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A blog is a diary.  It's a journal.  It's a way to capture your current ideas.  A blog is a way for you to leave a message to your future self to say, "This is where I was in 2015."  YOu can write about the issues that were important to you today and you'll be

Lee Powers, a motivational speaker and an investment manager in Utah, gave a talk that I heard in 2005.  He talked about the importance of "the Quadrant," the four areas of wealth in our lives.  Money and possessions (financial wealth) were only one quarter of our wealth, according to Lee.  He then told the audience something important:  "Look back at the past year.  Did it go quickly?  Did the year seem to rush past you?"

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One way to slow down the progress of time is to "have more memorable moments."  If we take time to remember one important thing that happened each day this week, we'll have seven things to remember.  Maybe it was a remarkable meal.  Perhaps it was hearing a song for the first time and "getting" the lyrics.  The memorable moent might be a funny photo that you saw on Facebook.   Lee's point was "Put that moment in your journal.   Before you go to bed or the first thing when you get up in the morning, put something in your journal."

It's easy to start a blog.  Capturing your ideas is a part of REFLECTION
(the practice of thinking about what we have learned)

MY JOURNAL
That was ten years ago.  I misplaced the journal that I started.  I called it IWTRT:  I want to Remember This.  It was a good effort, I tried hard to do what Lee recommended.  But eventually I misplaced the journal, I carried it with me into my car (I wanted to add more memories) and the journal was avaialbe for me to make notes for a class I was taking, and eventually I think I misplaced it at a library or left it in a box that I eventauilly threw away. 

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MY BLOGS
Fortunately, when I read an important article, when I see something I like, I drop it on Facebook, Twitter, sometimes Instagram, and into a blog.  I have more special moments captured in my blogs.  Yes, I have left several blogs untouched, no added posts, for years.  But I can go back and relive those moments.

Tips
1.) Create a blog using Blogger.com and using WordPress.com.  
Decide which system you prefer.
It's okay to make extra blogs.  
There's no charge (just your time.)

This is a colorful blog from WordPress.com
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2.)  See if you can link the blog to your phone.... then you can update your blog by phone.   Take a photo, write a subject line (which turns into the blog's headline) and type a sentence to capture the moment.

This is the interface on WordPress.
Perhaps you will find that the "ADD MEDIA"
is easier in Blogger.com

3.) Add an entry once a week.  Think of something special that happened.

I like starting blogs.

4.) Share your blog with others.  You might inspire them to start blogging, too.  If you are a private person, you can make the privacy settings CLOSED.  Isn't that nice?

This is where you can set up your interests
and perhaps find other people who have
shared ideas

5) add some photos to your blog.  It will help you comment about something and help the reader get an idea about what you will write about.  See the tips by Seth Godin about making a powerpoint.  Some of the points might apply to blogging.



Here is a recent blog that I created on WordPress.com
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Please visit it.

Oh, and visit this remarkable video... I saw it a year ago and the images around minute 30 still occupy my brain.'

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 Here is an important part of the video at Minute 32:20
Notice the movement in a circle around the South Pole.  Hmmm  Why does the temperature stay lower "down there"?