the moreness in everything, (mostly you – the one who doesn’t comment and of who I know nothing) and would like it to come out and play.

That’s what I want from this site. That’s what it is going to be now.

Don’t hate me if I don’t write on a schedule – what happens here, happens in my life, in my mind and in my heart. Sometimes getting that all aligned takes more time than I’d like.

I’ll never leave your forever though. If our relationship ends, it’ll be far warned and with a gracious bow.

I appreciate you so much.

Those of you who Google the site name and share my posts. The ones who have the same IP coming back again and again. The ones who come.

Exposing myself like this is difficult because I do it as my true self.

There’s no pseudonym or fabricated stories. I say what everyone else thinks and feels in an effort to show you that we all feel pain and we all screw up. I’m no different. The only difference I’ve come to know is that it’s through these experiences that I become a better me. And through that I can change the world I know.

If I can help those around me spring up from their falls by knowing my story, then so be it.

I’ve been there! I’ve been the One with the Broken Heart. The Racist. The Angry Child. And so much more.

Thank you for listening.

May you always challenge your heart and provoke thoughts in yourself and others.

We are here to help each other. You give me the strength to keep opening up and letting go. With these changes I’d love to have you stay. I’d love to have you tell the world my ideas and my words in the hopes that it will help us all to live our dreams, in every imaginable way.

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