No matter how good things work for other people. Maybe they don’t for you.
There are many ways to life your life, to do the things you have to do in a good way, in your own way.
You know the best what keeps you doing things. There are many people around you, who may life their life in a specific way. But it’s not your way. You are in a different situation.
So if you try to find a way to do your things, to motivate yourself for doing things, keep it plain simple. Reduce it to the basics that work for you.
You can rock your life in your own way. Try it!
To focus on the right thing is very important.
Why?
Because if you don’t really know what to focus on, you end up doing nothing but waiting for the right moment. When does this moment come? The answer?
Never. There is never a moment as good as now, to decide what to focus on.
One example is this blog. I started it at this domain monkeyofhope.com at February 1st 2008 (where my german blog was located, which is now at www.rilinger.com/de.) Thats two years! Two years since i startet my blog back in 2008. I had great visions on it. I wanted to blog and blog and blog and rock the internet. I thought “Life” would be a good topic. And yes it is. Life is all about Life. I want to give the reader something worth reading and i want to write something i like to talk about. The thing is. I love it all. I read a lot of blogs. I read how to become a professional blogger, how to get readers and i always read that just producing good content is the main part for a successful blog. That’s partly true. The most important part of anything to focus on is: Just do it. Do it. Don’t always think about how to get better, how to be perfect. No! I think the development to a good writer is something that is far away.
The focus should be on: Do it, no matter how badly.
That said, i want to produce good content on this blog. Something worth to talk about. But be aware, my english is not perfect. And as silly as it is: Sometimes i only think about my english and that i can’t write like a native speaker and writer and because of this i don’t write anything. But hey. It’s better to write something in a bad english than not to write it. Not writing it means: Beeing afraid of making a mistake.
I’m ready.
I’m ready to make any language mistake in history, so feel free to give me advice. I listen to you.
I just want to do it, no matter how badly.
Every new year seems to be the beginning of something new. So does this year. The numbers 2 0 1 0 i just like. This year is great. Every Year seems to be greater than that before. So this time i do not write about the things that may happen this year, but i write about them while they are happening.
I want to share with you something. I want to share with you a part of my life, some thoughts that come to my head. Some interesting ideas. Some new philosophy and mayby some philosophical views of life.
To be honest, i want to share with you a lot, but as you know. This is the Internet. I am not as free as I am as I write for myself. What I write here should be printable in the newspapers, live on CNN. To write something on the Internet which is not good to be known by hundred and thousands of people than the Internet is the wrong place for it.
Yes, the Internet gives something like anonymity, but this anonymity is no real one.
Thats enough for now. More of my thoughts will follow someday soon.
I love to get up early.
A new day is born. All is fresh, all is new. There is so much time in this wonderful new day. A day is like a little life. And if those days and little life’s are concatenated they become my life. And of course there are more things that make my life great, but one of it is definitely a wonderful morning. Without a great start, i miss something over the day. Right now, i listen to music, while writing these lines. I feel very good. I am energised to go to work, what i have to do soon.
An early morning is one wonderful moment in a day. And there are more wonderful moments. What if all these little wonderful moments where manifested in every single day? What if it where possible to create those moments every little life (every day)? And I think it is possible. I definitely want those moments. Sometimes great moments just appear out of nothing. And I think to have more of those moments, the start of the day is essential. That’s why I love the morning of my little life: Today.
At first it sounds quite easy for me to be myself. To be exactly what I am. To feel: Hey that’s me. But it’s not always easy.
First of all you have to listen to yourself, what you want, what you love, what you like. But that’s too much to write about here, so today I want to focus on being myself in writing.
Writing can be a thing that gives joy and happiness to my soul, cause being creative and generating some new shiny sentences is just wonderful. But it’s not always easy. During writing for the Web I often think how it is to be the reader of my articles. So I start seeing my articles through the eyes of other people.
- You may think “Yeah good point, focus on the readers.” But i tell you to do the opposite. Just focus on yourself, on writing for yourself. You should like your own writing at first. Be your own fan. -
And then I focus on myself, focus on the thoughts in my head, feeling the inside stream of information flowing from my brain right to my fingers. Sometimes the thoughts create words -magically- in front of my eyes. Thouse are the moments, that I love on writing. Words create themselves. Me reading them live. Thinking. And wondering.
I think it is automatically after a while that my writing style and the topics of my articles are loved by my readers, cause readers who love them come back.
It’s better to have 10 readers and I write what and how I want it than to have 100 and I don’t feel being myself. To develop my own lovely writing style it’s a long way I think. But the most important reader should have fun reading my articles: myself.
So be your biggest fan, write for yourself, be yourself. Your audience will find you.
“Hello World! I want to be a writer.” is what i postet on twitter today.
It’s what i truly want. It feels very good by thinking about beeing a writer. It feels better than anything else i can think of, that i could be. And that for a few reasons
1. I love to write.
2. I love people who do it.
3. I love to produce something.
By writing down this reasons it feels good inside, healthy, healing. It feels as if writing is made for me and not I for writing.
I wonder why i have not explored it before and i know why. Because i have not thought of it as a real dream. I thought it was possible to be a good writer but i thought that there would be something else for me to make money from. The fact is, that i don’t think in terms of making money in the first way, when i think of writing. It’s just the thing i want to do most.
One other reason why i have never startet to become a writer is the fact, that i have never been one. Yes of course, i have written some articles, i had the best fun of my life in school with writing. But that are not reasons for not to write but for writing. Yes, i have never developed a “writing habit” as some people would name it, but thats no reason for not to begin. I love writing. Thats a reason to start with. If I had a successfull blog, or if i would write everyday, i already would be a writer. And yes, i’m not a writer right now, but i want to become one. I want to be one. From the bottom of my heart.
It’s right there, the sun. I am very happy to feel it on my skin. Sunrays are welcome to me.
Have you ever thought about not having the sun at all?
I like the sun.
It gives power and light and life to the earth.
To enjoy the sun remembers me of Diogenes who lived in a tub and had this conversation with Alexander the king.
Alexander said, “Have you no favor to ask of me?”
“Yes,” Diogenes replied, “to get out of my sunlight.”
Just one hour ago i got an idea that stuck in my head: I don’t need to be perfect.
Why on earth am i not writing articles for my so important project called: monkey of hope blog?
Because i want to be perfect. And by beeing perfect i don’t talkt about perfect use of the english language or perfect articles or so on. I talk about beeing perfect in a way that i write usefull content. And yes. Thats what i still want to do, but not the perfect way, just the imperfect way. Because if perfect means not to write and wait till another day, cause you have no perfect ideas or you don’t have time to describe your ideas or whatever or if you think… you should write articles for the future to have articles in the background which you can use when you need them. This all means, that you don’t write, because you just have wishes how it should be.
To write or not to write thats the question.
So beeing imperfect is the way of writing i want to follow. To write about things you love to write about and having fun, even if nobody wants to read them, thats a way better than to write nothing.
Having fun is the key.
 Creativity is there, right in you. It’s there waiting to be activated. Sometimes people want to be creative, but fail because they give themself to much pressure. “Be creative now!” – That can kill all creativity. But only if you let it. The problem with creativity is, that you have it when you don’t need it and need it, when you don’t have it. So there seem to be two ways to use creativity. The first one is to use the creativity when you have it. The second way is to get creativity when you need it to be, or in other words learn how to be creative.
What does creativity mean?
I found a quote wich i liked:
“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”
- Arthur Koestler
And thats true. If you are creative you create something new. Nobody ever told you how to do it. You are your own master. To be creative means for me, that you use all of your knowledge, all of your pesonality, all of your feelings all yourself and dream of something new. Let behind bondaries, get rid of the “normal” behavior.
So to be creative is easy. You can be creative by inventing new words or writing down an article on how to develop creativity.
But creativity is not something that you only need once. You need it everyday. Take me, by writing this down, i am not that creative in the present, but was creative the days and weeks ans years before this article, because i always liked the subject creativity and thought a lot about it and tried to be creative for a long time. Successfully. I am creative. I feel very creative sometimes. I am sometimes amazed, what i write or say. And i think, that more people are creative and they don’t know it. They think they have stupid ideas or ideas that no one is interested in and so they are not interested in their own creative thoughts, because they seem to be stupid.
So whats wrong about beeing stupid? If you try something new, it seems to be very stupid if it’s against all you know or your surroundings may tell you, but it may be very creative. So if you are afraid of stupidy, you may also stop all of your creativity.
Don’t be afraid! If other people think: Ohh what a crazy idea/behavior, maybe you are on the right way. Thats why all the artists and cool people seem to be so crazy. Thats how i am creative myself. Never be afraid. First think: What could happen and if there is nothing bad about it, just do it, try it, write it.
In the future i am going to write more about beeing creative, but for today, just remember one thing: You are creative, cause you are a creation, just give your creativity more room in your life.
Writing is fun.
To write down your thoughts, only limited by your imagination and the ability to express what you want to say is awesome. To write focused on a special topic is not that easy. And the topic you write about in a series of articles should not put you in a cage. You want to develop your writing? So what to do?
So the first step is to feel free in writing. Without the feeling of freedom while you write, writing is no fun.
On the other side, to be totally free makes you write about everything and nothing and for every publicum to no one. So it’s still important to focus on a topic and keep the people in mind you are writing for. And of course: the motivation behind your writing is also important. I want to write helpful articles, that people read and get something out of them by having fun reading them. So writing is more fun, if your readers have fun as well.
And the more articles I write, the more I can answer why writing is fun. I’m still at the beginning of this blog and more articles are going to be written, but here are my expectations why writing could be fun:
- you learn something from your own writing by writing down your thoughts in an accurate way
- you read topic-realated articles and books you write about and by that learn more and more
- you grow in your writing and feel the process of development
- you learn a better english and because of that have mor fun writing in english (especially as a non-native-speaker)
- you can read old articles of yourself just to see how you expressed yourself decades ago
- you may interact with your readers and by that get fresh ideas
- you may produce something of value and feel the success of of your own writing independently of readers or people, but simple by the fact that you produced something new
- it’s fun, because its communikation
- it’s your voice to the world
- you feel integrated in the big group of writers, bloggers and thinkers all over the planet
So writing is fun, cause i like to write. I really love it. To write something usefull is even more fun. And to write to a bigger group of people and not only one person is a different type of communication. I love communication and this special type of communication is much fun.
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