2009.12

New Year’s Resolutions

Although I don’t believe that there is anything magical about New Year’s resolutions and that people should constantly strive to improve their lives without limiting it to a once-a-year thing that falls on December 31st, I find great joy in making New Year’s resolutions. It’s a good idea to stop and take stock of things more

Website Building Update – Week 17

So tomorrow is the official 4-month anniversary for me working on these websites. After a little thinking, I’ve decided to shelf the JFK “high tide raising all ships” approach and focus solely on doing a full SEO job on Website #4. Website #4 is probably the most efficient website I’ve made yet at pulling in more

Website Building Update – Week 16

I came to a sad realization this week that I really need to spin every single article on my websites. Suddenly, I have about 60 articles to spin. I find this depressing because I really hate spinning articles. But I can get so much out of a spun article. I can submit these articles to more

Website Building Update – Week 15

This week my girlfriend went back to Arizona to visit her family for a few days. I spent the time aggressively building links to the first four websites. I pulled out all the stops and I started implementing some web 2.0 sites like Squidoo and Hubpages in addition to hunting down a small handful of more

How to Overcome Shyness

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been shy. I grew up a loner with few friends. But back in 2006, I decided to get over my shyness. I decided that the only way to get past it was to go through it. I just had to confront my fears. So I set an arbitrary more