I am going to start posting weekly updates of the progress of my blog. This is the first one. I got the idea from a good friend of mine – a fellow blogger Oleg Mokhov. I noticed that my blog lacked something.  It lacked

• a place where I am not hidden behind my articles;
• a place where I can interact with readers and connect with them on a more personal level;
• a place where I can inform the world about what I am doing and what I want to do
• a place where I can express appreciation to all the people who help me

Here it goes!

Articles This Week

Here is the recap of the week:

• What Drinking Coke Taught Me About Branding
• How To Approach Self-Development From The Best Results
• The Greatest Source of Wisdom: You

Growth Of The Blog

One of the main objectives besides providing valuable content to my readers is to grow my blog and make available to many more people out there struggling with embracing change in their lives. One of the best ways to grow the blog is to attract more readers by posting guest posts on other blogs. I am on the search for my first guest post starting today.

I am going to continue posting great comments on other blogs to attract more readers. That way I get to read some amazing articles out there that are relevant to this blog and I also get to comment and attract more people to this blog.

One thing that I still need to get working on is a free product that I will add value to people’s lives. I am still searching for the perfect theme and ideas of what to write about. I will let you all know what I have in mind once I come up with something.

Additions To The Blog

In addition to writing value adding articles, I decided to add a couple of additional features to my blog: Question of The Week and Challenge of The Week.

Question of The Week. In this segment I am going to go out weekly and ask people challenging questions about their lives.This will accomplish a couple of goals:

• I will be able to learn from their experiences
• I will share them with the rest of you
• I will gain experience in interviewing people
• I will be able to promote my website

I am really excited about this addition as I will be able to bring blogging to the streets and share my ideas about life with individuals personally. The only thing that I am waiting for are the business cards and a t-shirt to come in in addition to obtaining a video camera to record these short interviews. Once that is done, I will let you know when to expect the first video to come out.

Challenge of The Week. I also thought about this for a long time. In my life I seek value adding experiences, yet I have not consciously pursued them. This is going to be a segment where I will do one thing a week that puts me out of my comfort zone. I will post these challenges on a Weekly Update and then discuss the experiences the following Sunday. The purpose of this is to encourage myself and others to accept and embrace change in their lives by putting ourselves in uncomfortable situations.

This week, the Challenge of The Week is going to be smiling everyday no matter what, no matter where, no matter when. This idea was originally inspired by Dale Carnegie, but reminded by Oleg Mokhov.

Appreciation

First and foremost I would like to thank Oleg Mokhov who has been helping me out tremendously in my effort to get this blog started. I would not be here where I am without his continuous support. Then I would like to thank all of the people who took the time to read and comment on my blog this week:

• Sergut
• Alex from Unleash Reality

I really appreciate your time and input as I know that you all very busy with your lives and taking a couple of minutes of your time to read my writing means a lot to me. Thank you!