Blog Rebirth

After many months away from the keyboard (at least from a blogging perspective), I decided it was high time to return to the pajama army. This time around I am coming at all of this from a slightly different perspective than last. My previous blog (Here's What I Think About That...) was really just whatever the heck was running through my head on any given day. That can certainly be a perfectly fine little blog, but I think I knew I always wanted something more. I am hoping this new blog is it.

So what, pray tell, is this more that I hope to achieve? Fair question.

For the past few months, I have been wanting to get a blog together and I wanted something that was a little more focused... but on what exactly? It then hit me that there was a topic I find inherently fascinating and I could write about seemingly ad nauseam (although I'm shooting for not causing actual nausea in my beloved readership): the little things that make life better. Books that make you think. Blogs that give a new perspective on old problems. Things about fitness and health I've picked up during the past 15 or so years (and the people who have influenced those thoughts). Ideas on how to handle issues that arise in the workplace. Basically, how to live life a little better, one step and tip at a time.

There are certainly some rather robust sites out there doing that already and I am looking to collect a bunch of them for my links on the right hand side of the blog. Lifehacker has certainly affected my thinking on this topic, but this blog is not looking to be Lifehacker Jr., but it's own unique entity on the Web. It's going to take some time to keep this moving along, but a true goal of mine is to make this blog much bigger (in terms of content, readership, quality and general snarkiness) than anythign I've attempted before.

And why the heck not? After turning 35 years old almost a week ago, I've come to some basic realizations that I think you personally gain over time (even though you have heard many of them throughout your life, I've consistently found time to be the primary catalyst to get these truths to really sink in). One of these maxims is that you only limit yourself most times in this life, so I am avoiding that like the plague. Does that mean this blog is going to be the biggest thing on the Web by dint of my own raw determination? lol Probably not, but hell... why not go for as much as possible and let events fall as they may?

So, it's good to be back and now here's to hoping for some content that anyone who stumbles into here will appreciate and gain a little something from each and every day.

Oh and the new site name - a good friend of mine (Sharee) came up with it and I liked it. Very catchy and in line with my thinking for the blog. It's not that you should never live life with a certain sense of contentment or zen, but that little tweaks along the way certainly make things a lot more interesting.

So, any questions here? Any questions here? Let's get it on.