On Integrity

You are a human being, and as such, you have no integrity.

You create integrity out there, in the real world, by putting a declaration out there with your word, which creates a new entity (you could substitute "possibility" in for "entity".  I am using "entity" because I am looking at creating a whole realm of possibility around my work, so that may be more than a single possibility, and it can really mean anything you can create with word.)  

Then, THAT ENTITY you've created with your word will have integrity with your word.  

You can relate to knowing yourself as your word or stand in THAT ENTITY.  And of course, standing there, you can tell if it's in integrity or not and make choices about how to proceed.

However, you are not that entity - you are a human being - and as such, you have no integrity.  The same way a cat or dog has no "integrity" - it's just a cat or a dog - you are just a human being they call Jaimie.  Jaimie doesn't have integrity, Jaimie is simply what's so, he's just the way Jaimie is.    

Similarly, Jaimie's "life" is Jaimie's "life", and that is mostly an undeclared mess of internal states - it's not the same as an entity that is created by word.  Entities that are created by word can then have integrity to that word, because they are created by it and they are either in line with the word or they aren't.

If I declare a corporation as named "Jaimie's Crab Shack LLC", then the business "Iconic Crab Shack, Inc." is not that entity.  Nor is the DBA registered to Jaimie named "Jaimie's Crab Shack".  Jaimie's Crab Shack LLC is Jaimie's Crab Shack LLC, and we're either talking about Jaimie's Crab Shack LLC or we're not.  Entities you create with word work similarly.

So you might know yourself as your word, and when your word goes out of integrity, that just means you've lost touch with that entity and need to restore it.  If desired, develop a stronger relationship there, but it's integrity has no reflection on your integrity, because you never had any integrity begin with, and you never will.  You can know yourself as your word and the possibilities you create, but that doesn't make those entities the same as you.  They have integrity, and you can stand in them, but you can never have any integrity yourself.

Old Salesletter to Assist w/ New Design

http://howtocureinsomnia.com/2011letter.html

Kartra Custom Domain Test

Well, that didn't go so well.

Setting a CNAME for www.howtofixinsomnia.com (testing this with the "fix insomnia" web) was easy enough.  In theory, by tomorrow it'll be linked up with kartra all nice and fancy.

However, redirecting howtofixinsomnia.com to https//www.howtofixinsomnia.com was a fucking disaster with AWS.  Appearently, the way to do this is COMPLEX.  WHY!??

1. Make a static redirect site with an S3 bucket.
2. Configure Cloudfront to work with the S3 bucket.
3. .... WHY THE FUCK CAN I NOT JUST USE ROUTE 53 TO POINT THE MAIN URL @ THE WWW.  JESUS.

Anyways full guide is below... stay away... stay far, far away...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/tutorial-redirecting-dns-queries.html#tutorial-redirecting-dns-queries-create-route-53-record

So... for now... I am stuck using my website, with kartra's pages and their little favicon... I could try to route everything using GoDaddy but it'd prob be fucking annoying resetting up my email and shit... not worth it, this was supposed to be a cake walk.  Plus, when I go back to Amazon, I'd have to figure everything out again.  Too much of a pain

Kartra vs. Wordpress

I am going to switch 100% to Kartra, with only a wordpress blog nestled howtocureinsomnia.com/blog

To try to make Kartra work with all of wordpress' features, it seems like it's going to be a lot of work.  You would practically want to be a web developer or you risk creating unknown variables that could lead to issues.

Since Kartra doesn't have a global header / footer, limit the kartra pages.  The weekly content will be on wordpress.  It will not have all of kartra's features, but it'll link to Kartra pages when it comes to anything I'd want to sell or have kartra pages promoting.  It'll also use Kartra forms and Kartra videos, which will of course have Kartra features.

So someone opts in, gets an email about something new, clicks to the wordpress page (which Kartra email tags them for doing), watches the video (which Kartra tags them for doing), and then buys off the Kartra page, I have basically all the data I would ever want.  I just don't have special kartra features on the blog post itself, other than any kartra forms or videos it contains.

So the majority of content produced will be on the wordpress blog, but that will all nestle inside a Kartra framework.  The minority of the site will be Kartra pages, but those will contain all the powerful sales stuff.

SEE ALL PRIOR CUSTOMER Q'S ANSWERED:
https://www.kartra.com/blog/q-a-tuesdays/

What if I want my page on WordPress?

You'll need a WordPress Plugin called Blank Slate and duct tape.