How many newsletters are you getting every day? How many of those do you just archive to read later, but never find time to really go back and read them? How many newsletters seduce you into buying another e-book or money-making software? How many newsletters do you delete from your inbox every day? Do you know what I am talking about? STOP! Sit back and take a breath!
I was subscribed to tons of newsletters and spent who knows how much money buying e-books that were supposed to tell me how to get rich in x number of days. It took me hours a day to sort through my inbox. And guess what? I am still a poor blogger writing a new post here instead of being out there in the real work enjoying my millions.
In order to be successful with anything, you have to spend a lot of time on it. All those newsletters and new e-books and such just distract you from your success! Start un-subscribing from every newsletter (except for mine of course) that you do not have time to read anymore. Then un-subscribe from all newsletters that you don’t even remember signing up for. Often, we think want to get a free e-book or report and in order to get it you have to subscribe to yet another newsletter.
It’s OK to subscribe to a few newsletters as long as you really have time to read them. If you think you might have time later, save the website address in a text file, so you can re-subscribe later. But for now, un-subscribe from almost all those newsletters! Oh and with the money you save by not buying stuff advertised in those newsletters, you can now buy stuff advertised on my website
Now that you have reduced the amount of junk coming into your mailbox, you will have more time to spend on whatever it is you’re trying to be successful with. And that will bring you more success! No newsletter will ever send you a miracle cure. So get working and get productive. Keep working on your own success!
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With the beginning of fall, the days started to get a little cooler. One late October day I got the boat ready and took my son for another fishing trip. He was two and a half years old then and constantly talked about going fishing with daddy. On the way to day care in the morning, he often said: “Daddy, let’s go get boat, let’s go fishing, catch big fishy.” Good idea, but I had work to do during the week.
So I was very happy to finally go fishing again on the weekend. For a while we fished around a bridge, but didn’t catch anything. I was ready to go home, but Jeffery wasn’t. And I knew the only thing that gets him home was the sun starting to set. So we went upstream a little to find some new places to fish.
I continued to cast for him and let him do some jigging, while I tried some spinner baits. We found a school of white bass and I caught a few little ones. All of a sudden Jeffery’s pole bent down and he started yelling: “Daddy, I got big fishy!”.
I was so tempted to take his pole and reel it in, but it was his fish. I had to let him reel it in, even if that meant we’d loose the fish. So I coached him and just made sure he didn’t let go. “Keep the rod up, Jeffery”, I said a few times. And Jeffery kept reeling it in. I got the net ready and I was as excited as he was to see what kind of fish he had caught.
Then the fish came to the surface in a big splash and I thought the jig came out. It was a white bass, and it was hooked good. I took the net and landed his fish. I thought that bass had to go home into the frying pan. So I put it in the fish basket.
That’s when my son started arguing with me: “Daddy, put fish back in water!”. What can you do? I just took my brand new fish gripper and hung it on the net, so I could take a picture. The fish was too heavy for Jeffery to hold up by himself. I had to take a couple of pictures before we got a good shot of him and the fish at the same time.
But I think the picture says it all. I don’t have the words to describe how happy he was. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen him that happy before. We then released the fish and went on fishing for another hour before going back home. Of course he kept talking about his big fishy for ever.
When I take my son fishing I put my own fishing on the back burner and make sure my son has a good time. And seeing him happy about a fish he caught makes me happy too. Take your kid fishing!
From the day my son, Jeffery, was born I had dreamed of the day I could take him fishing. And when he turned 2, I started taking him along every once in a while. Of course I couldn’t fish when I had him with me. I constantly had to watch Jeffery and make sure he didn’t throw anything overboard, although he did manage to dispose of my favorite fishing rod and one of his bottles. Oh well, he’ll learn it some day. The most important thing, however, was that he and I had fun being out in the boat together.
Since Jeffery, and probably most 2-year-olds, didn’t have the patience to just sit there and watch the bobber, I had to find a way to fish that would allow him to keep moving the rod. He just loved to dip the tip of the rod into the water, up and down. So I thought he might be able to do some jigging. I would cast out about 20 feet near a bridge and then I just give him the pole.
All of a sudden he started reeling in and said: “Jeffery got big fishy!” And I didn’t think much of it as he had played that game many times before. After countless hours of watching fishing videos with me and practicing on the sofa, he did know how to set the hook and reel in. I was pretty surprised when I saw that he really had a fish on the hook. Just a little crappie, but you should have seen the smile on his face! Jeffery insisted on throwing the fish back in the water and in all the excitement I even forgot to take a picture.
He caught a few more that day and we had a heck of a time. But I it seemed that my son was a catch-and-release kinda guy. I would have liked to take some home to eat, but he made sure we threw them all back in.
On later fishing trips we caught some catfish and bass, but Jeffery was a true catch-and-release fisherman. I’ve tired all kinds of reasons to convince him to take a fish home. “We need to show mommy.” or “That’s a mean fish, he bit me.”, but it didn’t work. And even though he did like to eat fried catfish, and knew it was catfish when he ate it, when I went fishing with my son, he made me practice catch-and-release.
For me, a catch-and-eat fisherman, it’s not easy to put a nice-sized fish back in the water, but having my son along with me is better than keeping the biggest fish in the world. So if you have kids, take them fishing, but be prepared to put some or all fish back in the water. Just take your kids fishing and you’ll have a good time!
I have spent the better part of the last two years trying out every imaginable way of making money with a website, mainly a blog. However, I didn’t have much time to sit down and actually work on it. So I tried one automation tool after the other. And it was a roller coaster ride. One tool would give me thousands of linkbacks a day, others would give me a burst in traffic and crash my server. And others gave me thousands of new friends on Myspace and Facebook. And let’s not forget the automation tools that put thousands of posts on my blogs. Those were the days! I had huge websites. What happened? Why did I quit?
The answer is simple! None of those automated websites made me any real money! Some of them just got me suspended and blocked. By using those automation tools I had some of my websites totally deleted from Google! Yes, they do remove websites from their search engines. I had this cool plugin to post to my blog automatically. And guess what? Google removed my website and my traffic flow dried up! I had this other cool plug-in that would bookmark my sites with the popular bookmarking sites. And then those sites blocked my accounts! So why do I still think anyone can be successful with their website when all my attempts have failed?
Look on the bright side: I figured out a ton of things that do not work and won’t have to waste my or your time on them anymore. All along I kept telling my wife about the latest coolest ideas on how to get links and traffic to my blog. But all I did was automate things with mindless plug-ins and bots. No, I never did e-mail spam, but I more or less spammed my own websites with junk content. My wife would take the little spare time she had and actually sit down and manually work on her blog and do all the cool ideas I told her. She didn’t put up thousands of pages a day like my auto-blogs did. Sometimes she didn’t have more than a single post a week. But guess what? All her posts were written by her. They were thought out and written with love and care.
Not only did her one blog out-compete a hundred of my best auto-blogs, she was happy and I was not! Bummer! I wanted to get rich quick and while I made a dollar and lost $10 on a suspended domain name she would go on collecting her AdSense revenue and sales commission. Those were pennies compared to my $1, but her site didn’t get suspended and kept earning the following day and the day after that and so on. But it’s not all about money! It’s about success! My wife was happy every time she got a comment on her blog. It encouraged her to write a new post. And now she’s writing more than one post a day. She writes so much now, she even guest posts on other blogs.
I got comments too! In fact, I got more comments a day (combining my hundred auto-blogs) than my wife got in a week. But I had no idea what posts those people commented on and it didn’t mean anything to me. I didn’t write those posts! I had no connection to them. My wife’s blog got much higher quality comments that added value to her post. My comments were more of the kind ”this sucks” or “cool video”. Those kind of comments add no value to my site at all.
My time wasn’t wasted though. I have learned a lot! And by telling my wife I have proof that all the manual ideas I told her do in fact work much better than any automation I ever tried. So I started a new blog, a real one this time. The one you are on right now. Everything is written by me. It has my real name and picture on it. And I already got some real comments from real people. And those comments made me happy. I am on the way to a much more successful blog now! I know how. I just need to keep practicing what I preach.
So after you left a nice comment for me, go check out my wife’s blog.
Hi, I'm Daniel. Welcome to my blog. I am finally back in Arkansas. My multiple interests are best expressed in a bulb of garlic which consists of several individual cloves. I'll explain the x in garlix in a later post.
writing a new post here instead of being out there in the real work enjoying my millions.
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