You must know that I have been struggling with how to structure my blog.   I want to earn money with this blog, but I can’t make that rule what I do.

I am not going to pretend that I am just a nice person writing a blog to share with everyone–although I am that too

I have taken many “blogging courses” and belonged and still belong to several memberships with the top experts.  And I am gettin’  exhausted trying to sort out how to put together the “right” way.  Today I literally was so exhaused I laid down for several hours.

I decided to listend to the Poet David Whyte on one of several cd programs of his and I remembered hearing what I am about to share on one of the cd’s months ago.  Below I will share snippets (probably paraphrased)  of some of what I heard and that struck me to the core…to my heart.

Today I became exhausted while working on structuring my blog and “figuring out” the categories and all of that.  Well, this has happened many times.  Ya think I’d get a clue?

Look, I am in the same boat as many folks are right now, we want to earn more money.  My problem has been  that I am very selective about what I really have passion about it.   Of course there are some who say,  promote what sells.   But that bores me to tears and you know what?  It also exhausts me.

Ok, back to those snippets, which you will see how it all ties in. If you are in my shoes, you might be inspired and enjoy.  They are from David Whyte’s CD program and much of it is paraphrased.

Whyte said to Brother David (I think that was the Brother’s name):  Speak to me of exhaustion. The brother answered: the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest…the antidote to exhaustion is whole heartedness.

And this, might as well have been  a brick dropped on my head, he continues:  The reason you are so exhausted is that much of what you are doing you have no affection for. Urgh…no affection for…as in no passion for…no feeling for…no heart for!

So I have decided that I am going to just write, because this is where I can be “whole-hearted”.   I am not going to worry about pretending I am not marketing anything or trying not to offend anyone.

Instead of spending more months racking my brain as to what products I can unobstrusibly share on the blog,  I am just going to sell ads on my blog.    And you will see them in the sidebars.  And then we can both go on to my sharing and if it speaks to you, we can have a dialogue and some good communication through the comments section.  And unless you have a porno site, you can add your links!

And you know what, I can feel my energy coming back.  Somethin’ to this whole heartedness business, eh?

In case you all don’t know Heather Armstrong,  she blogs and she shares about her life and she has lots of ads on her site.  And no one seems to care.  And she earns a lot of money with those ads and more power to her!

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