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Break out the bubbly! COB is one year old!

May 27, 2014 / / 1 Comment
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hello all of you wonderful readers!  I ahve hit a milestone here at Catharsis of the Bogue.  It was 1 year ago today that I put up my first ever blog post on the internet!  That blog was on WordPress.com at the time and frustrated me because I couldn’t modify it enough and put ads so right after the first of the year I migrated to justinsbrainpan.com.

There have been so many good things to happen over this year.  I have met many many good people and learned so much about Blogging as a whole.  Sometimes I still feel like I am coming in at the tail end of the Blogging thing but other times I am right in the thick of it.

Things have changed around here since those first posts.  Now, there is not so much of a dear diary feeling, and I actually want people to read my stuff.  I think my writing has improved greatly.

I have received much help and suggestions from people who have come and gone during this past year.  I remember when I was celebrating 3 months, and then 6 months and a lot of my friends were only wraiths on twitter and no longer Blogging.

There are people who I have respected and learned a lot from who have decided that Blogging is not what they want to do anymore.  Yes, it is Nathan Hangen but I can only thank him for giving me so much drive and desire to create.  It was his…influence that started me on the podcasting thing.  Thanks Nathan, just one more thing to do.  I still want to blog though.

So what is in store for the future of this site?  For now, business as usual.  There will be some changes coming but they will be a while before implementing.   I never dreamed when I wrote that first “diary entry” that I would be here now, with 3 blogs, 3 partners and all of you readers.  This post will be number 200 on this site.  One of those is a guest post, the rest are mine.  There are also nearly 102,000 words written here, that is a decent sized novel.  And that doesn’t include the podcasts.  There will be more of those, as well as some fiction audio.  I think I am getting myself figured out now.

So, for all of you that have been here from the beginning, Thank You so very much for sticking with me.  For those who have recently come here, or even those who are visiting for the first time today, Thank You very much for being here.  I hope that you all stick with me for the next few years, ’cause I ain’t goin’ no where.

Thanks so much yet again, Poetry will resume next week!

-Justin

PS the comic up there means “There is nothing about Blogging!”

PPS. I dunno what the bbbwwwoggginngg crap is all about, that showed up on the site but it looks ok in edit mode….Blogging has been replaced..I will have to figure it out later I am taking my daughter to kidney clinic today and that takes a while…sorry for the wierdness

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Sleep Deprivation

May 27, 2014 / / 1 Comment
Main health effects of sleep deprivation (See ...
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Are you tired?  I mean really tired, the “if I sit too long in one spot I am going to fall asleep” kind of tired?  How are you sleeping?

As I write this, it is 1:30 am.  I should be in bed but the kids are finally all asleep (including the 3 month old) and I have time to write.  Wow, I really should be in bed.  I still have to get up and get the older kids to school at 8:00.

As you can see from the chart over there, several problems arise from sleep deprivation.  My favorite is hallucinations.  Have you ever been that tired, where you see things?

All of us miss some sleep now and again.  That is normal.  Sometimes, what difference does it make?  Stay up late on Saturday and still get to church on time.  Wake up every hour and a half with the new baby. (that ends thankfully.  Now at 3.5 months he sleeps 4+ hours at a time) The main point with most of these is that the cause goes away and you can get back to normal.

*Editors note: I gave up after falling asleep for the third time at my keyboard, roughly 2 am.  the rest of this post is written the next day in a tired but caffeine fueled state.**

Many things we do to ourselves.  As business owners who write blogs we force ourselves to work above and beyond, work late into the night and early in the morning.  We push harder than most people because we are not satisfied with working for other people and we want to make our business a success.  I know for a fact that there will be several more long nights and early mornings in my quest for financial independence.

I just keep in mind that this is what I want.  This business that I am building is that important to me.  It is also important for me to be able to stay home with my kids.  That makes the need to push this business even bigger.

Sleep when you can, work all of the time.  Dream about your business when awake and dream about being a success when asleep.  Just get SOME sleep every once in a while.  You don’t want to burn out.

What do you guys think?  Please join in on the comment section below!  Also, please digg, stumble, or RT as necessary!

Thanks for reading, you guys are why this blog endures.

-Justin

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