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My journey is based on a concept called "The Optimized LifeStyle". More to come...

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Rock and Roll Time Management

Life is too short to be wasting time. If you waste just 10 min. a day, that equals 60 min. in six days
 or to put more simply,
one hour of your life is wasted every six days.
over the course of the year that works out to more than 60 hours+ of your life wasted.
2 1/2 days of your life you'll never get back, ever.

Listen, this isn't about doom and gloom. It's about taking care of things so that you can enjoy your life.
Make it all count, because there are no do-overs as far as time is concerned.

Here is a quote from Kent Chow's Marketing tips Blog.

It talks about building Amazon Affiliate sites but the Highlighted part is what I want you to see...

1. Focus on Execution persistently
Building Amazon Affiliate Niche Sites is not a rocket science.  It’s just a series of business processes that involve time and dedication to complete.
No matter what you have trusted and picked such as Adsense, Blogging, or creating your own information product, serving offline clients, get focus on your plan and don’t be tempted.
Winners never quit.
Break down your goal as tasks and attack them one by one. Many times I had some great product niche ideas, but didn’t take the actions.
Many times, I have some dreams and goals, but didn’t even start implementing them. And you?
Sometimes, we are overwhelmed by how “big” the project is and don’t even finish a few tasks in the list.
I learned to just break down the tasks into 30 min truck and finish them by one. They don’t need to be perfect to move on. You could always go back and re-visit them. 

This advice can be applied to many aspects of your life, say fitness for example:

Being fit and healthy is:
 "Just a series of processes that involve time and dedication to complete. Break down your goal as tasks and attack them one by one. Break down the tasks in the 30 min. chunks and finish them one by one."

I believe this is one of the core principles of achievement in life:
Make a choice- work your plan- and stick with it....results are just around the corner.
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Talk soon

How to Write For the Web

Here is an excerpt from Chris Brogan Article- 97 Ideas for Building a Valuable Platform

Embrace Brevity
  • We are in a consumption society. People can barely read a tweet. Keep everything brief. Note how a numbered list helps with this? Do similar things. Think bite-sized.
  • We tend to overwrite. Most people’s first few paragraphs are throat-clearing, and their endings are weak. Try cutting from the beginning, and making sure the ending of what you write lands well.
I love lists and when Chris creates a helpful list I have to stop-drop-and-roll on over to it. Cause its Fire!

Creating content is not hard when you create everyday.  Because you can just pick out the nuggets and add them to your pile of useful stuff.
Not to say everything you write or create will be useful. 
Actually you create turds most of the time, but thats ok because you are in action, doing.
And the steps are in the right direction.

I think you should check out 97 Ideas for Building a Valuable Platform

Craft your message and put it out there.

I always will, when I'm Marketing Las Vegas

Talk Later

Art

 

Get More Traffic By Using Multiple Communication Channels

This this article talks about how you can get people to share your content.
When people share your content you more traffic, so you want this to happen :-)

Here's a short list that I created that you can copy.
( you can even use the same content, just presented in a different format)

  1. Videos
  2. articles
  3. graphics (infographics)
  4. slideshows
  5. podcasts
  6. images
Here's one way that  Michael Dunlop created some content using video
and I'm sure it's just not video but it's written on his blog as well and perhaps there's a slideshow out there talking about the same examples.
Check it out


here's a quote from the income diary
The Final Word
The reason we have different types of blog content is because people learn in different ways. But, what’s the best way work multimedia content into your blog?
Simply? Work as many images, infographics, slideshows, audio files, and videos into your blog posts as possible. Then re-upload that content onto Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest, SlideShare, iTunes, and YouTube with links in the descriptions back to the original post.
More strategically? Maybe your blog can have an infographic day, a slideshow day, a podcast day, and a video day. Then, of course, redistribute your content.
I don’t expect you to go full-bore into the exciting realm of new media content creation. But I do expect you to at least think about it.


thank you for a great article Nicholas  

see next time

Arthur Peterson

Article: The Best Way to Pursue Your Life's Work | Goins, Writer

The Best Way to Pursue Your Life's Work | Goins, Writer
http://goinswriter.com/lifes-work/

The mistake we make

Every day, people pursuing their dreams make this mistake. They shoot for the moon without taking the first step. Here are some common examples:

If you want to become an actor, you move to Hollywood.
If you want to get a music career started, you buy some studio time and try to record a full-length album.
If you want to be a writer, you start writing an 80,000-word manuscript.
This is WRONG. If this is your strategy, you will end up frustrated, unfocused, and bitter. So what’s the right way?

Start small.

How a creative habit is formed

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
—Aristotle

 

Great article from Jeff Goins.  Start small and build...

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An Income Plan For You To Deconstruct And Apply: From Almost Zero To Over A Quarter Of $1 Million, In Three Years

At Arthur Peterson dot com I use Pat's training.  You can check out a little quote of Pats accomplishments this past 3 years below.


Income Breakdown
For convenience, I’ve included a quick breakdown of my income below so you don’t have to go and find it in the audio or transcript. I’ve used clicktale before to see how people view my income reports, so I know that most usually scroll down to the bottom and look at the numbers first before reading anything else. ;)
  • GreenExamAcademy.com: 
$37,762.41
  • SecurityGuardTrainingHQ.com: 
$14,497.86
  • eHow.com: 
~$1,300.00
  • iPhone Applications: 
$52,484.12
  • Coaching and Consultations: 
$31.401.30
  • Affiliate Marketing 
    • (for various products)
: $272,371.19
  • Other: 
$3,523.96
  • GROSS TOTAL: ~
$413,340.84
  • EXPENSES: 
(~$70,000.00)
  • NET TOTAL: $343,340.84

In this post, just like all of Pat's posts, he's very transparent.
In this post he shows you exactly his income and expenses, but, I don't think that's the most important part of this post.
For me the most important part is the detail the PAT goes into.
The detail for me,is the reason why Pat is so successful with his blog.

He's very easy-to-follow.
His ideas come across as simple.
And he's very personable, in the way that he writes and speaks.
And these things are not easy to accomplish or should I say: "Easy to accomplish and get your point across as simply as possible"

You can tell he puts a lot of work into all of his content. Whether it's audio, video or just the written word.

Now if you want a good plan of attack to generate income on the Internet, I think you should follow along as Pat shows you exactly how he's doing it on the Internet.
Because, he breaks it down for you, warts and all.
He doesn't just show you his successes, but his successes and failures.
So you can learn from someone doing it in the real world.
And I think that's a key concept.

Here's a video I think you should deconstruct and implement to become successful with video:


Don't forget to check out Pats blog and leave a comment below

thanks art

IF THIS DOESN'T SCARE YOU I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL- Excerpt

Please allow my friend, Mathematics, to throw you down to the curb, poke you in the eye, and then proudly lift you up and show you off on its numerical shoulders.

Regardless of your memories gritting your teeth through it in high school, making fun of the teacher, and stealing answers from that person in class, my friend will try to make you proud to refer to yourself as an aspiring “Polymath” by the end of the this article.

What are you an expert at?

Which of these apply to you?

  • I’m an expert in my niche.
  • I’m an expert at surfing the internet.
  • I’m an expert at watching television.

Wait.

You’re around 30-years old, right? And you’re an average human being? Then I’m pretty sure you made a mistake there. Not about the niche part – I believed you about that. The second and third boxes – you should have checked them.

Don’t be embarrassed. Check it. Frame it. Put it up on the wall. You’ve spent more time in your life devoted to idle usage of technology than you did earning that degree, so why wouldn’t you be proud of it?

I’m big on readings about niches, talking about them, flirting with them, and then kind of forgetting about them for the rest of the day. I spend fifteen minutes being productive on the internet, and then I allow myself to indulge – but just for that site. And maybe that one, too! While we’re at it, Facebook status updates aren’t going to read themselves, right?

The times we give ourself permission to do things that we’re going to forget about – how much of that do you actually remember? That time is the longest, daily blink of your life – you don’t remember actually closing your eyes, but you did it so many times it’s impossible to keep count.

As a reader of sites like Expert Enough, you’re ready to assert control over the course of your life. But in order to do so, it’s time to face the math on how you’re spending your time not becoming an expert.

Face the Math

Each year provides you with a marvelous 8,760 hours to do with as you will. It may not be the 10,000 that’s speculated as being necessary to become an expert in a given field of study, but it’s a lot, isn’t it?

If you’re an average human, however, you spend an average of seven hours a day on technology. Meaning that you’ve likely spent 319 days out of the last three years becoming fluent in the art of browsing the internet and flipping channels. That’s 7,665 hours.

That’s excluding time sleeping, by the way. Let’s assume the average adult sleeps around eight hours a night. Add those hours in, and you’ve spent well more than two of the last three years in a sleepy haze.

In case those statistics haven’t woken you from your slumber yet, please permit me to give you a cup of coffee:

1 hour wasted a day 365 hours a year Every 24 years you’ve wasted one year
2 hours wasted a day 730 hours a year Every 12 years you’ve wasted one year
3 hours wasted a day 1,095 hours a year Every 8 years you’ve wasted one year
6 hours wasted a day 2,190 hours a year Every 4 years you’ve wasted one year
12 hours wasted a day 4,380 hours a year Every 2 years you’ve wasted one year

Those numbers will never change, by the way. If you’re only spending one hour a day trying to become an expert, then only at the end of 24 years can you say, “I spent one of those years trying to become an expert.”

If it’s difficult to put in the time to become an expert at something, spend your time not doing that other stuff. Bring down your daily cumulative idleness to 15 minutes. Because it’s only then that you can say, at the end of 96 years, that you wasted one year being idle. Math can’t change, but your focus and attention to time management can.

To Learn or Not to Learn

If you don’t feel like snuggling up alongside some algebra yet, maybe you should take a look at its family history, going way back to ancient Greece, when it was called Manthanein / μαθαίνω. Which means: to learn. It turns out, mathematics has a shared foundation with the heart of expertise. As such, you should call your high school and issue a few apologies.

It’s a shame that numbers can’t lie to us. It’d be nice to go back and fill in all the time we spent doing that and fill it in with this. But it’s definitely not too late to start accumulating hours towards your goals. Start now. Get some gridded paper and make a chart of your days, and then allocate those hours towards your goals. You’ll be absolutely amazed at how quickly time adds up when you don’t have a mouse or a remote in your hand.

You may be an expert at using the internet and knowing what will happen next on television, but you still have time to add some more skills to your repertoire. And for those of you who want to try something other than “I’m a Jack-of-all-Trades,” try this: “I’m a polymath – a person of wide-ranging knowledge or language.”

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it's crazy when people put numbers to life…
Because when you actually think about the hours in your day, and then you put the math to it…
Kinda scary, frightening, enlightening and…
I don't want to watch more TV but I will :-)

why is that?
Why will I look at an article like this, get frightened out of my skull and then proceed to forget about it and continue to surf the web?

My hope is used in your 15 min. wasting your time reading this site :-)
NOW GET TO WORK!

Art

How to start a business with no money, without selling your soul to a venture capitalist company…

How a Passionate Photographer Raised $13,923 For His Project Funding On Kickstarter

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Here is Julian’s Kickstarter project video:

 

http://kck.st/tbw541

 

Julian already had a lot of really great photos which help his video stands out, which definitly makes a difference for his project funding on Kickstarter.

Below is the interview where he shared how to raise money with Kickstarter from start to finish. 


 

Here is Julian’s website.

What did you learn from this interview that you can apply in your project funding on Kickstarter?

 

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Do you have a great idea for a business, project, product?

here's a great article I found for you.
It shows you how you can start a business with no money.
it's an example from somebody that has actually done it.
Get that business funded.
Without selling any part of your business to a backer.

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