Success Should be Fun

As a child I would occasionally hear stories about how my ancestors “worked their fingers to the bone”, and how they used to work 14 hour days, and come home unable to walk. I presumed that work had to be… well… work, but then a little thing called the Internet came along, and it blew the rulebook out of the window.

I read many blogs and websites on a daily basis, including many of the so called “a-list” bloggers, and they all seem to have one thing in common: they take things too seriously.

Look, I appreciate that making money is a serious and important thing, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. Rules are there to be broken, and let’s be honest, the average person is going to be working for at least 40 years of their life, so we might as well try and enjoy it… right?

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, when I started out working online this was my goal, my mission statement, and my blueprint to happiness. I aimed to ensure that I didn’t take myself too seriously, that I would strive to be different, and most of all, that I would enjoy it. As I glance around my blog I see “6 billion feed readers”, I see Killer bunnies, and I see tongue-in-cheek humour in almost every post, so it would seem that I have achieved my goal, and I urge you to do the same.

Success can be fun, and what’s more, if you are having fun, being different, and pushing the boundaries, you will stand out from the crowd of grumpy bloggers and workers, and thus success will find you even faster.

I am proud to share this mission statement with you today in the hope that you too can adopt it as your own. So for that reason I have decided to change my blog title to:

“DeanHunt.com - Making Success Fun”

No doubt it will lose me a few hundred Google search visitors per day compared to those boring SEO optimized titles that we are so used to having to put up with, but I don’t care! This will act as a reminder to us all that success CAN be fun. Afterall, you only get one shot at this little game we call life, so why not enjoy it?!?

Rant over.

Dean

PS: I know I have mentioned this before, but if you haven’t already seen the “one last lecture video”, then you can see Randy doing the lecture live on Oprah here: One last lecture