Is a Blog Really Necessary For Success?

Blog to Achieve A Zero Hour Work Week

Jonathan Mead released an ebook the other day called the Zero Hour Work Week. This free ebook describes Johnathon’s road to cutting the cubicle umbilical cord and getting paid to exist. If you’re confused by that sentence, it means he left his corporate job and has not only just blurred the line between work/life balance, but erased the line altogether. This mindset and ability to eliminate the work vs play debate is what I am moving towards here at nuwomb.com.

Through Photography and Blogging, I am chasing the idea that it’s possible to live my life doing what I’ve always dreamed. However my Photography Business plan is evolving into more than JUST photography [and I love it]. You might be questioning the blogging dream, and I don’t blame you. In grade one when my teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, it didn’t involve me responding with the term “blogger.” I didn’t even say photographer. I said that I wanted to be an astronaut or an architect. I look back now and realize that these terms were more symbolic than anything else.

Photography and Blogging actually allow me to do something that an astronaut and an architect does as well. It allows me to go into a place where I am free to design and construct my own life. I am not held down by gravity and nothing is holding me down. This is where the term “nuwomb” came into play.

Nuwomb is a place to go where you’re not held back by anyone or anything. You’re able to creatively explore ideas and create a new type of life for yourself. It’s where you nurture your true dreams and desires. It’s where you eliminate the projections that other people have placed upon you. I look at a blog like an incubator for your ideas, and passions to be communicated to the globe. You have the ability to touch billions of people and add value to their lives as well. Your uniqueness will slowly incubate and if you can reach the point of quitting your day job, the job that you are not passionate about but paid the bills, you’ll hatch into a new dimension of the zero hour work week.

Survival Mode vs Living Mode

These terms were touched on only once in the 0HWW ebook, but I highlighted them right away. Most of us are sitting within survival mode. And you’d be surprised to know how many are struggling with just staying afloat within survival mode. I see it everyday by working a day job in a bank. You wouldn’t even realize what goes on with people and the banking industry. Either way, survival mode is real.

It doesn’t take a lot to get out of survival mode though.

0HWW gives you some exercises to learn your passions and personal strengths. I’ve tried to convey this type of excercise already in my last article on preparing for your blog, but in a bit of a different way. I like the way Jonathan does it though in the ebook because he call’s it “Your Secret Weapon.” I strongly recommend reading the ebook and giving this some thought.

From my perspective, it looks like Jonathan could not have achieved the Zero Hour Work Week without his blog. If so, it would have taken an insane amount of time. Think of the blog as a tool that you use for mobility. You could walk, but why walk when could take the car and drive. Which is going to get you there faster?

Blogs, Soap, and Hard Work

If you’ve been following Zack Araias’ blog, you’re probably aware of “B.”
There was not a lot of background or context related to the issues B. deals with on a regular basis, but he has trouble taking action towards his passions. He actually sounds a lot like I did 1.5 years ago, before I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorder. I wonder if B. has a blog, a place to display his photography and a place to reflect on his progress? Motivation and momentum builds as you look back and notice the deposits you’ve made towards a life doing love in life.

B. was overshadowed by Zack’s next few posts after though. Derrick showed up at his door selling soap. If you’re not familiar with this story, you must go there and watch the video and read. Derrick was going door to door selling soap but not to make a company richer, to reinvest it into the person he is as he makes the transition from negative to positive. Their motto is:

Instead of robbin’ or stealing’ or sellin’ dope, selling soap instead of dope so we all got some hope.

Derrick is inspiring. I look and listen to him and see that he is in living mode. He’s making the transition. He is transitioning from a much different place than most of us, but it’s true that we make some bad choices or decisions in life. We can change though through positivity and hardwork.

I read Zack’s blog today and noticed that he mentioned how they are working to get Derrick a blog. Brilliant! What Zack’s doing is changing the scale of which Derrick will work now on his business.

What I am hoping you’ll see I am trying to illustrate is the power of small. It took one door to and one person like Zack to answer the door. The blog is such a small thing to actually start but it’s going to be the platform for which Derrick will be able to spread his message and transition. He knows thing’s take time, patience, and hustle. Watch the video. And then watch it again.

What are you waiting for? Are watching others take action? Do you wonder how people got to where they are today? It’s all the small actions they did day after day, and “hitting the pavement. Take you’re pitch to the internet and see where it can take you!

Thank You to Jonathan, Zack and Derrick for continuing to inspire me on my path, and I hope that others are inspired to pursue their passions. Realize that you’re allowed to be positive. Give yourself permission!

If you’re finally deciding to make the change, and start a blog I’ll be launching my service of 1000 incubating blogs very soon. Start preparing for your domain name and what might work for you. Once I launch you’ll be ready to go and I’ll have you efficiently blogging in no time.