A Different Christmas Poem 3 comments

This was posted on fellow blogger “Reach Success Online” site and I had to share it with you.

photo credit: dannyfowler

A Different Christmas Poem
By Michael Marks

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

The Mayonnaise Jar and Two Cups of Coffee 22 comments

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the two cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class with some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked his students if the jar was full…they all agreed that it was full.

25 Things You Don’t Know About Me…And May Not Want To 20 comments

The Gazzman, Gary Simpson, a fellow student of Alex Jeffreys tagged me to post 25 things about myself. Here they are…like it or not:

Rod Macbeth

1) Was Born in 1955 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

2) Has lived here all of my life save for ten years spent in Richmond, BC when the job market took a nose dive.

3) is a Gemini.

4) Has spent 34 years as an electrician. Due to a repetitive rotator cuff injury, arthritis and a small tendon tear in my right shoulder I’m no longer really able to work in my trade any longer. This is largely behind my decision to pursue Internet Marketing full time. Although, after 34 years, I’m ready for a change.

Some Inspiration from Maria Andros 7 comments

I watched this video from Maria Andros on Paul Hooper’s blog and I had to share it with you. It’s just too good not to.

Update, of sorts, on my travels with Alex Jeffreys 7 comments

I haven`talked much of late about the course I`m taking with Alex Jeffreys. Largely because circumstances have got me a little untracked.  Not really in a bad way but I just haven`t found the time to post as much as I`d like and my planning, such as it is, has pretty much gone out the window the past little while.

Bumps in the Road on my Trip with Alex Jeffreys 7 comments

The week started out  well with me actually managing to put a reasonable plan forth and set some goals to reach. Unfortunately, the best laid plans of aspiring Internet Marketers don’t always work out. The transfer of my website took longer then expected and, as a result, I’ll probably only be doing this one post instead of the two minimum I had planned. When it finally did get transferred over FireFox crapped out on me and I had to mess with it. Tried Google Chrome to see if it might be a viable replacement but nuked it right quick. It’s a way too limited for my tastes and needs. I then moved on to IE to see if there was any improvements but there wasn’t so I decided to spend some time to get FireFox back the way it should be. That ended up in me uninstalling all of it and reinstalling. Unless, I’m going blind, which is entirely possible, there’s no longer an option in FireFox to clear your cache which I think is where the problem was as I flushed all of my cookies and that didn’t solve the problem. But it’s back up and running until the next time this happens which seems to be all too frequently.

Who’s Accountable? 8 comments

There’s been some talk on the forums, of late, about accountability. It started with Alex Jeffreys posting that we should all be posting our plans etc. as he feels doing so will greatly add to one’s success. We also saw a post referring to Alex Jeffreys having an accountability partner and suggesting we use the forums to find our own partners. Great tools and ideas, especially when you see posts like those from Matthew Wolfe who posts his journal in great detail and I’m sure is a great benefit to the other students. Posting personal journals, however, isn’t for everyone and I don’t think people should feel obliged to do so. The main issue here, I feel, is ACCOUNTABILITY and how one goes about it. If you want to succeed you need to be accountable to yourself both in your personal life and in your business. It can be hard in any business but considerably more in anything related to the Internet as there’s so many distractions. We’ve all succumbed to working away on something and then… WHAM, SHINIES!! …and off we go on some tangent and work flies out the window. If we don’t hold ourselves accountable the shinies will win everytime.

Where’s the Time Go? 5 comments

I’ve put up several blogs yet it’s amazing how much time can be chewed up on every new install. It starts with choosing a theme… can we say kids in a candy shop?… then plugins, widgets, tweaking and so forth. Hours go by and all people see when they drop by is… “Hello World”… as you haven’t even had the time to make a post. There’s no way to really prevent this, every new site is different and has it’s own little quirks, but there’s one thing that can be done to save some time. Create a folder with all of your files related to your websites. Plugins, graphics, themes, etc. Create sub-folders for each site for it’s files. Yes, there will be duplicates but it beats going through folders trying to find them. When it comes time to do another site you can upload all of your plugins from one folder instead of looking them up everytime. That is itself saves a good chunk of time. If you can stick to themes with the same layout, always using two columns for example, that can help also as you’re not fiddling around trying to make things work like you’re used to. The big thing is planning though which brings me to the first module in “Marketing with Alex”…