Time Tracking To Ensure Productive Working

A common problem amongst those people who attempt to make money online is wasting vast amounts of time ‘working’ on activities that really don’t do anything for you at all. I have re-started tracking my time using a tool called SlimTimer since around the middle of January this year and wanted to discuss that a little…

Where Is Your Time Going?

First of all it is important to breakdown exactly what specific activities you spend your time on. I have a bunch of tasks related to my software project which I will just lump together but I have broken out the others. The only full month I have tracked so far is February 2009 and this is how I have spent my time:

Are You Working on Your Business, Or Just In Everybody Else’s?

Every month I post my income stats on this blog and every month I get the same kinds of comments. Some people just say ‘grats’ or something similar but there are two other groups of people that always seem to get overly emotionally involved. In one camp are those that earn less than me and seem to be jealous that I am earning more and in the other camp are those that earn more than me and object that I should have the gall to run a make money online blog when I obviously don’t earn enough money.

Action-Based Numeric Goals That Get Results

I’m not usually one for goal setting but 2009 is really feeling like a new start so I want to push hard towards achieving my dreams. The trouble is, how to track the progress I’m making in a way that gets results? I’ve decided to use some action-based, numeric goals to help me do that.

The Trouble With Ordinary Goals / Resolutions

Resolutions are usually pretty final such as “I resolve to quit smoking” or “I resolve write a blog post every day” and they are easily broken which leads to disappointment. Traditional goals are usually based around some milestone to achieve such as “I want to earn $X a month with my online business” or “I want to lose X lbs in weight”. Sometimes deadlines are added.

One Year Anniversary of My Business Today

On the 21st September 2007 I worked my last day as a paid employee and the 22nd marked my first day of freedom – though for the third time. This is the third time I have been self employed and it has been a very interesting year.

The Freedom of Self Employment

I am a free spirit. I am simply not built to work for somebody else, to be told what to do. I crave freedom probably more than any other quality. During my adult life I have been through three phases of employment and three phases of self-employment. Finally, I know for sure that employment just is not for me and I know that I can never, ever go back to it.

Courtney Tuttle Takes Keyword Sniping Material Offline!

I was very surprised to find that just a couple of weeks after Courtney Tuttle opened up his paid site The Keyword Sniper, he has now closed the site and has even gone as far as to remove all of his posts about keyword sniping from his blog. As this is the strategy around which I am basing my AdSense Project, this was a little worrying.