You’ve probably read tons of "how to build self-confidence" articles in blogs and dozens of "you can do it!" self-affirmations and scores of "make it happen today!" posts to last you a lifetime.

 And generally, I adore these kinds of posts myself; positive attitudes and self-confidence can go light-years towards making one successful online.

Which, of course, is why I have to rock the apple cart, tip the bathtub, spread the peanut butter on the down side of the toast, fill up the car with water, shine up the trumpet with sandpaper, mix the coffee with carrot juice….in other words, present ideas from the other side of garden!  With that, let me now ask you: [Read more]

Morning!

Quick!   Tell me!   When you think of browsing the Internet, what crashes through your frontal lobes?

Is it….

• Checking your Twitter account?
• Checking your Friendfeed account?
• Ordering Starbucks coffee?

or is it instead:

• Checking the weather info before heading out to sea to manage your commercial fishing?
• Looking up farm commodity prices to better determine where your investments should go?
• Scheduling your plumber/contractor appointments, setting up transfers to partners, finalizing your advertisements?
• Displaying your grocery store catalog, showcasing different advertisements depending upon whom is viewing it?

WAIT A SEC!!!  Where on earth did those mobile web browser applications pop up?

Glad you asked!   These ideas come courtesy of [Read more]

Morning,

Twitter has apparently recovered from the glitch over the  weekend (kinda sorta)! 

That’s the good news.

And Eric from Internet Duct Tape wrote a extremely comprehensive post that describes exactly how to import one’s Twitter contacts to Friendfeed!

That’s the better news!

To wit:

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Have you ever wanted to be happy?

And have you ever wanted to have power?

And have you ever wondered….gee, what would it be like…to be and possess both?

Let me tell you, it’s pretty awesome…and actually not very difficult to achieve at all. 

Would you believe that?

So many times, I see bloggers angst about [Read more]

Morning!

It’s been a past few days of major major changes in my blogging layout! 

After researching other authority blogs online and taking stock of my current business objectives/goals/etc., I’ve made two powerful decisions - I’m going to:

• Focus AskOwlbert on MetaBlogging/Personal development
• Move my entrepreneur/make money postings to my flagship site

Of course, this meant completely revamping

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Money is good.  Happiness is better.  Both of them together…well, that can really make life rock (especially if you add coffee!  :)  ).

Thus, let me now as you:

What inspires you to make things happen and excel past all possible predictions? 

It can be many things.  Consider the:

• Desire to better your financial position.
• Love for your family.
• Love for your true friends.
• Passion for a cause.
• Desire to teach by example money-making skills to your family

Many, many many MANY reasons [Read more]

(YAAAAAAWWWWNNNNNNN)!  It never fails….every Tuesday, I throw myself 110% into my martial arts bjj, Kendo and Adult sparring, collect 2-3 fresh black and blue marks, end up being knocked all over the place…and then just cannot get to sleep. 

It’s quite maddening, really - finally I get home, I crawl into bed, I witness my 382 new aches that keep my muscles continuously nudging me and quietly bellowing "So you just hadda say, c’mon, is that all you got?"….and my body joyfully responded, sleeping is a forbidden activity here!  Wheeeee!

Add to that my son woke up me up at 2am with a lovely bloody nose river flowing gently every which way, and you have a recipe for one exhausted entrepreneur!

But I digress. 

So!  I hear you’re interested in developing an authority site or blog.  ‘Tis a worthy endeavor!  And while you achieve that by [Read more]

Morning!  You really don’t appreciate the concept of "silence" until your 15 office Twitter Budgies decide to do their best to imitate a heavy metal concert minus earplugs at 4:28am in the morning.   Such are the, ahem, joys, of having them reside in one’s office. 

But I digress. 

Are you on Twitter?  I’m on Twitter!  And so is Chris Garrett!  While contemplating Paradise in a Brimming Cup (ie, my morning coffee), he tweeted:

chrisgarrett Reading:
100 Tips to Become an Authority Site in Your Niche

What a super super super post!!  Hats off to Chris for mentioning that - it’s really worth sharing.  Some of the insights include: [Read more]

QUICK!!!!!  Do you worship coffee?

Now, true, that’s kinda like saying, do you worship breathing, or do you worship health, or do you worship being able to complete 4 chinups before failure, or….

Okay okay, you get what I mean.  :)  Personally, "worship" is too light a word for my take on that Beverage of the Gods…and apparently, I’m not alone.  The coffee industry is bigger than [Read more]

(YAAAAAAWN)  (STRRRRRRETCH) Oh hi!  Nice to see you back! 

How was your weekend?  Mine was a delightful utter bone-chilling agony as I had to teach my eldest quite a painful lesson in time management ("painful" because it involved me being el Tougho Mom and allowing the kid to experience the academic consequences).   Sigh.  If only one could transfer the common-sense wisdom gained in 4 decades of life to young children WITHOUT stress, things would be much easier.  Then again [Read more]