{"id":966,"date":"2009-08-03T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2016-08-23T20:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T00:21:18","slug":"my-2009-business-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/my-2009-business-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2009 Business\/Personal Goals; Just Past Midway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in December I posted my business\/personal goals for 2009 on this blog. Even though I'm a month past midway, I figured that I'd be upfront and discuss where I am with those goals right now. After all, if I'm a big enough man to put them out there in the first place, I'm a big enough man to keep them out in front, to try to keep me moving forward in some fashion.<\/p>\n

First, let's take a look at what my business goals were for 2009:<\/p>\n

1. Work on finding more ways to earn money from home rather than being on the road so much. <\/p>\n

2. Lose 25 pounds. <\/p>\n

3. Figure out a way to reduce my glucose level when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on the road. <\/p>\n

4. Present in five states that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never presented in before. <\/p>\n

5. Finish writing another book.<\/b><\/p>\n

Actually, I guess I can say I've done number one, though it wasn't necessarily voluntarily. I've been making most of my money these days by writing. I've become an article writer<\/a> and blog writer<\/a> for others, and it's going pretty well. And I haven't had to go on the road, which hasn't been depressing. However, the income has dropped considerably, as I'm still relatively new at writing, but it's growing, and that's a pleasant thing.<\/p>\n

For number two, well, that hasn't happened. My weight is still holding steady. And for number three, since I haven't been on the road, I've had to try to keep it steady while I've been home, with very moderate success. It seems to depend on whether I exercise or not, so if I'm exercising often, it's good, and if I'm not, it's not good.<\/p>\n

Concerning number four, I've only given two presentations so far this year, and it was from right here in my own home. One was on diversity<\/a> for the Briefings Publishing Group that, once I was done, never even contacted me to thank me, or acknowledge to me that I ever did anything for them, which I thought was pretty rude, but so goes business. As proof that I did it, they are marketing the audio cast on their site for $199; not to give them publicity after they've ignored me, but hey, it's me doing the thing after all.<\/p>\n

The second presentation was my first webinar ever, titled Social Media, SEO & Your Business in 90 Minutes, and that's pretty self explanatory. It went very well, and now we've got it for sale at that link above. I'll be doing a lot more of that type of thing as time goes on.<\/p>\n

My last goal was to finish writing another book. At this point, with all the other writing I'm doing, it's not looking good. I did create a new website based on some articles I didn't end up selling to a customer called Smoke Not So Much, an anti-smoking site, but that's about as close as I've come to that goal.<\/p>\n

Anyway, there we are. I have a long way to go for some of these, but at least I did hit one of them. Let's see how it all looks later on as we get closer to year end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in December I posted my business\/personal goals for 2009 on this blog. Even though I’m a month past midway, I figured that I’d be upfront and discuss where I am with those goals right now. After all, if I’m a big enough man to put them out there in the first place, I’m a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[83,1401,25],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation","tag-goals","tag-personal-achievement","tag-speaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}