You see, there was a computer game that was just released recently called Dead Island.  It is a game where you are one of four survivors from a zombie outbreak and you are trying to get off of an island alive.  Like any classic zombie movie, you are not alone, and you can play with up to four other people.

The game has a unique feature that you can just jump into someone else’s game if they are at the same location on the island as you are.  This means that no matter what time of day it might be, you can find someone to play with.  Working together certainly has its’ rewards, and gives you the opportunity to work together (or separately) towards a common goal.

I have been playing Dead Island now for over six weeks now and I have met a multitude of people.  But except for a few jerks, most of them are really nice people in all different stages of life.  There are people that are in the middle of working on their college degrees, people who just lost their jobs, and even a couple people like me working at home.  Having the opportunity to connect with others is great especially when you consider the isolation of working from home.

So, if you happen to be online playing Dead Island sometime, look me up on Steam – I play under the name Dom Qu'ar.

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This week, we have received calls from the same private and blocked number about eight times and they have wanted to speak to my wife every time.  “Unfortunately” she has been working, so tonight was the first time that she was home.

After they talked to her for a couple of minutes, the lady on the other end of the line wanted to talk to me.

Great.

When I picked up the phone she started rambling on how my wife had signed up for some contest on some site and we had won a trip to Universal Studios.  Being skeptical, my first question was:

“What site did she register on to enter the contest?”

Her response:

“It could have been any site…”

Wrong answer.  I asked her to take my name off the list and the call ended right there.

But at the same time, you find yourself with very few people to bounce ideas off of.  This can be problematic when you want to try something new – you have no one to talk to.

This just means that you need to use a little more trial and error, but in the end, you usually end up learning some valuable lessons.

An example of this is what I am doing right now – I am working on a plan to mass market a large number of blogs – 850 or so at the time of this writing.  Though most people would be intimidated by the task, these sort of challenges get me excited and remind me why I have decided the career path I have chosen.

So don’t be afraid to be different – where is the fun in being a sheep?

But procrastination will not get me or my family to the financial position that we need.  After my wife being let go last week from her job, the success of the business is even more important.  So it is time to “put up or shut up” and I better do what needs to be done instead of just farting around.

I have decided that an easy way to help me focus on work instead of just “farting around” is that I need a computer that is just solely for work.  This mean no Twitter, Skype, or checking stats (or email) five billion times per day.  This is a big time waster for me, and I can’t do that anymore.

So, I will be working by the clock, using a timer and working 50 minutes out of every hour.  During my break I am “allowed” to check my email and all that other “fun” stuff, but when I am working, that is all that I will be doing.

I will be reporting back in about a week to let you all know how it is going – I know that in the past when I lived my life by the timer I actually got a lot done, so I hope that it will work well this time too.

Anyway, enough of this blogging – I should get back to work before I need to go to bed (that is the new time management focused me talking   ).

Specifically, I have been working on blog commenting which does take a little time.  I am making the point to read the blog posts so that I can make a constructive comment.  I have been reading a lot today, and have learned quite a bit, but there is one thing that I have really noticed:

Most people are not blogging constantly.

I admit that I am in that boat too, but there are a lot of people that haven’t even made one blog post this year – which is unacceptable.  Not only does this mean that they will see a reduction in traffic, but what makes it worse is that their sites could totally go stagnate and lose all their search engine rankings.

After learning my mistake last year with my main site, I have been making an effort to at least blog once per month, but hopefully I will be able to do more than that – I guess time will tell.