I don't know about anyone else, but I get bored easily. Perhaps it's because I'm retired without a real world job, perhaps it's because I'm an inherently boring person, or perhaps it's because I like being bored. I really don't know.
When I started this blog, I started it as a journal of my new life in the Philippines. A few months later, it morphed into something completely different. It started to take on a life of its own. If you dig through the archives, you'll see exactly what I mean.
In the past, I wrote about how I was breaking the blogging monotony and the need for work. I still practice what I preach, although I don't seem to do as much as I used to do.
Blog Reviews
As Lorna pointed out recently, "Don’t know what to blog about? Do a blog review!". Blog reviews are a great way to fill the creative void when you can't think of what to write about. As Frank Carr can probably tell you, it can become a passion in itself. He writes great reviews, much more in-depth than mine. His "Blog Review: environmentastic!" is just one example. I have to be careful, however, because if I do too many reviews in a short span of time, I get bored with them. It's one of the reasons I'm going to be moving my blog reviews to a new blog.
Blog Drive-Bys
I haven't given them up. In fact, I'll be doing them on a new blog (same as above) and calling them "article reviews". Glorified speed-linking is all they ever really were and they'll probably remain that way.
They were another way for me to fill the creative void and avoid boredom.
Passionate About Discoveries
I don't know how to express it otherwise. I'm passionate about discovering something new and mastering it. When I first delved into HTML years ago, it was all about mastering the tags. Now, I don't care much about it. The same thing goes with CSS. Once I figured out how it works, I lost interest.
I should be passionate about how to make money online, but I'm not. As I mentioned, I'm retired. Money isn't something I absolutely have to make a lot of and therefore, I'm not passionate about making a lot of it.
Once I learned how the Google PageRank worked, how to climb the SERPS and how to generate screaming traffic really fast, I lost interest in it. Boredom set in once again. I was passionate about the discovery aspect, but not the continuance of it.
Discovering My Passions
I actually have a lot of passions, but they don't translate well into something that I would write about without sounding like a broken record. I like to read. The source isn't important; the subject matter IS important.
I like to help people, but not necessarily in a monetary fashion. Writing about helping someone in the real world seems a bit too self-serving to write about more than every once in awhile. Heck, writing about helping someone in the online world seems too self-serving to me. I prefer to operate in the background. Some people like being in the limelight. I'm not one of them.
I like answering questions. The more in-depth the answer has to be; the better I like the question. That is, if I can answer the question in the first place. The long answers turn into great articles, in my opinion.
Final Thoughts
When boredom sets in, I need something to defeat it. Whether you're familiar with my blog or not, do you have any suggestions? Is there something I've done in the past that you really like? I'm all eyes. I would love to head off in a direction that all of us could enjoy.
