Outstanding Writer Interview

I’m famous. Not really but a girl can dream right? Corey Freeman over at Outstanding Writer interviewed me and has it posted over at her awesome website.

Corey is one of my Twitter buddies who serves as a constant source of inspiration to me though she doesn’t know it (That’s because I’m horrible and never leave comments on her blog. I know, I know). She owns a company called Minus The Pie and is currently developing three websites; Outstanding Writer, Diligent Design and Freelance Pirate. And she has a forth in the works. Seriously, where does she get the time?

Anyway, stop by and read the interview. Then when you are done, hang around and visit her website. I guarantee you’ll pick up some great tips that will help in your endeavors whatever they may be.

January Business Update

Let’s start the post out with what I did get accomplished in January.

The Plot Café was updated fairly regularly throughout the month thanks, in part, to reprint article directories. I would love to be able to produce original content for the site but there just is not enough time in my day at this moment. I was able to score three interviews with three wonderful fiction writers which you can read here, here and here and I have another two lined up.

I finally overhauled BloggingShed and got an original template on there.

The New BloggingShed

I felt a little bit like a fraud claiming to be a web designer and yet using a blog template designed by someone else. I’m really happy with the way it turned out. This month I’m going to work on getting The Plot Café overhauled (since yes I am using a template for that as well).

I also helped a friend set up her website. So really, I created two templates last month.

A couple of my articles on Ezinearticles were reprinted on other websites so I got a few backlinks for The Plot Cafe.

Now for the bad stuff.
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My Plan to Escape Rat Race Hell in 2009

A few days before New Year’s Eve, I wrote about two goals I wanted to achieve in the new year. One of those goals was to end 2009 working from home and bringing in a steady income of $577 per week (about $30,000 per year). I plan to do this by generating income from two websites that I own.

The first site is called BloggingShed. This site is going to be the one that brings in the majority of my income. BloggingShed is a blogger’s help site where I post tutorials for the various blogging software out there, talk about how to make money from blogging, how to market and promote your blog, discuss design and coding and make snarky comments about stuff I find on the internet.
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The End of the Year Emo Post

In a few days another year will come to a close and new one will begin, bringing with it a new set of opportunities and challenges. As I look back over the past 33 years of my life, I see a lot of disappointment and failure. Yeah, I’ve had some success here and there but for the most part if someone were to give me a letter grade for my progress in life so far, I would get an E for Epic Failure.

*sigh*
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The Power of Visualization

Has it really been over a month? Wow time is just flying by. You’ll be happy to know that I am now gainfully employed at, not one, but two jobs which is one of the reasons why I haven’t blogged in over a month. The other reason is that I slipped into a little bit of a mental rut that I’ve been struggling to get out of for a couple of weeks now. I’m going to share with you exactly what happened because there is a valuable lesson to be learned in this tale.
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Streamlining the Business

There are many lessons that the universe wants to teach me but the most pressing one, I think, is the value of focused effort. I’ve been putting a lot of thought into my business and the strategy that I should take to grow it to the level that I know I can take it. I have so many ideas and I made the mistake of believing that I can do them all at the same time and they would all be wildly successful.

The truth is that I only have enough time and energy to focus on one. This was a hard fact to face. I want to work on all of these ideas floating around in my head but my mind, my heart and my life are not in a place where I can do that. I’m trying to leap over tall buildings when, in actuality, I’m only able to walk around them.
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Meeting My Higher Self

My dreams come in three different flavors; Regular, Precognitive and Enlightening. Regular dreams are the by-products of my mind organizing itself and assimilating the information accumulated that day. Precognitive dreams are glimpses into the future. I’ve had several of these throughout my life and I recognize them by an acute sense of Déjà vu coupled with memories of the dream when they come true. Enlightening dreams are lessons that I need to learn. Since I began my pursuit into Lucid Dreaming, I’ve had three of this kind including last night’s dream.

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Lucid Dreaming Challenge No. 1

Last week I began my path towards becoming a Lucid Dreamer. As a first step on that path, I needed to begin recording my dreams. Well as there is no such thing as a life path paved in gold, I stepped right into the first pothole the very next night.

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