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Drive and Dedication

June 15, 2010

driveanddedicationWhile I have been building up my own business I’ve seen quite a few others come and go.

The more and more I work towards my own goals, the less I really care about trying to fend off my ‘competition’ and here is why.

First, many of them give up. For any number of reasons, maybe they get overwhelmed, run out of money, lose their passion from being over involved, etc. Being an entrepreneur lends itself to a certain level of hardships.

Secondly, I do my best to offer quality. Regardless of what my product or service is, I try to work and learn hard so that I know what I am offering is something worthwhile. I am dedicated to being great at what I do and keeping that quality level high.

How does this tie into Drive and Dedication?

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Some thoughts on telepathy

February 9, 2010

ga_alexgrey03The other day a couple friends of mine were playing some Soul Calibur on PS3, and one of the stages had some bird like creatures running around that I thought looked like the dodo bird.

Later that same evening I met up with some other friends of mine, during which time one of them begins to talk about the dodo bird.

Before this instance, I am pretty sure I had not thought about or heard ‘dodo bird’ in well over a year, probably much longer.  So why two times in one day?

Another example could be when you are driving along down the road, or maybe sitting at a red light, and you feel like the person next to you is looking at you. You look over only to find that they are! How did you know, or better yet, feel that?

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It’s Because They Deserve It

February 2, 2010

Today I had several really good meetings that all made me think about why I do some of the things that I do.

As with most of us, I spend my time doing things to help me get through this mess of an existence. The goal being to increase my own mental and physical being. What about those times when it is not for myself though, why should I feel inclined to give my efforts and thoughts to anyone else?

The answer is actually much simpler than you might think…

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It’s the future..what have YOU been doing?

January 15, 2010

So here we are, the year is 2010, what have you been doing? Have you been slacking off, slowly churning along in the daily grind, or pushing things forward?

Christmas and the new year came and went by fast. I had already been working on getting some things together in order to help jump start my progress in 2010, but it still feels like the time flew by and I have more to do still.

Now into the second work week of the year, I am feeling a bit overwhelmed, but by no means unmotivated. There are a few new years resolutions and some long term goals to get cracking on this year, so lets cover a few of them shall we?

Number one on my list of things to do in 2010 is work on my businesses. There are a few ventures that have started to get off the ground, but have not made the kind of progress I would like to see. Part of this, I am sure, is due to me working on all of these at once instead of focusing on them one at a time which is something I plan to remedy during the course of this year.

What ventures am I talking about?

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How long should the weekend be?

December 4, 2009

“Do you think if Friday was the weekend, and Thursday was Friday, that it would be as hard to work on Thursday as it is on Friday?”

I think it was after having seen the stream of facebook messages which all had similar meaning.

It is hard to work on Friday because once you are finished you are FREE!

Think about this.  It is 11am Friday morning, and you are sitting there halfheartedly working on a not so important work project.  Clicking around on the computer, reading whatever not work related websites you can access through your companies firewall. You are READY to GO!  It does not matter what you plan on doing once you leave work, all that matters is that it is what YOU want to be doing.

Almost like the anxiety you get when waiting for christmas eve to end and christmas morning to be there. The same feeling you get right before the big game that you and your team have been practicing for all year.  It’s the weekend, it’s your time to do whatever you want.

So I started thinking, what if you had more time to do what you want. How many days of doing whatever you want to do are fulfilling enough to warrant a feeling of going back to work?

Hence the question, “Do you think if Friday was the weekend, and Thursday was Friday, that it would be as hard to work on Thursday as it is on Friday?”

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What should I outsource first affiliate marketing?

November 26, 2009

What should I outsource first for my affiliate marketing? Content Creation

Over the past year I’ve learned a good bit about affiliate marketing as a whole, much of which is good business practice regardless of industry. Also during this time I have come to find out what parts of building these affiliate websites are the most daunting, at least for me.

From what I have read on forums, blogs, and other marketers sites, the thing I struggle with the most is content. Writing content more specifically. There are two reasons why.

The first reason is that it just takes so long. There are many other things that have to be taken care along with all of the content creation, and I am much more efficient at getting those done. While I do feel that I am pretty good writer, it is still a huge load of content.

For example, a typical site that is considered to be a small site by the Affilorama template requires 30 pages. Each page is usually a 500+ word article written around a specific keyword phrase. That is JUST the content for the actual web page. Now we need to write content for off the web page in order to start driving traffic to our site, as well as build up back links so that we rank in google.

So how much more writing is that really? Let me give you some examples.

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We’re back, here’s why

June 19, 2009

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/273911,woman-fined-19-million-dollars-for-illegal-download.html

Washington – A court in the United States laid down a 1.9-million-dollar fine against a Minnesota woman who illegally downloaded 24 songs from the internet, CNN reported. The trial against Jammie Thomas-Rasset was the first case in the United States for such copyright infringement, CNN quoted her lawyer as saying.

Amazing, there was a jury that is either so far out of the loop, or just too old to care, that this unessasary example is being made of this poor woman.

I highly doubt that anyone stops downloading music because this lady was punished for it. Especially those people that download WAY more than 24 songs….try downloading 50 albums in 1 day…what then? Sentenced to death??

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Do dehumidifiers really work?

September 20, 2007

Do dehumidifiers really workSo I’ve been thinking, do dehumidifiers really work?

My house is a Ranch layout with a basement. For years before we arrived there had been some water issues.

The gutters were all broken, water was not being routed away from the house but instead puddling up in the front and seeping down into the concrete and dirt in front of the house. There is a wannabe French Drain installed inside the house along the walls of the basement, but it has been rusted out for years.

You can actually see dirt/mud down in them, which I fear might mean that the foundation has some very weak support up under it, but I can not be sure w/o tearing it up.

We have temporarily fixed the gutters and routed all the water runoff from the yard and roof away from the house. We noticed an immediate difference not only outside but inside as well. The basement still has a very damp feel and some what mildew-ish smell to it so I snatched two dehumidifiers from my parents and have been letting them run in 1 of the two 20×25 rooms in the basement for the past few weeks.

Every morning, the water tubs in the dehumidifiers are full of water, and every afternoon when I get home the tubs for the dehumidifiers are again full with water. But how do I know this is water that was in the air, that these things really work? I did some research to figure it out, and it’s really a very basic concept.

Cool the air somehow, the moisture will condense, capture condensed moisture in a tub.

One of the dehumidifiers froze over when we were running them in the winter time. I guess the air + cooling unit was just too cold, it turned into a big block of ice on the machine.

The other one however did not, but it was unable to pull any moisture from the air. Now that its hot neither of them have any problems filling up the tubs.

After only a few weeks, it’s hard to tell if the dehumidifiers are making a big difference in the basement rooms as far as humidity goes. I am hopeful that over time all the efforts put together will really work.

Anyway, I hope to answer the question do dehumidifiers really work? I think the dehumidifiers help but I have a feeling that all this effort may be in vein unless I continue this project for a very long time.

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