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Step up…

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  “… step up, think bigger, be bolder, eliminate fear and competition, and attract money and opportunities.“ Ali Brown

I was talking to someone about my life and how things were falling down around me.  I mean it. Lost my job. Have health issues. There is this leak in my living room window. My favorite large bookcase broke, a shelf snapped. Now it leans dangerously against my desk supported on the other side by three file cabinets. Renovations were done in apartment upstairs and that unleashed vermin like a plague of locusts into my apartment.

She couldn’t help but laugh. It sounded like a cartoon to her. I had to agree the state of things have become absurd. As I sit at my desk each day it feels like I am in the midst of the perfect storm. Except I am the calm center of the storm. Occasionally something comes out of squall and cackles at me and I just swat it back.

There are things I am concerned about but if I were in a state of panic I could not handle problems effectively.  Ali Brown is known as the Ezine Queen building her empire on teaching people how to effectively build a business through a well crafted ezine newsletter.  She has certainly taken that piece and crafted an incredible empire for herself.  Reading her last newsletter I was struck by  how she was able to shift her mindset to reach way beyond her comfort zone.

I pulled out the statement above and have posted it over my computer. If you are crafting a business, creating art, writing your first novel it helps to be reminded of those who have gone before and succeeded.

A year from now I do think I will look back at this time as the moment I took my big steps. Where do you want to be a year from now?

Keywords.

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I have been thinking about keywords lately.  Keywords need to be those that most people would think of when searching the Internet for a site of interest. If you doing anything online you would be placing the keywords instead anything you write such as this blog.

Keywords are the things I forget about each and every time I write. Certainly I add them to this site when I post a blog but I don’t do the traditional thing like see what are the best keywords to get a person to find me and this blogsite.

Despite knowing their value for getting traffic they still seem artificial to me. So like the person who refuses email I just write and let the traffic come.After all if I build it they will… Right?

The tension in creativity is between the creation and the business. If you have a trust fund, a wealthy spouse, sponsor, parent or winning lottery ticket then you might not care if your creative pursuits bring you an income.

But if you are like me then you think is this time spent going to me forward? Will a publisher find me, sign me up for a mega-multi book deal worth millions of dollars?  Is this work good enough as it is? Or will a keyword or two make my prose sing?

Keywords. I have to mull them over. In the meantime let me leave you with these to chew on or to discover their rank: love, laughter, fun, family, dogs, cats, cute soft wiggly puppies and kittens, chocolate, good health, lots of money, fame, happiness, spirituality….