LOGICal eMOTIONs

Last Time On LOGICal eMOTIONs

// July 9th, 2007 // Meme Posts

Colleen and I don’t watch a lot of TV because, well, we don’t have anything on it but static. We don’t have the old rabbit-ears, we don’t have cable, and we don’t have satellite. We do however watch shows on DVD, and we do watch quite a few movies.

Some of the great parts about watching entire seasons of a show on DVD is that you don’t have to wait a week between episodes, you don’t have to sit through commercials, you don’t have to try and find it when it’s been bumped for hockey, AND, you can watch it during the “off season” when they decide to make fewer episodes now that the show is a success..

Having said that, one of the best features of the DVDs is that you have the option of watching the previous seasons recap in case you are not able to rent season 4, of The Soppranos, at your local Rogers Video, for reasons which escape you.. ?

By Providing a recap of the previous season, you get to hit all the high points of what has happened so far, and it puts everything going forward into context.

Sounds like we need something like that for blogs!

And thus we have the entire purpose of this post, and yes, it’s meme time!

What if we had a meme where the title of the post was something like:

“Last Time On *insert your blog name here*”

where you listed the posts that have been lost over time, yet are the best ones so far that would put everything into context moving forward for your readership?

For this blog, I am currently up to 27 pages of blog posts, and I don’t even post every single day… What about those that post daily, and have been known to post a couple times per day? I don’t know about you, but 27 pages is quite a few to go through when trying to get the ‘gist’ of what this sucker is about. Sure, we do have the required ‘About’ page, yet people still want post examples (ok, I do) for a better understanding of what the blog is about.

Think of it this way: if you were to pull out no more than 10 existing posts from your blog which hit the high points of your blog SO FAR, and put all your future writings into better context, which posts would they be? It’s not your ‘top 10 posts’ – ok, well it is, but with the specific intent that your blog will be DEFINED by these posts and it will establish a framework going forward. Sure you might have a top post that generated quite a bit of traffic and accolades but really wasn’t 100% on topic, it would fit into the ‘Top 10′ list, but not this meme… Make sense?

The best way to figure that out is when you’re looking at one of your old posts, imagine someone asking you “Is that what your blog is about?” – YES answers go into the meme, NO answers you can save for another time…

So, without further wait, I give you:

Last Time On LOGICal eMOTIONs

What about FINITE capacity?
A look at the choice for infinite capacity for ‘good’ in our lives, and the choice for finite capacity for ‘not good’ in our lives. It’s a matter of choice and it must be understood.

Writing – Good vs. Bad
Don’t shoot your readers in the foot and expect them to run a marathon with you – coach them through the tricky parts first, your point will make more sense.

Judging books by their cover?
It happens every day and that there are times where we can use it to our advantage.

Commitment is Crap.
A look at commitment through prioritization. Your priorities will determine your commitment.

Self Image – Part 1
If our life revolves around our self-image, our mind works ceaselessly to maintain our self-image, what is bound to happen if we have a poor self-image? Is our life or our world around us going to get better, or likely worse?

A Self-Correcting World Of Information
The importance and growth of credibility in a world of rapidly expanding information.

The Peaks & Valleys
I think it’s called life. The only difference between the two, is 3lb of grey matter.

Failure Vs. Success
Failure is ONLY relevant in it’s relativity to ‘goal’ – nothing more, nothing less.

Appreciation Of Value
The relationship between value of self, and expectation of self.

Ok, so that is my… um.. 9 posts that help put the rest into context. Now, the added bonus of this little exercise, at least for me, was that I discovered a few things: the current theme messes up older posts (now looking for a new theme – any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated), I have some great stuff back there, and that I’m heading off course (again) and need to get back into my own game.

Now, I’m going to tag 5 people who will hopefully join and I can’t wait to see what develops. The five are:

• Robert @ Middle Zone Musings
• Troy @ Orbit Now!
• Valeria @ Conversation Agent
• Pete @ Freaked Out Fathers
• Theresa @ Sleeping Kitten – Dancing Dog!

Meme Rules:

1. Please try to limit your post to 10 items or less
2. Tag 5
3. Take your time. Do some digging in the archives and find the perfect ones – it’s to your advantage more than anything else.
4. Please if possible, link to this post for meme info, and please link to the post that you were tagged in. Memes go on for quite a long time and when trying to follow one backwards to see some of the other posts, it gets quite difficult when only the blog URL is used.. Just a request.
5. The people you tag, please let them know by email, contact form or some other efficient method.

Enjoy!

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P.S. Like the meme? Want to participate but haven’t been tagged? Great – take it and run with it! (there are no meme police)

UPDATE: Where there is a meme, there is a plugin/widget for WordPress…

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