Month 1 complete !!

byEugene777

626 followers

11 years ago

When I started out 4 weeks ago, I saw some folks had a week or month or two month blog. I was wondering what I would be writing, if at all.

Well it’s that time now. OH boy.

I was struck down for the first 2 weeks and started up 2.5 weeks ago.

Lesson 1: Even if one classifies yourself as reasonably capable internet and computer wise, building a website is like changing jobs from an exhaust dealer to that of becoming a gynaecologist. Seriously! . I never knew the volumes of information that would descend upon me making a monsoon season seem like brushing teeth.

Lesson 2: One's thinking around what you do, post, create should always hold a main awareness of what the search squirrels, oh no crawlers from google, yahoo and bing are up to and what they're programmed to pick up in one's creation. I must say on this note I feel like the NSA , CIA and FBI are watching my site to say ,...sorry disallowed...uhhh, that said I realise it's part of getting ranked . How else to rank quality with quick rich schemes that don't add value to browsers. I'm now rethinking some new pages and content and ways to get traffic etc.

Lesson 3: Don't run ahead of the training. Kyle's training modules are pretty methodical, so follow them to a T. I didn't quite do this, so although I'm only at section 1 lesson 4, I will be doing that from here-on out.

Lesson 4: Be patient. It’s going to take a much longer than I thought to be where I wanted to be. That’s why only 2% of people make it. Old story of work ethic i.e.. personal discipline and daily work habits of completing work. Which is doing effective work which doesn't include browsing other sites or the like, although its necessary. It means doing the study work and adding "stuff" to your website in whatever form or shape. Its going to take X amount of hours to get to being an effective website, so each hour completed is a distance closer to that goal.

Lesson 5:Learning the tech stuff and how word-press operates and manoeuvres and operates within, is paramount. Once one has those skills mastered or have them well underhand, it will become sailing with enjoyment at speed. When I think of my first month it makes me think of movie I saw years ago.

SAHARA..That part where Matthew McConaughey and his buddy have built a makeshift windsurfer from the scrap of a downed plane in the dessert. They are fleeing a hoard of bandits and manage to get this "desert sail on wheels thing" going,...... sails filled with wind and moving at rapid speed they are outpacing the mob after them on horseback. After a while the one guy says. "Where we going"? Matthew answers.." I don't know but we're making good time."

Well I was busy this part month with much without it having direct impact of where I was going with my website and marketing. My goal now is completing all the 5 sections of training, Original content without a thought of copy paste, rewriting anything I pick up in my own creative way, good presentation of my website in an easy navigational theme. Effective hours spent daily must add something to the website.

Adding one "something" to my site a day, means at least 20 to 25 new additions a month. Everything added with the right keywords, content etc, is read/seen/analysed by the search squirrels so in my understanding is adding to the bulk valued content, makes for better ranking and reading.

Lesson 6:My understanding of how I see my lessons now will more than likely change as I learn more, it has to.

Lesson 7:When receiving opinions from others on your website make sure to seek out a group of people who in your view really know their stuff. Check out or find say 10 quality web and traffic builders. Ask those people to give feedback in a way that allows them to be honest WITHOUT them feeling uncomfortable you might be taking their feedback personally.

Write them a brief mail allowing them to be completely frank with you. Remember they were once where you are now and realise the egg on your website or blatant flaws won’t work. They won’t want to get bogged down with a thesis on how you should change things but a line or 5 from 10 people will take you a long way. But how you ask will allow them to feel comfortable enough to be completely frank and honest. Life doesn't allow for this so you need to create such an opportunity.

What is quality feedback? It’s the kind that someone would give unencumbered of any others judgement, opinions, discussion or the like. Pure unemotional truth from someone.

Does their opinion mean it’s accurate, absolutely for them, but it doesn't necessarily mean their views are fully accurate to enable you to change your site for the better. You will discern this more accurately with a number of opinions better, so the reason for asking 10 of those better "qualified" .

So if you say ask 10 people you have qualified for this type of feedback, you can be pretty sure they are giving much better or effective feedback than pussyfooting around the issue not wanting to be honest, in case its seen as criticism. That said you need to qualify and present to them you’re in need of this and that you value their input and that they pleeeeese be as frank as they can, so you can save time and effort following a path that might be leading you nowhere or that your perception of doing this effectively, can be corrected if necessary.

I did a course once and we were taught to respond to any feedback as follows.

"Thanks for loving me enough to tell me the truth". soooo show me the love baby !!!

Truth isn't the fact of what a fact is in its complete form, it’s merely another's truth, meaning their perception of something as they see it. Perception changes as we grow, we become more aware, gain more experience and exposure, or not often. It’s an everlasting process of growth if we allow it to be. Mostly people become closed to the experience of growth as feedback is perceived as criticism which echoes in our minds as “not worthy” not “good enough” not “valued” etc , which there are many of called our FLOP'S. Fundamental Life Operating Principles. People tend to become closed to this process because of an innate need to be right about so much, to protect ourselves from the lashes of those around us and so our invisible fence we build goes up, to be able to live in this world and protect ourselves, closing off as a result many opportunities of becoming more aware.

However if we embrace the belief that we are a possibility and that all new information adds to that possibility, we will arrive at a place of growth that doesn't end or become stagnant as we age and much conflict we come to face daily will evaporate as we will realise there is no need to be right, only to understand, only to become an observer of what’s at play in a given moment and that opinions dont define us, it gives us information which is called feedback. Probably one of the most undervalued benefits of life because we have been conditioned through our experience to perceive it as a negative and hence we create habits of minimising the agony resulting in our ears deafening, our minds closing and our skins growing thicker.

We choose to grow or form a hard line opinion on something or about someone or about ourself. As soon as an opinion is formed, any new doors op perceptual change most likely close. Getting feedback and quality feedback at that, will make you see things you never knew existed. We rarely look at ourselves the way others do.

I'm hoping to accomplish much more in the weeks to come, but at least I have changed one thing since starting up here. I was unconsciously incompetent in the beginning not understanding where I was clearly and have progressed to realising the level of my incompetence and where I'm going in the next month or two. With that in mind, I can move forward more effectively, hopefully.

I wish you all the best on your respective journeys.

Regards and blessings

Eugene