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Why Aren’t you DOING IT?

February 4, 2009 By Jeff Leave a Comment

208045-org_1024x683I am not sure why I’m not doing it, but I am sure that I should be.  Then a buddy pointed me towards this older post, Do it Fucking Now from SEOBlackHat and was thinking.  I really should be doing  a lot more than I am, but I feel like I am spinning my wheels.  I have made very little progress in the month of January, and I am not exactly sure where I should be moving on from there.

So now what am I going to do?

Well I am just going to do IT!!   What am I going to do?  Well that is a question that I can’t really answer that, but I am going to do SOMETHING every day.  No matter what it is, I am going to do something that will bring me a step closer to my $5000 / month before tax profit.  It may be just researching a niche, getting some ideas on content, sites, maintenance, etc. 

The point is to do something.

If you are spinning your wheels, then try changing gears.  Every little step makes a difference.

So what is it, that you are going to be doing to reach your goals no matter what it is.  Let me know in the comments.

 

 

 

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2009 is going to be exciting

January 7, 2009 By Jeff Leave a Comment

I have some goals for 2009 that I am going to reach.

500 Posts

The first one is to achieve 500 posts on this blog.  Bluenoser.net has been online for years, but I have only around 300 posts and some of those are useless ones that I put up at the beginning just to have content.

MORE PROFIT

In 2009 I have a goal to quadruple my online profits.  This is not an overly ambitious goal, and I think that by the end of January I will be making it a TEN fold increase.  Tim of 4HWW and some of has followers have said that making high goals actually increases your likely hood for success.

More Time

I am in 2009 going to increase my productivity to the point that I can spend more time doing what I want to be doing.  That includes travelling and reading.  This is the first year that I have read less than 10 GOOD books in a year.  I miss reading and increasing my knowledge.

Professional Equity

Along with my various online endeavours I am going to start working on building “professional equity”.  I am not sure if this term has been coined before, if not here is my definition.  Anything that increases your worth to your profession and company which in turn increases the demand in your services.  I have started doing this by achieving my LEED AP designation, and in the first of the year I will be gaining my P.Eng (once I finish my diaries).  There are two more on my list one is to get my FE in April and follow with my PE in Maryland, or another state in the US.

The other BIG thing is staying tight to my chest, but hear is a hint,  it is going to be a teaching program for a tight niche in my industry that I have expertise in, and believe that there is a lack of information available to fellow engineers and industry in general.  I hope for this to be my muse(read 4HWW if you don’t know what this is)

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A idea for 2009

December 29, 2008 By Jeff 1 Comment

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.

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