Wrapping Up 2011

Hey everyone, Antranik here, as usual.  I just wanted to throw in a few words to wrap things up here before the year closes out.

About a year ago, around the end of 2010, I went to Belize with a few wonderful friends.  That was a beautiful, inspirational and very fun vacation.  After Belize, the first week and a half of 2011 was spent in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, where the vacation became even more liberating.  During the entire trip I was fathoming random ventures I could make with my life after the vacation. It was during this time in Playa Del Carmen where the spark of starting my blog came out.  I thought I would find great joy with creating content on the internet and started getting really excited by the thought of starting something new and making a new impression on the Internet.  I was getting a lot of good feelings from the idea and started cultivating the idea.

During this same week, I had come up with a new realization.  Throughout my 20’s I switched hobbies or careers every year or two or three because I wanted to try different things.  I didn’t want to stay held down to one thing, but I realized that if I had kept up any of my endeavors for more than three years, I would have reached the necessary “tipping point” to be able to carve out a successful niche for myself. It was then when I realized that if I start this blog, I would have to treat this endeavor differently, with a longer focus than usual.  I would have to keep it up for at least a few years to make a nice foot print and see what it could evolve into. The idea excited me.

When I came back to LA from vacation, I started researching like mad about how to start a blog and what to write about and what name to choose and so forth.  I remember those first few weeks of 2011 when I kept saying I wanted to start my blog but still had zero content.  I fiddled with it for months, trying to create a foundation for it and understand what I was going to do with it.  It took a long time but I believe April 20, 2011 was the public release of this site.  Fast forward eight months now to the end of December and what’s happened?  I have about a couple hundred blog posts and getting just about a thousand unique visitors a day which is quite more than I ever expected.

Thank you everyone for visiting and reading my website.  This has been a great learning experience for me and I hope to update more often especially come the new year.  I haven’t been able to update as often as I wanted during this holiday period.  Getting in the groove of things can be hard during all the (awesome) distractions that come with holidays.  For example, I went to big bear recently to go skiing and snowboarding with friends:

 

I’ve also been helping my brother with the backyard and today we were successfully able to create supports, do some trimming and setup a slackline.

The slackline should be a great thing to tinker around with.  Especially because I want to be agile, flexible and balanced.  My new years resolution is to do some yoga everyday and be able to walk on the slack-line like a boss.  So, I will continue coming out with random, hopefully relevant, blog posts.  In the mean time, thank all of you for visiting and I wish everyone a badass 2012 that’s to come.  It’s almost hard to believe 2010 has been over for a while, let alone 2011, and 2012 is almost here!  Woohoo! Time!