I’ve been thinking a lot lately about where this blog is going, what my goals are for it and the whole point in general. I’ve also been thinking about other projects I want to get started, but haven’t managed begin. Then it all clicked one day. I have been Peanut Buttering.

Peanut Buttering definition: Spreading the resources of a company or person too thin.

This term was from a great post over at Betsy and Warren Talbot’s blog, Married with Luggage.  Betsy described the consequences of spreading your personal limited resources too thin. One consequence being diminished creativity.

I’ve come to see that I’ve been taking on too much, spreading my self too thin (get the metaphor?). I write for this blog, Untemplater.com, I guest post, have a Tumblr and am very active on Twitter and Brazen Careerist. Plus there are all these other projects I want to desperately want to start. The effect of all of this has been slow results.

So, I decided over the past weekend to shut down Econ Apps and start a new website that will encompass not only a broader context for my ideas and writing, but will incorporate the projects I want to start.  No longer will my projects be competing with Econ Apps and my writing.  They will all fit into one space.  YES!!!  Sorry I’m just excited.

So, what is this new website?  Well it’s still in the works and I want to make this super awesome and give it some thought.  I sort of just jumped right into Econ Apps, which I think had it’s benefits and costs.  One benefit being it forced me to write and figure out what direction I’m interested.  Turned out it wasn’t economics, sustainability or anything that I thought I liked.  This is the power of writing.  It clears your thinking and shows you what really excites you.  If you aren’t excited about writing your blog’s topic, economics in my case, you will want to move in a different direction.  This is what I’m going through right now.  So all in all I’m glad I jumped into blogging because it forced me to clarify my passions and forced me to learn more of the technical side of blogging that I was afraid of.

From those of you that know me from Brazen Careerist or who have read this post about my Career Development project or this post about the other projects I want to start, you know that I have diverse interests.  This new website will combine them all into a coherent thing.

I want to help people figure out “what they want to be when they grow up.”  I also am interested in business and reading business books.  I’m an organizer.  This website will combine them all.

So what is this new site called?  Well, tentatively it’s going to be called:

How To Be Extraordinary.

In three categories: careers, business and life.  Think of it as a personal development site for each category.  I will take all the tremendous resources that I’ve used and benefited from and post links to them on the site.  So half of the site will be suggested resources to make one extraordinary in their career, business or just life in general.  The other half will be my content.

On the career side, I’m going to interview people from different careers and learn more about their day-to-day activities, the strengths that make them good at their jobs and insider advice to getting that career.  This I hope will help others figure out if a certain job will fit their strengths, passions, and personality.  The career category will generally follow this mind map.

On the business side I will promote the books that I’ve read and learned from.  Along with my business book summary project, that will come out in the future, I will post lessons learned from those books and how I apply the strategies in my life.  There is so much out there about how to make an extraordinary business.  I hope to add my small piece, but more importantly provide a resource center from books and websites that produce great content.

On the life side, I will provide resources like the others and add my own content about living extraordinary.  My organization ebook will be part of this category.  I believe an organized life is a productive, happy and successful life.  I will also write about other personal development subjects.

Think about this website as Lifehacker for career, business and life development.  Like Lifehacker I will highlight great work being produced online and provide links.   I will then add my unique perspective with my own content.

When I first introduced my Career Development idea to the Brazen Careerist community I explained it in terms of helping people be more Remarkable, which was inspired by Colin Wright’s ebook.  Now I know why I did that.  I didn’t want to only help people with their career, I wanted to go beyond careers and help people develop more than a career.  I want to help people in all aspects of life and share the content I read and have learned from.  This is why this project finally makes sense.

Right now I’m working on the website.  The website will have this theme from Econ Apps, but that could change in the future.  I don’t want to be held back by planning which a new website would make me do.  I have this awesome theme and I’m going to use it to finally get started.