Million Dollar Portfolio

I’m obsessed.

I mean that in a good way. I gobble up information like a dry sponge longing for water. I suck it up until I’m overflowing and then I squeeze it until I have just what I need.

Blogging isn’t an exact science and most people blog because they feel a need or desire to express themselves in ways that can’t be done otherwise. I’ve been blogging here since March 2007 but my foray into the genre is actually rooted in the beginnings of the web itself. Long, long ago in a galaxy far far away…actually it was around the summer of 1992 that I began an e-zine (I coined the term way before anyone else…but who was I anyway?) called Orbit.

This e-zine comprised of poetry, movie reviews, news articles…really anything I felt passionate enough to write about. At the time I was learning HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which was known only to academia at the time. I was fortunate to have 2400 baud modem speeds to connect to university computers and a linux machine to develop my code on. From those humble beginnings my thirst for knowledge was insatiable.

I continued to learn more. I became obsessed. I wanted to know all I could. Little did I know the “web” was about to explode.

I kept my e-zine going for a while but soon realized there just wasn’t a way to get it out to the general public because most people didn’t even know what the internet was, let alone the web part of the internet. Before I knew it, we were in the dot-com craze and I had fallen behind the curve. I simply couldn’t keep up with the out of control spiral that was the world wide web, but my obsession continued.

My real point here is that my obsession with all things web led to me understanding the internet as a whole much better and eventually leading to a career. So fast forward to today where I write about making money online and entering contests and blogging and building web sites.

My new obsession is to create income streams outside my regular job. I work in a cubicle and as much as I enjoy my job and it pays well, I still don’t live on my own schedule. I believe that anything is possible if you put your mind to it and really focus on your end goal but the way you get to that goal is a step by step journey.

There aren’t any shortcuts to success and where you end up eventually may not be exactly where you pictured yourself but hopefully along the way you have learned to adapt and change strategies when the one you are using no longer works or produces the desired results.  You really are as successful as you see yourself and the only one holding you back is yourself.

So what do you think?  Are you obsessed enough to succeed?

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