The EJunkie Chronicles

Posted on November 11, 2009 by MJ Schrader

This was my task.  A simple one.  One that multiple people had asked me about.  It’s a simple process that I had already done, before, for myself and for others, this time they wanted it recorded.  So my task was…

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“Record how to get a product on E-Junkie.”

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Ok, this should have been very easy.  But there was something that literally and figuratively blocked me.  I had internet interruptions that literally halted video, watching “Loading, Loading, Loading…”  Two takes were interupted by Lilo.  One time, she was mewing a lot, the second she tried to jump into my lap… and semi-missed.  The claws went straight through the jeans and the scream and threat to kill the cat didn’t seem quite appropriate.

Then there were takes when I couldn’t talk, (on this vebite???)  couldn’t type, couldn’t get to the right program.  Perfectionism got in the way a couple times.   Then some days I was too frustrated to film, and finally decided when it was 1am that it was too late.

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 Was I not comfortable with doing videos?

Was it lack of right equipment?

Was it that I didn’t want to work?

Was it a dry spell?

No, because I shot 4 during the Ejunkie chronicles.  There is a “Rockstar Starter Guide to Autoresponders” available for sale as of  November 6th.   The sales page is ARVideo.RockstarGuideBooks.com For Halloween wallpaper I created How to change wallpaper.  Then the popular MJ is  dressing up for Halloween as with a Video is at the bottom   To explain what I do I created a video for my friends on T61 Radio so we could easily explain the basics to newbies.

So that’s why I am a bit out of sorts over the EJunkie video.   It took over 25+ takes, probably closer to 40.  There were 10 in the two days before the final take, and that was 2 weeks of attempts.   Fortunately I found a way to unlock the Edit feature on the Camtasia version I have.  After that was unlocked I learned how to zoom, add boxes, arrows and some other stuff.  Perhaps I should leave that as the point?

Honestly, I don’t know. Hope the block is gone.  Hope it’s happy to leave me alone.   BUT I WANT EVERYONE TO RECOMMEND THIS VIDEO!!!  PLEASE BUY THIS VIDEO!!!    It’s only $14.95 and it would make me feel TONS better about it.   The sales page will go up on Friday.    It will be $14.95 there, even if you join the affiliate program this price is still cheaper.

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PLEASE BUY THIS NOW

$14.95 for the E-Junkie Video that took 25+ takes

Seriously, please buy it.  It’s not a lot of money and it would really help me.  Between my budget getting tighter and tighter and let’s just say the video still caused me nightmares in uploading, downloading, putting it online, streaming it…

But what is the lesson you ask?  “You always share a lesson with us readers.”

Fall down 9 times get up 10.

Ok, a bit too fortune cookie.  But what do you expect, I shot one video over 25 times??  OK! FINE!  Lesson 1: The video isn’t perfect, but a perfect product never reaches the market because you are always working on it to make it perfect.

Lesson 2: It took over 25+ takes, it cost me time, a big bruise on my ego,  but I didn’t die.  (Unless I am dead and typing blog posts? Potential side effect from Plants vs Zombies?)  But the point is… the video finally got done, I learned and can move past it.   I didn’t die,  so what difference are a few bruises?  It’s not going to be the first nor the last.

Lesson 3: Sometimes you have to change pace, change your focus, change your mind.  You have a block.  So what?  Is that the only thing you can work on right now??  Clean house, play a mindless game, watch a movie, go for a walk come back to it later with a clearer head and fresh perspective.

Lesson 4: The attempts didn’t work.  You still put forth effort, find a way to reward yourself.  Give yourself a half hour to read a book, play games whatever.  Set a big reward for when the project is done.  Movie night, a day off, several games of Mario Kart Racing.  Those may be my rewards, but you get the point.  Now for the final lesson.

LESSON 5: This is the most important lesson of all.  Fall down 9 times get up 10.  The fortune cookie was right. Sorry, but it’s true.  You only fail when you give up; try again, change your project, refocus, but always get up again. AND THEN YOU HAVE WON.

Besides you can point and laugh at me and say, “it took you how many takes???”

Share with me some of your thoughts. *buy the video*  Add some comments below *buy the video*  Look for the sales page Friday *buy the video* and last but most important  pay attention *buy the video* to the subliminal text in this paragraph. :)

Live ♥ Laugh ♥ Love
♥ MJ ♥

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Halloween Costumes

Posted on November 2, 2009 by MJ Schrader

For 3 days before Halloween, every few hours my facebook status changed to say what costume I was going to wear and why. By popular demand these are the statuses I thought up, which were quite a few more than I actually used.

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Branding

  • is dressing up like a Timex cause she takes a licking and keeps ticking
  • is dressing up like a Facebook page just so people can comment
  • is dressing up like Coke cause she’s the real thing
  • is dressing up like American Express, because people don’t leave home without it
  • is dressing up as AIG so she can ask for her bailout…
  • is dressing up like bread because she’s a Wonder…
  • is dressing up like the Energizer bunny cause she just keeps going and going…
  • is dressing up as Bud Dry… why ask why?

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Food

  • is dressing up like chocolate because who can resist chocolate?
  • is dressing up like peanut butter so she can find her jellywonder_bread
  • is dressing up like sugar cause she’s that sweet
  • is dressing up like butter cause she’s that smooth
  • is dressing up as a peach to prove she’s not nuts…
  • is dressing up like peanut butter cause she didn’t want to look cheesy
  • is dressing up like a walnut, because she’s nutty
  • is dressing up like tomato so people could argue if she’s a fruit or a vegetable
  • is dressing up like coffee, so she can be smooth and rich
  • is dressing up like salsa because she’s spicy…

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Bad Puns

  • isn’t dressing up like a dolphin in case anyone thinks she’s got illegal porpoises… * rimshot *…
  • is dressing up as cheese so she can ask “Do you want cheese with that?” when kids whine where’s the chocolate?
  • is dressing up as a tiger because she’s not lion about her costume… (read out loud)
  • is dressing up as a vampire because she’s not a mummy…
  • is dressing up a corpse because it goes with the coughin’ …
  • is dressing up as a pyrite… don’t you just love spell checkers…. (pirate, pyrite)

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Candy Hunting

  • is dressing up like a thief to steal your Halloween Candy
  • is dressing up like a ninja so she can sneak around grabbing candy
  • is dressing up like Chuck Norris, because then Halloween candy would come to her…
  • is dressing up as the teenager who bangs on the door w/o a costume and asks for candy…
  • is dressing up as the IRS so she can tax kids on their candy haul…

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Geek Alert:

  • is dressing up like the Spanish Inquisition because nobody expects that
  • is dressing up like Captain Kirk because he has a thing for green alien women (for the guys)
  • is dressing up like Spock because it’s illogical to be anything else
  • is dressing up like a dead parrot… in case anyone needs her for a certain skit…
  • is dressing up as Darth Vader, so she can walk up to people and say “I am your father” (really amusing since she’s a she)
  • is gluing cinnamon rolls to her ears so she can be Princess Leia…
  • is dressing up as 42 so she can answer the ultimate question
  • is dressing up as Ford Prefect because she’s a hoopy Frood.
  • is dressing up like the Doctor so she can have a sonic screwdriver

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Assorted:

  • is dressing up like an icicle because she’s that chill
  • is dressing up like an airplane cause she’s just that fly
  • is dressing up like dynamite cause she’s a real firecracker
  • nobelnothought about dressing up like the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t want to look easy
  • is dressing up like a kid so she can get Halloween candy
  • is dressing up like a deck of cards to prove she’s playing with a full deck….
  • is dressing up like a deck of cards because she’s a heart clubbing with a spade full of diamonds
  • is dressing up like an angel cause she plans on partying like a devil
  • is dressing up like an IRS agent because she couldn’t find anything scarier
  • is dressing up like a firefighter in case she catches any guys on fire…
  • isn’t dressing up, so people can see she is a witch..
  • is dressing up like a spider, because they eat their mates… (for a divorced friend)
  • is dressing up like snow because she’s cool
  • is dressing up like music, cause the rhythm is gonna get ya
  • is dressing up like a broken shovel because she used to have a handle on life
  • is dressing up like salmon because she likes swimming against the stream
  • is dressing up as a dust bunny so she can hide your bed…

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From Others

  • is dressing up like butter cause she’s on a roll ~ TY Mike Shippey
  • is dressing up like a habanero cause she’s that hot ~ Freddie Franco
  • is dressing up like air conditioner because she’s a cool breeze ~ Fred Maestas
  • is dressing up as a magnet because she’s so attractive ~ Maggie Miller
  • is dressing up like a Mallard because she’s just ducky ~ Maggie Miller
  • is dressing up like Fort Knox cause she’s pure Gold ~ Maggie Miller
  • is dressing up like a Physics Equation because it’s scarier than the evil clown ~ Stella Todd
  • is dressing up as dynamite cause she’s having a blast ~ Paul Hobart
  • won’t dress up as a stock certificate because she doesn’t want anyone to sell her short ~ Mike Sweezy
  • dressing up as a credit card because she has such high interest rates? ~ Mike Sweezy
  • is dressing up as a car because she’s so driven ~ Trapper Sherwood

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Asking for help

Posted on October 27, 2009 by MJ Schrader

Like I said in the last post, I have been fighting depression, and trying to accept that people want to spend time with me.  In school sticking my nose in a book helped me not get picked on (even by a PE teacher, who coached my classmates into calling me names and hitting me).  Crying got me in trouble at home.  At 10 I had a detailed suicide plan.

Last weekend I was asked about dating in high school.  I didn’t date in high school not even asked out.  But I was happy to have a small group of friends.  Crushes, PE, weaknesses were ammunition for being attacked.  Married, my ex would say I was beautiful, but he didn’t want to touch me except in public, and I was friendless.  Bosses called me stupid, yet I was the one to call to fix things.  Any weakness I showed was attacked; yet I am the healer, the counselor.

My brain understand these are opposite messages.  My brain understands the negative things are just that and are something I need to let go.  Yet hiding behind books growing up, being cut off later, I have very few friends locally and then they are often busy with parental duties.  So I find myself wondering how to make friends…

Part of this is my own fault, because while I said a few months ago I would ask for help, but still don’t actively seek friends.   Calling people, visiting people are in the “don’t be a burden” memory banks.  So I trust a limited one or two and continue to feel isolated and unable to balance the opposites.

Then at Unseminar 7, after a speaker,upon standing, I felt the wave hit.  Shaking hands meant my blood sugar dropped.  I told Maggie I was going to get a candy bar, she saw my hands and told me to sit, and Bill to watch me. Suddenly there were people every where.  Lynette behind me. Rahdi, Jayson, and others, I don’t know who, because I was suddenly hot, my heart was beating like war drums.  My fumbling fingers couldn’t open a stupid banana, I was weak…

and there was no attack…

no one saying you are a failure, crybaby, idiot, you shoulda this, you shoulda that…

Suddenly I had a protein bar, meal bar and banana, which Jayson opened when he saw I couldn’t get it open. Lynette fanned my neck, and someone helped me slip off the shirt jacket I was wearing. Bill tested my blood. …

and I was loved…

I am loved.

How do I say thank you?

How can I be a friend?

So I ask for help… please teach me to be a friend…

MJ Schrader

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Movie Monday

Posted on October 26, 2009 by MJ Schrader

Movie Monday

People have asked me both what is Movie Monday and how to play it… So here’s the quick story.

So many people do not like Monday so I thought I would add some “spice” by creating “Movie Monday.” This is a fun game to make people smile.

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* HINT
Each Monday my Facebook Status will be a quotes from a popular movie.* I will post one hint which is direct link to the movie on IMDB.  IMDB does not put the title of the movie in the link, which is great for those who want to figure out what movie I am quoting, or if you want to guess.   If you click the link you can check it out.  If scroll all the way down to the bottom you can click quotes to get more quotes :)   Yes, that’s where I get the actual quote so it should be right.

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* RULES
But the rules of the game are simple.

Comment with other quotes from the movie.

I try to pick positive quotes from whatever movie. Last month I decided to start quoting only one movie on Monday.  Why? Because people would ask me later in the week, “what movie did you quote?” So let’s do a quick poll… stick with one movie with a couple status changes? Or do a couple movies on Monday?

* POLL

Questions

View Results

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* Re: Popular movie I am a bit of a sci-fi nut, but know people like romance so I will try to choose popular movies.  Also if you want me to quote a particular movie, please feel free to comment below :)

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* MY RADIO STATION

AND on another note check out my favorite radio station, it’s online. Mostly undiscovered artists, but it’s beautiful music and a wide variety. I listen all day and choose what type of music I want to hear that day.  Some days I listen to friends’ radio stations to find new artists.  Http://TheSixtyOne.com/MJSchrader

MJ Schrader

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Family, Friends Redefined?

Posted on October 14, 2009 by MJ Schrader


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D*MNED IF YOU DO
This has been on my mind a lot lately. Unfortunately, business success is a slow going process, which I understand. Yet, things have been happening that make life even harder, a lot of d*mned-if-you-do,-d*mned-if-you-don’t. In the summer I got rid of a lot of things in my house that had negative influences. Now I am looking at people.

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three headsIRONY
Pair of family members got into a discussion in my car saying that a divorced woman commits adultery by marrying again. This and other discussions were “because they were worried I didn’t believe in God.” Ironically because of these discussions I did before, and now I am not certain.

Meanwhile an ex-friend from Un5 told me no man would go out with me without sex. I want a man to want ALL OF ME, brains, laughing, dancing, studying, silly, pet owning, coffee loving me. Furthering the above mentioned d*mned cycle, if I stay in on Friday night, someone will ask “why aren’t you out?” Then I am told if you want to find someone “you need to learn to live alone.” I haven’t been on a date in over a year.

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IT GETS MESSY
So between problems with family and friends trying to decide if I want to date again, if so how to meet good men, and watching a friend go through a divorce. Then business related trying to get a business started.  Then financial related trying to decide what to do about an income, paying bills, having emergency expenses, and so much… and actually truth is I have been fighting depression since I got laid off in April, which grew when I quit in July, but I don’t need another job where I am treated like I am stupid (even told that by a manager).

Add in this past week I learned a VERY PAINFUL BUSINESS LESSON from “a friend” suddenly I was hurting so bad, I was worried I’d do something incredibly stupid that would get me hurt. Stress makes me turn fearless, combine a high pain tolerance & I do chores I shouldn’t, like clean gutters standing on the on the TOP step of a shaking ladder.

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FRIENDS REDEFINED:
But I made a comment about being incredibly hurt on Twitter and I wished I could talk to someone. Within minutes Martha was on the phone asking me what she could do. The next day, Maggie, Karen and Trapper had contacted me. I had pulled out of a forum and within days the founder talked to me. So the painful lesson resulted in me learning the difference between friends and those “who want to be your friend.”

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FAMILY REDEFINED:
Oddly earlier in the week someone asked me how do you define family. Being ever curious, I looked up the actual definition, expecting blood relations.  There are several definitions, household, common ancestry, scientific terms, and then: people who share a common background and goal. My family is rather small, shrunk further by discord, and I have always wanted to be part of a big family.

So rather than continue claiming “blood” family, I will claim those who share a common goal. The first being Love.

Which means a very few “blood” relations, plus a whole family who are not blood related to me, but they are family to me, and I them (Stella, April et.al. Love you!)  My family consists of someone I have loved (non-romantic) since we were singing “Froggy went a Courting” (Prince love you!)  Then there is Vicki in New Mexico. And many people I have met in the past 2 years that now are family (Maggie, Christy, Martha, Karen, Twenty, Carol and more)

So define your family and friends by your heart.  Ignore the words in dictionary. Don’t ignore your gut when it says don’t be friends with M even if friends say trust them.  Follow your heart. ♥

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So what is your definition of friends? Of family?

Does it really matter what the dictionary says or should they be defined by your heart?

MJ Schrader

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Time Line of a Bad Business Decision

Posted on October 8, 2009 by MJ Schrader

May 24
Someone who has already burnt you asks you to work with them, because the person is “working directly with X and Y” who are 2 big name internet marketers you want to learn from, you are promised that you will be taught secrets and you will get information soon.

June
The person is back home, you think. But when you contact the person they say they went back but are now traveling, and they will get you information soon. The person needs “WordPress work” but will not give any details on what is needed. Repeat in July.

September 4
You have asked repeatedly about above work, and you are on final stages of writing a book about “How to Set Up WordPress.” Suddenly the person contacts you. The person wants you to join a coaching program. The person asks you to join said program, you say, “No, I don’t have the money.” You repeat, you also explain “last chance, burn me this time WE ARE NOT FRIENDS.”  The person tells you if you do some work, that person will pay you enough to cover it. The work is setting up a couple wordpress sites per month and adding “some stuff” but that’s the only information you get.

September 11
Your WordPress guide is finished. (Ok, a week later you add another chapter, but still.) You are proud. Said person asks for a copy. Will review it, tell people, tell you if you made any editing mistakes. Your gut says no, but what could be the worst that happens?

September 27
The person does a class on WordPress. You see it on Twitter & Facebook.  Your real friends knowing you gave the person a copy, start asking “are you in on this?”

October 8
You send an email asking “what about the work you had for me?” You get an angry email saying that you never did anything, so you won’t get paid. And the person had to go out and learn how to do wordpress and “doesn’t need you anymore.” Something you’ve been told by bigger and better, but it hurts like h*ll.
Funny since you sent the person a how-to-book. Now you have a course to pay for that you joined ONLY BECAUSE the person insisted and because you were going to break even. Money is extremely tight.

October midnight 8 into 9
You wind up crying, and feeling absolutely nauseous.  And make a comment on Twitter and find out there are real friends in the world.

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It doesn’t matter, it’s in the past

Posted on September 24, 2009 by MJ Schrader

Perhaps you know, perhaps you don’t, but on my Facebook I have Movie Mondays. Every Monday, my status all day long is a quote from a movie. If I update it, I change it to a different movie. The game is played simply by replying with a different quote from the movie.

One of the movies this week was “Lion King,” and I went to IMDB to find a quote to use, I like using one that’s not too obvious. Yet, in reading the quotes I could not help but think about life and the choices made in the past and things that happened in the past. Sometimes we get stuck in the past and demand certain things from it.

We decide our past is the only possible future. We expect to be bound and limited by past limitations. Or even expect because people told you repeatedly you are a failure that when you start moving towards success, you wait patiently for someone to slap your knuckles and say you are still a failure. When no one does, you slow up, waiting… waiting to be told, or somehow make it true. Or not allowing yourself to stretch or grow because of your past limitations, and making them your current limitations.

But here’s a scene for you…

Adult Simba: I know what I have to do. But going back will mean facing my past. I’ve been running from it for so long. [Rafiki hits Simba on the head with his stick] Ow! Jeez, what was that for?

Rafiki: It doesn’t matter. It’s in the past.

Adult Simba: Yeah, but it still hurts.

Rafiki: Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or… learn from it.

So, rather than be stuck in the past, use the past pains, the past limitations to learn from them. If some limit does actually still exist, find a way to work around it. If something in your past does hurt you, look at it again. Perhaps someone hurt you, maybe they were in a painful point in their life, maybe they could not see your point of view, maybe they thought they were being helpful. But whatever happened, happened in the past, you can’t change it, no one else can change it.

What happens in your future is up to you, this is something I am trying to accept now.

A friend’s marriage is ending because of deception. My dating experiences are limited, and unfortunately have included some bad experiences, as mentioned in the “It’s my fault” post. It is easy to look at the past and say so the future will be. That’s not fair or true. It’s not right for me to sabotage prospects, deny possible men, or expect the worst. Yet I have. :(

So here and now I make a choice. I choose to allow opportunities even though they may scare me. In my business life I choose to accept success is something I can have. I choose to accept that someone can like me for who I am as a person.

Are you allowing your past to hold you prisoner?

Are you sabotaging your future to make your past correct?

It doesn’t matter. It’s in the past

Rock on!

MJ Schrader

LoveRockstar


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Research Behavior and Bananas

Posted on September 13, 2009 by MJ Schrader

It’s been an interesting week. Last week, I spent many hours absorbing as much material as I can to make certain I covered all the basics and each step of setting up a WordPress website. Not that I didn’t know the steps, but that I have now set up enough WP sites that it has become rote.

When I went through the process of signing up at one site, I realized that I went through several steps quickly without noticing what steps were actually involved. While the process is automatic for me now, it took a bit of thought the first go round all those years ago, yet I was already considered a bit of a geek. So I had to go through the process again and again and again to note each step.

But how much of our behavior becomes memorized and so we go through the motions without realizing what all is involved?

Both good and bad?

We develop certain patterns to make our lives easier or at least that’s the logic. Yet sometimes the easier solution is just waiting to be found by analyzing our steps and patterns. This past month I learned how to open a banana.

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Yup, 37 and I just found out how to open a banana. :)

Seriously I did like you probably do, which is “grab the handle and pull it” of course if it’s a little brown or green it doesn’t work that well. Brown means you bruise the banana more, green and it doesn’t tear.

BUT… flip the banana around, start at the “tail end” pinch the end. Turn the banana 90 degrees and pinch the end again and pull. You will find the banana opens easy, amazingly easy. Just right / Green /Brown makes no difference. Yet, this one little change has made life a bit easier. So what you say? It’s just a banana…

The point is sometimes when we slowly go through something that is rote, we actually see the steps. Then we realize we do things because it was what we learned, what seemed to work, or what worked at the time. Things change.

While writing the “Rockstar Guide to WordPress” I started explaining how to do a process. However when I actually did, I found the process had changed and was simpler. I also found a new ways to drop a few steps from the whole set-up process. Sadly being the geek that I am, I actually make some steps more complicated than they should be.

So, this week I ask you to notice the steps involved in something you do automatically. What steps do you do just because?

Is there a way to change what you do that will make it easier?

Or a way to eliminate or combine steps?

Rock on!

MJ Schrader

LoveRockstar

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Losing Time

Posted on August 27, 2009 by MJ Schrader

I have a sinus infection. Hate when that happens.  Finally realized that after 4 days of my head non-stop hurting. Of course, when I admit that I have a sinus infection someone will tell me to go to a doctor, which means antibiotics. Been kicked by a horse twice, cut my finger almost to the bone, broke my baby toe, and didn’t go to a doctor, so nope, not going for this.

Did just do a Cayenne sinus rinse. Yes, it’s just like it sounds. A sinus rinse with a pinch of Cayenne pepper. THANK GOD, when I am in pain I lose verbal skills. So instead of swearing, screaming, and other such profanities, I hit my skull with the palm of my hand, stamped my foot, and scared the dog.

BUT NOW I CAN THINK!! My head is finally feeling clearer and I can actually feel the infection deciding it doesn’t want to fight with someone as crazy as me. “Wow, that woman actually put cayenne IN HER NOSE to get rid of me…”

But I should have listened to my body. Instead I was unable to think clearly for days and blaming everything else under the sun. Friday and Saturday night I went out with friends from many years ago. I have never been one to go out much, so 2 nights of drinking, hollering, and hanging out might effect my body I thought. Even though I didn’t drink that much, and Saturday night rather than drive the hour home exhausted, I stayed in Dallas with friends. (Thank you B.A. Thank you P.S., there is a post dedicated just to this past weekend in the works.

The heat here has been bad. My office is the warmest room in my house. Top that with a 30 minute walk EVERY morning even in this heat. Add puppy-sitting mom’s 9 puppies, which means checking on them, catching and playing with them etc… in 100+ degree weather. So I blamed these factors. That’s why I am so tired. Why my muscles hurt, why I am sleeping horribly and then having to take long naps.

All the while watching my eyes getting puffier and growing ever bigger black circles. The number one sign of my having a sinus infection is staring me in the face every time I look in the mirror.

Yet this is something we often do. We forget to listen to our bodies, to borrow from Princess Bride (simply because it’s epically funny) “If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.”

But the previous line is important as well, Prince Humperdink tells Count Rogen “Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I’ve got my country’s 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Gilder to frame for it. I’m swamped!”

While I do hope that those exact things are not in your schedule, my dear reader, I wonder if your schedule is as full? Or perhaps it’s even more jam-packed?

Because you have “so much to do” you don’t listen when your body tells you that something is not right. If you do notice not feeling well, you blame the wrong things, like I blamed the late nights, the heat, etc… If you don’t take care of your health then you lose part of your life.

Literally.

I lost 3 days of work, because I couldn’t focus on my writing. So an assignment that I should have finished yesterday, still has two days of work left. On the plus side I was able to study a course, but had I been feeling better I would not have had to hit replay 3 times during one section.

But we’ve all done it. You’ve gotten the flu, been “too busy to rest” as necessary. So rather than rest a day or so, you keeping working. Jobs that are normally quick and easy are slow and cumbersome. Then the flu laughs at you becoming easy prey, and you spend the next few days to week in bed with the flu. Coughing, sneezing, hurting, and worse.

Time is something we can’t get back; so make a choice…

Do you want to listen to your body or lose time?


Live ♥ Laugh ♥ Love

MJ Schrader

LoveRockstar

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Breaking It Down

Posted on August 10, 2009 by MJ Schrader

Salem finally had his surgery Friday!

For those who don’t know, my 9 (10 on Halloween) year old black cat was attacked by a stray. He came home scratched up; I thought, but after a few days; it was clear, he needed veterinary assistance. The vet shaved him, cleaned him and in addition to some wounds elsewhere, there were LITERALLY CHUNKS OF FLESH missing from his back!

Dr. Claude Waters gave me a bottle of antibiotics and ointment, with a “come-back-next-week.” So every day, twice a day, I had to pin my poor cat down, shove a dropper full of antibiotics down his throat, and put ointment into his wounds. Note: Yes, into. No, I don’t have a strong stomach.

We came back the next week and got a repeat. The third visit he went to a stronger antibiotic, with another “come-back-next-week.” This antibiotic is also stronger smelling, and Salem really hates it. The fourth visit he said “come back in 2 weeks and hopefully we can stitch him up.”

Friday, 6 weeks after being attacked by a stray, Salem had his surgery. I have counted 9 stitches. My stomach is apparently stronger than it was 5 weeks ago because the stitches don’t phase me.

Here’s a picture of my “poodle” now :) If he knew about blogs, he’d kill me.

That’s 5 weeks of antibiotics and ointment, 4 office visits, one surgery with anesthesia.

After the third week I was in a panic over expenses. Plus the Unseminar 7 tickets are for sale, and I want to go. So in anguish and dread I told a forum and my Mastermind group, I need money. The forum said look around your house, there’s got to be something for you to sell.

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This is a note for everyone: Finding Product isn’t hard

If you have been online for a bit, you have ebooks with Master Resale Rights, and Private Label Rights. Master resale rights or MRR means you can resell them. Private label rights or PLR can be sold as is, changed, re-worded whatever to sell and add money in your pocket. Typically both of these come with the sales page. Even if you don’t have some, it’s easy enough to type in MRR or PLR and your niche and get ebooks.

In my case, the Mastermind group recommended selling the interviews from the “Vanquishing Your Demons” marathon. This is my niche, helping people make their inner rockstar shine. So this fits. But it would be easy for me to panic, which is something we all do at various times.

You see I have 12 hours of interviews, plus there are at least 3 more in the works. getting all of these transcribed is quite a bit of money and time. The thing is, who said I had to sell the complete package right away?

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Break it down!

So I broke it down. One interview released each week, that will give the transcriber time for transcribing, me time for copy writing, and after a couple sales I will have money to pay for the next transcription.

T hus the release of the interviews are going in order of creation. The 10am call with Twenty Twenty is now available here. It’s $24.95, there is a lot of great information there, and it includes the transcription.

The whole set will be available when I get them all transcribed, plus some great bonuses that aren’t ready yet. People will really want the set when they learn who I will be interviewing in the near future. Of course the set would sell for a discount over buying each individual call.

But then someone who bought the individual calls would feel overcharged. Plus, I need money now, and I certainly can’t charge the complete price, so the answer was simple. Charge $100 for the set this first week and each week with the new interview the price goes up by $10.

So I wrote a simple sales letter, and offered the whole set for $100, and the buyer will get each call as soon as it’s ready.

Thus a budget painful thing like Salem’s surgery and wanting tickets to Unseminar becomes a catalyst to produce ways to make money.


MJ Schrader

@LoveRockstar


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P.S. To help build my business here’s a contest: If you want a chance to win Twenty’s interview. On Twitter recommend @mr2020 & include this link http://bit.ly/ygeuH If you have at least five Tweets with the link & recommending him, you will be entered into the drawing. On Friday I will pick someone to get it free!

PPS If you want the set for free: I am part of Niche Club by Eric Farewell, if you join Niche Club through my link, I will give you the complete set for free. You need to email me with your receipt.


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