Personal Growth and Blogging Success Image from Flickr Success, personal growth and I have at times appeared to be on a collision course. Lately, that feeling has intensified so I am looking at many new options for my blog baby, Success Chronicle, which I'm reasonably proud of. Of course there's always room for growth, but isn't that the same with life? I've learned so much this past year about nurturing my own inner dreams and goals. It's been a great joy to re-discover my love of sculpting, dancing and sketching. In fact, I might just show off the first piece I ever sculpted (not having a clue how to make a porcelain doll or what the heck I was doing). Somehow, the clay block just felt like a part of me, so it was fun anyway. Alright, I can't help showing it to you so look through the flickr images at the end of this post. The bottom line I suppose, is that I needed to see that this search for self discovery and Financial Freedom comes in many shapes, sizes and time frames. Each of us will have our own unique definition for what that means. Our life challenges are varied, our degrees of commitment to relationships and significant others are different, and the levels of experience and frustrations we bring will not be the same. In order to define our own versions of success, sometimes it's critical to slow down to speed up. Over the next few months, Success Chronicle will be making many behind the scenes changes and upgrades so that I can make your visiting experience here even richer. **This is what happened the first time I ever sculpted anything. They've been sitting in a box in my closet since 1997.

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes... Who Has It Easier As Entrepreneurs, Men Or Women?


A hearty midwestern hello to visitors of my humble little blog. As indicated by my post title, there's a LOT going on! Can you believe it?! We had s.n.o.w. on the first day of Spring! Now the weather keeps changing so the poor robins, geese, rabbits and other critters in the field behind my back yard are totally confused. I think I saw a few of them packing to go back South.

I feel awful about not posting for a few weeks, but life will have its way. Last week I was feeling rather optimistic because finally I was able to complete a book on lead generation, start research on my personal book project, and locate new templates to try on the site since CSS is being very naughty with me right now. I even got a chance to play around with a few software programs that have been sitting impatiently on my hard drive for, probably like forever. Ah, good times...good times.

"Mix it up get it right, go for another try... run it back again;Replay, hit rewind...," ok, ok... it's true I'm also seeking refuge from "High School Musical mania, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgins, Ashley Tinsdale and Corbin Bleu." If those names don't ring a bell for you, you either don't have or live with kids, you've been on a deserted island for the past few years, or you have no television, which is just, well... plain sad. (Just kidding!)

Today I sat down to write to all of you and, "wham!" My computer keyboard shelf fell absolutely in my lap. With nothing but lovely words to my feline-child TK the cat, who had to make sure there was a thorough investigation, I scrounged around looking for the best hiding bolt in the world. So now I'm twisted under the desk trying to screw in this uncooperative bolt and, "Eureka!" It's finally in. Now to put the heavy desk shelf back. A few minutes of tussling revealed the replacement bolt that took me a half hour to locate, had a big round head (not a flat head) that blocked the side rail from fitting in so... I needed another bolt. As my son shouts when frustrated, "Oh, My Goooddness!"

As the drawer finally slides in properly, the doorbell rings. With a longing glance towards my cooling coffee, I enter a discussion on yard maintenance, why I need it, observations on the job our current provider is doing and yadda, yadda, yadda.

Loading the dishwasher on my way back to the PC, it's now almost 2:00 so quick food prep for the kids who descend on me at 3. Still, no coffee. There's practice for 6th grade performance of "McBeth" and tutoring at 5pm, signing up for football practice, telephone interruptions, lions and tigers and bears, oh, my!

So all this activity led me to what I think is a rather awesome question. Who has it easier, male entrepreneurs or females? If we switched roles for the day, who do you think would be able to accomplish more? Hmmm, just a thought.

Something wicked this way came... at least in my Technorati faves! I've been under incredible personal stress as many of you know, so I've been off my game for a bit. I wondered why one of my Stumble friends had an undesirable word underneath as a tag. I corrected that. Then when looking at Technorati--- to say I was speechless would be an understatement. What I found was that many undesired posts showed up under my favs... and they are definitely not on any lists I'm a part of.  How can this be possible? Why are negative sites showing up under my Technorati faves?! Have I been hacked somehow? It would appear so. For now, I'm working on getting this garbage deleted immediately, then I'll post to a few friends and Technorati support to see what's amiss. This really stinks.

Currently there's a site created by blogger Enkay that has a contest where you get the chance to win not only 1 of 5 flippingrich T-Shirts, like the one John Chow has been seen wearing, but you are also guaranteed a link from Enkay's PR 4 ranked blog. If you want in, participation is just easy steps away.

• First you have to create a post similar to this one about the contest.
• You need to link from your post to the page here and www.flippingrich.com
• Then send an e-mail to Enkay telling him you have posted. Be sure to include your name, blog URL and URL of the post you made.
• Winners will be announced after every 10 submissions (that is, one person wins out of every 10). Good luck to all who enter!