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For the Things We Have to Learn Before We Can do Them, We Learn by Doing Them.

For the Things We Have to Learn Before We Can do Them, We Learn by Doing Them.

For the Things We Have to Learn Before We Can do Them, We Learn by Doing Them.

Quite a long fortune for today’s FortunateBluFrog post. Experience is the greatest teacher and you can’t get experience unless you do things. Such is the case with blogging, you can’t get experience unless you blog. New bloggers who want the quick fix are not going to do well unless they get their hands dirty and start blogging. You might think that you have nothing to blog about, but most likely you do.

Blog About What You Love

There are blogs around from everything to insects to inspiration. If you love something and can’t stop thinking or talking about it then you’ll do well blogging about it. Will you make money doing that? I can’t tell you that. I can’t guarantee that. But I can tell you that if you blog about what you love you’ll earn a fortune beyond money.

How Do I Know This?

I know this because I’ve been blogging about photography, travel, technology and my family. These are topics I truly love. Along the way I’ve made a couple of bucks for my time. But what has made me fortunate has been the friendships I have made, the experiences I have had and the conversations I have had. All of that was because of experience, on the job training. Those were things I needed to learn by doing.

I remember back in 1997 I wanted to learn how to kayak. So I bought a book about kayaking, I read through it and started trying to learn as much as I could about kayaking. However, I knew nothing about kayaking until I got in a boat and started paddling, finally.

What are you going to do today?

Blogging

You May Attend a Party Where Strange Customs Prevail II

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Tomorrow Allison, Eva and I are attending the birthday party of our good friend’s son Matty. Matty is turning 1 year old. At first when I got this repeat fortune for today’s FortunateBluFrog fortune I was disappointed. I am not a fan of getting repeat fortunes but I guess if you open up one every day then you are bound to get repeats. I would have thought I’d have gotten more variety in the 3 dozen cookies I bought. However, This weekend I should have some brand new ones because the ones at home are from another batch.

Okay, back to the 1 year old’s birthday party. A birthday party for a kid that small is strange. We had one for Eva and will have one for all future kids of course. However, at 1 a kid’s birthday party is really one for the parents and the people who attend. There certainly are great customs like that 1st piece of cake.

For Eva her 1st cupcake was a huge deal, I video taped it and it was so cute. She made a huge mess and loved it. It wasn’t as epic as her 1st ice cream from Dairy Queen however. Now that, that was epic. (BTW We didn’t win the Dairy Queen Sweet Deals contest.) The winner was a someone with a creative letter to Dairy Queen. I thought that cute kid would trump all. I was wrong, DQ likes letters instead, wacky pun filled letters.

Apparently today is tangent day. I’m off all over the place. Anyway the point is that birthday parties for small kids have strange customs, birthday parties for pets are even stranger. However, any excuse for a party is a good one.