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I almost forgot to tell you. I've launched my new blog about Twitter, it's called Twitter Virtue, and so far everything is going great. The blog is all about Twitter. How to use Twitter, and more or less, how to use Twitter for marketing purposes.

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Late at night. I watch my inbox. It's packed with emails, close to 200, all waiting for me. As I glanse at the list, it's easy to understand what it's all about.

We all want to to be stars. Some want the fame, the glory and the wealth, others just want the money. We read about it in newspapers, watch it on TV, and it's all over the Internet. We want to become rich, quick and dirty. It's not about work, being creative, and take the path not travelled. It's about finding the quickest and easiest solution.

It's early in the morning, about 5 am. I'm freezing. I see the porch still covered with snow. I hear sounds, in the snow, nearby, then, scratching.

I'm at the kitchen. I look outside, it's the cat. This time he's by the window. It comes as no surprise, since he's here every single day. Outside, never inside. He's looking for food. I'm feeding him. Every single day.

This has been going on for 6 months.

I've been watching how the government in Norway are trying to get people to quit smoking.

I look for passion everywhere. If I can't find it, I feel miserable. Everything I do has to have a meaning. If I don't understand the whys and the hows, I feel devastated. It's a constant struggle.

I'm not alone. There are people like me everywhere, we're on the same quest.

My job. It's all about the money isn't it? If not, it wouldn't be a job? Dreams. They never become real? If they did, they wouldn't be dreams?

It's me, thinking, while walking.

It's cold. I'm freezing. It's dark, and the streets are covered with snow. Finally, I reach the doorbell.

I hear footsteps.

A lot of people are asking me about how they can earn money online.

To me, it seems that most people are using two criterias for their online adventure.

It should be:

* Cheap or completely free
* Little work or no work at all

Whenever I see criterias like this, I have to ask myself if this is even possible?

As I'm writing this, on the last day of 2009, I'm thinking that there are two articles that most people expect on this New Years Eve. It's either best of 2009 articles or predictions for 2010 articles.

I'll provide you with something different.

A summary of my 2009, without using words.

Here's a picture of me, a picture that says more than any words. If you look at me in this picture, you can tell a lot about what happened to me during 2009.

It's amazing how little creativity some people have, and at the same time it's amazing what others manage to create.

First.

Creativity is important no matter what you do in life, and no matter what line of work you're involved in. It can always be done in a different way, a better way, something you never thought of.

Second.

I think creativity is best illustrated by giving people an assignment that they're not used to, an assignment that they haven't got the slightest idea how to manage.

Third.

When I woke up this morning, after finishing reading Crush it! by Gary Vaynerchuk, I wanted to ask this question to whatever I was doing:

Does it make me happy?

The reason for this question, is that I really believe what Gary Vaynerchuk preaches, that you should cash in on your passion. It sounds perfect to be able to work with your passion.

But.

What exactly is your passion?

That's a difficult question to answer.

I'm one of the worst technical guys on the planet. There's been so many problems with my blog lately, I almost quit blogging.

About an hour ago, I bought Phantom Link Cloaker 2.0, a brand new and very easy to install link cloaker - at least that's what the sales page says.

It comes with our super easy install wizard and all the tutorial videos and manuals.

Guess what.

I can't install it. I am having problems with the license. Everything seems to be perfect, except that I can't get the license to work.