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The Week That Was: Jan 24 – 30

Jan 30

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Strange week fraught with frustrations.  I think that frustration is the biggest time thief because it is the most difficult to tame.  Frustration takes your mind off the business at hand and takes it to the crisis at hand.

Related article:  Avoid Time Thieves

This week the thief stole a lot.

It started out with nothing more than an annoyance and escalated into full blown anger.  When all … well almost all that “annoyance” has yet to be fixed… so when almost all was handled I sat down and mentally went over the events of the week.  I like to do this with a cup of hot tea and some good classic music playing in the background – can be classical or classic rock. There seems to be something in each of those two genres that gets my brain chugging along, putting things in order in a calm and logical way.  Eventually the brain and I agree … get on with the present.

One of the best antidotes to feelings of time frittered away is to sit down with notepad and pen and write out all the things that went right.  This is something I do routinely anyway, but when I am down in the dumps because things just haven’t gone my way, it is amazingly therapeutic.  So as I review the week that was, I find that there is enough to call it a good week.

Here is a summary of The Week That Was: January 24- 30

As with last week, the highlight of this week were my final installments of the MasterMind Series on Dave Doolin’s Website in a Weekend.  Writing the series stretched me in more ways than one.

First I made a commitment and its amazing how procrastination is suddenly not even an issue.  I don’t give commitments lightly, so it got me off my keester and got me writing.

Second I promised a series, or rather “shingled” articles, so they had to flow one into the other with seamless grace (eehhh… don’t know how graceful or seamless the result is).  I had to push myself and I can tell you that the feeling of having completed something at which you have to put in some extra effort is very rewarding.

Third.  I met some really neat people over at Dave’s.  That’s a cool and smart group that hangs out there and some of them came over here as commenters.  Thank you.

Guesting is a great experience.  I recommend it to every blogger and if you can muster it up, write up a set of shingles!

You may be interested in the MasterMind Series:

MasterMind Power I: How 5 Boys Achieved Unparalled Success.

MasterMind Power Part II: Napoleon Hill – Father of the MasterMind

MasterMind Power III: The 5 Ws Of a Successful Mastermind Group.

MasterMind Power IV: Some MasterMind Examples

SUMMARY OF BLOG INCOME POSTS FOR THE WEEK THAT WAS!

Sunday Morn Musing -  Of Books and Bookshelves and & More Reading Stuff 24/01/10

Sunday January 24: I emphasize the date, you’ll see why further down.    Posted my first Sunday Morn Musings  The idea that on Sunday mornings I will write about whatever it is that resides in my mind at the time, it may or may not have something to do with internet marketing.  Last Sunday it was about books and libraries in your home.

Today as I was doing my blog rounds, I happened on Jeffrey’s Bloggers Market , my first visit there ever.  Jeffrey just started  Sunday Morning Post, the first was published on, wait for it, drum roll please:

Sunday January 24!

Coincidence?  Serendipity?   Naaah.  Great minds think alike!
Read the full article

Tools of the Trade 25/01/10

What should you have in your internet marketing tool box especially now that you are flirting with Affiliate Marketing.  Some you already know about, others, such as link cloaking may surprise you.  Fill up your toolbox with these items.

Blog Income Under Attack from Cyber Gremlins 28/01/10

A sneak preview of some of the things that led to frustration and lost time.  Here too another blogger, Caroline Middlebrook is mired in frustration as she encounters some techie type issues.  What can I say except that my stars must be aligned with the right bloggers!   Avoid these pitfalls.

Let The Games Begin: 29/01/10

In two weeks’ time Vancouver will be proudly hosting the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.  Got me thinking though and somehow the dots connected to blogging, internet marketing and “launches.”See if it makes any sense to you.  The full Olympics and Internet Marketing article.

Gotta scoot on out … Toastmasters Training – I’ve been told that George Clooney is going to be the mystery guest trainer …. WOOHOO!  Yeah, right!

To Your Awesome Blog Income Life!

Valentina

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The Week That Was: Jan 17-23

Jan 23

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A week flies by so fast I often feel that I got nothing done, especially when I look at all the items I had on my “to do” list!  Do you ever feel that way?  I find that a  good antidote is to go review the week and highlight all the things that did get done.  Guaranteed you’ll feel better about your time – I know I do.   I also recommend that you not only highlight but double underline that which took you closer to your goal, focus on it and capitalize on it.  On that note I have got some good highlights to share with you about this week that was:

-  Highlight of the week for me was “guesting” at Dave Doolin’s Website In A Weekend blog.  Dave invited me to submit an article or two on MasterMinds.  I submitted a mini-series – what Dave terms as “shingling” your articles, yes, new term for me too!  This is my first “guest” gig and I am so honored to be on Dave’s blog.  You can read the articles:

How 5 Boys Achieved Unparalleled Success
A story is told of a handful of pals who achieved extraordinary success in their lives.  With the telling and retelling, the origin is somewhat hazy, but it is supposedly based on true life and while the details may be a bit scant, the concept is powerful. … read full story


Napoleon Hill Father of MasterMind
In his book, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill outlines 13 principles that his 29 years of research defined as common to every successful person.  One of those principles was the Power of the Master Mind which he defined as: “Coordination of knowledge and effort in a spirit of harmony between two or more people for the attainment of a definite purpose.”  … read full article

Two more articles are scheduled for Jan 25 and 27.  Be sure to hop on over to Dave’s and read them, or better yet, subscribe to Website In A Weekend’s RSS feed.

Articles published at Blog Income Life:

Golden Nuggets for Your Blog Income – 18/01/10
A very special THANK YOU to Mike Paetzold for guesting here at Blog Income Life for the past week.  The series gave me some golden nuggets and exposed areas where I can certainly do some tweaking.  Below are some things that I took away … read full article.

Blog Income Org Chart – 19/01/10
Expand your thinking and your blog income.  It’s time to think beyond just a blog.  If you have not already incorporated yourself as a business, you will definitely want to do so as your online earnings grow.  I like to see things and thought it would be fun to put up an org chart of what my internet marketing business looks like….read full article and see the chart

Five Basic Steps to Start Your Affiliate Marketing: 21/01/10
What is so powerful about affiliate marketing is that you do not need to have a product of your own.  You profit by someone else’s research, development, production and fulfillment.  All you need to do is promote and convert your promotion into sales. In other words you get to make money without the worry, stress and up front costs of developing a product. … read full article

As to those items that were left undone … I think that I tend to put too many on my list.  I read somewhere that it is best to scale down the number and complete them, that way the  mind is being programmed for completion rather than partial completion.  Habits are being formed.  Done is better than almost done ……..hmmm… article brewing there.

And now for something a little bit different – starting tomorrow there will be a new feature to this blog “Musings on a Sunday Morn”  … Once upon a time I started a blog which I titled  Four O’Clock Thursdays.  The blog had no purpose other than to write on whatever it was that captured the mind at, well four o’clock on Thursdays.   After a few posts the time allotted was given a different job and the postings disappeared.  I miss writing that blog and thought that Sunday morning would a good time for those musings.  Now, I don’t promise a “musing” every Sunday … but do drop by on Sunday morns – or any morn for that matter,  the door is always open at Blog Income Life!

To Your Awesome Blog Income Life!

Valentina

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