Journal Entry – What’s your Passion?

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    I am watching the UEFA League FC Barcelona vs Internazionale footbal (soccer) game right now and I asked myself what’s my passion?

    Art is my passion as an artist which I am missing lately as I have been busy with other commitments.

    But why do I like watching football? Is it a passion?  No. But there are a few reasons, I enjoy watching football.

    If you haven’t watched football in the Champions or UEFA league, the quality and skill of the players are amazing. No missed passed, great skill and amazing goals whether by using a scissor kick or a header! Yes, I know some of the terms of football.

    The other reason, I lover football is the commentators who (if you get the best announcers) are knowledgeable on the players but they use metaphors and wit and analogies and their enthusiasm to create a story each game.

    The stadium crowd is the 3rd component to make watching football an event. In stadiums full of 30,000 to 50,000 fans with the visiting fans behind one goal and the home crowd at the other end of the stadium cheering, drumming, singing and standing for the whole 90 minutes create a magical atmosphere.

    Anyway, if you have never watched a Football (Soccer) game European style, try it and you may get addicted to the football culture.

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    Journal Entry – What’s your Why?

    Some people think your Why is you are on the internet because you want to make money.

    That is wrong.

    You are not on the internet to make money. There are easier ways to make money. 🙂

    You are on the internet because you want to improve your life.

    Whether you want to have income coming in to your bank account  so you can work less and enjoy your hobbies.

    Whether you want income coming in to your life so you can help your children go to college or help your children to afford their own home.

    Whether you have an “urge” to share your wisdom so others don’t have to go through health challenges you have had in your life.

    Whether you want to help because the act of helping gives you an emotionally positive feeling when you know you have helped others.

    Your Why is what gets you out of bed each morning to get onto the internet to make some money.

    Your Why can be you want to share your writings with the world.

    Your Why may be an urgent need to get some revenue to pay bills that are piling up in your life.

    Your Why is the reason you get out of bed each morning to go and earn some revenue in order to answer your Why.

    Defining Your Why will make it easier to prioritze what you do each day.

    When you first hung out your virtual shingle, you likely were thinking:

    • “I can’t wait to get away from this awful job.”
    • “I just want to be home with my kids.”
    • “This dead-end job is going nowhere.”
    • “I’m tired of working crazy hours and holidays.”
    • “I know I’m worth more than they’re paying me.”

    These and many, many other thoughts go through the heads of every would-be business owner, and are often the driving force behind that final, “I quit.”

    But while they’re great for lighting a fire and inspiring you to make a scary jump to business ownership, they’re not so fabulous at motivating you to grow and improve. They won’t inspire you to increase your skills and raise your rates and be brave and authentic in your marketing. They won’t help you find the courage to hire a new coach or launch a brand new program.

    To find the inspiration to make your business thrive, you have to identify the real why behind what you do.

    Passionate Whys

    “Passion based” is a phrase that’s found a massive following in the past few years, and seems to be the holy grail of entrepreneurial adventures. And for business owners with a true passion for their field, it can be a strong motivator.

    Some business owners are passionate about a subject, spending all their waking hours learning about the topic. Some are passionate about a market, and would do anything to help their ideal client achieve his or her goals.

    Whichever type of passion-based business owner you are, learning to harness that passion will help take your business to the next level.

    Financial Whys

    Maybe you want to retire at 40 to travel the world, or send your kids to an elite private school. Maybe you love fast cars, and dream of driving a brand new Ferrari.

    Whatever your big dream, you knew you’d never make it while putting in time at the day job. While everyone seems to go on and on about those passion-based dreams, the truth is there’s nothing wrong with wanting financial fulfillment. Money is a necessary tool. We need it, and the more we have, the easier life is. And wanting more of it is nothing to be ashamed of, as long as you maintain your integrity and authenticity in pursuit of it.

    Philanthropic Whys

    Plenty of online business owners go into business so they can have more to give. You’ve no doubt heard of—or maybe even know—marketers who use their earnings to fund mission trips, build schools in war-torn, third world countries, and support a variety of charities at home and abroad. Others use the time freedom they’ve built into their business to volunteer with local hospitals, animal shelters and children’s organizations.

    If you have a heart for a cause, a philanthropic why might be the driving force that takes your business to the next level.

    To find your own why, consider your biggest dreams. If money were no object, what would you be doing?

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    The #1 Thing Entrepreneurs need to do

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    The 1 Thing All Entrepreneurs Need to Do

     

    “I’ve never found anyone that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help,” said Steve Jobs. “Most people never ask … and that’s what separates, sometimes, the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

     

    In the entrepreneurial industry online, this is especially true. There has never been a more isolating business than this one, but that doesn’t mean you have to work in a bubble where you never ask for or receive assistance from others.

     

    This is a business where there is no formal education or degree that is going to map out every step you need to take from start to finish in order to succeed. In fact, there are too many different pathways you can take, which almost makes it more like a “Choose Your Adventure” scenario.

     

    But asking for help is sometimes either intimidating or unacceptable for certain men and women. There are those who insist on doing it all themselves because they have too much pride to turn to others and ask for help.

     

    There are also those who are just too shy to reach out to another person because they feel like a burden having to ask for information or assistance with something they may not know how to do.

     

    Online Marketing Isolation Is Self Sabotage

     

    Repeat after me: “There is no way I can know every single thing there is to do as an online entrepreneur.” This is a multi-hat career path. You have to do things like write content, research, learn technical things, master social media, be a blogger and email marketer, handle customer service issues, figure out copywriting and more.

     

    To think you can quickly earn money and simultaneously master all of this (and more) is ridiculous. If you do intend on taking a full DIY path, it’s going to take ample time, which means slower earnings.

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    Book Reviews

    A pile of books to review

    Have you ever wondered whether a book is worth buying ?

    I’m here to give you reviews of some books I’ve read.

    I’ll give you some ideas of how a book may have haunted me even now after reading it. If you can find a book that does it to you then you have found a rare find.

    I’ll need to create a Book Review outline so I can make it interesting for you to read.  I’ll do some research as well as to the popularity or what other people say about the book. So, I hope I’ll be able to make the book review entertaining for you too.

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    September 15 Journal Internet

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    How have I moved forward?

    I have 13 episodes of ” Let’s Go Live Show.” I need to complete the set in a series so I have a training to either give away or paid for.

    I have 12 episodes of ” Let’s Get Visible Show.”

    Both shows could work with the Build your Business in 52 weeks.

    I have identified courses I should do for others who are frustrated by certain ways of livestreaming.

    Will the Shows be a distraction and  should I stop them?  No.  They are assets and I can use them wehther they are paid or given away to biuild a list.  I should try to promote them more. 🙂

    Exciting opportunity is getting into Geoff Shaw’s Kindling 2.0 about writing, creating and publishing a Kindle book.  Always wanted to write a book and  maybe I should do some writing here for fiction.

     

     

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    August 28 2024 Journal on Internet

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    Today, I was busy with work, work.

    However, yesterday, I uploaded some training workshops on AI  (Artificial Intelligence) for content creation on my “AI” training membership.  I wanted to have some “beginner” level information and workshop on AI so people can get over their “confusion” “fear” of AI.

    I, also, have a membership i am developing for beginners to internet marketing because I don’t want others to make the same mistakes I have made while on the internet.

    There will be workshops on different business models on the internet sharing what the  advantages and disadvantages of each business model are, so a person can make a decision on what business fits their personality.

    Even though it is tedious, I have to commit to upload the workshops into the membership right away  so when I design a webinar to promote the membership, I will have the workshops ready.

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    Internet Journal August 25 2024

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    So, today, I had a look at my Ultimate TV Channel System website to see if I was missing any videos I wanted on the “sales pages.”  (I consider the pages just to be “this is what you get, for this price” pages).  There was a few missing videos on pages so I made a list of them and worked through adding the videos where they were missed.

    I reviewed the website pages and there was a lot of good information about streaming television requirements. I didn’t think I needed to add any more information about streaming television.

    I did realize that I should get some new posts added to the blog. Adding posts to share on the internet might be a good idea to make Google happy.

    I also tried to find all the Let’s go Live Show recorded video and get them edited so they are labelled correctly for each episode. The plan is to put the episodes into a membership platform for people to watch by signing up for free.

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    Day Zero – Do a Journal Post per day challenge

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    In a way to increase my writing, I am going to challenge myself to write each day about my internet activities.

    Yesterday, it was Victoria Day, so I had a day off from work.  I have some pressure to get clicks on my email and social media posts. When I signed up for Proven Email Formula, I don’t remember any mention of doing a giveaway but it was the first thing we did.

    So I had my book “7 Steps to produce your first show” as a freebie but it is very niche-related. It is for people who know they need to get more visible on the internet.

    So I created an email where I screwed up the shortlink by adding a period in the hyperlink so it gave a 404 error. Also, I have two affiliate links for the giveaway so that’s going to confuse.  When I sent a sample email given for the giveaway – swipe mail- I made a mistake and I copy/pasted the Hi [first name] into my email that is what showed once I sent the email.

    So, I learned

    1. Never to copy/paste code as it just shows as text.
    2. Keep the hyperlinked short link separate from surrounding text so you don’t capture a period.

    Another issue with my website was my SimpleClick Tracker wouldn’t add any new shortlinks into it ‘s system. It’s probably a conflict with one of the other plugins or the ?  I turned off the latest plugins that were added but it didn’t stop the issue.  So, I added Pretty Links in which was quick and easy. Even though it is been years since the last time Pretty Links was added there were old shortlinks in it with the stats on the number of clicks history.

    The website is so large with 700 posts, mostly video, that I have to pay for a larger server. Nothing I can do about it as each Facebook broadcast gets put on the website. Then if I was to delete the Facebook plugin, I would have 500 empty posts!  So, I need to finish editing the HOME page so it links to other websites based on topic.

    T0 do this week:

    1. Finish the look of the HOME page for the website.
    2. Do a social media post every day.
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    Preparing To Write

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    Preparing to Write
    Some writers prefer to just sit down and get the task of writing done. This may be easy for some people but not everyone seems to have that constant stream of thoughts, waiting to be put onto paper. If you often find yourself stuck with what to write there are a few things that you can do to help you.

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    One of the first things you can do is to research your topic. This has a two-fold effect. First research can provide you with lots of content ideas, which you can use to create your articles. Secondly, it can help you uncover a less well-known topic or a brand-new topic waiting to be exposed! Imagine if you could regularly publish content with news that becomes the first to market. Your readers are going to love you and view you as someone with their fingers on all the right buttons.
    In addition, researching a particular subject allows you to easily create a writing schedule or calendar. By spending a few hours or even a couple of days performing research, you could easily come up with enough topic ideas to last you for months.

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    Now that you have ideas spilling out of your head it is time to sit down and start writing.

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    Where you write will depend on your preference. Many writers prefer to write in a quiet place away from all distractions. Other writers may prefer to write surrounded by the hustle and bustle at a local coffee shop or bookstore. Pick a place where you feel comfortable writing.

    Anyone who is trying to improve their writing skills must be prepared to write drafts of their content. Very rarely can anyone write a perfect piece the first time out. When you have the mindset that your work will need polishing and editing you will find it easier to write.  No-one is asking you to write perfectly. This is often the pleasure of writing, discovering ways to refine and polish your initial thoughts and feelings. Once you have completed the writing and editing process you will feel proud of your accomplishment.

    Many writers experience feelings of nervousness and anxiousness. Top writers say that when you feel this way your writing has become top class. You have poured your soul into your words and are honestly worried about what others will think of you!

     

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    5 Tips on How to Learn How to Write

    Can Anyone Learn to Write?

    This is a question that gets asked frequently, so is it really possible for anyone to learn how to write? Most people assume that you must have a certain knack to be a writer. While it is true that certain people do posses a flair for writing, it is something which anyone can do.

    Of course it helps if you have the desire to want to become a better writer. As with learning anything new those students who are motivated and driven will learn better than those who have no desire to learn.

    A quick search online will bring up tons of writing tips and suggestions on how to write faster and produce more content. Some of these tips are extremely useful and helpful while others are not. Let’s take a quick look at some of the top writing tips.

    1. Make time to practice writing each day – this is probably the best advice anyone can give you. It is true that the more you write the better you become. So set aside some time each day and get writing.

    2. Read every day – another great tip which is definitely helpful. By exposing your mind to fresh content daily your vocabulary and your knowledge increases.

    3. Be prepared to write lots of drafts – this is again very true and something that you must get used to doing. By rewriting your work you are improving it each time. What may have started out as a vague idea can easily be turned into a compelling piece of content.

    4. Edit and proofread – valuable tips and something that every writer should get into the habit of doing. By editing your work you can find silly mistakes such as writing breast instead of beast. Plus you can check the flow and meaning of your work as well. Always edit your work after it has sat unopened for at least one day.

    5. Research and check facts – another helpful tip. Researching your content can help you state accurate facts and figures in your work. There would be nothing more embarrassing than quoting a wrong saying or date in your work. Researching is also a great way of discovering new topics to write about.

    As you can see it is not difficult to put these 5 tips into action. As long as you have the motivation to learn there is absolutely no reason why you can’t become a published author.

     

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