Nature is full of contradictions... and articles

Well, it looks like it has been quite a while since I wrote a post on here, but I have been working hard on writing articles and doing the rewrites, then getting confused and losing them in my normal Numpty fashion! Add to this, trying to get my head round the different submission pages for article directories.

Some are not obvious to a Numpty so be warned but I dare say a bear of little brain will have more success than me! My head does not work in a logical fashion and I get mixed up easily :-/ and what ever I try, I still seem to over complicate things and get in a right mess.

I doubt that I would ever win 'The Apprentice' not that I would want to I don't think. The folks on there are scary and I don't just mean Sir Alan Sugar!!

Other than my brain not being firing on all cylinders, my connection speed has been so very slow. The injured hamster phoned in sick and his replacement, Mr Slugsy, was not up to the job I'm afraid to the point I was going off to make coffee in between the page changes which isn't much fun when you're just checking links and stuff. Talk about frustration and a lot of bad language aimed at my PC, the wall, you name it!

The delay did nothing for my mood even when its lovely and sunny outside. Apart from the falling fluffy, gull chicks!

That wasn't just thrown in to catch you off guard.

1. it just shows you the way my brain jumps around and it seems fine to me! Totally normal.
2. and its true...

Along the row where I live, we have no vehicle access except along the one end. The other end leads to some very steep steps and a gap between the buildings to get to the road and the promenade. I live that close to the sea!!! Pity I can't see it from here because of the big, posh Victorian houses in the way. But it is that close.

Anyway, this last week we have had a couple of fluffy gull chicks dead on the path of the row. Far too young to be away from the neat so I thought that rats had raided a nest somewhere close. Oh the joys of nature eh?! More a result of loads of take away places and bins over-flowing!! Rats aren't daft, easy pickings.

But yesterday playing out the front with my lad, I looked up as some people walked towards us, just in time to see something fall to the ground. I presumed it was something the gulls had took out of the bins or mugged an old person for. Yeah, they are really that big and they look you in the eye with a 'go on then, I dare you!' look about them. Well scary..!

Then this sandwich/ wrapper started moving and we had a look to discover that it was another chick which went on to fidget a bit before it died. Not a mark on it but I dare say its insides were mush after landing from over four storeys up. Ow!! That was a bit of a shock and got me wondering whether the population is a bit too big if they are doing this. Not sure what the chicks are but I will find out, hang on...

They are Great black-backed gull chicks. I wondered if they were but I don't know why an adult would kill one of their own other than over paternity and territory, a bit like lions. These 2 foot (plus) tall birds are the top predator around here on the coast and they are scary with a very long and sharp beak. The smaller gulls get out of their way as they are known to attack and eat the smaller birds.

These birds supply the dawn chorus around here and its a right racket I can tell you especially on bin day. Horrible and beautiful all at the same time.

Nature is full of contradictions...

The joys of living on the west coast of Wales

Unlike the previous post, this will be published today after its written.

Once again, I'm confusing myself and getting all tied up and confused. True Numpty style!

I now have three Squidoo pages set up for the same thing because I'd forgotten how to use it and I had also forgotten what I had titled it as. :-/ Why do I bother? I could not get organised if I was wrapped up and just had to sit still!

It doesn't help having a lack of memory to challenge a gold fish or should that be a gnat??!!

To make matters worse, my PC is so slow because its very full of stuff I've brought over the years and my disk drive refuses to burn anything for me. Whoopee.

On top of which, living over here on the west coast of Wales, as lovely as that is, there are a few draw backs such as the hamster speed of the broadband we finally receive. Actually the hamster has at least one leg in plaster and is blind-folded too not to mention the high hurdles it has to negotiate as well.

As you may have noticed by now, during this morning it felt like carrier pigeon would be a faster option to our Broadband connection!!

Enough of excuses, I have been working on another blog and the squidoo pages all to promote my new affiliate product. A collection of articles too which are ready to go once I sort out where I left them ready to publish!!!

Is there really any hope for me to get it sorted I hear you ask? Well, of course there is, it just takes me more time to sort it out and then to check I've done it right ;-/ Thats what I was trying to do this morning with the plastered hamster speed connection, hence you get this post to let you know I'm still here and making work for myself as usual :-)

Enough of a moan, I have lenses to sort out...

Not skiving

Guess who forgot to save the first writing? Actually I thought that I had but Blogger seems to think otherwise. Anyway, good to be back here again. I've been writing quite a few articles and stuff for an affiliate product other than Lee McIntyres Point and Click Coaching. So its not in the Internet Marketing niche.

Oh, I haven't dropped out of that or anything, actually the next few weeks look to be full of good stuff and I'm looking forward to getting my nose stuck into that when it arrives. Not to overload you, the weeks arrive, well every month as a 4 week package to stop you jumping ahead of yourself and ok, thats what I did a bit.

I got bored. Waiting. Couldn't think of anything else to do so I diversified, although this is not recommended because you tend to leave other stuff to rot while you set off up that bloody mountain again in search of the big red button. No.

Back at base camp. I am learning quite a lot I think and my writing has improved although I still go off on one, so a good prune of the ramblings is often needed. But they recon you should write how you talk and yep, I go off on one there too.

Talking of rambling, I must go and wander off to school. Gorgeous afternoon for it too :-)

Get the most out of your PLR products collecting cyber dust on your hard drive

You Missed a Fantastic Webinar Last Night

Or did you? Were you there amongst the expectant throng?

I was one of about 300 folks lucky enough to be involved in the webinar with John Rhodes and friends. Google this guy and his credentials are impressive ;-0

This webinar was chock full of information about how to get the most out of those old and dusty PLR products languishing on your hard drive and if you are anything like me, there are quite a few.

PLR or Private Label Rights are an easier step onto the internet ladder than many others. Well that was what I believed as I entered this crazy arena of Internet Marketing. Trouble was getting the PLR was easy but I hadn't got a clue what to do with it once I'd downloaded it to my hard drive to nestle quietly and forgotten amongst its brethren to gather cyber dust.

After last night I know different!

The material on a particular subject has been found for you, thus reducing the time spent on research.

Someone has orgnised the information for you already into chapters or articles and such like. they have edited the work and so have saved you a lot of time and money.

Without that specific PLR item, you would of spent time on research, organisation, editing, proof reading, graphics etc all to get a product ready for market. Or you would of outsourced the work and then you can get a whole other set of headaches.

As time equals money, a $2-3 PLR piece is well worth the $time! Assuming your time is worth more than 50c or less an hour!

This information can then be used for loads of different things, from video to list building you name it. I can tell you that this information was extremely useful and has opened my eyes to the true worth of PLR products that I hadn't even realised existed.

I have pages of notes and haven't enjoyed a webinar as much as this one, ever I don't think and I've been on a few. Those guys should go on tour!! My nearest and dearest kept scowling as I kept laughing out loud with my headphones on and I'm afraid to admit I was still listening until the very end, over two and a half hours later! Not for the offers and stuff but because it was better than TV! By the way, there were loads of offers too! These guys really delivered.

I wonder how the wheat grass and tofu went down in the end, especially for a Texan lad? Mind you the break from the meat would do his gut some good! Sorry, I digress...

If this has whetted your appetite to read the sales letter for this type of information, its not even an affiliate link, just the straight forward URL. Thats how much last night impressed me!

http://www.plrexploitation.com/ Why are you still here, GO!!!

Focus, Focus, Focus!!!

Focus!

Stop chasing rainbows and the pot of gold at the end of it!

There is no MAGIC BUTTON (at least not yet)

Until you do this, you will achieve nothing. Sad but true, but chasing your tail achieves nothing.

Chasing after the 'magic button' is a fruitless waste of time, energy and money and the sooner you realise this the better.

I have been listening to Lee McIntyre all morning on his videos as part of the Point and Click Coaching Course

I must admit that he seemed to have been watching what I've been doing over the past few years. So much of it has rung true and given me hope and the drive to write this and get on with things again. Especially after yesterday :-/

This is speaking from experience and as the previous post shows, I still have a tendency to waste my time chasing rainbows if I'm not careful. I have the attention span of a gnat unless I get my teeth into something and then I can get so stuck into the minutiae to the umpth degree.

Think of me as being two forces pulling in opposite directions! Sometimes this works well but for the most part I am at loggerheads with myself.

One side of me has an idea and the other side dismisses it in a flash. I don't need well intentioned folks telling me that I ought to get a proper job. My more negative side tells me this sort of thing all the time, what ever I'm trying to do!

In some ways I think this is a good thing because it has made me more resolute and obstinate. Once my mind is made up, its very difficult to change it.

I have decided that I am going to make it online.

I am working on a product at the moment. I have been jotting stuff down for ages. I just need to focus and get my teeth into it, get it done, get it launched, and see what happens.

At this point I must point out that I have researched the niche and it may be good or it may not. We will see...

That Newbie Excitement

That Newbie excitement took over me today and I have managed to fritter away most of my time with very little to show for it.

The day started off poorly with both myself and my son sleeping in. Neither of us heard the alarm going off. I was finally woken by him running around the bed to climb in next to me.

Horrors, when I looked at the time. We were normally setting off for school and there we were, still in bed! Mad rush followed to get dressed and a quick phone call to school to let them know what was happening. Then Mr Mardy decided he wasn't going to school today.

Anyone out there with any knowledge of kids knows what the morning rush can be like if one part goes a bit off line. Here we go then, so I ignored him and to give him his due, by the time I'd finished in the bathroom, 10 minutes max., he was dressed and nearly ready.

Downstairs to sort out tocyn (a small snack for the afternoon) and a wrap to eat on the way to school. Not the best of ways for him to have breakfast but better than nothing and to be honest I think he enjoyed walking with his breakfast, very grown-up don't you know :-)

Dropped him off at school half an hour late, whoops. He didn't say anything tonight so I assume he didn't get dragged over the coals for a genuine mistake.

I told you I'd worked hard yesterday! Anyway, by the time I'd walked home via the supermarket, it was well into the morning then after breakfast and coffee it was nearly 11.00am.

How to totally muck up your day!! So I decided to get the meal ready for the evening and then I could work up to tea time.

I finally sat down to work at about 12.00. I know they said that you can work what hours you like when you decide to go online, but today took the biscuit for a hectic 3 hours only stint! Didn't use that time well which I'm cross about now. Threw out my whole day and my plans went out the window.

Spent the time going through emails which I had got out of doing. That is such a waste of time and I had been managing to get stuff done so well previously just by ignoring the inbox for a few days and not checking it till last thing in the evening. Anyway I had to set off for school again at 3.10 to walk him home at 3.30 so I didn't settle to do anything of much use.

There you go. A not so typical working day for a not-so-new-newbie fitting trying to get going online around a family and all that that involves.

Wouldn't have it any other way, apart from the sleeping in and the rushing and...

I won't work so late tonight and get a bit more sleep. Then perhaps I will hear the alarm in the morning!

Busy all Day, Learning Some More

Is there no end to the information that you can read and hopefully assimilate?

Today has been productive, I think anyway. I dare say the super efficient amongst you would not agree but I don't think that I've wasted my time at all.

I have read a very good article by Frank Salinas about SEO which is on my must do soonest list, which included suggestions and advice which is just what I needed. Notes still have wet ink!

Checked out the social bookmarking stuff and added some buttons to this blog site, wanted them for ages and didn't know how to get them. Happy bunny ;-) Looks more like the 'big guns' now, I wish...

Anyway, we are on our way. From little acorns and all that, and I've added the Blog Carnival gadget too which was easier than expected especially as everything else I've tried to do regarding banners and stuff has not been the easiest of adventures.

Perhaps the gadget, being for the 'carnival of struggling bumbling newbies' took pity on me and didn't put up too much of a fight, OR of course, I might have hit the right buttons in the right order this time. Wonders will never cease.

Hey may be I'm finally getting some where. It may not seem much to you, but I was impressed!!

To further impress myself and anyone reading this, I also submitted some articles to directories to drive traffic I hope. Well we can only wait and see. More to do tomorrow.

Oh the joys of learning, bring it on!