Summer Business Blog Challenge Week Six

This was a real busy week - getting ready for the baby in 19 days ...  I did write my post for the Summer Business Blog Challenge this morning and will post it tonight after I write this post to share two posts from other participants.

Maria Dykstra of TreDigital wrote a post titled "3 Facebook Marketing Strategies for Building Your Thought Leadership".  Maria's 3 bullets:  1) Share on Personal Facebook Page  2) Use Facebook Live 3) Buy Facebook Advertising.  Probably all good ideas.  I'm more than a little burned out on Facebook these days and think there is already too much, mostly ineffective, advertising there.  At the same time, I'm sure there are businesses that are killing it by using Facebook advertising.

Alternative Health Marketer Diana Khoury wrote a post called "Struggling in Your Business? The Support You Need is All Around You. Here’s How to Find It."  She gives a lot of great tips of where to find support as an Entrepreneur - including professional associations, networking groups, meet-ups and more.

Summer Business Blog Challenge Shares Week 5

Although it seems that there may be a little steam run off from the Summer Business Blog Challenge, I am pushing through with my shares for the week.

At this point, there are not a lot of posts to choose from this week, but here are two that I believe are worthy of sharing:

How to go from "Overwhelmed to OVER JOYED!" by Molly Mahoney of The Prepared Performer.  In this post Molly give us three great tips on how to feel super happy and excited rather than overwhelmed.  My favorite tip is to quit doing the things in your business that do not serve you.  I'm working on that now.

Molly and The Prepared Performer on Facebook

Finding Inspiration ....  by Melinda Slater of Slater Interiors.  Lots of great ideas in this post for finding inspiration.  My favorites include: go for a walk, take a weekend trip out of town and visit Open Houses, but my go-to is to rearrange the furniture in a room or the complete house.  You'll never know what kind of ideas might come of it - and I always seem to like change ...

Follow Slater Design on Houzz

Summer Business Blog Challenge Shares

When all doesn't go as planned, go get Pluto ;-)

Lots of great blog posts to read this week during the Summer Business Blog Challenge.

Another member of Debbie Whitlock's Summer Business Blog Challenge, Janis Barry-Flagg is a wedding officiant and has some stories to tell.  In her blog post entitled "Waiting to Officiate a Wedding This Afternoon", Janis explains that often things don't happen as planned, but most of the time they work out perfectly anyway.

Gratitude Journal August 11th

These are just some of the things that I am grateful for today:

1. Only 36 days until the scheduled appearance of Ava Kalea.  #AvaKalea
2. Dr. appointment tomorrow could clear the way for surgery I've been waiting for.
3. 93.1 Da Paina - radio from Hawaii.  I can feel like I'm home without actually being there.
4. Warm, sunny San Diego weather.
5. Options.  Very thankful to have lots of options.
6. So happy that Stacia loves working at Fortune Builders.  They've been treating her so well!  Such a great company to work for.  Maybe I'll work for CT Homes in the near future ..... ?
7. Being self-motivated.  A true blessing.
8. My mom.  Always right.  Taught me to write.
9. Being a Daddy Blogger. Who would have thought?
10. Clean eating. Green drinks. Just being healthy!

Bonus:  11.  Old black and white photos ;-) (see above - I was styling on my Radio Super Red Wagon at 14 months - and waiting for Mike Kennedy to arrive on the scene.)

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These are the things that I am feeling grateful for today:

1. I'm glad that Stacia gets to carry the baby until she is born.

2. Super thankful that I get to listen to the music and podcasts I want (right now it is Da Pa'ina radio from Hawaii).

3. That I am anti-political.

4. My writing groove seems to be making a re-appearance.

5. A new towel rack in the bathroom (it was really needed - and make get a mate soon).

6. The possibility of getting an electric vehicle - even if it is a Nissan Leaf.

7. So many things to write about!

8. The opportunity to become more focused ....

9. That I have a MacBook Pro to write on until I get a 'real' computer (or my computer back from WA).

10. A chance to make incoming EFTs a constant part of my life!

Bonus:  Super clean eating, while planning a couple of cheats:  Chocolate Malts with French Toast (on Hawaiian bread) tonight / tomorrow morning to celebrate Makaya's send off to Bellevue.

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Joe Kennedy's Gratitude Journal August 1, 2016

Today I Am Grateful For:

- Writing my gratitude journal two days in a row!
- August
- Makaya getting to hang out with his friend from up North
- Nice weekend, spending lots of time with Stacia
- Green drinks
- Mondays
- All the many prospective employers who would not even give me an interview.
- Michelle Richmond - Happy Birthday!
- An opportunity to build a real estate company the way I want.
- Music - live and recorded.

Bonus:  the ability to make my own decisions.

What are YOU grateful for?

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I like to think that I am fairly good at practicing gratitude ..... but after reading, (and sharing) Patricia LeBlanc's post How to Live a Healthy and Abundant Life the other day, I have been making sure to make note of at least 10 things that I am grateful for.

Today marks the first day that I actually document this by writing them down.  Although it is the last day of the month, the best time to start anything is NOW - and I did not want to wait even one more day to get started.

Here are just some of the things that I am grateful for today: