Olive Riley, from Broken Hill, Australia, the world’s oldest blogger died in July, at a massive 108 years old. Too weak to get up from her bed, she was still able to tap the keyboard of her computer. Olive said “It doesn’t take much exertion to be a blobber”.
The Life of Riley had more than a million hits since its launch last year. Olive was the only resident in the retirement home with a website and a ‘blob’. “Olive was introduced to blogging by and an older friend who had taken up blogging”, says Mike Rubbo, filmmaker of a documentary on the life and times of Olive Riley.
Olive’s fans came from all over the world. Unfortunately Olive did not have the strength to speak on a US talk show, when invited to do so.
Perhaps Olive calling her blog a blob was a lovely accident we can all learn from. Unlike Olive, maybe we all take Google rating and the number of hits we get, and ourselves, all too seriously.
Olive seemed to have found the magic key of doing her thinking just before she dropped off to sleep. Experts (whoever they may claim to be), say our brain works better and clearer at night than during the day. So perhaps like Olive, we could be more successful if we ‘blobbed’ at night. Or at least got our ideas for blobbing, in the night hours (which a lot of us do).
The other point we can all take on board from Olive is that if you are blogging now, how many blogs can you put out by the time you are 108? Olive managed to put out 70 entries on her life experiences in just on eighteen months. Experiences that cover a world-wide depression and two World Wars, being a station cook in outback Queensland and a barmaid in Sydney.
Now you are a lot younger and much more energetic, so say you write 5 blogs a week, for 50 weeks of the year. That is a total of 250 per year, or 2500 in 10 years, 5000 in 20 years, and 7500 in 30 years.
If each blob received just 500 hits that would be a total of 3,750,000 hits in 30 years. If those hits could average you an income of $1 per blog you could become a $3.75 millionaire in thirty years.
The moral of the story is: Hang in there, you never know when your once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunity will bring home the bacon, (or is that meant to be the groceries).
Olive found a once in life time Blue Moon Opportunity to make her mark. You can do the same.
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