Finished the night shift at 7am, in bed after getting home and checking emails at 8.30, up at 12 dinnertime (or Lunchtime as you say here in Norfolk) and got started
I'm joining loads of new lists, or creating new additional memberships in them. A total of 600 new accounts - that gives me a total of 1,200 email confirmation links to click on to verify my email addresses are valid.
This takes hours to do! But it will be worth it - I'll be able to advertise to another one and half million people when its finished. Just have to hope that some of these new prospects actually read their emails and not just delete them!
As you can see from the heading on this blog, I've had 2 new sales overnight. A brilliant feeling when the business works like this. Only a few quid each admittedly, but, in the words of Tessa Cohen (Tesco - yes, that's where the name comes from - ) Every Little helps.
As well as working on the retail site getting that ready for uploading as soon as I can, I'm hitting the other side of the business as hard as I can. My number one target is to get the business books balnced to relieve pressure on my wages every month.
See, when the St Johns Wort kicks in and works ok, I'm OK. Just get energy from somewhere. It's not pschcological either - I genuinely feel OK, and have done so for the last 2 days or so. I just hope I'm not tempting fate here - The only major downside to the St Johns Wort is that it makes me so tired , which is really bad as I work nightshifts!
But the tiredness could also be a result of the long hours in front of the computer, and the fact that I only get between 4-5 hours sleep a day, and for you day workers out there, thats the same as you getting up at 3am every day if you go to bed at 11!
What time did you get up today? And you've had how many hours sleep?
Until tomorrow,
Paul
"Eliminating Failure as an option"
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Saturday 3rd February - 1 new sale & the car makes it!
Well, as the heading says, the car made it to and from work today, and I'm grateful. At several times on the journeys, I had serious doubts. And the sound effects when turning right are totally unreal!
Still got to use it again tomorrow though until we can find some petrol money from somewhere for the wife's car.
Another bit of good news today - the advertising I did yesterday has brought in another new customer today. Gradually, bit by bit, I'm breaking this thing's back and building up my monthly income again.
Talking about income, I've earned £1,823.41 in January between the business and my job. But, if I am to earn £50,000 this year to give me the gross amount I need to pay my bills, I should have earned £4,246.69 in January.
That makes me £2,423.28 short, just in January alone. So, basically, I need to earn another £78.17 per day, every day in January, just to have brought me up to target.
Now, I've just got to work out how to make up the difference somehow. Only by earning the £50,000 can I pay all my bills, on time, as they fall due. That doesn't include pensions or life insurance - just the basics only. And, I'm trying to treat this as an opportunity somehow, just like the experts tell me to.
That's why this business must take off. Urgently.
Until tomorrow
Paul
"Eliminating failure as an option"
Still got to use it again tomorrow though until we can find some petrol money from somewhere for the wife's car.
Another bit of good news today - the advertising I did yesterday has brought in another new customer today. Gradually, bit by bit, I'm breaking this thing's back and building up my monthly income again.
Talking about income, I've earned £1,823.41 in January between the business and my job. But, if I am to earn £50,000 this year to give me the gross amount I need to pay my bills, I should have earned £4,246.69 in January.
That makes me £2,423.28 short, just in January alone. So, basically, I need to earn another £78.17 per day, every day in January, just to have brought me up to target.
Now, I've just got to work out how to make up the difference somehow. Only by earning the £50,000 can I pay all my bills, on time, as they fall due. That doesn't include pensions or life insurance - just the basics only. And, I'm trying to treat this as an opportunity somehow, just like the experts tell me to.
That's why this business must take off. Urgently.
Until tomorrow
Paul
"Eliminating failure as an option"
Friday, February 02, 2007
Friday 2nd February - money's all gone
I didn't want January to prove itself as a bad month - I already knew it was. And now, in it's final act of revenge, January has left me with no money, and it's a week until I get paid next.
My final rest day has flown by, and I'm now preparing myself for work again. I was woken up by the cat yowling just after Midnight so I was up for an hour then. Then when I woke up this morning at 8am, I woke in one of the blackest moods possible as I know I'm at work tomorrow.
This is normal for me, I just hate the thought of going to work, and my last day off is always full of black moods and absolute dread.
It's not the job that does this to me - although I don't particularily like my job, and I've had worse, it's just as if I go into mental closedown the day before I have to go out to work.
Talking of going out, I haven't been outside the front door since I got back on my first day off last Saturday. Not once. On that count, at least, I've been lucky.
The day got progressively worse as I realised the money problem. My wifes car is out of petrol, so I'm having to use mine for another week as I put petrol in it last weekend just before the fault got really bad and I had to take it off the road. So, I'm using a car in danger of breaking down because we have no money for petrol for the other one.
I have no money for cigarettes, newspapers or anything else for work this week.
And the uncertainty of the car breaking down multiplies my feeling of dread 100 times. It's bad enough been forced to go out again, let alone with no money, no petrol, and a car breakdown.
My proper St Johns Wort tablets came today, so that's one positive thing about today. Trouble is though, that they take 2-3 days to soak into my system and start to work.
All I've done today is work on the retail web site, and a little bit of advertising this afternoon. No sales though. Paypal and Bank Account empty. I've still got a thousand and one things to do, and now I've wasted this week decorating, there's no time left.
What a life
"Eliminating failure as an option"
Paul
My final rest day has flown by, and I'm now preparing myself for work again. I was woken up by the cat yowling just after Midnight so I was up for an hour then. Then when I woke up this morning at 8am, I woke in one of the blackest moods possible as I know I'm at work tomorrow.
This is normal for me, I just hate the thought of going to work, and my last day off is always full of black moods and absolute dread.
It's not the job that does this to me - although I don't particularily like my job, and I've had worse, it's just as if I go into mental closedown the day before I have to go out to work.
Talking of going out, I haven't been outside the front door since I got back on my first day off last Saturday. Not once. On that count, at least, I've been lucky.
The day got progressively worse as I realised the money problem. My wifes car is out of petrol, so I'm having to use mine for another week as I put petrol in it last weekend just before the fault got really bad and I had to take it off the road. So, I'm using a car in danger of breaking down because we have no money for petrol for the other one.
I have no money for cigarettes, newspapers or anything else for work this week.
And the uncertainty of the car breaking down multiplies my feeling of dread 100 times. It's bad enough been forced to go out again, let alone with no money, no petrol, and a car breakdown.
My proper St Johns Wort tablets came today, so that's one positive thing about today. Trouble is though, that they take 2-3 days to soak into my system and start to work.
All I've done today is work on the retail web site, and a little bit of advertising this afternoon. No sales though. Paypal and Bank Account empty. I've still got a thousand and one things to do, and now I've wasted this week decorating, there's no time left.
What a life
"Eliminating failure as an option"
Paul
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Thursday 1st February - Finished decorating.
The incredible pain in my stomach/windpipe woke me up this morning at 1am and I had to get up for an hour to wait for the pain to subside. I've got my tablets - at 11am - and took one straight away, followed by another one at 5pm.
The pains been made worse by the fact that I've been stretching up putting ceiling tiles up - and as I stretch, the scarring in my windpipe is pulled about something chronic. The pain this gives me is totally different from the acid burning/red raw pain I normally get. Most forms of physical exercise give me an extremely sore chest - I can't describe the type of pain, it's almost like the scar has swelled up inside my windpipe and it can be extremely uncomfortable. Walking in cold weather gives me the same symptons as well.
At last I've finished the planned decorating - the ceiling tiles we brought from Focus are extremely fiddly to put up - or stay put up anyway (I've only had 2 come back down). The problem is that we brought 100 of these tiles, thinki9ng they would be enough to do the front room, but it turns out we were short in our guesswork - we need about another 200 to finish the job off.
You can tell I've been neglecting the business this week - I've just lost a regular subscriber.
Okay, now the decorating's finished I can get on. Problem is that I have no time. Tomorrow, somehow, I want to do a days work on the business, it's new web site, I've got to sort the car out as well as it's now off the road, I'm aiming on doing the revised budget and seeing how much short I was in January - and I know january was a really bad month - I've got letters that must be written to correct the non - payments in January - amongst other things.
Not that there's any pressure. Oh, and did I mention I'm back at work at 7am Saturday?
"Eliminating failure as an option"
Paul
The pains been made worse by the fact that I've been stretching up putting ceiling tiles up - and as I stretch, the scarring in my windpipe is pulled about something chronic. The pain this gives me is totally different from the acid burning/red raw pain I normally get. Most forms of physical exercise give me an extremely sore chest - I can't describe the type of pain, it's almost like the scar has swelled up inside my windpipe and it can be extremely uncomfortable. Walking in cold weather gives me the same symptons as well.
At last I've finished the planned decorating - the ceiling tiles we brought from Focus are extremely fiddly to put up - or stay put up anyway (I've only had 2 come back down). The problem is that we brought 100 of these tiles, thinki9ng they would be enough to do the front room, but it turns out we were short in our guesswork - we need about another 200 to finish the job off.
You can tell I've been neglecting the business this week - I've just lost a regular subscriber.
Okay, now the decorating's finished I can get on. Problem is that I have no time. Tomorrow, somehow, I want to do a days work on the business, it's new web site, I've got to sort the car out as well as it's now off the road, I'm aiming on doing the revised budget and seeing how much short I was in January - and I know january was a really bad month - I've got letters that must be written to correct the non - payments in January - amongst other things.
Not that there's any pressure. Oh, and did I mention I'm back at work at 7am Saturday?
"Eliminating failure as an option"
Paul
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