I’ve always been a simple kind of guy.  I never really liked things that are too fancy, too complicated or too complex.  When I buy a new gadget I don’t go for the fancy ones that can do everything, I just go for the ones that satisfy my basic needs.  I found in the past that buying a gadget with 20 extra features I don’t need often makes the gadget more complicated to use.  From a marketing prespective features sell.  The more features you add the more money you can ask for.  However I’ve found that from my own experience simplicity is king.  Simplicity is efficient, fast, and straight to the point.

Today I’m having an “off day”.  For one it’s a Monday which might have to do with it.  But in general I notice that every week I have at least one or two off days.  Off days are those days when you don’t feel like getting out of bed, don’t feel like getting any work done, don’t feel like working out etc.  The only thing you might feel like doing is watching TV or movies but even that gets boring

Learning to manage an off day is important because if you don’t you could easily get stuck in a squence of lazy days.  Basically on an off day one just needs to go about their day as you normally would.  They wont feel like it, everything will feel like a drag but they need to do it anyways.  They just gotta push through it whether they feel like it or not.  When is your off day?

This is a great technique that I learned about from other bloggers.  Basically you use google blog search to find blogs that cover simillar topics to the ones you write about on your blog.  Pick a post they wrote and write your opinion on it, be honest, and if you don’t agree with their views state that in your post.  In your post make sure you link to their post, and also ping it (or do a trackback) if you can.  That way they will see your post and probably write about it on their blog linking to your post.  Their readers will be checking out your blog and will often become regular readers of your posts.