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I was thinking today that something that I may try for 2009 is this.  Work like a crazy person until I reach the $ number that I feel I need to survive for a year and then take the remaining time “off”.  Go on a mini-retirement, read a book, etc.

So in January I am going to do just that.  I am going to start to build a strategy that I can use to gain the income that I require in a short amount of time.  Like the 4HWW disciples say, what you do for your life should not be the same as what you do for work.

There are a couple of ideas that come to mind right off.  One is to build my online business to the point where active involvement will see rapid growth in profits, but a slow monthly decline when I stop being active.  Another is to go freelance with my professional work.  There are a lot of companies out there looking for contract employees for short term work.  The disadvantage to that is that I have to leave the area where I am at now.

There are a lot of ways that I can do it, and I think that it is a great goal.  For now I am aiming for a 6 month year.  So by the time the warm weather hits my home town, I will be winding down for the year.

There are a lot of blogs that I read that do a weekly link dump.  I usually think that it is a waste of time, however I am changing my mind.  I think that I understand why people feel that they need to do it. 

There are a lot of great writers out there, and I simply don’t have time to blog about them all.  But I do have time to thumb them, and sometimes Twit them.  Now every Friday I am going to link them on this site.

Marketing

• #1 Pay Per Click Lie – This is all about the discussions that we all read on the forums.  What are the right keywords, or these keywords suck.  Well maybe your site SUCKs, maybe you are not converting because of the user experience and not the keyword.
• Are You on a Mission – What you and your company’s mission statement has to say, reflects a lot on the type of management there is within the company.  If your mission statement has a lot to say about the shareholders and not a lot to say about the employees and more importantly the customer, then you are probably working for a poorly managed company over the long run

Business

• Dilbert December 13, 2008 – Sometimes it makes a lot more sense when Scott Adams talk about it.  You don’t mitigate risk by buying more crap.

Blogging

• Do-Follow Blog Search – This is awesome, I have seen so many of these lists for sale on DP that it was getting stupid.  Now you can just search for the blogs that you want to post to.
• Keywords for WLW – AS you may know I have found WLW and I love it.  This is an old page but it has the information that I believe that I need to make WLW the best thing since sliced bread.