I actually started and deleted this Blog Post a few times in deciding if I should bother doing it or not, what I finally realized though is that this site is ShaneBaxtor.com and while my main focus is technology news a part of what the site is about is me.

I’ve always considered myself a bit of a confident person, considering I spend most my life behind a computer desk you do have to think that it’s not all that hard. I can wield my keyboard with the best of them in a slinging match on any good forum. What I’ve come to realize though is that I’m confident when it comes to business.

I’m one of those people who buys expensive things when I probably shouldn’t but feel confident in my skills that earning the money to pay for the item isn’t a problem (I think people like me caused the Finical Crisis ) and looking over my site the last few days I’ve realized that I’ve left subtle hints to myself that I am optimistic about how my site will go.

I mentioned in a post about myself that I like to live life by a bit of a motto, “It’s better to try and fail, then to not try at all.” Now before I go on I want you to know that since the official launch of my site I’ve made $1.81 from Google AdSense so I’m hardly a blog master and while making money from the site is a goal it’s not the motivation.

At the moment I’ve noticed two things about my site which stand out for me, when I started my new *Knock Knock* Delivery! series instead of doing #1 or #01 I instead chose to go down the #001 route. That’s because I’m confident that my site will be around for years and with the design of these posts only weekly that means I would need to be around for at least two years to break that first 0 in #001.

The second is the fact that in four days of having the site running I felt the need to organise a dedicated server for it (I figure this is a good chance to let you know that the site might have a slight bit of down time while I move it). I’m not talking about some cheap dedicated server either, with a friend who has six available I’ve taken the chance to pounce and make sure my site is ready for a level it hasn’t achieved yet. I’m confident though that in the near future if the site stayed where it was it would fall over and could cause more significant down time.

In the first six days I’ve had 209 unique visitors for 751 page views and yes I know it’s hardly dedicated server worthy but I want to be prepared because talking to people and thinking about it, 209 different people 6 days after the launch of a website is actually pretty impressive.

If you’ve ever heard someone say “Reach for the Sky” when it comes to setting a goal I say “Reach for the Sky, then a little bit further.” I don’t aim to be a self help guru or as mentioned already some kind of blog master, what I am though is someone who puts 110% into everything they do while realizing that “doing” is the only way to achieve those goals.

I write this today for two reasons, one to give you a better idea of what goes through that brain of mine and two hope that just one person reads this and says to themselves “you know, I can do that!”

Since we don’t want to make the whole post too heavy I’m working on a tech related post for my next one that is going to cover some of my thoughts from a review I finished today using the HD 5670 512MB GDDR5 video card from ATI.