Happy New Year Everyone!

I know I have had a lot of problems with my theme, but I looked into that, and I really had a problem with decisions for this blog, and the confidence of those decisions. I have tried to look that over to, so I can overcome that and make decisions for the blog and feel confident about them, but also while making those decisions have a sense for other’s needs and wants.

Everybody has something different that they have to work on, to improve, to fix, so that they can really blog at their full potential. If you always have difficulty writing content then until you make a plan and figure how you can always produce content than I am guessing your problem will stay the way it is.

I encourage you, like I do a lot, to look into your problem, and share it. When you share it others may be able to offer improvement, or they may even know of a solution. An experienced blogger may have faced many challenges, and they can help new bloggers rise to their challenges ad surpass them to become experienced themselves. This is a world where everyone is competing, though sometimes it seems we are competing to see who can help the most people. By helping others, that is how we win in the blogosphere.

In that case, after you finish solving your problem, if you find someone else who has to figure out what is bogging them down then you can help them, and in that way you have solved yet another challenge.

It is difficult to face your biggest weakness, and hard by all means to share it, but you can find the support you need and you can overcome your difficulty if you let others know what you have to face. And this is how you will finally overcome it.

What is your biggest weakness?

In blogging you have to understand the difference between thinking and doing. You may know of a way to boost your RSS count, but you must do it. Usually, work does not do itself, but the work will pay off. So you have to get yourself from thinking to doing.

If it is writing a post:

I you always think about writing a post, but you never end up writing it when the day finishes, you might have a problem that is had to overcome. You must really push yourself, you have to leap into it, and from there it will come. You can outsource it if you want, just somehow get a fresh plate of content out there. No matter how challenging it may be, if you want it to appear, you have to work for it.

The same goes for much else, you really have to try to get what you want. So stop thinking, and start doing! Get out there and blog! What is holding you back?

Don’t “almost,” pull through!

Don’t “almost” make it, for that will not help you. This time you actually have to make it.

Once you have it down, make it stick.

After you get over that initial bump of resistance, make sure in the future that is doesn’t happen again. It may take time for the persistence habit to settle in, but if you keep pressing it the action will stick with you.

So I know you have a great post idea write now, and how your blog will be flocked with comments and visitors, so stop thinking about that but get out there and do it!

So because of this, I feel the need to change my theme from that bright green to a blue, filled with frost, or with a holiday picture. I feel like celebrating with the rest, getting into the spirit, having this the time of year where everything needs change, or addition, and everything is good. So I am going to change my theme, to show my love for the magic of this season.

Now, if you would, I am on the lookout for those kinds of themes, for it is a bit hard to find the right one. If you happen to see one, I would be pleased and would take a look at it. This way everyone can participate.

Also, I wish everyone a happy December, and I hope you all dwelled on our thoughts at the end of November. A new season has started everyone, so let us get to work and make it a good one!

Go blogging!

I want all of you though to take the last remaining moments of November, and reflect years back, until you come to December. Remeber times long ago, and get new ideas and inspiration from them. And allow your self to be sad, allow yourself some of the emotions that tough you. Just keep that spirit coming, and when you look back, you will also see ahead.

I hope everyone that is still active with Green Flamingo (probably not many) will appreciate this theme, and if you have any suggestions for it I will be happy to read them.

Going along with our topic of the month,  which is motivation, can say that a new theme and the right theme can really motivate you. If you wake up every day and see your beautiful website looking shiny and sleek you will be encouraged to write and please your audience. Without a good theme then you may not see the satisfaction in your website and will not be easily swayed to write. And if you are changing themes constantly that will create a distraction, so I suggest you to stick with one theme for a while.

The energy of the theme can also effect how you feel and go about your blogging. In the past little “codes” have been determined based on the overall appearance and color scheme of your blog. It is said that red is an expressive color, but not the calm expressive, more of anger and boldness. Blues are more gentle, and dark mixed blues create a good personal blog while a blog with sleek blue will bring out a professional feel. Greens are not as common, but they are a mix of both, usually joyful and trying to get a point across. Blacks and whites just add to the drama, usually much white background representing business like approaches while black backgrounds are directed to personal blogs.

My theme is intesified by green, but I have parts of orange and black which I have looked forward to for a long time. They add “good stuff” to the mix, and the orange really contrasts against the green.

I have seen other blogs that contrast well, without overpowering anything. One of these is ironblogger.

I have also seen many site that blend well with their own stripes and shades of colors.

I hope that you can choose a theme that contrasts or blends well, because that can be important to a good theme, which has a path to motivation, which has a path to success!

As you probably know and realize, my plan through October failed, for I did not have time energy, or motivation to help my blog back from the heaps again. I have to admit that I made a mistake there, believing I might be able to revive this blog and have everything go back to normal. But you always learn from your mistakes, and the only way to success is a path through mistakes, so who knows what could happen in upcoming months.

This month I have taken on some new challenges this month, including moving. It is hard to move, especially if two people in a family of four are a bit unorganized, and you are always being called on to fix their problems. I am also taking on NanoWrimo, and more will come on that later.

I don’t really want to promise you a month of surprises, for I have failed October with that and I don’t want a repeat. I will promise you a month of hope, and change.

By the way, if you want me to fully answer the title question, don’t be nervous to leave a little note.

I have done some things to celebrate this event, because just like many others I will celebrate for birthdays.

First I have changed my theme back to what is was, what is was a year ago. I still love the theme, and I love my blog, so I seem to be crawling back into the state of mind I was in last year, though I have still expanded and I have learned the true ways of blogging through my year of experience.

I also am going to reflect on this blog, looking back on it. From my perspective right now, I have grown with this blog and it has grown with me, and together we have overcome hardships and rejoiced through progress. I remember a year ago my circumstances, my being, how I lived, how I was. I look back upon this to reflect who I was and who this blog was, and I am proud yet sad of the change that has passed.

Lastly I have decided to hold a little “contest,” though it is not of the normal sort as you will find now on about every blog in the blogosphere. I will tell people about my contest, though I will not exactly promote it, neither will any of the objectives to win include you promoting this blog.

It is called Green Flamingo’s Celebration Of Themes contest. Details will follow, and it is easy to participate in. As far as prizes go, I will give out small prizes, though I am not going to announce anything before hand. I hope that the winner of our celebration enjoys being honored too.

So, for one week we will celebrate the birthday of Green Flamingo, though we may carry the contest a little farther. I hope that you can look deeply into this blog to see why it is still up and running after a year.

So just stay tuned, there is no need to put on anything special, though try as much celebrating as you can. Believe it or not, everything has already started, and the contest begins right now!

Good night everyone, and I hope to see you in the near future.

In August, after the Pagerank update then, I worked very hard to get myself back to PR3 as I had been in July and for many months before that.

I am very happy that I was able to increase my PR so I do not have to feel bad about it and also I can feel like my normal self.

This really helps my blogging spirit!

-The Now Happy Green Flamingo