Q2 CDC Day 48

9am - 4:30pm

09:00 - 10:00: Day planning, break, setup, meditation.
10:00 - 11:00: Obj.1.2c3 (11.5/8)
11:00 - 12:00: Obj.Su.Lunch (4/8) ; med2
12:00 - 01:00: Obj.1.2c3 (12.5/8)
01:00 - 02:00: Obj.1.2c3 (13.5/8)
02:00 - 02:30: Break & med3
02:30 - 03:30: Obj.1.2c3 (14.5/8) - script editing (per below)
03:30 - 04:30: Obj.1.2c3 (15.5/8) - audio recording (per below)

Script / Audio Rec Advised - in middle of value leader video 1

When it gets to the counting sheep thing, between the chart, idea, and examples, it gets very dense in content.  There needs to be slightly more to the breakdown to segway the concept to the examples "I like to watch documentaries".

So it should be like, 

current:

CONCEPT - counting sheep to fall asleep doesnt work, im saying count sheep to stay awake.  

new:

Of course, I'm just using sheep to illustrate an example - you can use ANYTHING that will hold your attention.  As long as you pick the right kind of activity, it will work.

That being said, if you choose the WRONG activity, it won't work at all.  If it's not interesting enough to hold your attention, you'll end up thinking about all the normal stuff that keeps you awake.

If it's too interesting, you'll get too engaged and the activity itself will keep you awake.

So you have to choose an activity that is you can enjoy enough to stay focused on, but not quite enough that you'll stay focused on it without effort.  With things that are more boring, like counting the dots on your ceiling, you'll want set goals that you can get engaged with.  With things that are too exciting, like a nature documentary, you'll want to lower the volume and dim the screen brightness causing you to strain slightly to stay focused.

Personally, ...

This is a debated topic since experts agree LED screens damage sleep, which is why I have an auto-sleep feature so the TV shuts off after 30 minutes.

Next Up

So I've written the script and recorded the audio for the next round of additions.

Next up the audio has to be edited down.  There's 3 renditions already on the MAGIX @ the end, plus an extra optional addition for the "personally, ..." + the documentaries thing if you so choose to use either or both.

Then put it into the main mix and continue as normal.

Day 43

Log: 4:30p - 7:15p -- 2.75 hours -- too much...

HowToCureInsomnia.com installed on server.

Wordpress plugins installed:

-Aki one installed (anti-spam)
-not installed: membership site ability "BuddyPress" makes social network on your blog.  SUPER cool. #membership
-Yoast SEO installed -- warning -- do not update when available, brand new updates are known to break functionality.
-not installed: Yoast Google Analytics -- prob the way to go on this?  Maybe just input into Salient, dunno.
-not activated (but is installed) TablePress -- makes tables!


Goals Achieved:

-Create wordpress on site (on actual URL, not IP) & install SEO plugin RIGHT AWAY before salient.

The URL is done, so I can actually do this now, this can get done this week.  This can all be done in 15 minutes or less.  Installing Salient will be done immediately after, again, this will only take a few minutes

-Get the main salient blog established and get the video and opt-in on the front page.

This is where the goals change...

Also I did a little work on implementing the core design and changing some things.  For the final video I'm going to want to use a custom player with a thumbnail image that interfaces nicely with the header background -- otherwise having a floating video on the page looks super awkward.  Hence Ed Dale using a simple white page on his stuff.

I'd love to keep it youtube for the views but that just doesn't work, it's not professional and will hurt conversion, it'll redirect people, and it won't interface with the "solution" 20 minute video -- That one can't be youtube, after all, or it'll piss people off that they gave their email just to get access to a free youtube video.

The next step options are:

-Get a video player

or

-Port over aweber forms and etc

or

-Find old video editing files, folders, raw video-editing-format files from Magix, etc.

-Install Magix Video editor

-Remake the video to say "fill in your information on the opt-in box you see on this page"