Hello World – Six Months Later

A lot has happened since I last posted. The biggest change has been in my location. I am now living in Florida, though I’m not sure I’m going to stay here. I moved here to help out a family member but now that family member has decided she doesn’t want to live in Florida anymore which has put me into kind of a bind.

I’ll be perfectly honest and say I didn’t want to come here. Mainly because I had a premonition that something like this was going to happen. But instead of heeding the warning, I wrote the feeling off as a fear of change, something that I struggle with more and more as I get older.

But I’d be lying if I said that moving here was a total fail. In fact, I think in about a year I will probably say that being in Florida was the best thing that ever happened to me. Because of the challenges I’ve run into down here, namely not getting a job despite taking my own advice, I’ve been forced out of my comfort zone.

Without the luxury of a steady paycheck, I had to find other ways to feed myself. Luckily a good friend, Stacy Kinney, took pity on me and helped me land several writing clients which gave me the courage to go hunting for more. I’m not quite up to a full time income yet but I’m getting there.

I recently realized, though, that while I love freelance writing, I don’t want to be doing it for the rest of my life. Eventually I want to get into small business consulting which how I want to express my life’s purpose (help people live better lives). With that in mind, I moved from BloggingShed back to myBrandme (now called myBrandme Internet Business Boutique).

I’ve also decided to get into Affiliate and Niche Marketing. My goal is to build up supplemental sources of passive income. If my struggle to find employment in this crazy economy has taught me one thing, it’s that I must have multiple streams of income. Even if you have a job, you should have something on the side that’ll keep food on the table. These days you just never know if your job’s going to be there tomorrow.

In an effort to be more outgoing, I joined Twitter. But either I’m doing something wrong, have unrealistic expectations or I’m hanging around the wrong people because no one seems to be doing much socializing. I feel like people are talking AT me rather than TO me and I’m not really connecting with anyone. There are a few who I talk to with any regularity but I’ve decided to take a hiatus from it until I can figure out what I’m doing wrong. I’m going to go old school and start talking to people on their blogs.

My spiritual life is…settling. I finally embraced the notion that the universe is neutral; leaning neither one way nor the other. It is our subjective interpretation of life that determines whether the things that happen here are good or bad. I’ve also realized that the Source is gender neutral and have stopped referring to him as God or Goddess. I feel like gender specific titles take away from the beauty of her wholeness. I’ve had some interesting revelations in the last few weeks which I’ll talk about in another post.

Emotionally, I’m doing better than I have been but not as well as I could be. I still suffer from random anxiety attacks and sometimes when I start worrying about an issue, like paying the bills with no money, it’s hard to focus on other things, like finding ways to earn that money. I’m still paper journaling which helps and I’m trying this releasing technique, a simplified version of the Sedona Method, which I learned over at Beyond-Karma. I learned a lot of great stuff over there which I’ll talk about in another post.

So that’s the six month update. Not very exciting. I’ve put myself on a one post a week schedule which, considering all the work I need to do to get my affiliate and niche websites off the ground, I’m not sure I’ll be able to stick with that. But I’ll give it my best shot.

Peace & Prosperity

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