Adventures in Lifestyle Design from a Path Less Traveled
Lots of cool things are happening these days!
This past Sunday, I met up with some internet marketers here in the Seattle area. It was really cool to actually meet people that are doing this. It makes me feel a little less crazy to actually be around people that talk about SEO, affiliate commission rates, and other topics that seem to make everyone else’s eyes glaze over. I even met one guy that makes a full-time living from an affiliate website. This was pretty huge for me. I’ve talked to people online that make lots of money doing this. I’ve even traded a few e-mails with some. But to actually meet someone that’s doing this in person… There was something especially motivating about that.
Tonight, I am going to start my first Japanese language class through the UW Experimental College. I took a year of Japanese in college when I was an undergrad, but I forgot most of it. Going to Tokyo in 2008, really made me want to learn Japanese so I could actually be a bilingual bad ass! Plus, I’ve decided to set up a Japanese language website (which I will refer to as website #7 from here on), and this will be a great opportunity to get content for it. All I need to do is go to class and learn something I want to learn anyway, then go home and write about what I learned to make an affiliate site. Pretty sweet if you ask me!
This week is kind of hard for me. My girlfriend is doing the Tim Ferriss Diet again. She is forbidding me from doing it this time because she’s afraid I’ll wither away to nothing. So, to help keep her motivated, I’m choosing to suffer as well, by only checking my Clickbank account on Fridays. I did not realize, how addicted I was to logging in and seeing if I’ve made any sales.
There are some other things going on this week too, but they are directly related to my online business (my newspaper ad, outsourcing, etc.), so I’ll save those for my Friday update. It’s times like now that I’m really excited to be alive!
Checking Clickbank once a week! Ouch. That’s gonna hurt. Good luck.
@ Keith, yes, it’s very frustrating. I feel like I’m a kid waiting for Christmas morning. Only two more days…