“I’m outside and I don’t have my keys.”
For the first time in three years, my son called me to tell me this on Tuesday.
Not bad…13 years old and he’s never lost his keys. Technically, his keys weren’t lost and he told me as much.
“They’re on my nightstand,” he said when I asked him about their whereabouts. However, this knowledge did nothing to get him inside the house.
A lot of bloggers have this problem.
They feel like they’re standing on the other side of the door without their keys. I know I felt this way for quite a while. And it’s not a good feeling.
You feel like you’re spinning your wheels; like every other blogger out there has it figured out…everyone but you.
You could spend a lot of time getting nowhere by…
- buying another eBook
- subscribing to another newsletter
- or just walking away altogether
None of these choices represent what you really want to do. After all, if you’re anything like me, you’d continue blogging even if no one read your blog. It’s in your blood.
What you need is a map.
I love maps. Maps are cool on their own but they do double duty by providing two things for you:
- An overview of the area. You can see where you’ve been, the roads you didn’t follow, and the dead ends you did.
- Immediate direction. You can see where you are in relation to where you want to be.
Some people are good with maps. They can study it a while and see the error of their ways before charting a course to their destination.
Some people aren’t so good with maps. They need someone to point out the best way to get to their destination.
It doesn’t matter which kind of person you are, I have some good news for you.
I’m going to give you one.
In this week’s Blog Religion SECRETS Newsletter, I’m going to give you a map – a mindmap – that clearly reveals where you are, where you might have traveled, and where you need to go.
Here’s a sneak peek at what I’m talking about. (I made it small here so you’d get really curious. Is it working? 
)
In the newsletter, I’m not only going to give you the map, but explain why this map is crucial to the development of your Blog-Religion.
The newsletter version will also include an 8 1/2 X 11 PDF of the map suitable for very nice color printing.
Look for the newsletter later this week. Not a subscriber yet? Subscribe now! Just follow the direction in the sidebar and you’re in!
One more thing…I actually created this mindmap on my iPod Touch with the SimpleMind app. If you’ve got an iPhone or an iPod Touch, SimpleMind is a very useful application.
The paid version of the app allowed me to upload it to a server and download it for further editing on my laptop as well as get it in PDF. (The email support I received by Gerrit was worth far more than the price of the app.)
I recommend it.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, Little Elvis went to the library and did his homework until I was free to pick him up,
