Quest for Quiescence

I recently wrote a post about challenging yourself. In this post I created a challenge for for myself to complete that week. Time has really gotten away from me and I now realize that it’s actually been two weeks since I wrote that post.

What was the challenge?

The challenge was to generate some traffic to this blog by commenting on other blogs, and by setting up a twitter account. The idea was to overcome my fear and get the word out about this blog.

How did I do?

As I mentioned above, I forgot to post on my progress at the end of the week which isn’t good. However, I did comment on a few blogs and a forum and that was able to generate several visitors to this site. This was done in that first week so I did meet that aspect of my challenge. Unfortunately, I have not set up a twitter account yet. I won’t consider this a failure because I did manage to get my name out there and pull in some visitors to this site.

Final thoughts

I don’t have a lot of time to work on my alternative income streams and I’m a little concerned that twitter would only add to my distractions. I read another inspiring post today about a tool for encouraging people to tweet about blog posts. The post was written by Pat over at The Smart Passive Income blog and even though it was about the tool, it’s another example of the power of twitter. Basically, the post explains how by using this tool, eight of his readers spread the word about his blog to about 40,000 other twitter members. Impressive. I really think I’m going to have to at least give twitter a try.

I must say that I am excited about what this blog and setting up challenges is doing for me.  Even though I only completed half of my challenge, the key is that the blog is doing it’s job and holding me accountable to what I say I’m going to do. If it wasn’t for this blog I probably wouldn’t have created the challenge in the first place, let alone feel obligated to follow through. To keep the ball rolling I’m hereby setting another challenge for myself to get a twitter account up and running by the end of next week. Let’s see if I can follow through this time!

Today (as I write this post) it happens to be the last day of the September which marks the end of my first full month blogging! Shortly, I’m going to post my very first Monthly Income Report. This will be the benchmark on which I measure my alternative income revenue going forward.

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