Onward and Upward Against Diabetes
I am learning more each and every day in how to deal with this disease called Diabetes. It truly does sap my energy and it makes it hard for me to do the things that I used to do. I am confronting different challenges but it only helps me get over this illness and move onward and upward.
Some days I feel like I can change the world, while other days I feel like the world is trying to change me. I would say that this is the biggest challenge affecting me because of this diabetes. I am thankful that during this time, I have received a lot of moral support from friends and family. It has made all the difference.
Is The Recession Over?
I was reading a comment earlier today on a forum that really struck a chord with me. The person was commenting that the recession was over. My first thought was, “Yeah right. You say it’s over but what does that really matter?” I continued and read what he offered as proof.
He is a content writer and his proof was that people were once again ordering large orders of web content that he could fulfill. He surmised that since people were ordering content, people must be buying once again and so the recession must be easing. I don’t know if this is necessarily the truth, but it sure does bear watching.
New Ways To Market Ebooks?
I was talking to a friend the other day about the typical ebook makers and how they put together those awful squeeze pages. It’s almost formulaic how they tout their books and how they attempt to lure people into buying their products. If you are doing any kind of ebook promotion, then you are at risk of being labeled right alongside these snake oil salesmen.
How can you avoid that happening? Maybe you can start by not making those squeeze type pages. They just ooze sleaze. I couldn’t believe when I read a local paper where an ebook author was suggesting the use of these squeeze pages for “normal” products. Come on get real.
Use a blog to promote the products instead and give people a reason to take advantage of it. There are always ways in which you can really relate to your potential customers and convey the information they need.
I’d love to hear other ideas out there on ways to improve your success that doesn’t involve snake oil tactics.
Better Focus On Projects
I am enjoy doing some work around here on a few sites. Slowly, day by day, I am making more time and more energy for projects that can actually benefit people and the community at large. I sure wish I could do more, but right now I am doing what my health allows me to do.
One of the hardest things to do when you are intelligent and capable of doing so many things is learning how to focus on just a few things and excelling just with a things things. It’s something I am learning to do the hard way and something that I know I can get pretty good at if I can just learn how to focus better.
Any idea how I can meld my focus and the projects that need to be done?
Dealing With Blood Sugar Spikes
I am not usually big on personal stuff here on this blog, but I thought I would post this because it’s important and it deal with me and my life. As some of you may know, I suffer from diabetes. It’s been hitting be pretty hard this last two weeks and the doctors really have no idea why the blood sugar has been excessively high over the last few weeks and why the spike just shot up like it it did. I was actually in the hospital with a fasting blood sugar of 416.
What does this mean for me? I am dealing with all of the issues that come from diabetes. This means my outsourcing work is falling behind and many of my other projects. It seems like this is pretty cyclical over the last few months, but I hope that I can soon get this all behind me and get back to work like I love.
I would appreciate any ideas or comments about how to deal with this from people who know how to deal with this disease. Any advice is appreciated.
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