Hi Team,
I love how the way these Member Posts are going. I’ve learned so much from each of you, and I hope you have as well. Please continue to upload your posts online and aim to put them up by Sunday evening so we can schedule the posts for the week following. You are welcome to highlight 2 or 3 links of your favorite articles from your site as well. After the end of each post, you will notice your Member Profile with your site link, description, Twitter, Facebook, and last three posts from your site, so feel free to mix it up a little bit.
Things have been relatively smooth sailing on the site after the launch of the Yakezie Forums, which I encourage all of you to adopt. If by chance there is a problem logging on to your account, try emptying your cache and restarting your browser. We’re still working on making the Belts of Honor system integrate with everything you do on the site, and we’re going to figure out how to offer a similar e-mail digest wrap in the forums for those who wish to subscribe. The forums have really started to get going and you should use them to your benefit to discuss perplexing online issues, promote some projects, and get to know others better.
One of the things I’ve been doing is getting to know some Lifestyle bloggers better during the next couple months of the Member Posts. I’d like us to cross pollinate our genres in the Yakezie Lifestyle vertical, and I’ll be introducing some new out-of-our-niche bloggers in coming weekends. I’m personally fascinated by how so many lifestyle bloggers are leading such different lifestyles from many of us. They add a different level of interesting to the group, as well as new perspectives on how to live.
I encourage each of us to reach out to one new blogger of any genre outside the Personal Finance arena and get to know them. Tell them about what we are doing, and see if they embody the spirit of the Yakezie. If they do, perhaps they’ll be a good fit to join our little group. There are just so many different people doing different things out there, it’s important we expand outside our fantastic little world. The great thing is, everything ultimately relates back to personal finance and life!
Hope everyone is enjoying the slow and steady pace we’ve decided to embark on. Have a great Labor Day weekend!
References: Member Post Instructions, Yakezie Member Badges
Best,
Sam
Yakezie has been going great. I am working hard to comment on everyone’s posts, read completely and keep up to date in the Forums…..
How do you design a lifestyle blogger? I don’t know if my Frugal Zeitgeist crosses into that arena occassionally.
Can we make you Forum Leader? You really are doing great work Forest! We’re trying to see how all the messages from the Forum can be downloaded in one day and distributed in an e-mail form just like the GG.
Your blog is definitely a hybrid of PF and Lifestyle, living in Cairo, doing your own thing! I’d love to read more of your stories and your thought process behind rejected the normal 9-5 lifestyle back home in London and such. What were your fears, worries, goals, etc.
Stories are just so wonderful!
I agree! Forest definitely embodies a lifestyle mindset, eschewing the norm and choosing to live on less on his terms, living as an expat, etc. I’d love to read more of his thoughts on that as well.
Hi, Definitely a good idea to branch out. Being inbred is limiting! In addition to Yakezie, I check out others as well.
Being inbred is limiting! If there are particular blogs out there that can no only help our personal finances but our lifestyles, I’m all for learning more!
I’ve really been enjoying the member posts, and I agree that you shouldn’t limit yourself. I’m sure we all read plenty of blogs that don’t fit into the personal finance niche.
“We’re going to figure out how to offer a similar e-mail digest wrap in the forums for those who wish to subscribe.”
This is extremely important, Sam. The sooner the better! The beauty of the Google Forum was that I got daily updates by e-mails on *everything* that was going on – which made participation extremely easy. Without those updates, the odds of me missing important topics I may want to participate in drops substantially.
By the way, I have enjoyed reading all the intros so far too! Very fun reads.
Best,
Len
Len Penzo dot Com
Yes, I will try and continue to work extra hard for you and the fellow members. Cheers.
It’s been great getting to know our members better. I look forward to reading some of the lifestyle posts. I know there is a great variety out there. Thanks again, Sam for this wonderful opportunity!
You bet! And if you know of any lifestyle type folks out there, please feel free to intro them to the group!
Sam, I read a lot of different sites, to get ideas. I live what many would call a “traditional” lifestyle. But with the changes going on in the world, it will probably become a minority lifestyle. I have a mortgage, my own professional business for 25 years, married to the same woman for 30 years this Dec.
But then again, I am in this crazy Yakezie group, I blog on the internet, and have an opportunity to speak to another group of nursing students next week!
So maybe I am not so traditional?
For sure, it is fun to watch this site unfold!
Sounds great. As a physician, you must be one hell of a busy man to do it all! Happy speaking!
I was JUST wondering about the Yakezie and other types of blogs, thinking that something like this would benefit so many different niches. A friend of mine, Marc Perry, who was an investment analyst on wall street and up and changed his whole life to become a personal trainer and fitness guru would be a great fit. He runs BuiltLean.com. The man gave up wealth and something many pursue, a career in the stock market, in order to help people and get more out of life.
Sounds like a great initiative your friend has undertaken! Perhaps he’d like to share his story here. He’s one lean guy lol. I think having a fitness blogger would frankly be perfect for us PF bloggers. I for one could use some motivation to get leaner and get in better shape to win tennis tournaments! Have him stop by! Cheers
Great idea Sam. I have a few bloggers in mind!
Sounds good mate. Have them stop by and check it out!
that’s a great idea! It’s really neat to hear so many different stories of bloggers
I’m happy you branched out. While I may not blog specifically about lifestyle in the truest sense I focus on my area of expertise; IT management, technology, and productivity. I have occasionally branched into some personal finance topics but there are others more qualified than I am to take on those topics.
I hope these topics dovetail well into this community.
Sure Marc, welcome to hear your story and see you progress in the Challenge!
Just a thought: homeschooling is a huge topic out in the blogosphere, and definitely brings “lifestyle” to mind: typically it requires one parent to focus on the kids’ education (and putting a career or at least extra income on hold). Homeschooling allows flexibility that accommodates different lifestyle living, such as military moves; self-sufficiency; vagabonding, etc.
We intend to start homeschooling our three kids after our upcoming move. The timeline is up in the air b/c we still haven’t sold our house! Our reasons for taking our kids out of public school are multi-fold, but suffice to say – we aren’t alone! Neither in the military world, or elsewhere.
Just something to consider, along with military lifestyles in general: frequent moves; living overseas; regular separations from your spouse, etc. That’s a whole nother realm, too. :)
Yes, that is quite an interesting realm Jolyn. How do you decide whether to home school or not? Do your kids choose or do the parents choose?