Comments for Spiritwealth's Weblog http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com Creating wealth without selling your soul Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:53:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 Comment on How Did I Get Started Blogging? by Shelly http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/how-did-i-get-started-blogging/#comment-184 Shelly Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:18:39 +0000 http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-184 Hi Claire, Nice to bump into you again here! Sharon has done a really nice job of keeping up good blogs since the WU days, and it looks like you have too. It's good to see that, even though we aren't all together at that site anymore, many are still keeping up with their blogs, and doing better and better work all the time. Shelly Hi Claire,

Nice to bump into you again here! Sharon has done a really nice job of keeping up good blogs since the WU days, and it looks like you have too. It’s good to see that, even though we aren’t all together at that site anymore, many are still keeping up with their blogs, and doing better and better work all the time.

Shelly

]]> Comment on How Did I Get Started Blogging? by Blogging Start Writing Project Posts | Get Paid to Write Online http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/how-did-i-get-started-blogging/#comment-182 Blogging Start Writing Project Posts | Get Paid to Write Online Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:20:43 +0000 http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-182 [...] WritingUp’s Failed Social Experiment - Claire Moylan [...] [...] WritingUp’s Failed Social Experiment - Claire Moylan [...]

]]> Comment on How Did I Get Started Blogging? by Joan Kremer http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/how-did-i-get-started-blogging/#comment-180 Joan Kremer Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:33:03 +0000 http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-180 Clare, Fascinating story! It always amazes me how even the difficult times we go through end up providing great life lessons. I also joined in Sharon's blogging-start project, and now I'm going to rush off to backup my blog -- thanks to your sharing of your lesson about that! Joan Clare,

Fascinating story! It always amazes me how even the difficult times we go through end up providing great life lessons.

I also joined in Sharon’s blogging-start project, and now I’m going to rush off to backup my blog — thanks to your sharing of your lesson about that!

Joan

]]> Comment on How Did I Get Started Blogging? by sue http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/how-did-i-get-started-blogging/#comment-178 sue Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:43:10 +0000 http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-178 Hi Clare, yes those were good days. Blogfeast was the other site but that went down after less than a year I think. Good to catch up again though. suejeff Hi Clare,

yes those were good days. Blogfeast was the other site but that went down after less than a year I think. Good to catch up again though. suejeff

]]> Comment on How Did I Get Started Blogging? by spiritwealth http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/how-did-i-get-started-blogging/#comment-177 spiritwealth Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:33:06 +0000 http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-177 Brad, well I have to say I had two blogs, and I had a bunch of reviews I was writing on blogs too for products etc. So, I went to the other blog and it sort of became a spam blog, ha, ha. That was when Blogitive was more active. Anyone heard of that? We all went wild with Blogitive at WU because it was unbelievable EASY money for a while, until they asked us to do three posts for one pay. Now, I think Blogitive is taking a nose-dive too. You go there and the blog looks ancient. Dana, remember when a bunch of bloggers at WU stomped off to Blogger Party or some other funny blog community? I remember a whole group of them got mad for some reason over some posts and decided they were going to go elsewhere. I think that community fizzled too. Lissie, never too paranoid or too rich...Ha, ha. Brad, well I have to say I had two blogs, and I had a bunch of reviews I was writing on blogs too for products etc. So, I went to the other blog and it sort of became a spam blog, ha, ha. That was when Blogitive was more active. Anyone heard of that? We all went wild with Blogitive at WU because it was unbelievable EASY money for a while, until they asked us to do three posts for one pay. Now, I think Blogitive is taking a nose-dive too. You go there and the blog looks ancient.

Dana, remember when a bunch of bloggers at WU stomped off to Blogger Party or some other funny blog community? I remember a whole group of them got mad for some reason over some posts and decided they were going to go elsewhere. I think that community fizzled too.

Lissie, never too paranoid or too rich…Ha, ha.

]]> Comment on How Did I Get Started Blogging? by lissie http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/how-did-i-get-started-blogging/#comment-176 lissie Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:19:51 +0000 http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-176 That's a sad story! I must admit 1 day I misused my employers equipment and printed out all the articles I had on one of the sites I don't own - just in case :-) You start to be paranoid after a while - and now I know maybe I'm not paranoid! That’s a sad story! I must admit 1 day I misused my employers equipment and printed out all the articles I had on one of the sites I don’t own - just in case :-) You start to be paranoid after a while - and now I know maybe I’m not paranoid!

]]> Comment on How Did I Get Started Blogging? by Dana - The Writer's Blog http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/how-did-i-get-started-blogging/#comment-175 Dana - The Writer's Blog Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:53:18 +0000 http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-175 Hey Claire :) Yes, WU definitely taught me lessons about backing things up! I lost some valuable (to me) work. Recently I found a shared blogging site that had a similar name, was a drupal site with exactly the same colours. I felt a bit sad and considered joining but I knew the time had passed. Obviously someone had missed our old stomping grounds and tried to recreate it but it could never be again what it used to be. I have kept several friends from those days and took so much away from that experience. It definitely helped shape a writing and blogging career for me! Nice to run into you again :) Dana Hey Claire :)

Yes, WU definitely taught me lessons about backing things up! I lost some valuable (to me) work. Recently I found a shared blogging site that had a similar name, was a drupal site with exactly the same colours. I felt a bit sad and considered joining but I knew the time had passed. Obviously someone had missed our old stomping grounds and tried to recreate it but it could never be again what it used to be. I have kept several friends from those days and took so much away from that experience. It definitely helped shape a writing and blogging career for me!

Nice to run into you again :)

Dana

]]> Comment on How Did I Get Started Blogging? by Brad Shorr http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/how-did-i-get-started-blogging/#comment-174 Brad Shorr Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:13:59 +0000 http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-174 Sorry to hear about your experience, but I'm glad it didn't deter you. It's always seemed to me that working in a blog network was all upside, but I guess that's not always the case. Looks like you've bounced back well! Sorry to hear about your experience, but I’m glad it didn’t deter you. It’s always seemed to me that working in a blog network was all upside, but I guess that’s not always the case. Looks like you’ve bounced back well!

]]> Comment on How To Nurture Your Offline And Online Friendships by spiritwealth http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/how-to-nurture-your-offline-and-online-friendships/#comment-170 spiritwealth Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:18:54 +0000 http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/?p=182#comment-170 Why are you in a friendship with someone you don't respect on some level? If you feel sorry for them, it's a way of discounting them and their choices, like their lives are not up to snuff or something. I can empathize with a poor situation in a friend's life, but have learned never to enmesh myself in their dramas or to judge it as being something they don't want. You would be amazed how many people create drama and unhappiness just because they are bored with their lives. For me, it only brings me down. They are responsible adults who can take care of their own business, for the most part. I can help them with bits and pieces of their lives, but I don't want to be involved in a full-blown soap opera. So, distance and boundaries are good cures for that. Particularly, you have to be careful of the type of people who collect rescuers and sympathizers as friends. They're used to playing the victim and having an audience to hear all their woes. If they really are your friend, even though they've fallen into this bad habit, you can constantly bring back to them the responsibility they have in creating some of the dramas in their own life, with compassion. You don't have to be mean. Of course, that may make them want to get rid of you right quick because you had the nerve to tell them that they are not the victim they think they are and to see the Divine in them! But, friends are AUTHENTIC with each other, first and foremost. Otherwise, it's more like co-dependency, not authentic friendship. Good boundaries and honest communication help in situations like this, don't you think? Why are you in a friendship with someone you don’t respect on some level? If you feel sorry for them, it’s a way of discounting them and their choices, like their lives are not up to snuff or something. I can empathize with a poor situation in a friend’s life, but have learned never to enmesh myself in their dramas or to judge it as being something they don’t want. You would be amazed how many people create drama and unhappiness just because they are bored with their lives. For me, it only brings me down. They are responsible adults who can take care of their own business, for the most part. I can help them with bits and pieces of their lives, but I don’t want to be involved in a full-blown soap opera. So, distance and boundaries are good cures for that.

Particularly, you have to be careful of the type of people who collect rescuers and sympathizers as friends. They’re used to playing the victim and having an audience to hear all their woes. If they really are your friend, even though they’ve fallen into this bad habit, you can constantly bring back to them the responsibility they have in creating some of the dramas in their own life, with compassion. You don’t have to be mean. Of course, that may make them want to get rid of you right quick because you had the nerve to tell them that they are not the victim they think they are and to see the Divine in them! But, friends are AUTHENTIC with each other, first and foremost. Otherwise, it’s more like co-dependency, not authentic friendship. Good boundaries and honest communication help in situations like this, don’t you think?

]]> Comment on How To Nurture Your Offline And Online Friendships by network cabling http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/how-to-nurture-your-offline-and-online-friendships/#comment-169 network cabling Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:19:05 +0000 http://spiritwealth.wordpress.com/?p=182#comment-169 You ever have that friend you dont like you just feel sorry for? What do you do? -The mean friend You ever have that friend you dont like you just feel sorry for? What do you do?

-The mean friend

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