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Getting out of a Funk

March 30, 2010 By Jeff Leave a Comment

What I may look like if I am in a funk

Last week saw me gradually get stuck in a funk.  I think that it got started when I was working some crazy hours at the beginning of the week, only to find out that what I was working on was not as important as I was lead to believe.  The funk really hit its peak Sunday evening when I was really not that fun to be around.

Monday morning it was the same thing.  I was snappy and was able to get motivated at all when I sat down at my desk.  I tried to take an early lunch and that break worked a little, but the thing that worked the best was getting my ass kicked at the gym at the end of the day. I am working on a Nike+ coach program so I figured that something like hitting the gym would work out well.

As I sat down to write this I checked out what some of the how-to sites had to say about getting yourself out of a bad mood.  None of them really gave me any good info, to me it sounded too generic and I am not sure how it helps anyone.  When I am in a funk, a mood, or generally down, I find it best to talk to someone and get it out there.  Sometimes though I am not even really sure why the funk is there in the first place.  It is at those times that I can sometimes just take some me time.  Get away from everyone and spend some time by myself, doing nothing.

This time that didn’t work either.

That is why I hit the gym, sweating it out, pushing for that extra 1/4 mile was huge in me getting out of the funk.  Sometimes you may feel that it really doesn’t matter if you are in a bad mood, but it really affects everything and everyone around you.  On my way to work Monday morning I knew that I had to do something to snap out of it before I went home, and the gym was the perfect thing to work this time.

When I got home, made supper and went to bed I was all ready to make up for the lack of productivity that struck me on Monday.

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Is your Twitter Profile URL Pulling the Plug on Your Followers?

February 21, 2010 By Jeff 2 Comments

There is a relatively new person on twitter that I started following because of a recommendation from a Twitter Friend (@lolaaugustine) who I have been following her since I got onto this Twitter thing.  When I visited this new person’s profile earlier this week I noticed one of the SPAMMER warnings that jump right out at me.  She had been using an ow.ly shortened URL as her profile, not as bad as bit.ly, but still made me cringe.

I have noticed that most of the people using a shortening service like ow.ly or bit.ly on their Profile link to trick you into clicking it and then signing up for something.  It happens enough that people like me, and a lot of people I know on Twitter, will simply not follow you if see that.  I brought this up at a Tweetup once and there were a number of people at the table that said they will automatically block them without a second thought.

Now how to fix it

If you are one of the culprits and don’t even realize it.  Maybe a friend set up your account for you, well it is easy to fix.

All you need to do is to go to http://twitter.com/settings/profile and in the WEB box put your “real” URL, to get this go to your website and in the address bar at the top of the browser grab the entire thing there starting with http://.  If your web address is a Facebook page, and you also have a blog I would recommend using your Blog address as it will allow you better control over your traffic.Then to point your blog visitors to your Facebook Fan page you can use a plugin like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-fan-box/. If you are not sure how to set that up, I can help just send me a note using the Contact Us page or a comment on this post with your email.

Hope that helps you gain more Twitter Followers with your efforts.
Cheers,
Jeff M
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Save Money with Online Meetings

April 28, 2009 By Jeff Leave a Comment

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There has been a lot of talk lately about how this current downturn that the worldwide economy is in is not going to be going anywhere in the near term.  The Western big business philosophy is to recoil and wait for people to start buying again.  The Eastern and entrepreneur philosophy is that this is the time to buy good business cheap and manoeuvre yourself into an incredibly profitable position.

Online Meeting Software

One of the methods that I have been using lately to limit my travel both for personal work and with my day-job is running online meetings using Go-To-Meeting.  I chose Go-To-Meeting by default since it was the program that the company that I work for was using.  I got to play with the software before getting it myself to use for my own meetings, it isn’t that my side projects are to the point that I do a lot of travel meetings, none actually, but it did add a very advanced communications channel.

I don’t just use the software because it is what I started with, but don’t take my word for it there is a decent go-to-meeting review here. One of the tools that I have used a lot when working with designers is the ability to take over the others mouse and keyboard to better explain what I am looking for.  This is almost impossible to do over the phone, and it is very slow when you try it by email.  Using a messenger service is faster, but it is still much slower than using GoToMeeting.

Try out GoToMeeting for 30 days free and if you click here you will also get $10 off when you order. 

You have to CLICK HERE, to be sure that you don’t miss out.


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