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Rule of the grid.

Things change over our lives and for those who have seen me on twitch there is a grid in my banner and is the second one. Originally the grid was something that if online trying to gather an audience I had been proud of I put it in a square and as time goes on you see how things change. Well, I have not been streaming, but the grid has been getting filled in with achievements and things that have became little moments where I was proud for sometimes the dumbest reason, but still a reason.

Looking back over it it has evolved to more then just games and subscriber numbers so I have something here for you. A lot of people may be proud of somethings that others are not, but from my experience no one feels proud of what they do. So this is free. Absolutely free. Fill it with things as you do them. This is no contest, this is so you in your bad times can look back and see what you are happy for, and if things change you can just continue to keep going. Mine in the beginning thought it would be cute, but over time it has helped me. Pic added because it is an achievement and it looked cool.

NASA Receives Lifetime Achievement Award (NHQ202110190001) by NASA HQ PHOTO is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0

Anytime, I think I cannot, or that I am not good enough. I look to the challenges that I got past, and see each of those moments represented. It means there is still one more fight. All of them do not need to be serious, all of them do not need to be games, just do what you are proud of even if no one else is, but you will learn that progress means you have to keep going further. One step then means trying for two. Push yourself until you hit your goal, and maybe seeing this will let you know that you made steps before when you are down and you can go even further.

There is one wallpaper for things like my channel when four grids have been filled and one has been already, this is the second grid in the past couple years. When these get more filled in and the awards are bigger and the goals are bigger and the dragons are slain it becomes something that makes you want to keep going.

I have the png for the grid if you want to make your own and have a little form. Save it put in your art program paste little things as you get it done and make somethings happen captain.

Stay Strong.

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My Biggest Problem In Blogging

I thought I should start off with the problems that I know I have doing this blog for so many years and getting some things out to be read. I feel it could be a touch more successful. I do a very small amount of advertising on it. Over time it has always been my biggest problem because I would want to put it in places where people could enjoy it, but on the flipside I don’t want to endlessly advertise it to the point that people are just sick of it. Doing it has to be done with a balance between the two because although I do not have a more focused subject blog there are things that I have learned that can be useful to others.

Youtube is the same way I want to advertise because there I games I find that are really fun, yet free to play. I do some other videos about subjects, but I find that having it be just on one subject as a blog or a channel makes things somewhat boring. There will always need to be some variety to make them really come through.

It is something I actually spent many hours poring over different strategies, and how business works on both sides to get a better understanding of how some may look at it. Putting it all in my head there was nothing that really felt right until while I was in bed rolling around from the pain of a popped tendon that it struck me.

Keeping all those things in mind made me lose the point. Something so astonishingly simple that looking at everything made me want to just slap my head. It will be something that kinda gave me some information that was sorely needed. Looking back, yes some mistakes were made and some things could have been done better, but I do some good stuff. Since I do good stuff between this blog and the channel I need to find ways where I can just take a step back and have more fun with it without it being a soul crushing defeat like so many projects of people tend to turn into.

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It is not a job or is it a career?

It is a strange place where people despite all the good it is to work somewhere you are fulfilled at. For artists in some fashion from writers to youtubers. Youtube can be an art for the effort that goes in to it. People try to do things they love to make the world a better place and their is this one critique that makes me want to start headbutting people.

“That’s not a real job.”

People I know who have gotten to that point in their lives I have nothing but envy for. It would be great to work somewhere you want or do something you want and pay the bills. It  boggles the mind how people cannot be down for that. It isn’t everyone who can get themselves to that set up in their lives. Between working somewhere and hating it or taking the chance to get a shot at something much more fulfilling the second one would always be the choice for me.

When people seem to lob the excuse forward when something does not go as expected it makes me wonder why it was even voiced to begin with. According to good old Webster it states how it is a paid position of regular employment.Statements like that make little sense to me except showing the misunderstanding of some people.

It is one of my goals to be in a position where writing, drawing, doing the youtube thing, and overall just creating can get me a comfortable income. From there I want to change the world with business, but I still want to make it creating things that others can enjoy. It is going to be hard, and I know that. Not to play the sob story, but I know that there are a lot of odds counting against me. That is the case with anyone trying to get there no matter who it is. If you have the money to help with that. So maybe others will not think of it as a job, but if it can be done then it is a  better one then all the jobs that pepole hate to do.

If effort on what I want to do while getting paid is not a job then what is it. No, what I think people mean by it is reflected by the statement they should be saying instead.

“That’s not a real bad job.”

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