The Beginning of 2011:
2011 begins.
Welcome to 2011 from this "DeHaan Blog"
Despite a serious lack of alcohol last night...last year, ha ha ha...I did wake up tired and with a slight headache. All gone now, but it tells me that it is not too smart to stay up later than normal.
I have yet to make full and specific plans for the day. I had made no formal resolutions for the year. However, I do have a few ideas to implement. The first was to ensure this blog continues. Excuse me while I check FaceBook.
I have yet to make full and specific plans for the day. I had made no formal resolutions for the year. However, I do have a few ideas to implement. The first was to ensure this blog continues. Excuse me while I check FaceBook.
Setting More Stages
Image of Mike DeHaan...again ;)
One of my year-end (or year-start) tasks is to reset some personal logs. I use spreadsheets to track my articles, but also personal things like my bank balance and my training as a runner.
For some of these, the year does not matter. My article list will be cumulative, for example. I like to draw a line across my ongoing bank balance, however, to provide a year-over-year figure. My running statistics start afresh every year, so I open a new worksheet.
All those things are for my personal record-keeping. However, I have at least one online bookmark blog where I kept one page for the whole month of December. It got pretty crowded, so I need to think hard about my January backlinks. There is a big convenience factor in writing the introduction just once, and then listing everything. On the other hand, that is supposed to be a bad SEO practice: too many links spoil the broth. For January, I plan to break them up by site. In other words, a January Environmental Graffiti blog with bookmarks, another January blog for Suite 101 , and also for Squidoo. Then we will re-think the plan for February.
By the way, I have a bit more to do for my handbook client, so I will get on with that. Another task is to start a "DeHaan Blog for Running" on yet another site. That should motivate me to keep a busier running schedule than has been my recent pattern.
More to come after some work, and lunch, and some running.
For some of these, the year does not matter. My article list will be cumulative, for example. I like to draw a line across my ongoing bank balance, however, to provide a year-over-year figure. My running statistics start afresh every year, so I open a new worksheet.
All those things are for my personal record-keeping. However, I have at least one online bookmark blog where I kept one page for the whole month of December. It got pretty crowded, so I need to think hard about my January backlinks. There is a big convenience factor in writing the introduction just once, and then listing everything. On the other hand, that is supposed to be a bad SEO practice: too many links spoil the broth. For January, I plan to break them up by site. In other words, a January Environmental Graffiti blog with bookmarks, another January blog for Suite 101 , and also for Squidoo. Then we will re-think the plan for February.
By the way, I have a bit more to do for my handbook client, so I will get on with that. Another task is to start a "DeHaan Blog for Running" on yet another site. That should motivate me to keep a busier running schedule than has been my recent pattern.
More to come after some work, and lunch, and some running.
Well, That is Embarrassing
For a warm January day, it was raining hard enough to discourage me from running. I did set up my running statistics spreadsheet.
On the writing front: I began planning what I need to change for the big handbook, and updated some of my Squidoo lenses.
Later I made and sent the handbook revisions.
It is too late for a long run today, but tomorrow's weather should be better. Tonight I should look at where to host that blog. Should it be another Weebly blog, or should I go to one of the others? Decisions, decisions, and yet more decisions.
One resolution I want to make is to develop a better way to list and track tasks. For example: I have a list of ideas for articles; another list of blog and article sites; another list of non-writing tasks for business, charity and my personal life. Some have deadlines and others are simply "get in line and we'll deal with it". Of course, once I work it out for myself, I need to make a fortune peddling it.
On the writing front: I began planning what I need to change for the big handbook, and updated some of my Squidoo lenses.
Later I made and sent the handbook revisions.
It is too late for a long run today, but tomorrow's weather should be better. Tonight I should look at where to host that blog. Should it be another Weebly blog, or should I go to one of the others? Decisions, decisions, and yet more decisions.
One resolution I want to make is to develop a better way to list and track tasks. For example: I have a list of ideas for articles; another list of blog and article sites; another list of non-writing tasks for business, charity and my personal life. Some have deadlines and others are simply "get in line and we'll deal with it". Of course, once I work it out for myself, I need to make a fortune peddling it.
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