While sitting at my computer a few years ago I typed out “I’m too fat” and as all domainers do, I checked to see if it was available. It was how I felt that day and after registering it, I found out that thousands of people feel the same way. That domain has stayed parked since 2005 making a few dollars each month but sitting in limbo.
The same year I registered the name was the same year I started running (there was another reason but for another story) and I ended up losing 50 pounds. I finished my 10th marathon a few weeks ago and accomplished my goal of qualifying for the Boston marathon and realized I might as well pass on what I’ve learned over the years and see if I can make a little money doing it.
It doesn’t hurt that the weight loss category is a good paying category but the site is not going to be a daily blog as I don’t have time. It also can’t be about me (my wife says that’s impossible) because I may want to sell it or hire writers. What it will be is another site based on things I know and do every day. I’ve talked several times about my plant sites but that’s what I do for a living, grow plants. I take pictures every day of plants, why not catalog them on my sites? I run 7-10 miles every day, I chose this food over that, but I am an overeater. I’m too fat is something I understand so why not build a site about it.
No sense going to the site just yet as it’s a “hello world” wordpress landing page right now but it’s next on my list to start working on. I write this because I see all the blog articles about wasting time reading about this or doing that and it’s why I stick to what I know. If I’m already doing it, then I don’t have to spend too much time hunting and gathering info. I AM the info and therefore takes a lot less time to create. I don’t have time or the interest to write articles on student loans or leasing trumpets but I certainly can take all the things that I do in my daily life and put them on a website. And that’s the beauty of the internet, you build it and they will come, all four hundred pounds of them.
great post as usual .. thanks .. you just gave me a few more ideas to play with