Posts made in January, 2009

Affiliate Summit Sneak Peak!

Posted on Jan 8, 2009 in Conferences & Networking |

Thanks to the wonders of advanced planning, all the presentations for Affiliate Summit West 2009 – which starts on Sunday – are available to view now at http://www.slideshare.net/affsum.  I’m going to try to bring my head above water enough to read through some before heading to Las Vegas tomorrow.

Are you going to Affiliate Summit?  I am.  Check out Ten Ways to Meet Me At Affiliate Summit from the New Edge Media blog.

In the meantime, keep your eyes open for some tips and tricks I’ll share with ya just in time for Affiliate Summit…

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Avoiding Sick Leave Guilt

Posted on Jan 6, 2009 in Career | 4 comments

So I’m up at 2:00 am with the compulsion to note that I’ve already broken one of my blogging goals this year: to blog daily. Unfortunately, I was struck down today with a fierce migraine which, until now, kept me in bed hiding from noise and light. My dedication has not wavered, but I know had I not flushed away the migraine it would be worse tomorrow, taking me out of the count for work for two days instead of one.

So quickly I’ll pose a question for my fellow workaholics out there – how do you deal with the guilt associated with being sick?  You WANT to work, but just can’t.  Are there techniques you employ or a mantra you tell yourself?  How do you avoid the guilt associated with taking a day off to take care of yourself when you’re a workaholic?

Share… let the healing begin!

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Goals for 2009

Posted on Jan 1, 2009 in Career |

There seems to be a rule in blogging that on January 1st, any self-respecting blogger will take a few minutes to wax poetic on one of two topics – a recap of their year previous, or an outlook on their goals of the new year ahead.  All the cool kids are doing it, so I’ve decided to jump into the mix.  I’m not doing anything better today, so why not? :p

I’m going to opt for the latter, and set forth some goals for my 2009.  Some more important than others, but listed in no particular order.

  1. Work out the technical kinks on my blog.  I’ve got some issues with the CSS on this theme regarding spacing in lists, so Id like to either learn enough about CSS to fix this or find a new theme that I like as much as this one.  I also had a problem upgrading to WordPress 2.7 and had to revert back, so I’ll figure out what the heck was causing that & upgrade.
  2. Post every day.  Even if it’s just a quick note about how work is going or something interesting I saw online that day.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to post crap, but just a bit more current things than necessarily waiting until the end of the week to mention some things in my Cribbed Content post.
  3. Get back to doing the Free Toolsday and Saturday Shopper features.  I enjoy doing them, I’ve just been slacking.
  4. Write more guest posts & accept more guest posts.  I’ve been given the opportunity, so I should collaborate with fellow bloggers more than I do.

That’s really it.  If I set a lot of lofty goals, I’ll never finish them all.  So these few are here.  Keep me honest on this and we’ll friends.  Check back here in a year to see if I succeeded!

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