26 Jul

Read The Expiry Date On My Label

I’m awake early again, looking out at a beautiful pink-orange sunrise and planning the next steps in my life while eating Weetbix and Marmite* (not together) and browsing my RSS updates. I am doing all this because I can multi-task although Timothy Ferriss calls multitasking a great way to disguise doing nothing.

Anyway, I was reading an interesting post on Self Made Minds where Scott was considering his mortality and how his death would affect his online business. He made a list of things to ‘hand on’ to prevent all his hard work going up in smoke.

I read all the way to the bottom, thinking I really must make similar contingency plans, and then saw my own name.

“Thankfully I am an online nobody, some bloggers like Darren, Paula, Shona & Yaro are brands who could lose most to all income without their actual presence…”

While I was sleeping, someone had called me a brand and considered my mortality. I was touched.

This was my comment:

“Woohoo, I’m a brand! That means I must be ready to create my own perfume line. “Rich Minx - the scent of money”. You’re right, if I went to the great Blogosphere in the sky my blogs would not hum along nicely without me. Mental note: must clone self. I’m not sure my family would miss the $3 a day though :)

Have you planned for your possible rendezvous with Death? Would your blog hum along nicely without you? Are you insured? Do you have a will? These are all deep questions for so early in the morning here but most of you are at midday yesterday so should be able to catch these curveballs.

* Weetbix is a New Zealand wheat cereal that tastes better than Weetabix. Marmite is a black yeast extract that you spread on toast and only tastes good if you were raised on it and tastes better than Vegemite, which is a similar spread that Australians like.

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6 Responses to “Read The Expiry Date On My Label”

  1. DrToast Says:

    You just need to find a guy named Richard Minx to take over if you die.

  2. richminx Says:

    I’ll leave all existing Richard Minxes my blog in my will, so it can be a collaborative effort. They’ll be thrilled!

  3. Richard Callaby Says:

    So then are you going to be making up some T-Shirts? I mean you are fairly good with the one liners, actually that is a major understatement you are great with the one liners. A rich minx t-shirt would be an interesting way of expanding on the poplarity of “your brand”. Just throwing it out there.

  4. Rhys Says:

    I’ve often thought about it. I’m getting it written into my health insurance policy (when I get one), so that a decent writer can write an obituary on my blog, rather than my mum, who - god love her - is a terrible writer.

  5. richminx Says:

    Thanks Richard. Hey, you’re a Richard! Change your last name to ‘Minx’ and we’re sorted.

    Rhys: Couldn’t you write your own blog obituary in advance? Timestamp it 80 years into the future. Don’t forget internal linking.

    Anyway, all this mortality talk is getting me down. I’m going out to gather my rosebuds while I may.

  6. richminx Says:

    PS. I love how my AdSense is currently displaying an ‘Are You Emo?’ ad.

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