A NickCentric lifestyle is not an easy thing to come by. First off, you need a Pearl to suggest one to you. That's what happened. As I mentioned elsewhere on this site, my friend Pearl (aka the girl I want to marry) suggested in one of our many conversations that I do a series of photoshop images to the tune of NickCentric, a term/phrase that I hadn't thought of myself. Pearl has always enjoyed my "Bonsai Life" series and wanted me to do something else, and, well... this seemed perfect. But here entered the problem - How does one visually describe eccentricity? I mean, I consider myself to be pretty eccentric, as do many people I know. But in all actuality, eccentricity is a relative term. "Bonsai" which loosely equates to "small" is more or less small to everyone. But what I do that I think is eccentric might be run-of-the-mill, or even boring to someone else. And it's those "someone elses" that matter, because they will be the ones looking at the artwork and deciding it's relevance.

However - for a while now, I have been very much wanting to stroke my ego a little and prove something to myself and the world. It's also a challenge that I have given myself. That challenge is to become the most readily found "Nick" in the search engines. Not just "Nick Steglich", cuz, well... that brings up about 3 pages/30 listings of websites about me. Nope, I want to be the most well known (as far as the internet is concerned) Nick that has ever been. Competition is fierce with people like Nick Lachey, Nick Nolte, Nick Drake, Nick Cave and of course the television station/product line from Nickelodeon and Nick-at-Nite. There are also some other, less well-known Nicks out there that have blogs and stuff like that. In all, I don't even come close to where I want to be. I have a whole bunch of sites out there, and though those are great and a big help, especially seeings as my sites like www.FocusPower.com and www.Holmes-Page.com really help to boost my rankings, nothing I have made yet has been a site that is totally dedicated to me. And by me, I mean the REAL Nick. The Nick with emotions and desires, passions and things to share with the world. I have www.NickSteglich.com and nick.focuspower.com as a couple of my repository and resume sites that, well... are great and all, but those sites are designed for specific purposes, and nothing else. So this is my chance.

On top of all of that, I figured that an attempt to become the world's most findable "Nick" is probably about the most eccentric I can be. I mean... That's kind of egotistical even. But truthfully, it's less about the ego-stroking and considerably more about the challenge of it.