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Flailing — not Failing! Flailing is a cool word and I think describes my blog at the four month mark. When something is said to be flailing, it is thought to be kind of moving, swinging, or beating in a wild manner. It’s movement that is less than productive, but the movement has intention. If the flailing object were to find its groove and the energy being expended focused, there would be big results.

I think flailing is a good choice here. In many ways, I have been all over the board with this. I have had days where I really felt like I was finding that groove and then, like recently, days (maybe even weeks) where the focus wasn’t happening.

I started this with the intention that it would take at least one year of commitment to see where it goes and what it does. My struggle has been in a couple of areas. I am challenged in being transparent and unpretentious because doing so risks opening myself up maybe more than I would like to. Although the way I see it, putting it out there honestly is probably the key to what I ultimately see the key the development of the blog.

And then there are the developing themes I have for the blog. Right now I see those being my perspectives of life at 50, Arizona living, and personal achievement in others that I personally find very inspiring.

In the four months of blogging, it has been amazing the reach it has and the search rankings some of the posts are getting, sometimes immediately! Visitors from every continent except Antarctica have found their way here. Some of the posts that get the most hits include the ones on Camelback Mountain, the house in Colorado that is being given away in an essay contest, and a couple of the personal achievement stories.

I also really appreciate the comments many of you have left and am committing to doing a better job responding. Blogging is supposed to be about developing conversations. I haven’t done a very good job participating in those. But I do read every one of them and keep them in mind. Example, Leo made a very powerful comment in response to the post I wrote about the teenager that had developed an online business that was producing a killer income. He suggested I watch the movie The Producers. Well, it has taken me quite some time to get this done and Leo probably thought I would never get around to it as I commented to him that I would be watching it soon. THAT was months ago. BUT! I have it arriving tomorrow through Netflix! Can’t wait to talk about it.

I also have some very deep subjects suggested by Steve, who was the guy that successfully rode his bike across America. He is presently writing about it and actually plans to attempt to have a book written by end of summer. Hey Steve, maybe I can be one of the first to review it. The topics he has suggested to me are a great base focusing on some good stuff.

Anyway, it’s been four months. We’re flailing. But I think that’s a good thing.