Scott Free Thinking

As I prepare to embark on a new set of adventures in 2008, I am doing so with a renewed sort of vigor. It’s bizarre how my mindset has changed, even over the past year. I think in 2007, I became a substantially stronger person and have a will that surpasses what I had before. I am no longer thinking in terms of money as I am in terms of my dreams. This sort of altered emphasis might be something that will lead me astray, but I think so far it feels incredibly good, and happiness is something that I will take. As much happiness as I can get my hands on, the better. But there is some news that comes with these new projects… I won’t be around here too much. Scott Free Thinking has now been set up to the point where it can run itself, and as such has only earned so much of a benefit beyond what I can really give it with the time and energy it deserves. With the other projects in my life - school, work, girls, and God knows what else: Scott Free Thinking will have to wait some more. But don’t worry about me, or the blog…

Everything will remain here, and since the site pays for itself(and then some), I will enjoy keeping it here as a resource for others to gain benefit from. This past year was a very long year for me, and after writing over 100 new articles, selling hundreds of items through Dirty Mechanism, releasing a small new book, talking with dozens upon dozens of people through e-mails and helping them with their issues I am thoroughly exhausted with this blog. The creative spark and enormous energy that had first started my writing for this blog has now largely passed, and with it comes new energies to devote to other projects. This site has now made its mark by having its content read by over 75,000 readers and still counting. This isn’t saying much in comparison with some other bloggers out there - but it is something I can certainly be proud of on an individual basis.

As much as I love writing and as much as many others tell me what a prolific writer I am, I no longer feel like writing is wholly where I belong. Instead, I feel as though I belong with people on much more of an individual basis, able to connect with others on a more success based basis. Having said that, I want to start speaking, filming, designing, creating, and really getting my word out. I’m thinking of starting another blog site in the near future to help generate some extra cash and once again put smiles on other people’s faces, but we’ll see what happens.

To be clear, Scott Free Thinking is not actually getting shut down. Instead, SFT is simply going to be slowed down. I will not be releasing articles as much. Instead, I’ll be focusing on making a stride to have SFT be the “home base” to some of my new books and info products that I’ll be coming out with over the course of the next year or two. I’m not done with the articles, though, by no means! With recent events in my life, I have to say that the overall content of the articles is now going to change, however. SFT is now take a slightly different direction.

Recently something very important happened to me. The location is kind of irrelevant to the scope of the event itself, and unfortunately I can’t fully describe all of the details, but I faced, sitting right in the driver’s seat of my car, a huge shove through my own mental resistances. It’s odd. When I think about my life and all that I have in it, it usually makes me grin a huge smile these days, and I can’t help but feel like though I haven’t accomplished all of my dreams, there’s a large portion of them that are constantly becoming true all the time. Progress has happened, and sometimes I even feel like I’ve had all the “progress” I could ever need. Even with all that I currently have - my money, my clothing designs, my readers, my loved ones… I am still learning, still growing. I’ll always be learning, always be growing.

There is nothing about personal development that ever stops. Becoming a better person and better understanding your inner soul is something that becomes an endless endeavor. With everything that I have pushed through now, I know that I am one of the great explorers of the human soul. And what a marvelous place it is to explore. A great explorer, a soldier, a struggling rookie. Much of those feelings never seem to go away, but I look back at the feelings and events of years passed and realize how far I have actually come. What a long way, and my how it went by in a wink.