Somtimes getting away from the computer is the best way to get work done. I’m the kind of guy who needs to be dragged of the computer most times, call me a little bit obsessive I guess? But lately it seemsI would get on the computer in the morning at 7 am but by the end of the day what did I accomplish? Well, I felt I wasn’t doing much with my day, reading too many blogs, checking my stats too much, checking email every 5 minutes, blah, blah, blah. Bottom line it’s way to easy to get distracted online, the internet is basically one big distraction really.

The problem with working online is that the distraction is alway right in front of you, lol. To get over the amount of time I waste I am changing my routine around. First off, no blog posts until after 5 pm, so that way I have had tons of time during the day to do “real work”. This blog is a distraction but it’s fun. Second before I actually sit down I have a goal in mind that day, I don’t sit down unless I have something in mind to do. At the forefront of my mind is how can I make more money, how can I optimize that campaign better, how can i get more traffic? Thinking about these questions leads to a more productive way of thinking, which forces me to focus on making money. This leads to less time wasted in front of the computer, simple fact.

The bottom line

Basically I am training my brain to focus on ways to expand my income and make more money online all the time. I try not to give my mind free time to wander and waste time. I bet I could work 3 hours and get just as much done as I would in a regular 8 hour day, crazy but very true.

Now that I have 2 kids I need to have better time management, I can’t just sit here all day and night for 15 hours every day of the week Monday thru Sunday. That isn’t fair to my kids or my wife, this is also a reason I need to focus more. I don’t want to be the dad that is “always working”, and never has time for his kids. The reason I work is so I can provide a great life and stable future for my kids and wife. What’s the point in working if I never spend time with them? Life is about family, not money. Money is supposed to be there to pay for your life, money shouldn’t be your life.

How much time do you think you waste in a given day? Leave a comment I’m interested to know your thoughts, as well as tips you use to stay on track.

C.V

I was thinking about my goals today and I want to make $100,00 month in profit . I’m not sure when I want to achieve this by. 100k a month would be 1.2 million per year, not too shabby. I really believe I can and will do this, but by what date? If you have a goal you need to have a date as to when it will be achieved by. I think I can pull this off by September 2008, so that gives me like 5 months to a little over doubling my affiliate marketing income. Can I do it? Hell yeah! I don’t have it all figured out, but it will happen. The law of attraction will do it’s magic, along with me working hard and will become a reality for me.

I need to branch out into different niches to achieve my goal, and then from there I need to scale my pay per click campaigns to their maximum potential. It’s amazing the amount of money you can pull in with pay per click marketing, it’s unreal. This is not some cake walk though, you really need to know lots of different areas in order to really succeed at internet marketing.

Skills you need to be a good internet marketer:

1. web design/layout - designing your own websites & landing pages (photoshop skills, design skills)
2. html/php - coding your own websites, blog & landing pages
3. copy writing - writing effective PPC ads & copy for your websites/ landing pages
4. research - this is the most important factor. You need the ability to dig into a niche and find ways to generate traffic (even in competitive niches).

The last part I added because some friends were asking about how you do pay per click, hopefully they read this and understand it’s not nearly as easy as they think. Anyone can do PPC marketing as long as you’re willing to work 12 hours a day and already have a good portion of the skills I listed above. You need to have the drive to do ANYTHING to achive your goal. A real burning desire and commitment to “make it happen”.

Th reason I blog about how much I want to make financially is because this is how I reach my goals by writing them down, it helps so do it. Don’t just sit on your ass, make it happen. You are the creator of your own destiny, where do you want to be in 5 years? Where do you want to be in 5 months, 5 weeks? Plan ahead, and control YOUR LIFE, don’t let your life control you….

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I was having a weird issue when I upgraded to WordPress 2.5. I tried to upload my images but I kept a php error, so I did some reaearching online to fix it. I have the links that helped me fix this WordPress 2.5 PHP error, hopefully it helps someone out.

I was getting this error :

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_constrain_dimensions() in

Here is how I fixed the problem. You need to replace all the root files in WordPress folder (except config.php). ** Not only wp-admin and wp-includes folders.

1. There is a topic on this problem on this page
2. If you haven’t read them, here are the directions to upgrade to WordPress 2.5

I am not much of a PHP guy so I can’t really help much, lol. If I have a problem all I do is hit the search engines to find a fix for it. PHP basically looks like Chinese to me, I can adjust some small parts of the code but I cannot write it from scratcth. I hope this helps.

Hey Rob, I’m not sure if you have this sweet little tool to generate keywords quickly, I use it all the time. I know there are tons of keyword you can use to generate a list of keywords. For quick campaigns I like to use Google AdWords free keyword tool . The tool is basic but it does the job, and you can download the keywords into txt or csv formats. It’s nothing great but for quick keyword lists it’s perfect.

Google keyword tool

On another note it’s time I loose a few pounds. I plan on taking a photo of myself in the next day or so and posting it on my blog, we can compare results in 4-5 weeks and see how much weight I have lost. How am I going to drop my weight, easy.

Quick Way That I Personally Have Lost Weight

1. Don’t each munchies after dinner, except for carrots, celery and a few almonds
2. No eating out at all
3. Watch carbs very closely
4. Walk some more
5. No pop (coke, soda, blah, blah , blah)

Right now my weight is lbs, so my goal is to drop. I have lost weight before then it crept back up after awhile. I’m not huge or anything but I hate having the double chin, looks lame on me. I wasn’t meant for 2 chins, so 1 has to go. I’m at 188 lbs and I promise you it will come down to 175 lbs.  I will loose 13 lbs by June 7th, but I think even sooner. I will blog about my weight loss when I feel there is something to share.

That’s all for tonight people.

I didn’t feel like working on my Google campaigns this morning, so I was surfing and decided to see if there were any FireFox extensions to make my life easier. One thing I hate doing is filling out forms and passwords. Check out the extensions I use, might be helpful to your daily tasks.

FireFox Extensions

1. InFormEnter 0.5.5 - InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently used information such as name, email, address.
2. Active Whois plugin - If you regularly check whois information of web domains then this extension will save you tons of time. You can easily get details about any Web site owner and its host server
3. IMacros - This pluggin is designed to automate the most repetitious tasks on the web (can record any sequence of events on your web browser). If there’s an activity you have to do repeatedly, just record it in iMacros. The next time you need to do it, the entire macro will run at the click of a button!