You know, I’m not sure what the signs are that you are getting noticed in the blogosphere. Is it traffic? Is it how many websites link to you? Certainly not, I think the true representation is when I’m ‘tagged’ to talk about something. In this particular case, I’ve been tagged by Aaron Potts of Today is That Day. The question is – why do I blog? As a part of being tagged, I must give five reasons why I blog, and in turn I can tag someone else. But first, let us see if five reasons can be drawn as to why I have started this crazy, twisted thing I like to call Dirty Mechanism.

1.) I want to help others achieve success. I think one of the central messages I give here on this site are akin to an idea that success is simple, but often cannot be easy. When I tell people about some of the things I have accomplished at my tender age of 18, they say, “Wow! What a life you have!” For years I thought back on it and said to myself, erm…I guess? You know, it’s not really all that difficult if you just get out there and do it. For instance, if you want to make a movie, how will you ever know you can make it if you don’t just get out there and give it a shot? If you want to start a company, but don’t know how, you might start one and run it straight into the ground – but you’ve got to try. Perhaps if we can get people’s attitudes to change how they look at failure, we can start seeing a lot more failures out there. And as a result: we’ll see a lot more success!

2.) I have a vision. To those who know me best, it is no secret that I have a massive vision of my future. To say I envision myself being a millionaire would be a bit typical. Well, I certainly don’t imagine myself being in debt, but the connotation of a “millionaire” is not quite so strong as the other feelings and imagery of creativity. Creativity, I feel, is one of the most important aspects of the world that is constantly overlooked. If you threw in more creativity to your life process, you’d likely also see more success. Oddly enough, the majority of the population tends to care about success, but not care so much about creativity until, of course, they don’t have it anymore. “I can’t watch TV! Oh noes!” I hope to one day impact millions of people’s lives positively. Am I anywhere close to being ready to quit? Well, I’ll put it this way: I haven’t even reached a 100,000 people, let alone several million. I want my message to be heard, considered, and acted upon.

In addition to this blog, I have a vision of building my company, Barton Ct. Productions Inc., into a respectable film studio, worthy of recognition next to at least Troublemaker Studios or heck, why not something as well known as Universal or Warner Bros.? I want to build a musical recording studio. Essentially I want to live a creative life. One that is filled with writing, music, and film making. The blog, my t-shirt designs, Eternal Exhaust, Barton, and other projects are just the foundation, in their infancy right now, of that greater dream.

3.) I need to eat like most other human beings. In addition to the first two reasons, blogging also helps me earn a bit of money. Ideally, that amount of money will increase in the future. At the moment, I’m earning about enough on this blog alone to eat Raman noodles every single day as my diet, and live in a box. Okay, granted it’s not much, but it’s definitely a start! My girlfriend Kim just reassured me, “You could get more than Raman noodles some days!” That is true, perhaps a happy meal on occasion. I am doing well. If this blog were to be my only source of income, I suppose you could say that I am at least earning a bit more money than the slave wage workers that create our clothes in sweat shops.

But all joking and political banter aside, this blog is as much a part of my creative businesses as any other project is. I’d like to see this blog gain as much success as Barton as seen, and I’d like to see my music enjoy the same success in fans, viewers, and listeners that this blog has seen. A high level of income can be used as a powerful tool in helping others in other ways besides just the written word. Perhaps one day I could contribute to a charity or start my own.

4.) You are brighter than you think. If there is one thing that I have learned during my time on this earth, it is that you never know what the human mind is capable of, as well as its effect on reality and the body itself. People are walking around every single day, having been labeled with ADD/ADHD or obsessive compulsive disorder, never wondering about why they have been given the mind they have. Did it ever occur to these people that maybe there’s a reason they have been designed by their environment and genes this way? The disabled, from my research and experience, are not so disabled. The normal are not so gifted as they claim themselves to be. The young are not so young as they are made to seem. The old are not so wise as they would like. And similarly, in every single case witnessed thus far, the human being is capable of more every single time they say they are not. If a blog can show some people that then I am certainly going to want to write one.

5.) I want to help myself. Blogging is not just an activity that helps the readers that visit it. It is also an astonishing tool for introspection and self organization. Being given both the freedom and limitations of a blog, I have been able to compact ideas that before were written in entire books, and have been able to touch base on concepts that could take a lifetime to learn and enjoy. I suspect this is part of the reason that we see thousands of new blogs get started every single day. We are witnessing the new trend of writers writing for the sake of writing. Sometimes I get the feeling that for some of these bloggers, it is helping them more than it is helping their readers. And isn’t that great? I know for certain that this blog has helped me in a lot of ways, and if nothing else – the compliments put a stroke to my ego that perhaps…with all the excess of my ego I already have…doesn’t hurt. ;)

With all of this said, I think it is time to transfer this odd blogosphere meme to tagging Bill Perry of both Financial Freedom Library and LucidBlog. Bill and I have known each other for years and have even worked together here and there on projects like LucidGame Group, which lead to the experiment that provided direct proof, at least to us, that lucid dreaming really could call up information seen only unconsciously in the waking state. As far as I know, we were the first ones to prove this, however unscientifically. He is one of the main people who sparked the idea of the DM blog and encouraged me in setting it all up. I’d be very curious to see his take on this question of why blog, writing about it in a similar format. Bill Perry is known mainly for his powerful spiritual approach to both finance and lucidity.

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