Great Walk Yesterday

Last night I went for a great walk with my hubby and dog. We were gone over an hour and a half. The weather was awesome and the conversation great. I am hoping for nice weather again this evening so we can go for another walk.

The only thing that would have made it better would have been if we were at a park instead of in on our city blocks. It would have been nicer to walk wooded trails on a dirt path. We do that when we have all day but not on an evening my hubby has to work because we have to drive to the metro-park.

I am feeling so happy lately and it really helps to spend extra time with my hubby and dog. It also helps to have a positive outlook on life even when things are not going my way. What has helped the most is to learn to believe that I can do anything if I work at it.

So today I am going to focus on writing, I am going to see if I can make a go of a career in writing. I will need to brush up on punctuation and learn everything I can about writing styles.

Life is awesome for me right now. I am so blessed to have faith, friends and family. I am very happy with the way things are going right now.

I Love Blogging, Wish It Was a Good Way To Make Money

This morning I woke up at 7:30 instead of 5:45 and it felt amazing. I still needed a cup of coffee to start functioning well but it didn't take as long as usual. My goals for the morning were to get blog posts up for at least some of my blogs. I got distracted a little with the thought of making money blogging again. The thought didn't last long as I got a great laugh when I saw the book on the side of this post.

It reminded me why I blog and what a mess that I make when I try to create a blog that produces income. I start to feel like it is work and I end up spending hours clicking other blogs and wasting time I could be doing more productive things. Then ultimately it becomes a chore that only pays pennies for an hour of work.

I can't say that it is impossible to make a 6 figure income blogging but for me I really don't see that happening. I don't think any of your average bloggers are going to make a huge income like that. There might be a lot of great tips in this book so I am actually thinking of picking it up if they have a library copy. I am not looking at it for the huge income but for some tips to improve my blogs. I would love to have more readers and improve things for the readers I have.

I am not going to try to make tons of money blogging because I start to focus on the money making aspect too much. I am however going try to post more often and attempt to bring more readers to my blogs. If I make a few advertising dollars great if I don't I am still loving it.

I have well over a year to get my Social Work license up to date. I can keep the credentials and I can work on a plan to use my Social Work knowledge to help people. I want to start a business of my own and work for myself . It may be an internet business not directly related to social work I am still trying to decide what to do. What I do know is that I don't want a traditional job. I don't mind sitting at a desk most of the day if I can choose when I get up and walk the dog or work out. I want a job where I can work from 10pm (when my hubby leaves for work) till the wee hours of the morning and then sleep in if that is what I choose to do. I have been thinking of trying to write again as I do enjoy it most of the time. I know I would have to put a lot time and effort into getting some paying jobs. I have also been thinking of marketing some life skills lessons on a website. I would have to write them and then get a website to sell the lessons. Then I may have to figure out how I can retain rights to them. I have a bunch of ideas for the first time in long time but I jut need to get some focus and work hard at meeting one goal at a time.

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New Day New Attitude After I Shake the Zombie

I need coffee this morning! I am going to have a good attitude today but first I need a few cups of coffee. Why is it that no matter how much or how little I sleep I feel like I could bite someones head off if they come near me before that first cup of coffee. Even in childhood before I  was allowed  to drink coffee I was always been crabby in the morning.

I can say over and over again that this is going to be a great day and I even believe that but I can't get out of the fog I am in. I am actually much better when I am on a later schedule and I can't quite figure that out. If I could go to bed at midnight and wake up around eight or nine I would be better but when I have to get up at six I feel like a zombie. I am not kidding either I have no balance when I get up so I walk slowly down the stairs hoping not to fall and watching for the dog who is excited that I am up. I kind of have to hug the wall for a bit until my vision and balance wake up.

My question is why were some people born to get up early?! My mom gets out of bed in a good mood. She likes to be up early and she never wants to shoot someone in the toe just for asking a question before that blessed first cup of coffee. I have tried to change my attitude right when I wake up by laying in bed a few seconds thinking about it and reshaping my morning out look and that just makes me want to sleep more.

I don't think I can be a morning person so I guess what I can do is make sure my attitude is in check as soon as the first sip of coffee hits my lips. I can reflect and work on the shaping my attitude as I drink that desperately needed cup of coffee.

Also I can spend my time planning a business that will allow me to change my schedule so that I can work later and sleep on a schedule that I can tolerate. If I were to have some sort of consulting business I could schedule clients after ten in the morning, if I were to try freelance writing I could write all afternoon and pick it up again after hubby goes to work (he is on a third shift) and go to bed later. So I am up and working on the second cup of coffee now. Hope you all have a great day like I am going to have.

Life Is Amazing

When you close your eyes and picture the future you want and where you are now, what do you see? Well I see something great for my future. I am not sure about the whole picture yet but I am making changes that will bring me closer to that future each day.

I am working out most days and choosing better foods for my health. I am making plans to do work I love and leave a job where I am often treated poorly.

The one thing that has made the biggest change in me the last few weeks is my attitude. I am trying really hard to bury the pessimism in me. I am trying to be positive and look on the bright side in every situation. I am limiting my time and interaction with negative people as much as I can. I am writing a lot more and use my journal when things seem out of my control. Often just writing down what is wrong helps me come up with a solution or at least helps me to change my attitude and learn something from the situation.

I am currently reading The Winning Attitude Your Key To Personal Success by John C. Maxwell and it has a lot of useful information. It is a full of scripture too so I also count it as a Bible study for myself. I am learning how to change my attitude even when I don't feel like it. I am also learning to look at challenges as an opportunity for growth instead of giving up. It is a great book especially following my audio book experience of Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrows Success (Maxwell, John C.).


Setting goals and changing my life are helping to make me feel at peace. I don't know how things are going to turn out entirely and plans may have to change but at least I have some peace about where my life is headed now.

Feeling Good This Morning

Every area of my life is starting to look great. I am sure some of that is simply because I have decided to change my attitude and change my life.

I have been complaining about a lot of things lately but now I am going to change them. I am going to take control of my life and not let others dictate how I feel. I have been doing that for a few weeks now and I feel great.

Am I happy that someone keeps getting in my Jeep and stealing the change out of the ashtray and God really only knows what else. No I am not happy but I am going to choose to remember we are looking for a new home and when we find the right one we will move. I do want to take a moment to ask what on earth would possess someone to keep getting in the jeep and leaving the door open when I left it the same as they left it. They took all but one penny?? Are they sleeping in it?? Do they like making people pay for batteries?? Just wondering why you would keep going back to look at the penny?

I don't like where I live any more but I do have a place to live which is more than a lot of people have. So I am going to be grateful that I have a home and just make sure I have a big dog as long as I live here. I am not going to let my feelings make me rush into buying a house that we don't really want either. So we are going to take our time and look closely at the homes and decide what we want to do not what we feel we need to do out of fear.

I have also decided that renewing my Social Work License is a great way to go. If I want a business of my own I need to keep my credentials even if I don't practice in a Social Work job. Sad thing is I thought I let them expire but when I went to check I have until the 22nd. I have signed up for some online continuing education credits and am waiting to hear back if my semester in college counts for anything. I am thinking one course should count the other two I might have trouble proving. So I have less than two week to get these credits in unless they will give me an extension. I can do this it will just take up a lot of my time. I am going to start tomorrow with an ethics course or two since that is the only practice area requirement. Then if my college classes count that is all I have to take to renew. If by some chance I don't meet the deadline all is not lost. I don't loose my license but there is like a waiting period before I can call myself a licensed Social Worker again because of late renewal.

So after a bunch of research and reading the last two weeks I am ready to just have a day off. I am going to go to a new church this morning and then to the grocery store and home to walk the dog if I have time before we go look at houses. This morning I am going to drink coffee and write blog posts and catch up with some bloggers. The late service isn't until 12:30 so I have a few hours to just relax.

Start Your Own Coaching Business Book Review

This book was a very good basic overview of the business. That is also all it was a quick look into the mechanics of the business. It was a good and inexpensive way to figure out if starting this business was something you wanted to do. There is a lot of good advice in the book and a lot of advice that goes against all of my financial convictions.

I can not recommend this book without saying his financial advice can be thrown in a lake with a rock tied around it so it can't surface. Now on that note his business planning advise is worth every penny. As you can see I had a hard time reading this book after he continued to advocate student loans and borrowing money. Lots of people run their business on credit but I don't plan to go down that road. 

He does redeem himself in many cases by warning you against quitting you day job before you make this your only source of income and by helping you figure out what it means to make a profit. He does let you know that you have to make a living doing it or you have to find a way to cut the costs.

Over all if you are not expecting a lot of detail on operating a business or the actual coaching it is a great book. I am probably a little (I mean a lot) crazy when it comes to financial advice that could get some one stuck with 200,000 dollars in student loans and possibly no way to pay them back if their business fails. I am just hate owing money and I live by that principal. I don't even like to have to take a mortgage and I will be stuck in the situation where I have to say I owe, I owe so off work I go, to the job I hate but have to stay at until I die if I want to keep up with the bills.

Updates On My New Blog

Soon I will have updates here as well but I would like some traffic to the new site as well so here is a link. I would love some feedback. Activate Your Dreams

In this post I discuss many areas I intend to improve in my life and the areas that I do well in even when life feels dark. I discuss some of the issues I have been having with family and health.

There are is not acceptable excuses anymore for me I am going to make my dreams come true, especially since I have realized that dreams can change. The dreams I had ten years ago are not the same as they are today. If they change while I am trying to attain them I just need to make a new plan.

On that note if you read my second post I have already written a plan of action when dealing with my family and I am going to type it up in a more comprehensive way and then I will post a bit of it there.