Are you on the right path?

My guest blogger, Lorraine Banfield, recently wrote a piece about failure and being on the right path… I thought it might be of interest to the WA Community:One of the things about failure is that we don't usually fail where we are celebrated. When we are on the right path for us we are almost always celebrated and valued. When we fail, it is a sign to re-think our path. I used to tell people that “failure was their opportunity to start again more intelligently”, a quote from

Using PPC to generate traffic - Bad Idea?

I recently joined Clixsense Pay Per Click program hopping to get more traffic on my site. I'm not interested in participating in the viewing of sites, I just wanted to advertise my own site. This was a big waste of time and money.Although I did get a lot more hits, my bounce rate was over 90% every day I used it. This means that people just had it open for the required time (15 to 30 seconds) and left without reading anything. I realized that people who joined Clixsense are extremely poor.

All right - a new month.

Tomorrow if the first Monday of a new month. This is a great time to make some goals... I am going to blog at least twice per day (once for WA and once for my site.) and I am also going to work on my social media sites - particularly Twitter and Facebook... join me if you like - @DJ_Weiss and dan.weiss.549 ..I wish all my WA followers an excellent week!!!Dan

Reciprocation

I like to give dinner parties for friends and family members during holidays and special occasions. I do all the cooking, setting up and cleaning up. It can be a lot of work but it’s also a lot of fun; and, in return we get invited to their parties. – they reciprocate.At work, if someone asked if I could work a shift for them, and if I’m not busy with something else, I will work for them in return they will work for me when I need time off. – they reciprocate.At this mom

Then and Now - file compression

I owned my first PC in 1984. It was an IBM XT, it came with 128 KB of RAM, a 360 KB double-sided 5¼ inch floppy disk drive, and a 10 MB Seagate hard drive. The internet was not really available to the public yet; however, it was available to some institution and government agencies.The early 1990s marks the beginning of the modern Internet. We had internal modems with Ethernet connection to phone lines. Window replaced DOS and graphics were much more common, but the images came up very s

Perseverance

PerseverancePerseverance is endurance, patience, and "hanging in there"  in spite of obstacles, adversity, or suffering. There can be no doubt that perseverance is often required to realize the hopes, dreams, desires and visions we hold for ourselves.Do I wish I had not purchased the one year premium program with WA? Yes sometimes, but I will not be a quitter. I will make more time to blog and work on SEO. I will submit more comments and feedback and receive it in return. I will work

Reach High and Dream Deep

May all your dreams be fullfilled.Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941 was a Bengali polymath (a person of wide-ranging knowledge). who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Planning

Don't dwell on past mistakes... Focus on the present and PLAN for the future.“You say you’ve got a real solution… well you know, We’d all love to see the PLAN”. – Lennon and McCartney

Be Magnificent

Eileen Caddy MBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) (26 August 1917 – 13 December 2006) was a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known as one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation (spiritual community) at the Findhorn Ecovillage, near the village of Findhorn, Moray Firth, in northeast Scotland. Although I think this quote is easier said than done, it is a very positive way to start your day. It is also very motivational.

Why I like Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Creative Cloud gives users access to a collection of software for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, and more. For WA and websites using WordPress, I would recommend at the very least Photoshop for editing pictures. Other programs in Creative Cloud include Illustrator for graphic design, Premier Pro and After Effects for Video editing, Audition for editing sound and Dreamweaver & Muse for website development. I have been using Adobe Products since 2001 and I