I’ve also had a new personal domain for a while and I’ve finally decided to move this blog to the new address: http://richardmoose.net

Maybe I’ll have some sort of “grand opening” for the new place…. or not. Anyway, this will be my last post at this address until I decide what to do with this domain. I have a feeling it is going to be a brother to my other dog site.

See you at the new digs…

I don’t understand how I can be so smart and so stupid.

I don’t understand how I can be so perceptive and so blind.

I don’t understand how I can be so energetic and so lazy.

I don’t understand how I can be so nice and so shitty.

I don’t understand how I can be so loving and so hateful.

I don’t understand how I can be so good and so bad.

I don’t understand a fucking thing.

I don’t feel like that guy. And I don’t really know what exactly that means. I don’t know what the “feeling” is that doesn’t match to that old guy, but something’s not right.

I still laugh like I always have. I still do stupid shit like I always have. I’m still in awe of the world like I always have been. I still fall in love like I always have.

I still want to party like there’s no tomorrow…

but there is a tomorrow…

and it’s here now.

I can see it in the mirror.

It is kind of surprising how mechanical this digital process actually is.

So here I sit in Southern California, at my desk, in my bedroom, with my computer glowing next to me and one of the many computers it is currently talking to is sitting in a room somewhere in the midwest. That is where the many files that comprise this site are housed. And so with the push of a button, my thoughts from the bedroom are flashed in a wink to a computer a thousand miles away and it sends them on to you. And you could be anywhere in ther world. Literally.

Anyway, Makeup Discounters is getting a directory overhaul and major upgrade, so I am back to work on that. Laterz.

But that is the way a lot of things work.

In the beginning, they’re no fun, because you suck at it.

So tennis is one of those things that you have to work at for quite a while before it gets to be fun.  Surfing is the same way.

Basically anything that requires skill is like that. You have to work at it until you get enough skill to have some fun.

That’s where motivation and desire come into the picture. Because if you don’t have the motivation and desire to work through the pain of being bad at something, you’ll never get the skills to be good at it.

For me it isn’t just that I’m not having fun in the beginning, it’s the shame I feel for being clueless. I’m ashamed of being a tool. Sometimes that shame is a motivator to keep trying and sometimes it is a motivator to walk away from whatever it is that’s not working.

But I’ve been keeping at this marketing thing and I’m finally at the point where it is just now starting to be fun. Not because I am making a ton of money, but because I’m starting to no longer feel like a tool.

So here’s a great new year of fun and motivation!

In the end, it’s all very Tony Robbins. The only thing keeping you from achieving anything you want is… you. It’s easy to understand that. It’s hard to do something about it.

Anyway……

I did another site today. I basically got it going in half a day. So the goal now is two new sites a week, working evenings and weekends. If I can keep that pace, then by this time next year I should have one hundred sites and I can only imagine how much that will have taught me.

Onward and upward!

Small birds are always so skittinsh and no wonder… they are, after all, “prey.”

My feeder hangs on the porch in a place where I can easily see it either from the sofa or when sitting at the computer.

I’ve been sitting at the computer a lot lately, working on my websites. This new eBay plugin from phpPro is really cool and it’s got me excited about creating humdreds of niche sites. But I’m commited to creating quality sites with lots of good content and that takes time. Makeup-Discounters.com is about making me lose my mind what with all the repetitive making of pages. It’s at 35 pages so far and I think this interation is going to top out at around 40 pages. Once I have all the pages made, then all I have to do is fix the navigation and rework the widgets and it will be ready for action. I’m going to try a small Adwords campaign and see if I can generate some traffic and money. If that goes well, then I will build out the site to include other brands of makeup. It’s all about Stila right now, but I know that Philosophy also has some keywords of opportunity. I’d love to break in to the makeup market because it is huge.

Off to San Diego this afternoon to see Chris and hang out.

Doing a lot of updating to Sterling Silver Boxes as it has been generating traffic is natural Google #1 for my targeted keyword phrase. Theme madness. Plus I had to do a manual update to the new Wordpress. Once I get that going I’ll install the automatic update plugin so this should be the last manual update.

Should be a new theme here too sometime today.

I love the quiet calm.

I love the peacefulness tempered with the realization that the fog will soon lift and the hidden possibilities of the day will be revealed.