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I put this page together especially for my visitors from Website In A Weekend.  Here are some posts that may be of particular interest to you.  If you’re working on a new site, or trying to improve an old one, these posts can help you get past blocks, bad habits, and slumps in motivation.  David’s site is an incredible resource to give you all the information and tools you need; I hope Conscious Me can give you the encouragement and insight to put your best into your work.

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Defeating The Saboteur – Change Without Fail

David linked to this blog entry, recently, on a Two Weeks In Review post, which showcased some excellent posts.  Defeating the Saboteur is about recognizing your own habits of self sabotage and working with and through them to finally make progress on your goals.

Excerpt:

Me: I’m going to start my own business.
Saboteur: I don’t know anything about finances or taxes. I would have to go to college, and I can’t afford that.
Me: I’m going to establish a routine so I can accomplish my daily goals.
Saboteur: There just isn’t time today. I am really tired from work and I just need to unwind for a little while, then I’ve got to do…I’ll start tomorrow.
Me: I really want to start making meals at home and eating healthier foods.
Saboteur: We’re low on groceries, there’s no way I’m doing a whole grocery shop first, then cooking, and then eating. I’ll just heat up a pizza and eat healthy after I grocery shop.

If you had these conversations with a real live person, everyday, how long would it take for that person to stop believing you will actually make these changes? Now for the question that really matters. Do you believe, down in your very soul, that you’ll actually make these changes? I’ve started a ball of transformation rolling in my life, and I need it to pick up speed and strength. Maybe that’s where you’re at too. How do we keep it from falling apart, sputtering out? Let’s dig a little deeper here…Read More

Also, he emailed me after reading it to give me a link to this post on Talking Shrimp by Laura Belgray that fits with it quite nicely.  I highly recommend it.

Pay Yourself First, In Hours & Minutes

The first important lesson I had to learn on my journey to achieve new and lofty goals, was to pay myself first with my time.  When I started dedicating the best of me to my goals every day, even for less than an hour, I started making real progress.

Excerpt: Have you heard the expression “Pay yourself first“? It’s a simple and brilliant financial philosophy.

I was first exposed to it in The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach, a great book to read when you first begin looking at your financial life in a serious way. In a nutshell, the principle states that when you get paid, no matter what your financial situation is, the first thing you do is put a portion of it into a form of savings, hence “pay yourself first”.

Your time is arguably more important than your finances. Time is money, they say, and it’s the one thing you can’t create more of. All you can do is learn to use it more efficiently. Paying yourself first in minutes and hours is imperative to accomplishing anything important to you. This is a stance I have just recently taken in my own life…Read More

The Wu-Tang Plan, Part 1. C.R.E.A.M: Carlos is Rarely Ever Anxious about Money

I do love blogging for blogging’s sake, don’t get me wrong, but I also want to make unreasonable amounts of money doing it.  This post is the first in a series exploring my options for turning this blog into a business and the effects and challenges it will bring to my life.

Excerpt: Hi, I’m Carlos.  I’m starting a business writing a blog.

You can make money from that?  You didn’t quit your real job, right?
In answer to that question, I am devising The Wu-Tang Plan, a two part post for me to examine my financial goals in more detail, the methods I intend to use to get there, and the personal development involved in the process.

If you’re dying to know, yes, you can make money blogging, and no I didn’t quit my “real” job yet.  Before we get into all that technical stuff, though, I want to talk about why I chose blogging as a means of creating a business.  This is Part 1 of the Wu-Tang Plan and we’re going to start where everything we do starts…in our minds…Read More

Direction, Not Perfection: The Truth In Movement

I’ve been inspired a lot this month, and was in a particularly motivated state when I wrote this.  It’s about the most important part of any goal…picking a direction and moving on it.  Leave perfection in the dust and show what you can do.

I promise to choose a direction and move.

I promise to fall along the way and pick the pace back up.  I promise to learn more about my terrain with every step and every stumble.  I promise to keep going in the right direction.

It’s direction, not perfection that matters.

Sometimes I choose a direction, and then I prep for the journey.  I make sure to research everything I might need.  I pay painfully close attention to the smallest details.  I am so busy looking around my point of origin that I stop looking at my destination.  Minutia overwhelms me, and I stop moving – before I even start.

Move Carlos!…Read More

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