Archive: building business around your passion
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Dec 02, 2011
No Comments$1MDBP – Building My New Blog Launch Strategy
Based on Think Traffic’s article, The Launch Strategy That Will Give Your New Blog Unstoppable Momentum, I am now working on building my blog launch. I set my launch date to be January 31st, 2012 and it’s coming up in about two months, so it’s high time I start preparing for it and getting the blog...
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Nov 22, 2011
1 Comment$1MDBP: Unique Selling Proposition and a New Domain Name
Did you think I already gave up on the Million Dollar Blog Project?? Well if you did, I can’t blame you. I did get a little distracted from my wedding and honeymoon in Costa Rica where I discovered that just because you have time off doesn’t mean that you have time to get online. I...
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Sep 16, 2011
11 Comments$1MDBP – The Next Step – Choosing a Topic for My New Blog
So the $1MBP is on and I’ve got to figure out what on earth my new blog will be about. Time to stop tossing ideas around and finally pick one. This was really a great thought exercise for me so if you're in the same boat as me, this will be helpful to...
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Sep 06, 2011
14 CommentsThe Million Dollar Blog Project
Is anyone still out there? I know I’ve been terribly neglectful of this blog and my fellow bloggers for quite a while now and I sincerely apologize.... I want to talk to you about Corbett Barr's Million Dollar Blog Project! Have you heard of this amazing...
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Feb 17, 2011
5 CommentsTaking Action Update Feb 18, 2011
Every Friday, I am supposed to take a moment to recap what I have accomplished over the last week so that I can look back and see how far I have actually come since beginning this blogging business. These weekly updates are meant to help me stay accountable. Which is probably why, I haven't been...
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Dec 31, 2010
6 Commentsaction steps update dec 31, 2010
Every Friday, I take a moment to recap what I have accomplished over the last week so that I can look back and see how far I have actually come since beginning this blogging business. These weekly updates also help me stay accountable. Since I did not do an update last week (Christmas you know…)...
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Dec 30, 2010
No Commentshow i got over 150,000 subscribers / zen habits
Haha, ok I don’t actually have anywhere near that many subscribers. But Leo Babuata at Zen Habits does and he is one of the reasons I started this whole blog thing in the first place. Back in late 2007, a friend of mine introduced me to his blog. By the time I started following it,...
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Dec 17, 2010
No Commentsaction steps update dec 17, 2010
These weekly updates help me stay accountable and let’s you see the progress I make as I complete actions towards my goals. installed a WordPress backup plugin and a Retweet/Share/Like plugin as suggested by Everett Bogue created a favicon (that’s the little cat you see to the left of the URL up there) re-wrote my...
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Dec 09, 2010
No Commentsa life set free!
I finally settled on a name for this blog! As much as it pains me to give up the Cats and Starfish name, I think that A Life Set Free is a bit more descriptive of what I’ll be talking about. What exactly will I be talking about? I’ll be talking about the actions I...
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Oct 22, 2010
2 Commentsbeaches and debt elimination
Ok, I’ve been talking about this for a long time. Probably a few years now and I’m sure my friends and family are tired of hearing about it. And I keep finding excuses to put it off. Well THIS weekend I am finally going to make a plan to get out of debt, save money...




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