Tip 45: The 4 Minute Rule to start blogging

I read a review of a book read by my HR manager. We have recently set up a bulettin board on the intranet in our company where we share experiences, book reviews or anything interesting. He shared that a book recommended to start doing something just for 4 minutes to assess if you will like doing it more. This 4 minute rule is to help create good habits or help the mind battle the question that the task is impossible. Once we get involved in a task for 4 minutes, our mind begins to see the bigger picture of how this task can be engaged, the fruits of it and how it turns out to be not that difficult after all. How about trying to blog for 4 minutes? Set up an account and blog for 4 minutes. Then, try again the same rule the next day. I am beginning to be more and more convinced that daddies NEED to blog. Why? Because the next generation of kids will ALL be blogging.

I was on facebook and saw an update that one of my contacts just updated his blog. He was a teenage (maybe he still is. time flies and before long, i will be a grand daddy maybe) from my previous church back in Malaysia. So I visited his blog and is impressed by the well captured photos that look very professional. Kids these days have their Nikon, Pentax with SLRs, the latest Zoom etc etc. One wonders where they get the $$$ to buy these expensive cameras. Then, I saw his blogroll and there were almost 30 names of other teenagers from church that I knew. (Hey, I have only 1 link on my blogroll! Add me if you are blogging so I can add you too.) Wow, all 30 of them were blogging already. And all of them have professionally taken photographs from their Nikon or Pentax. Now, if 30% of all youths with computers blog today and the blogging frenzy just started 3-5 years ago, how many percentage would be blogging in 13 years time when Haruka, my daughter is a teenager? I would say 100% and they would be using high tech phones, touch pads on their jackets and sunglasses with special sensors to blog and update the world of their observations. We are beginning to extract and share information at a speed no one has guessed possible a century ago. It will not be long before the next Tower of Babel is built if the world does not see another world war in the next 50 years. So start blogging already, daddies. Create a blog at wordpress, blogspot or any other blogging platform. Then, click on my link below to review my blog post and get paid for it by pay per post. You need to create a paypal account and can either use the money for online shopping or transfer the paypal balance to your bank account. Its that easy these days. A decade ago, I was doing a research paper on e-commerce and discussed the doubts consumers have on online shopping. But, as people have accepted the US dollars for decades even when its not hedged against gold, so will people be using e-commerce and blog and have a life on the virtual world. Start for 4 minutes and you will never think you will never finish a task. And if its never finished, you can console yourself that even the tower of babel was left uncompleted. Then, enjoy the rest of the day not on the net to see the beautful flowers in spring.