Find Your Happy Place For Creativity

Today I was reminded how important it is to "Find Your Happy Place" in your mind. You don't have to live at the beach, to feel like you're at the beach.While keeping thoughts positive can help out tremendously in life, it doesn't always lead to a completely relaxed feeling. But you know what does? Finding something you enjoy so much that it gets your mind completely off those to-dos and tasks, or beating yourself up over and over again for not making the major progress you expected to on som

Creating A Daily Morning Routine

Just wanted to mention a morning routine I'm trying out in an attempt to get a handle on life balance and making effective use of time. I think automating some of our time is key to success. Small daily disciplines add up to large achievements.My goal is to break apart the day into sections, figuring out when I'm most effective at executing certain types of activities. Get a better handle on scheduling the hours within that time. Every day becomes an experiment, using the previous day as a

Is Money More Important Than Passion? The Chair Test

What value do you place on money? Here's a simple test to decide just how much value you place on your time, money, and freedom to pursue passions in life. It may even help you figure out if what you're doing now IS YOUR PASSION.The Chair TestDon't laugh. There's a serious experiment going on here!!! Guys in white coats and clipboards are ready to monitor your reaction to.... The Chair Test!Imagine someone tells you they'll pay you $100,000 just to sit in a chair all day for five days a wee

Will The Economic Tax Nexus Affect Your Small Business?

Last year, some major changes occurred for Small Business in the United States during a court ruling in the 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. case. This effectively allowed states to make up their own rules in terms of "sales tax" needing to be collected. It's a big change for Online Small Businesses selling products / services, but it seems that many people aren't even aware this happened.Let me preface by saying, I'm not an expert on tax laws. Information here is just meant to bring awarenes

Use The Pomodoro Technique To Create Good Habits

Want to be more productive? Here's a mind hack that can help you break some bad habits, while also helping you to create some really good habits. And all you need is 25 minutes a day.This MorningThis morning I got up at 6:15am. Drank two glasses of water, ate a bit of fruit, worked out for 20 minutes, then soldered/assembled circuit boards for about an hour all before 7:30am. Yep.. I said I soldered circuit boards (I'll explain later in this post).Now, I'm writing a blog post about creating

Adopt a Bird Brain Mentality For Success [Productivity Hack]

As they say, affiliate marketing can be pretty overwhelming. Learning Wordpress & figuring out what plugins to use. SEO. Marketing. Optimizing Conversions. Analytics. Writing Skills. The list goes on and on. While you don't have to know EVERYTHING right away, you do have to find a way to stay focused and productive as much as possible to actually make any progress.Adopting A "Bird Brain"I hesitate to say we need to "adopt a bird brain", but it's kind of what NEEDS to happen when y

Where Focus Goes, Energy Flows

If you don't recognize the quote in this title, it's by Tony Robbins. But this idea has also been discussed by others that have spent their lives learning about the mind and body connection, how everything is connected in our world and ways to improve our chances of being successful.This concept exists in success literature going back centuries. And for good reason.Basic TruthsThere are some very basic truths in life. And this is one of them..Whatever you put your focus on, you'll ultimately

Everyone Has A Story To Tell

Everyone of us has a story to tell. It may not seem like your life is all that interesting, but then again, it just might be the most interesting story someone else has ever heard.Imagine that. Imagine opening up a bit, telling your story, and finding there's someone else out there, or dozens of people, or hundreds of people that are relating to you or that are helped by YOUR STORY.And then imagine INSPIRING people with your words. Daily.Wouldn't that be great?And here's the really fun part.

Level 1 Training Complete!

Just completed Level 1 training for Online Entrepreneur Certification a few days ago!I've been slow at this because I had to wrap up my taxes for my main business. And, despite already knowing quite a bit of the material with having been a web developer in years past, I decided to take an approach as I have recently with reading books. Read it completely. Find those nuggets of information hidden within that you didn't know.And I found a few nuggets. Even just on the free training.I hadn't h

Took The Plunge! PREMIUM Membership!

Yesterday I took the plunge on the PREMIUM membership. I've only been signed up as a Starter member here for a few weeks, but going PREMIUM was an easy decision to make. And here's why..Everything Under One RoofImmediately when I joined as a Starter member I could see this website was different. Everything is under one roof, so to speak. That's a real joy to see.The Internet has grown a ton over the last few decades. The problem these days, in my opinion, is there's TOO MUCH information ou