Whip out the tools and get back to work!

As some of you might have noticed, we just made the leap into a brand new year, and what better time could there be to grab a clean state and give yourself a fresh start? For me (especially after the long, undesired break) it seems like the perfect chance to reach out and try and grab some of the many opportunities the internet still holds.

Before we jump right in though, it is always a good idea to use some of that 20 - 20 hindsight we’ve been given, and analyze what’s been accomplished in the year gone by. See what you did that worked, and I’m not just talking about the things that made you money. What did you like doing? Did you gain valuable new connections, associates and perhaps even a friend or two?

For me when I look back at my online achievements in 2007, the most obvious thing that comes to mind is what I did with Bloggst. I managed to create a brand new website from scratch, and sell it for $3,000 in the span of three months. I’m quite happy with that, as I started with pretty much nothing (in online terms) last year, and ended with a nice chunk of change, and made some excellent new connections during that period as well.

But then there’s the negatives. What did I accomplish for the remaining three quarters of the year? Pretty much nothing. I made some sporadic attempts to create a bit of buzz around this blog, but all in all I was content sitting on my pedestal wasting the fruits of my labours. I made no attempt to ride the wave of success, and benefit from what I had already achieved. After all, success breeds success, or at least if you take effort to make sure it does.

With this in mind, my goals for 2008 appear to be pretty obvious. I want to create a stronger and more visible online presence through constant participation in various communities, including those that surround this very blog. It will be important to me to reach out to other like-minded people, because nothing serves better as motivation in the times when the going gets tough, to put it like that.

Apart from this, I also want to start at least two new specific projects. The goals with these will not be to raise them as high as possible in a short span of time in order to cash in, but rather they will serve as monuments of my committment to online opportunities. Hopefully, they can also help me further my name, and if I am able to make a profit, I won’t refuse that opportunity.

I have also decided that it might be beneficial to me to team up with someone, so at least one of the projects will be more of a group effort as opposed to the one man shows I have stuck to in the past. Of course, that depends on me being able to find someone I want to work with, and that person being interested in working with me as well as the ideas I already have in mind. Interested? Let me know.

Now you have some insight about what I am up to, and how I perceive the year gone by in terms of my own online efforts. Have you made any similar reflections yourself? Perhaps you have even more concrete goals for this year than I do? If so, feel free to share them with the rest of us by leaving a response!

PS: I know this post is filled with typos, but I cut my pointer finger and have it bandaged, which makes is a bit hard to type. I was also suffering from a serious case of writers block when I wrote this post, and it seemed more important to just get a post together than worry about the details. I’ll edit it as soon as possible, promise!