Exactly one year ago today, I launched the Waldo2010 blog. The intention was to share my journey in the pursuit of health, wealth and happiness throughout the year. For a while, I was posting to the blog with regularity, but as life got in the way, I started posting with much less frequency. In retrospect, I think that the limited scope of the blog caused me to pause before posting some things because they didn’t fit neatly into the categories that I created.
As 2010 started to wind down, I started to think about what the blog was going to be going forward. Since I was no longer solely pursuing the 2010 goals, or reporting on my progress, I thought that a change needed to be made. Besides, having 2010 in the name of the blog kind of makes it feel outdated.
The journey that I started last year continues to this day. While progress was made in 2010, there is still a lot more that needs to be done in my pursuit of health, wealth and happiness. However, one thing that I learned in 2010 is that those subjects alone do not provide enough opportunity to maintain a blog with regular postings.
In 2011, I do not want the thoughts that I share on the blog to be limited, so I decided to freshen it up and make it into what I want it to be going forward. To keep the blog’s archive of posts, I had to retain the address (www.Waldo2010.wordpress.com), but as of today, I have officially changed the name of the blog to Waldo’s Life. The old address will still work, but you can also get there by simply typing in www.WaldosLife.com.
With a more generalized blog title, I will now have the freedom to post to the blog without worrying that it might not fit into the overall theme. However, I will not try and crowbar posts into the blog that are of personal interest to me, but are not necessarily about my life. This is why I have recently launched other more niche-oriented blogs.
Many people who read my blog do so after a link to a specific post appears on my wall on Facebook. Some of you may have already noticed that I have started posting links from my other blogs that do not bear my name in any way (www.Sports2Day.wordpress.com and www.GenerationXRockMusic.com).
In the near future, I will also be posting links to Facebook from other blogs that I am launching (www.Television2Day.wordpress.com) and (www.TheMusic2Day.wordpress.com). This will allow me to write about topics that I am passionate about, while also reaching an audience of people who are interested in the subject matter, but not necessarily in my personal life. Of course, it stands to reason that there will be a lot of overlap amongst the various blogs.
In addition to these other blogs, I will also be posting links to articles that I write for the sports website, BleacherReport.com. My personal profile, with links to all of my articles can be found here: (http://bleacherreport.com/users/440432-adam-waldman).
This year, I will not be making resolutions that I am likely to break as we drift further and further away from New Year’s Day. However, I am going to do everything within my power to write as much as possible for each of the sites. So, while it is not a resolution in the traditional sense of the word, I do resolve to make 2011 the year that I make meaningful strides towards writing for a living.
I hope that 2011 is a great year for each of you, and that you do whatever you can to make your dreams come true!
Waldo's Life 