My Progress Thing and the sense of chickenpox

You know what this has been a mad week.

I know that I went to a seminar a while back and I also went out and spent a few quid on an mp3 recorder and a microphone. I have been wanting to record stuff for a long time and now I can do it when ever I want. I am forever talking to myself about projects and stuff, and now for under £90 I have everything I need – including the editing software.

I have also discovered something that really needs testing, but could serve as a fantastic supplement to an ezine. I have checked and people are already paying to get access to the type of information that I was considering to make available that way. But I have so many projects on already we’ll see when I get time to try it.

What else did I get up to? Not a lot – I haven’t really got time to do this post either as I am a little late on the Niche-Health-Articles nuggets that I am working on.

I actually had a great kickstart to the week on Monday and Tuesday getting right into the work that I had on my plate, but then when I picked up my Thomas from Nursery on Tuesday afternoon I was pulled to one side and gently informed that they had noticed he was coming up with chickenpox rashes.

And that they would not let him back into nursery until next week. Thomas is never in nursery on Wednesdays anyway and spends it playing with him mom and following her around on her various shopping or business research trips ( unless they are off to some play zone, zoo or park ). This leaves me free to work hard – but not this week.

So when a 3 year old repeatedly shuffles ( man-like! ) into the office, looks at me with his doe like eyes and tells me he wants a cuddle cause he’s “not fewing vewy weouw” it makes for a very unproductive day.

Eventually I had to go out and get some air and so I found the Sony MP3 recorder for £49.99 that will enable me to put my voice to anything and everything without having to resort to phone recordings. I can use it in all of my client relationships so it was a good investment.

I am also tempted to get another page creation software, but as I struggle to find the time to keep up with what I already have on my plate, I can’t see how I can find the time to use the tool to create a minimum $200 a month without paying someone to do it for me!

Mike!??

I also have loads of new projects drifting my way that I will fit in some how. That time management book that I have heard have been in the working for the last 18 months could be handy at this point!

Anyway – next week? I have the NHA stuff to do, plus two offline projects to finish and something NEW to do for Gary. (aka Mr. Post-seminar man-shuffle )

UK seminaaar!!!

Well I am at the info-product seminar UK in London today and I never thought I’d see the day when I would post a blog entry or send an email while I was at one of these places but here I am tapping away at the keyboard.

It’s good to meet some of the people I know from the forum and even some of the lurkers that know my name but who I have no idea who are! Good fun getting to know them though.

It’s been a productive week up til today . I had my meetings and got even more work out of it. I have started a new project which means I am calling companies from home asking research questions. And it is decent money for what work it is.

I’ll post something on Monday again and on the private forum too to tell you more about what I got up to and what I plan to do about it in the intervening time frame.

Thanks for now,
Jon

Where are the butterflies?

Did alot this week:

• Started on 4 more niche nuggets.
• Started working on a new sales letter.
• Gathered some material on 12 other niches for a different project
• Set up a new filing system for my project paperwork ( I never seem to cope with ring binders and paper piles up everywhere, so now I have magazine racks, one for each project, on my shelf )

What else I got up to?

Well, the days are beginning to blur. My thursday chats with Gary and my Wednesday and Saturday Chats with my offline business partner lets me keep track of what day of the week it is, and the bit in between is filled with research and hunting trips for hungry crowds of people.

Not that I can say I have found any new ones that make much sense. I seem to trip up when I try finding out where these crowds hang out. ( as in I can't figure it out )

Seems to me I should begin to attract people that have access to these crowds, want to capitalize on them, but don't quite know how.

But WOW what a week this has been, lesson wise.

I have discovered I don't know as much as I think I do.

I guess it's about time I learnt that one, but as I get to speak to successful people alot more now that I work closely with 3 of them and still have time to read Martins kickstarts, it has been made even more apparent to me this week.

Firstly because Gary pointed out to me a flaw in my sales sequence on my websites and secondly because Martin corrected my understanding of what a Non-Response Disruptor actually is and what it requires.

Not to mention the lesson Mike Filsame gave me about viral marketing when I spoke to him earlier this week. ( or was it last week I can't remember? ) and would you believe my pet nuisance, perry marshall is beginning to grow on me - his newsletter today is talking about the "problem with misplaced positive thinking"

- and reading what he has to say I can only diagnose myself as suffering with this illusion. He's not knocking a positive attitude in his email, far from it. What he is saying is that you can't succeed in anything if all you rely on is your positive, long term, dreamy attitude. You have to have some realism in there.

You have to have keep an eye on the grim truth of the day to day realities.

and I think you'll recognise this if you think back to a past goal you failed to achieve. A goal you had pinned all your hopes on and you had a deadline, an action plan and you still did not achieve it and it made you feel really crap when you failed to achieve the goal.

Perry says to have faith that you will prevail, but don't confuse it with the dicipline required to confront the brutal facts of your current reality. Boy is that true for me. the faith is there, and thankfully now with a self employed opportunity to make as much part time as I used to make full time ( not counting the tax implications... ) my finances are looking up.

Looking forward to next week and applying myself with more determination to build a more secure future for myself and my family.

Jon

Do you want to know what I learnt this week?

Do you want to know what I learnt this week?

So do I. Seriously. I can not for the life of me remember what I have been up to. And without that I can’t think of any lessons I have learnt.

One thing I suppose it that sometimes it is better to leave a job that doesn’t work out sooner rather than later. This time it took me two weeks to realize. That is a new personal record. ( yes, I quit my job - there wasn’t really anything wrong with the job in itself I suppose, but I guess I am just not a very good employee any more :o) )

And I did do the elance project.

What else did I do? Oh yeah, some butterfly bashing.

This is embarrassing. I don’t think I did much this week. I had a couple of interviews and received a contract to sign me up to another client.

I made Martin a few bob on contentcreatorpro and it aint bad. I’m happy to spend some time next week to get it going though.

Oh yeah – I have started working on the niche health stuff for Feb.

But I must admit I can’t think of any other lessons that I learnt.

Hmm.

Erm.

I guess it has been a research week because I have spent serious amounts of time reading ebooks and researching markets, niches and so on. And you need weeks like that.

I have been updating some of my websites but to be fair, the job departure has inspired me to work a little and research a lot.

I guess.

Who’s got a pint? I need a drink to get rid of this week and move on to the next one.