You don’t have to tell me, I already know… I am a strange person. When I have friends who jump on chat and tell me that they really liked the theme I had on my blog at 12 noon and then the other one at 5:00 pm but didn’t like the last one they saw at 7:00 pm, to me I guess that may be an indicator that I have WordPress Theme Addiction. Trust me folks, this is much worse than being addicted to crack! Although, I have never had issues with crack, the symptoms I hear can be kinda bad. With that said, I am going to break myself from this addiction and set myself FREE! lol

So anyway, WYSIWYG. Don’t tell me that you love the new theme, don’t tell me that you hate it. We are all just going to be quiet about it. I am challenging myself to NOT change my theme for 30 days. So once again, what you see is what you get. I hope you like it, but it doesn’t really matter because we ALL are stuck with it. Of course, if you don’t like it, you can subscribe to my RSS Feed. (which by the way is another goal in my 30 day challenge, we’ll talk about that in a minute)

It amazes me how fickle I am. Two nights I had buttons on my header and overall my theme looked like a freaking Halloween nightmare. Yet, I was pleased with the look. I woke up yesterday morning *late afternoon and I wanted to drop bricks on my head. “What were you thinking???” was the first thought that came to mind.

It was funny too, because last night when I was fixing my botched Halloween Theme nightmare job, I realized that in many ways things were much different when I wasn’t making money online. I wasn’t changing my theme (as often I should say) like I do currently because I kept myself pretty darn busy building and working on my niche blogs. Today, it’s a much different story. I can go weeks without having to do any actual work and I still make money.

Granted, when I do work, I am working towards continuing to grow my earnings. The more I work, the more I make. The less I work the more my earnings stay the same. So when you have that kind of pattern with income, it’s easy to get comfortable and satisfied with things as long as you make enough to live comfortably. With that said, my survival mode of motivation no longer drives me to work hard. This usually results in me branching off and doing odd things, such as using my personal blog as a big ass digital coloring book.

Goal #1 is to NOT change my theme for 30 days!

Now, let’s talk about goal #2, which this one should be much easier than the first. Last month I updated my FeedBurner address and did the 30 day 301 redirect to my new FeedBurner address. I have wanted to make this change for a long time, but dreaded doing so because deep down I knew that I would lose a lot of subscribers regardless of any proactive measures I could take. Sure enough, a month after I finally decided to change my FeedBurner address to my permanent URL, I lost close to 2000 subscribers.

Before I changed my FeedBurner URL, my subscribers were around 2,600. Today, they are now in the mid 600’s. I have no idea if it will bounce back up to what it used to be, but I kinda doubt it. Anyway, goal #2 is to get my subscribers back to 2600 within 30 days. That means I need to average around 68 new subscribers per day in order for this to happen. I am not sure how I can do this, but I will try. Even though I know what it will take to get my subscribers back to where they were before, I still think this will be easier than keeping myself from changing my theme. lol

Goal #2 is to increase my RSS subscribers to 2,600 in 30 days!

So there you have it. Now, who said I wasn’t goal orientated? Anyway, I hope that this was equally as therapeutic for you as it was for me. Drop me a comment with some encouraging or taunting words. Also, feel free to place some friendly bets on whether you think I can last the 30 days or not.