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Having an Epiphany – a new view on life and what’s important

I’ve realised that the last 12 months have been a journey. It wasn’t the journey that I had originally set out on and certainly not what I expected. My “12 Months to Freedom” haven’t been at all what I expected. The original intent of the journey was purely financial. My goal was to make more [...]

Misleading “Guru” Advertising

I’ve read a lot of advertisements lately all over the web from people who do things like make $100k+ in 2 hours a day, make over $300k in four days and similar crap. I am astounded that these people aren’t charged with false advertising. Certainly there are possibilities of doing these things. But they don’t [...]

Keeping Focus in Internet Marketing

It’s very important to find your focus and stick with it. I’ve often had the problem, not just in internet marketing, but in a lot of things, in finding and keeping focus. I’m the ind of person who has tonnes of ideas and once I get the idea down on paper (or in a computer [...]

This Week’s (poor) Progress

Yup, not a lot of progress this week. I did manage to get at least a few things done - basically just a few articles. Have to get my newsletter into order, since I’m very behind on developing that. I’m trying to make that more useful with direct tips and instructions on what I’ve done [...]

The Learning Curve Sucks Sometimes

Especially on autoresponders. And setting them up takes a lot more time than you might expect. I was recently trying to get my autoresponder working for my Budgeting site and spent at least 2 hours longer than I expected, even allowing for my learning how to do it. I kept having problems getting it to [...]

Finding Budget Saving Tips

As I am building a site on budgeting and saving money I am coming across all kinds of cool things and ideas! I am actually quite amazed at some of the things people think of to save money.
Growing Your Own Food (and Fish)
There’s one concept available where people have gardens that grow with fish ponds [...]

Great Ideas.. so little time.

It’s funny, I get all these great idea, and once I get the idea started and can see where it can go I tend to get bored with it. It’s as if what I like to do is come up with the creative aspect of things, then just can’t hack the “boring” part of actually [...]

Goal Clarification - where to head over the next 12 months and beyond

I’ve been trying to prioritize what my actual goals are and what things I need to do in order to accomplish them. Do I really want to do exclusively information marketing and selling my writing products on the internet for a living? Is there something else that I want to do that will give me [...]

Internet Marketing is a LOT of Work

It’s true. It really is a lot of work! Reading all this crap about people who make hundreds of thousands of dollars by only working 10 hours a week (or whatever) is just not true! There is a lot of work involved to set up an run an internet based business. And I’m having a [...]

Motivation Can Be Very Difficult!

The hardest part about doing something like what I’m trying to do is to keep motivated. I’ve come up with a time-management tool like nothing I’ve ever seen or heard of before that is truly amazing… Maybe I’ll release it someday - or put it into a book or some such. But I’ve also found [...]