Writer Interrupted is the best way to describe it.
I used to be a writer.
Then all of a sudden my muse went dark and silent.
I emigrated to America.
And got caught up with the demands of making a new life with a young child.
But my muse was persistent.
I would spy her desperately trying to hail me down from behind the throng of finance and sales people that had taken center stage in my life.
"Hello, I'm still here", she said. "Don't pretend you don't see me!"
"All that's behind me" I said, "I am a Commissions Analyst now."
To which she replied, "I don't care if you are a Commissions Analyst - I know you recently became an Xactly Implementation Architect as well. But how can you give up on your writing? How can you give up on you?"
"Even if I could write again, I wouldn't know what to write about!," I protested.
"Hello," she said, in reply, "of course you know what to write about. You read a ton of books. You spend all your time surfing the net. You have so much accumulated life experience. All you need is a kick in the pants".
Perhaps, all I really did need is a kick in the pants.
Because no sooner did I decide to start writing again, when I found there was no shortage of ideas to write about.
I thought about Weight-loss & Nutrition and the wonderful tips I had learned from my friend Julia over the years. This became the successful "4 Healthy-Eating Tips for 2011 from My Friend Julia" post.
I thought about Careers & Job-Search and the gems I found in a book on Resumes by author Brenda Greene, and this became the "Resume Tips from Fortune 500 Managers" post, my most popular post to date.
I thought about April 15th and Income Tax Returns and how understanding and learning how to use Turbo Tax had saved me money over the years, and this became my "Lower Your Tax and Tax-Filing Expense - 4 ways I do this each year" post.
I thought about Healthy Families & HSA Accounts and how I navigated Healthcare Options during the 2 periods in my life when I didn't have employer insurance, and this became "Jobless? Or Self-Employed in California."
In my collection of posts, you will find these and other actionable ideas such as:
Buying a Used Car - How you can use Consumer Reports, CarFax, Hertz Rent to Buy and AAA Inspection Services to get the best deal and sleep at night.
Credit - You can learn how No Credit is Worse than Bad Credit in my post "4 lessons I didn't learn from a Certified Financial Planner".
Launching a Business - How to get inspired by Robert Kiyosaki and then use resources like SCORE and AMEX Open as part of 6 steps to launching a successful business.
And my favorite post of all:
How to be a Better Dad in 2011 - with a must-watch video of Dick Hoyt (if that's the one thing you do on my blog, it's watch the You Tube video of Dick Hoyt) and where you are sure to be inspired by all the 3 Incredible Role Models listed.
There will be more to come.
As surely as day follows night and night follows day.
So I urge you to check back often.
Because as the line under the title to my blog says, you will find actionable ideas for your career, your investments, your health, your net worth and your peace of mind.
All in one place.
I hope you will bookmark http://minoojha-actionableideas.blogspot.com/ and visit often, giving me your comments and reactions, so I can make the blog even more useful to you.
Wishing you a great 2011.
