I’m finding lots of new blogs today as I start my new system of using Google Reader to keep informed and organized.

One of the best so far today is Annabel Candy’s blog “Get In the Hot Spot.”

Here’s a couple of posts that I really found useful:

101 Ways To Feel Happy

How to Use Twitter as a Motivational Tool

Wanna know how I found Annabel’s blog?

Here’s the trail…

First I read a guest post by Eric Watermolen on the Dumb Little Man blog.

That led me to click on Eric’s link at the bottom of his post to check out his blog. The first post I came across there was The Campfire – A Collaborative Discussion of Happiness. This really caught my eye since the last issue of The Acorn Stash that I sent out was about Happiness so of course I had to see what everyone else has to say about the topic.

This led me to checking out everyone else’s blog who had contributed to the post, and that’s how I ended up at Annabel’s blog.

It’s also how I ended up at Patty Bechtold’s “Why Not Start Now” blog. This is another great find that I wouldn’t have stumbled across if I hadn’t been following trails and gathering acorns this morning. Her post Life As a Work of Art really made me stop and think about my writing and photography, and my relationship with my audience. (Or more accurately at this point, my lack of relationship with my audience.)

So how did all this come about? Well, I’ve been following along with Susan James’ Manifesting blog. I had planned on playing along when she started this way back in January and I completely forgot about it until just the other day. And one of the first things she says to do is to ask to be led to something to read each day. So I asked, and the result is that by reading one post on a blog I normally read, I ended up finding three new blogs and authors to follow, found four very helpful and thought-provoking articles, learned a new way to use twitter, and have the basic outline of a new article.

Not bad for a morning’s play, huh?

Hope you’re having an amazing day too!
Stay Happy!