What happened?

It’s been over 6 months since I last wrote on this blog so I don’t blame you for asking ‘what happened?’. I guess the simple answer is that I lost motivation but it’s far harder to explain why, although I will try by describing the story so far (and where I go from here).

MillionaireAdventure was a result of a new years resolution to embark on a journey to fulfill my dream of becoming a millionaire. It started well with the blog set up in just a few days and the first couple of posts written, and more importantly the first couple of £’s made!

Then came the news I wasn’t expecting, I had passed the three CIMA finals I sat in November 2006 and now faced just one more exam before I became a qualified accountant. Yes this was great news but it now meant I had 6 weeks of hectic studying to prepare for the last exam, rather than the 4 months preparing for resits that I had expected. This meant I couldn’t dedicate as much time to MillionaireAdventure and although I continued to try and keep MillionaireAdventure going I soon found that I was writing posts several weeks after I had actually made the money. The blog had become a chore rather than a fun thing to do.

When the summer came (or what little of summer there was in the UK) I finally lost the battle to keep the blog alive. I had always hoped that visitors to the blog would write their own comments on my posts but the only comments I received were spam and it became more and more demoralising deleting this rubbish from the blog. My lack of motivation resulted in me failing to keep the WordPress installation that this blog runs off updated and someone took advantage of this to hack the site. I gave up.

Well not quite. Whilst it was easy to walk away from the blog at that point, the millionaire dream stayed with me. So here I am, back for another attempt!

The difference this time is I am not just focusing on making money but to make the blog more interesting I’ll be writing about anything and everything to do with money. If I think it’s interesting and fun then I’ll write about it. So roll on 2008.