Never Enough Time In The Day

There is never enough time in the day. I know I am not the only one who feels this way, but lately it has been haunting me. Over and over again, I work hard and end up falling short. I just can't seem to get enough done. I do this or that, and it isn't enough. There are peppers to be cut up and frozen, there is a kid who wants outside, and more writing to do. I am working hard to make money doing the things I love, but it takes a lot of time and a lot of energy. Our Google Adsense has grown, but not near enough. We need to be making a lot more with it then we are...

My articles have grown a lot, but not enough. I need more, more, more! LOL.

Who are You?

We watched the Nanny Diaries last night. Not the best movie in the world, but the line that sticks out most is, "In your own words describe who Annie Broddock is." If asked the same question do you know what you would say? I am not completely sure what I would say either. I think the answer often has to do with priorities.

I am a mother. I have a wonderful growing boy. He is 19 months, has beautiful blue eyes, a wonderful smile, and a devilish monster side. He makes me smile, laugh, and cry (sometimes good and sometimes bad!)

I am a wife. He completes me. He makes me feel like the most cherished beautiful woman in the world. He loves me and I love him. While we have only been married for two and a half years I can't remember life being good before I married him.

Well, both of those depend on other people, but they are both parts of who I am. Parts I cherish very much.

I am a writer. Some may dispute this fact. But I feel that it is part of who I am. It goes far beyond what I do. It is part of my heart, soul, and mind. It helps to form most of my actions.

I am a blogger and freelancer. While newer titles, I can pounce on them. I spend a great deal of time writing both for other sites and for my own. I am seeing the financial benefits of such slowly, but surely.

Who are you?

Blogging

I now have a million and one blogs. Okay, not quite that many, but somedays it feels like it. I haven't done a great job maintaining my blogs since working on the Helium reward athon, but I have been here and there a time or two. Today, I worked on updating them all. It has taken a little time and I have two left (after this one), but I am feeling pretty good about it.

Money wise the blogs have made a few hundred dollars (more like six hundred, or maybe closer to seven hundred) through sponsored posts. Sponsored posts seem to have gone down a lot since Google adsense hacked at page ranks of people using them (both posting them and paying for them). I haven't been making more then $75 a month where in November I made almost $300 from sponsored posts.

This means the blogs aren't really worth it yet. I am hoping to get enough traffic that they work their way into being worth it with Google Adsense. I don't want to work real hard trying to advertise or sell space. I would rather it be simple. However, that might take some time. Right now we are on a tripling pattern which could be great if it keeps up. November we made 15 cents, December 49 cents, last month $1.55. So far this month (which is indeed almost over) we have made $4.26. We are only cents away from tripling last months income.

Okay, well off to write about this and that and the other thing!

Goals, Writing, and Hoping

My life right now is centered on three or four main things. The first of which is my son. He is 19 months, all boy, and a handful. Because of that, he takes the cake for most of my time. Then comes my online work. I have a lot of hopes and goals there and some days I feel really good about where I am. Other days I don't feel so good about it, but time will tell. The third would be my husband. He is the reason that number two is working hard right now. The goal is that I can replace his income with work online by 2011 and he can quit his job and work with me here at home.

Anyway. I have been writing as much as I can in the hopes of making it all happen as I plan. I have watched our Google Adsense triple each month for the last three months and am hoping this happens again this month. November we made 15 cents. That's something to laugh about. December we made 49 cents. Well, still nothing to brag about, but it did triple! January we made 1.55. I was feeling pretty good about this. I am hoping to make at least 4.50 this month. Right now we are at 3.06. It could still happen, there are a few days left. But...I don't want to be too disappointed about a buck and a half!

Other then that, I am writing hard and working hard on all sorts of sites with the hopes of building up passive income. This is where I am at. November I made just over 300 dollars. December just over 200. January just over 500. I don't know how much I will make this month, but I don't think it will be as high as last month. I know I can't cry over that and I just have to keep working hard and keep moving forward.

Time will tell. I have a lot of time left before 2011. It is only a matter of time to grow this into a great amount! lol...at least I hope!

Content Management

Okay, so I haven't been here much lately. I should be here more. I should be pouring time and energy into all that I do. But often I just don't know what to say. I walk around going, "HMMMMMM...what to blog about, what to blog about?!" Okay, so maybe not that bad. It is actually worse then that. I write great blogs while walking around taking care of my daily life. It is when I sit in front of the computer that one of two things happens. Either I get busy writing and doing other things in other locations. Or I don't know what to write and stare at the blank box here on Blogger (or Wordpress for my other blogs). This blogging thing isn't always easy.

But that isn't what I really wanted to mention today. I really wanted to complain. I went to write an article on how to drive traffic to your Helium page. There was one article in the category and it is closed. A little quick research says that he, the author, is someone who is responsible for content management on Helium. It would appear, that he has closed the topic so that his article is the only one on it. That bugs me a little bit....

I hate when people do things like that to keep the profit for themselves. After all, I might just have something great to add about driving traffic to Helium that people are missing out on because I can't write the article. Err.

Anyway, I hope you have been having a great time. I promise I will be around more and more often in the next few weeks!