Here’s this week’s Official BellaOnline Knock-Knock Monday #5 for your reading pleasure! This week I want to share with you an unusual self-help website that really gets to the point.
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Knock Knock!
Who's there?
Boliva.
Boliva who?
Boliva me, I know what I'm talking about!
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Knock Knock!
Who's there?
Abbott.
Abbott who?
Abbott time you answered the door!
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Knock Knock!
Who's there?
Fanny.
Fanny who?
Fanny body calls, I'm out.
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And this week’s corny joke:
Two kids, ages six and four, are at the kitchen table waiting fro breakfast.
"Bobby, I think it's about time we start cussing," said Ronnie, the six year old. "When mom comes down to get us breakfast I'm going to say ‘hell’ and you say ‘ass’ okay?"
"Okay!" Bobby agrees with enthusiasm as their mother walks into the kitchen.
"What do want for breakfast dear?" asks six year old Ronnie.
"Well hell Mom, I guess I'll have me some Cheerios," he replies.
WHACK! She pops him with the kitchen towel. He ducks, then gets up and runs upstairs shouting apologies with his mother in hot pursuit popping his rear end with the kitchen towel with every step.
She locks him in his room and says, "You just stay there until I let you out Mr. Foul Mouth!"
She comes back downstairs, looks at four year old Bobby and asks with a stern voice, "And what do YOU want for breakfast young man?"
"I don't know," little Bobby says innocently, "But you can bet your ass it won't be Cheerios!"
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I love that joke. Now, on to this edition’s website recommend.
One of things about declaring yourself a novelist is that people actually begin expecting you to produce fiction for them to read. Now, this sounds simple enough -- but it’s not and here’s why: Anyone can claim that they’re a writer and that’s enough to own the title. But for 95% of the people who do so this is as far as it gets - the declaration and none of the gut-wrenching, soul-exposing, uncomfortable writing and publishing.
I used to be one of those people. I’d go the writer’s group meeting every week and critique my fellow writers’ work but rarely brought work of my own for them to look over. I’d travel to writer’s conferences and collect agent cards, and I’d faithfully buy writing books.
In other words, I did everything but actually sit down and write. But then one day I stumbled upon this website and it changed all of that, along with many other areas of my life:
www.simpleology.com
This self-help website has a series of lessons in the form of exercises and videos that show you not only how to name your ambitions but how to go about making them reality. Founded in the 1990’s by writer Mark Joyner, the Simple-ology philosophy is just that - focus on the simple applications of knowledge and action and there really isn’t a whole lot you can’t accomplish in a timely way.
The website is not filled with the typical ad-crazy content either. It’s clean and, you guessed it, simple and is easy to navigate. I’ve been perusing it for about a year and in that time I’ve become more productive creatively than ever before and I’ve also straightened out my personal life on many fronts as well.
Most times it’s critical to know exactly what you want in life and how to go about getting it, and the Simple-ology website helps you achieve both.
Check it out, I think you’ll be glad you did!
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