{"id":2422,"date":"2009-03-23T06:16:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2025-03-06T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:13:14","slug":"creating-a-website-is-like-creating-a-little-world-in-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/creating-a-website-is-like-creating-a-little-world-in-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a website is like creating a little world in itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was one of my most restful Sundays ever.\u00a0 Sundays are usually a flurry of activity for me, but I claimed yesterday as a day of rest and not having to do anything on anyone else’s schedule.\u00a0\u00a0 I ignored the pile of work on my desk and instead opted to play around putting together my new website at www.goddessgrub.com<\/a>.\u00a0 It had so much fun at it that it was easy to forget that it, too, was actually technically “work,” but of a different sort.<\/p>\n

I am one of those people who are great at making big starts, but not so great at following through or following up.\u00a0 A typical Aries-times-5 trait.\u00a0 Now I can look at that as I seldom finish what I start<\/em>, or I can look at it as I begin a lot of projects that are then easy for others to step into<\/em>.\u00a0 This has come in handy for lots of small business ventures through the years that I’ve begun, lost interest in, then passed along to a friend who really made it work and took it to the next level.\u00a0 While I don’t see myself losing interest in doing Horizons Magazine<\/a> anytime soon, I do get tired of some of my other jobs – but that’s mostly related to me feeling restricted by having to be on someone else’s schedule and commit to an appointment time.<\/p>\n

By working for myself since 1992, I’ve fallen into a natural sleeping\/waking pattern that I really love.\u00a0 I sleep twice a day for short periods, which gives me two fresh starts each day.\u00a0 That’s when I get my best work done, first thing after I wake up.\u00a0 So waking up twice a day is an awesome way to naturally increase productivity.\u00a0 I keep the clock in the bedroom turned so I cannot see it, and ignore the time on days I don’t need to know it.\u00a0 That helps me feel more free, and feeling more free helps me to be more creative.<\/p>\n

That’s one reason I like creating new websites.\u00a0 They are fun to put together and they are little worlds in themselves.\u00a0 I can just pick something I am interested in and sit down at the computer and, before I know it, I am writing text and finding images and putting it all together.\u00a0 I did that with www.goddessgrub.com<\/a> and also with www.secret2dollars.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I did it for several websites I’ve done for friends and family.\u00a0 I did one for my stepdaughter Ashley as a surprise, putting together photos of her folks, her friends, her husband and kids.\u00a0 I was lucky, her name was available as a domain name – how cool is that?\u00a0 I did one for my friend June at www.moonmother8.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These are fun for me to do and I have a dozen of them in the works.\u00a0 They are a real stress reliever for me at times that I need to stay at the computer and phone.\u00a0 They let me create a whole other world , no matter that my body is simply sitting in a chair in front of keyboard and monitor.\u00a0 My mind gets to run free and I feel I am having some vacation time, even while I’m technically “in the office”.<\/p>\n

That’s a great thing about these minds of ours.\u00a0 No matter what is happening around us, we can escape into our own little world for some respite and creative fun.\u00a0 We can do a little fanciful creative visualization on lots of different topics, and those fantasy thoughts go a long way in prepaving our future tomorrows.\u00a0 It’s always a good idea to throw some positive, hopeful thoughts in the direction of the future, even if it’s just a few moments here and there.<\/p>\n

Think of what it feels like on the first day of your vacation, knowing you have 4 weeks stretched out ahead of you to do whatever you want and go wherever you want.\u00a0 This is MY fantasy, and you have 4 paid weeks of vacation time, PLUS you just won $200,000 in last night’s lotto.\u00a0 Hmmm, what to do first?\u00a0\u00a0 A quick shopping trip for a new wardrobe before the trip begins, then where would you go and what would you do and who would be with you?\u00a0 If you want Ashton Kutcher there, he’s there.\u00a0 I’d opt for Sean Connery (at any age).<\/p>\n

Even contemplating silly scenarios like that expands your perception just a little bit.\u00a0 If you keep repeating those silly thoughts, pretty soon you get used to them and they feel familiar to you, and when they feel familiar, that is when the having of it is the next logical step<\/em>.\u00a0 And that’s what you want anyway.<\/p>\n

So what’s the point in fantasizing and doing creative visualization?\u00a0 You’re not doing it to make yourself feel better, although that will happen as a consequence.\u00a0 You’re doing it because in doing so you are stepping upon the path to your happy tomorrow.\u00a0 Getting one step closer each time you make yourself have that happy thought and bask in the having of it.<\/p>\n

And you can have a bunch of unfinished thoughts, thoughts hanging in mid-air as surely as my other dozen website projects.\u00a0 But you’ll know that every 30 seconds you choose to dream the dream and have the fanciful, hopeful, expectant thought on what you would like to BE, is moving you step by step along that path and you’re getting closer each time.\u00a0 Closer to your happy tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Good morning, new work week.\u00a0 I know you have good things in store for me this week.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait to get into them!<\/p>\n

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