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A Day in my Dream Life

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I think that if I truly desire to work for myself from the comfort of my home in the future, then it can only help me to get to that point if I envision what a day in the life of my dream job might be like.

Here’s how I think a typical day in my future dream life might go…

  • Wake up around 7am, spend around 30 minutes to an hour working out, then shower and get dressed for the day.
  • Make myself something healthy to eat for breakfast, perhaps a “green monster” smoothie.
  • After breakfast, head to the computer to start work. I think I’d have some sort of etsy type store open, so first thing would be to check for any new orders that need to be shipped and work on getting those ready. (probably get online to usps.com and schedule a free package pickup for those, just so I don’t need to leave the house!)
  • Once orders are ready to go, do a quick check of email to see if there’s anything that needs to be answered right away.
  • Next, spend time working on business related things; paid blogging or paid article writing, design work, work on creating things to be sold.
  • Lunch break, something healthy. Eat, then spend 30 minutes working on household chores; laundry, dishes, cleaning.
  • Back to work, check email and try to get everything answered and the inbox cleared out.
  • Spend an hour or so working on blogging, scheduling posts out in advance, working on projects for diy posts, etc.
  • Take a 30 minute break, get a snack, work on chores or go outside for a quick walk.
  • Spend the next hour and a half working on the etsy store, listing more items to be sold, creating things, packaging things, printing invoices to be filed. etc.
  • It should now be around 5 pm, time to start working on dinner. Work is now finished for at least a few hours.

I realized that this is a “dream” day, I have no actual idea what my typical day would be like if and when I do work for myself from home. I imagine that it probably wouldn’t be much like this; life would probably get in the way and I’d be working much later than 5pm, and that would be okay too. I realize that if I want to work from home that I would need to be flexible in my scheduling and making sure that I still have time to get everything done that I need do each day.

Gettin’ Busy with Domains

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I’m sure I’ve mention somewhere on the line that I currently own 8 separate domains (8? Yes, completely true!) and that I saved myself a whole mess of trouble by setting up a WordPress Multisite Network. Well, I still had not  moved all of my domains onto the network, so I fixed that dilemma today. I also didn’t have email@domain.com email addresses set up for all the domains either, so I set those up and they will forward any email to my main email address, so that’s fixed too!

Lately, my main goals that are related to the crazy amount of domains that I own are: set up customized, reasonably good looking themes on all domains (okay to just focus on one at a time!), continue scheduling advance posts on pinkdiary.org like a crazy woman (I’d love to just be able to devote one day worth of work and getting posts done for a whole week!!) and focus on posting on my other domains so that they can grow in age and content too. If I could become superblogger and schedule advance posts on ALL my blogs and domains?? That would be amazing!!

I want to grow all these domains so that they may become a source of income for me in the future, that’s my main goal. I want to be able to successfully work from home, and being able to generate income (even if it’s just a tiny amount) would be a HUGE step in the right direction!

I’m Missing Out on Money!

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It becomes more and more obvious to me every day that I’m losing out on paid blogging income because I’ve been slacking with getting most of my domains set up and running, and that none of them are old enough yet or have enough traffic. I figure I could probably be earning at least $100 a week via paid blogging if only I had my things in order like they should be.

So I need to get every blog I have (uhmm.. yeah, 5 of them!) set-up with an appropriate theme and start blogging on each and every single one of them at least once a week. I need to start getting them established and at least trying to get traffic, of course I’ll still be focusing on getting 5+ posts a week on this blog, and on at least one of the other ones. I really need to focus on getting my act together!

Strange People.

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I recently stumbled across a couple of different blogs about making money online, blogs made by people who want to earn serious money online, as in more than enough to pay housing costs every month. It’s the way they are earning the money, the sites that they use, that really strikes me as strange.

These people are trying to earn all their money by using sites like Swagbucks, using paid survey sites, and doing 15 minute long tasks looking up phone numbers for a mere 3 cents. No paid blogging, no paid article writing. Surely, these people can’t be serious??

I don’t get it, all you have to do is a simple “earn money online” search with google and you can find much better ways to earn money, and ways that are a lot easier and better paying too!!

 

I Want to Earn Money Online

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In order to be able to earn money through paid blogging there are quite a few different criteria that a blog must meet first. It’s got to be at least 30 days old, have quite a bit of posts, and be getting a reasonable amount of traffic to be accepted into a paid blogging program.

This month, through the Ultimate Blog Challenge, I have been doing an AMAZING job of growing this particular blog, I might even be in love with the one post for each day of the month idea enough to continue it for a long time, to make it the goal I strive to meet every month.

The main problem is that I’ve been spending so much time focusing on this particular blog, that I’ve almost completely forgotten about all my other ones!

With that being said, here’s my goals for the month of February:

  • Update and customize the theme for pinkdiary.org
  • Post 29+ times on pinkdiary.org (it is a leap year, after all!)
  • Post 29+ times combined on all my other blogs, any combination of posts is acceptable here!
  • Customize themes on at least 2 of my other blogs.
  • Join blog memes or carnivals to gain some traffic.
  • Continue reading and commenting on other blogs.