I have graduated four times in my life: High School; College; Master's degree; 2nd Master's degree.Graduation itself was always the goal. I would try to care about what happened afterward. I just didn't. As a hopeless academic, I loved school. Graduation felt like death. But the ceremonies themselves were always great - because they involved other people. Classmates, celebrating the end of the long journey with you. Parents. Family. At my high school graduation, in the tiny school's tiny gym, m

At my day job, every employee level and job description has certain non-negotiable goals. Production goals. Sales goals. Checklists and forms. Payroll limits. There are personal goals for associates, and store-wide for management - but everyone has them. These are things that simply must be done. No question. No excuse. And they're not always reasonable either.But they do always get done.Somehow, miraculous as if often seems, day-by-day and week-by-week, the non-negotiables get done. I

Today is about starting over.Every day for three years now has been about starting over. And over... And over...And over...Getting nowhere.It's been a lot of stuff, really, that looking back --- wow. Looking back, I think Covid and the world shutting down affected me much more than I thought. I think it gave me an excuse to shut myself down. And as shutting down and avoiding all contact with other human beings and avoiding anything challenging is my natural inclination anyway... Yeah, it's been

Today, I logged into SiteManager and found something increadible. According to the system here, my Site Heath is Awesome!It's not perfect, but it is real momentum, forward. And after three years building sites that mostly stay stuck in the "getting better" stage, and inevitably fall into the angry red line of "needs work," this feels good. It has taken me three years to figure out what I want to do online, and a world-wide plague to find the time and motivation to actually do it. I am the absol

So, I've been here a while.Quite a while, really.In three years, I've learned a lot. I've built websites. I've ranked keywords in Google. I've gotten traffic. I've come far enough to know that the training here works.And that's as far as I've gone, for several different reasons, starting with the seeminly popular innability to commit to a niche.For me, however, innability to commit comes from the fact that I am already committed to something--or, want to be. I already have something that I want