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Wakish Wonderz Invites You For A Guest Post

Posted on: Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | Written by Wakish

Guest Post
I’m inviting you to submit your “guest post” on Wakish Wonderz. In this process, your site/blog will be getting exposure and also we might learn new things from you, in a new way perhaps. ;)

The requirements are as follows:

star Type Of Post Suitable:

=> Anything as long as it is informative and of value to the reader..(at the present time, no advertisement will be accepted as part of the post)
=> The article should be fresh, no duplicate ones please

star Other Important Info:

=> You will be given 1 backlink to your blog for the time being
=> Following google’s new PR guidelines, all backlinks will be “NOFOLLOW”
=> Do not include any pics, I will arrange for it if needed..
=> I reserve the right to edit, modify and format as required, but the article will be credited to your name! (This formatting will be done just to adjust with my style and requirements..)

star How To Proceed?

=> Send me your article with subject line: “Guest Posting” via my contact form.
(You will be notified by email once your post is accepted)

Excited to see your submissions. ;)

Best Wishes,

- Wakish -

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Wonderful Blogging Ideas - How To Breed Them In Your Garden? => PART 3

Posted on: Saturday, March 15th, 2008 | Written by Wakish

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star What This Article Is About

This is a continuation of Wonderful Blogging Ideas - How To Breed Them In Your Garden? => PART 2. In this series and as in the previous one, I’m giving an explanation, going in deep details, on how to breed the right idea. This part is related and dependent on the previous 2 methods. As I said, all these approaches are inter-related and are built upon the previous ones. So make sure you read Part 2.
Continuing this series from last time:

star 3) Absorption Time

Now that you are making a good constant effort in thinking, reading and interacting. The next step is to allow your mind to digest all these activities.
There is a simple, but effective, approach to this process:
a) Note down main points in a special notebook and re-read at a later time and try to make a recap about what you have read and understood. If you find that something is fading out, go back to your original online source and re-read and re-consolidate everything.

bulb Let’s explain why you need this approach:

You see, when you are online and you are browsing so many pages, your mind will not be able to “store and save” all those information, simply because your mind is not a computer, is it? :P
Therefore, whenever you come across a worthwhile article or line, take the habit of quickly noting them down in your special notebook (or whatever you use). This way, you make sure that you will not forget about important stuffs you came across, thereby also eliminating wastage of precious time and energy to search and re-read the same online article again and again. Another advantage to this, is that quick notes are more handy than the original online source.

The method of re-reading and re-thinking at a later time is very crucial. This time interval allows for better absorption of ideas and understanding in your mind. This is important for us, bloggers!

Absorption Of What you learn = Productive Growth Of Wonderful Ideas

star 4) Regeneration of energy - Exercise and eat healthily to blog healthily

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If you just keep on and on starring at your monitor doing all these things, your body will start to be tired; your eyes will be affected, you might run into small pains in your legs, at your back, in your hands..etc, just because you have been sitting for so long. The result is that your mind, your thinking genius which helps you blog, will gradually be less and less productive. Meaning, you will not be able to come up with ideas and to express them. (You remember last time I mentioned about “a moment when your mind cannot think“?)

How to tackle this common and general problem which all of us bloggers face?

bulb Take frequent short breaks of 5 to 15 mins, or even more if needed.
What to do during this small period?
=> Go breeze some fresh air
=> Walk a bit around your house.. “move it up, move your body!” Do some light exercise.
For instance in my case, I love playing football, so I have a small balloon which I always keep in my house. Whenever I take a short break, I just run around with it, do some tricks and juggle with it. I never get tired playing and I always try innovative tricks with the ball. If you like weight lifting, do it lightly during frequent breaks. If you are an athletic person, that’s a big advantage since you will be very creative about how and what type of exercise you will need during frequent breaks.

The idea here is to do something which will move your body and make your mind relaxed.

=> Take a nap. Well, I will not exercise in all the breaks I take each time, I will at times just jump on my bed and take a nap (a short sleep or doze). Naps are also very good in helping your mind absorb things and also help your body regenerate its strength.

Eat Healthily

=> Drink a lot of water. Keep a bottle of water handy on your table and drink it often making it appear as if it is your “tonic”. Drinking a lot of water will also make you go to the toilet often and thereby making you leave your chair and move your body frequently ;)

=> Eat the right food. This will help your body stay healthy and when your body is healthy, your mind will work better.

exclamation How Does This Relate To Breeding Wonderful Ideas?
Hey Wakish, you are going off-topic man!” Not really :)
Let me prove to you:

Regeneration of your body’s energy + healthy care = (good mood and metabolism) = Productive Mind

Productive Mind = (A Tremendous Boost In Helping you think, analyse and come up with Wonderful Ideas!)

star Keep In Mind
Coming up with wonderful ideas is not a 1 day work. It is the result of a constant effort as we have seen and we will..

star Part 4

bulb => Part 4 is here: Wonderful Blogging Ideas - How To Maximize And Boost Your Ideas? => PART 4 (Final) bulb

star Suggested Reading:
=> Jirel of PositveNsucess, gives a good explanation on Fatigue And Working
=> How to increase Metabolism?
=> Eating the Right Food for Sexual Enhancement

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Wonderful Blogging Ideas - How To Breed Them In Your Garden? => PART 2

Posted on: Sunday, March 9th, 2008 | Written by Wakish

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This is the second part of Wonderful Blogging Ideas - How To Breed Them In Your Garden? => PART 1

In this edition, we will explore what it takes to breed the right idea.
While there are so many ways and quick tips to help you come up with wonderful ideas, I will first explore in detail, points that I consider to be more important to understand to us, bloggers (specially to new bloggers). I will begin with the “basement” and gradually climbing up to more useful tips. You will notice that I will go very deep inside each point I will mention. While it would have been very easy for me to just mention them briefly, I don’t find any fun or self-satisfaction with such quick approach. You will also find that each successive points is related to the previous ones, making them a complete process in themselves.
So prepare yourself for some deep thoughts and discussion (also please engage yourselves with us and discuss ;) )

Let’s begin with two important approaches:

star 1) Have the right attitude - The constant thinking mind

First of all, ask yourself why are you blogging? If it is to earn some quick bucks online, then you better stop here!
Blogging is a philosophy and bloggers need to shape a certain behaviours and attitude. Bloggers blog because they are passionate and willing to spend time writing good informative and valuable stuffs for others to benefit first! Bloggers are eager to share! They are not selfish! Are you prepared to share your knowledge and experiences? If the answer is yes, congrats! You form part of the true meaning of being a blogger and you should be proud of it!
(What about the earning part? Common let’s face it, if in this process, after a big while, the blog earns the blogger some indirect money and fame, I don’t see why we have to blame him for that!)
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Let’s clear one thing, can you play chess if you don’t like to think? No! Why? Because chess involves thinking and analysis in every single move. Similarly, you cannot blog correctly in the long run, if you don’t like to think.

Blogging involves a lot of thinking, analysis, observation and discussion. It requires constant thinking wherever you are; whether be it when you are eating, playing, working or watching tv. So, you have to develop the habit of thinking and asking questions to yourself. Excuses like “I cannot blog because I’m not able to come up with ideas” is a pretty lame excuse if you ask me. This is just because you are lazy to make your mind think! Think about it, am I right? (Now there are moments when really your mind can’t think, we will talk about this later). Nobody can inculcate this thinking attitude except yourself! Thinking, just like reading or writing, comes with constant effort and will. Infact, thinking is more natural and easy to do than reading or writing.. why not maximise this potential to your advantage? Instead of thinking about useless things, train your mind to think critically, analytically and creatively!

star 2) Reading and Interaction is crucial!

To be able to develop your analytical thinking, you need to read a lot. A lot? Not really! You need to read the right thing instead! When reading, quality is better than quantity. Learn to read some quality stuff. Read books or online material that have weight in terms of knowledge instead of craps or gossips or common daily stuffs (yes of course, once in a while it’s ok).. When you read an article, you have to feel you are gaining something. You have to feel that it is helping your mind to understand and see things better and probing your mind to think beyond!

Now that you like thinking and reading, it’s time to interact (or communicate)!
How? This is very easy since you have so many many online communities. But here also, you need to join communities which have substance. Also make sure you see that there are some experienced people around who can provide assistance and insights. This is crucial! A community with only newbies is not likely to do any good to you. You have to make sure the community is well balanced! Join communities centered around writing, blogging, online business and communities which will benefit on increasing your awareness on your niche..etc Examples of communities are blogcatalog, digital point forums..etc (There are so many, look around and see which ones best suit you! It is also a matter of taste.)

You’ve joined a community.. Very good? Not yet! You have to participate and communicate. Sitting around just idly or passively watching, will not work! Go ask questions, even if it is the silliest ones. Better be a fool for one day, than for your whole life! Everybody makes mistakes in the first steps, there’s nothing to be ashamed of.
With time, you will find yourself building some insight and getting the hang of how things are. So, now it is time to provide help to newbies. :)

How does this whole process help you in getting ideas for your blog?

=> When reading - you develop awareness which help see things better. In the end you will say “ah, so that’s how it is..”

Awareness + thinking = Emergence of new better ideas

=> Interaction & communication in communities - When asking questions, you get several solutions to your queries from different people. This helps you see things in different angle. When responding and helping others, this contributes a whole lot to a better understanding of what you are writing/doing.

Interaction + Writing = (Better Understanding + thinking) => Gives rise to better flow of new ideas

star Keep In Mind
Coming up with wonderful ideas is not a 1 day work. It is the result of a constant effort.

star This bring us to Part 3 - Click!

bulb Suggested Reading:
=> Is a blog the platform you need?
=> Method For Presentation Of Topics
=> Secret to your success! Do you have a vision

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Wonderful Blogging Ideas - How To Breed Them In Your Garden? => PART 1

Posted on: Saturday, March 8th, 2008 | Written by Wakish

Wonderful ideas..
Attention-grabbing ideas..
Amazing ideas..
Mind-blowing ideas..
Top ideas..
Most Selling Ideas..
Compelling ideas..

Well, this is one of the most important tune which keeps on rhyming and rhyming every second, every minute, every hour or everyday in the daily nitty-gritty of a blogger (whether you are a part-time, full time or occassional blogger).

star WHY? - Understand What Sells

The bedrock of blogging is undeniably “writing/posting articles“; not just articles, but articles that will convince, persuade and attract the evergrowing virtual population. This will create an urge in your readers to come back to eat yet another wonderful article. And to write such type of articles, you will surely need “Ideas“.

bulb Let me give you a more concrete analogy:

Consider a supermarket for instance. I think in your locality, there should be more than just one of them and in the best case scenario you might even find two of them very close with each other, and yet both of them do work fine, making good profit. Ever wonder and think why and how? :P

For the supermarket, the prime concern of its buyers is ITEMS. Not just any items (or products), but items that will urge buyers to come often, if not everyday!
Now, this gets us to our next thought, that is, “how” to do that?

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star HOW? - Think How To Sell

Each of those two supermarket knows that it has to come up with “ideas” of how to provide attractive items, keeping in mind that it has competitors just nearby. To do that, you will notice ideas like “buy one and get another free”, :”our item has an unbeatable price, if you find a better price elsewhere, come and claim one free!” and also most of the time these supermarkets will ALWAYS have something which the other will not provide, whether in terms of price, creativity, quality or quantity.. etc..etc..etc
But the main thing is: To have the right idea, to sell the right stuff, to the right audience.

Let’s get back to blogging, how can we come up with wonderful ideas to attract readers and make them love our blog and create a feeling of “apartenance” to our blog? How can you bring the right idea?

This bring us to PART 2. (Click!)

Till, then have a nice time!
- Wakish -

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