This weekend, my wife and I are flying up to Northern California to attend a wedding. We’re really excited, because the last wedding we went to we didn’t really have time to eat, we didn’t get to speak to anyone for more than 5 minutes, and we were super tired. That wedding was…our own.
We knew our wedding day would be like that – a day that we would remember for the rest of our lives, but also one that would go by so fast we could hardly savor the moments. I think that’s why we’re so excited about this weekend’s wedding because we get to sit back, relax and just celebrate without having to worry if I’m going to hit all of my dance steps.
I have a lunch meeting today. You could call it a business meeting, but I know the guys would much rather call it a Mastermind meeting. Sounds fancy, right?
We’re not plotting to take over the world, and it’s not about mind control – it’s essentially a meeting between internet marketers that we all use to learn from each other to help grow our businesses. I’ve been attending these meetings ever since Sterling (our group leader, I guess you could say), moved to San Diego and started it – 6 months ago.
For the next week or so, my posts will be shorter than usual. The reason is because I’m currently working on new material for the LEED exam, and it will take me quite a bit of time to get it produced. I want to get it done as soon as possible, because as I’ve stated before, “each day you don’t have something out there for sale is a day of potential profits lost”, and that is my motivation factor at the moment.
So if you could do me one favor, I would really appreciate it: just bear with my shorter posts, and leave me any words of encouragement. I’ve been typing for 16 hours in the last 2 days – so my brain hurts a little. Thanks everyone!
I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend! Cheers!
As I said last week, each weekend I’ll put up a fun, random post that doesn’t have to do with online businesses and work-at home type stuff. So today, if you haven’t already met him, this is our 4 month old Maltese puppy, Gizmo!
Gizmo is an awesome puppy. He keeps us busy all day and is a very fast learner. April and I are going on our first vacation up to Northern California next weekend after getting Gizmo, so it’s going to be a little tough for us because we’re really attached. After doing some research online, we found a great service for pet-sitting called SleepOverRover.
Yep, this is officially my 100th post on the Smart Passive Income Blog! It’s come so much faster than I thought it would, and I think that’s because I’m having a lot of fun writing for all of you. Your kind comments and frequent questions keep me motivated to provide you with interesting and helpful posts, so keep ‘em coming!
Since I know most of you are current or future bloggers, I thought I’d give you 5 free and random tips that I’ve learned since I started this blog 100 posts ago. You may know some of these already, but if not – all the better. Enjoy!
In Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Work Week (aka, my 2nd Bible), he dedicates an entire section to VAs and the benefits of hiring virtual assistants to do almost any task for you. At first, I was reluctant to agree with the idea of outsourcing because I was always the one who wanted to do all of the work myself. But, after reading more about VAs and how they could help me, I soon realized the huge advantage I would have by making a VA a part of “my team”.
Now, understand that there are a lot of people out there who use VAs for almost everything they do. If there was a way a VA could cut up their steaks and feed it to them, they’d probably have them do that too. Tim gives an example of a man who asked his VA to “make up with his wife” after they had gotten into a little quarrel. The VA sent his wife an apology letter and some nice flowers. I think if I did that, my wife would be pissed…anyways, I digress.
Since I write a new post every other day, I think it would be fun to have a non-internet business post thrown in the mix. I’m going to fill the weekend post with some random, fun stuff for everyone’s enjoyment.
Today, I’d like to share a personal video from my family’s video library. It’s me and April’s first dance as husband and wife at our wedding reception in San Diego, CA.
The first part is us slow dancing to Peter Cetera’s Glory of Love, and the second part is…well…a surprise! Enjoy!
Ever since I began my online adventures, I’ve always kept close track of certain statistics. As you already know, I’m very into the earnings of my different passive income streams, but I’m equally interested in the website traffic statistics too. When I started, I was fortunate enough to sign up for Google Analytics, Google’s free website traffic analyzer, and even though I haven’t taken advantage of everything it can do, I still find it very interesting, informational and inspirational.
I say inspirational because just from looking at the graphs and charts, I can track my progress and learn from it. Here are some real life examples and screenshots from my own website at intheleed.com, and what YOU can learn from them.
Each month since the beginning of The Smart Passive Income Blog, I’ve put a different poll in the sidebar. I’m sure many of you repeat visitors know this, and I thank you all for your quick input. There’s a new poll in the sidebar, so feel free to answer that if you have a few seconds to spare.
Today I’m showing you the results of all of the previous polls on SPI. Here are 6 pie charts with information about all of you. Please know that these are just from readers of my blog and the sample size for each poll is an average of about 130 people.
Today I made a list. It’s a list of things I’m currently working on and projects that I could potentially work on in the future to earn more money. As you know, I have my LEED exam prep website, my iPhone app company, the Smart Passive Income Blog, and 5 other things that I’ve mapped out and have actually done some research on how much I would have to invest to execute them. I have 8 things on my plate that could potentially help me get to retirement sooner.
It’s tough to think about all 8 “projects” at the same time – I think that’s the problem I’ve had ever since middle school when we were first introduced to attending more than one class per day. I knew I had homework for Math, Science, English and Band, so I had difficultly choosing which one to work on and when. Yes, I would get everything done, but not one at a time. Usually, it was by working little by little on each.
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This weekend, my wife and I are flying up to Northern California to attend a wedding. We’re really excited, because the last wedding we went to we didn’t really have time to eat, we didn’t get to speak to anyone for more than 5 minutes, and we were super tired. That wedding was…our own.
I have a lunch meeting today. You could call it a business meeting, but I know the guys would much rather call it a Mastermind meeting. Sounds fancy, right?
Yep, this is officially my 100th post on the Smart Passive Income Blog! It’s come so much faster than I thought it would, and I think that’s because I’m having a lot of fun writing for all of you. Your kind comments and frequent questions keep me motivated to provide you with interesting and helpful posts, so keep ‘em coming!
In Tim Ferriss’ book 
Today I made a list. It’s a list of things I’m currently working on and projects that I could potentially work on in the future to earn more money. As you know, I have my LEED exam prep website, my iPhone app company, the Smart Passive Income Blog, and 5 other things that I’ve mapped out and have actually done some research on how much I would have to invest to execute them. I have 8 things on my plate that could potentially help me get to retirement sooner.
No, I'm not a millionaire, but I am living off of passive income made online. I'm here to show 
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