The Future of Goals - TRUE Path & Direction

One of the biggest areas I lack development in is goals.  This is REQUIRED.  It's entrepreneur 101 training that I overlooked, failed to understand, etc.

I have spent much more time and energy talking about the problems I have with goals.  That's not the point of this post.

The point of this post is the future of goals:

80% Integrity goal -- WHY.  What does this achieve?

Right now it's STATIC... once I achieve it, nothing happens.  I hit 80% forever and I'm more likely to succeed long term.  Okay... that's not very powerful.

It should have LEVELS and PURPOSE.  A true path and direction.

For instance:

My goal for Q3 is 80% integrity, at which point I will be ready for a 20 hours per week on ROARS goal to be ADDED ON in Q4.  Then I will be consistent AND putting in the time necessary to hit major success in 2017.

My goal for Q4 is 80% integrity PLUS 20 hours per week on ROARS... at which point I will be ready for a size 5 goal during ROARS hours.  Then I will be consistent, putting in the time needed, and working at the productivity level needed for success... and thereby heading towards my goals nearly as fast as possible.

That's a true path, and a true CHALLENGE.  It'll force me to rise to the occasion and drive and motivate me.

What other goals can I develop this way?

It's worth taking a couple of hours to think about and work on.  It's a required, huge piece of the puzzle missing, and trying to put the puzzle together without it will make for a very incomplete picture.

Thank you Mr. Schwarzenegger.

Q2 PTC Day 58 - Month End Review

5p - 6:15p

So, yeah, I got like 2-4 hours of sleep last night.  gj with the whole addy at 9 and work till 9 thing, thanks.  lol

MAY REVIEW

Goals Established Day 42 (May 15th):

Goals:

SMART Goals are good below, for now.

SMART Goals for May:

-Video one finished, rendered.

-Page one functional & user appealing, video plays on it.

MINIMUM Goals for May:

-Video one re-write complete + audio recorded.

SMART Goals for Q2:

-Videos 1-5 finished.

-Pages for them functional & user appealing, videos play on them.

-Opt-in works, website is close to ready for selling.

MINIMUM Goals for Q2 (same as SMART Goals for May):

-Video one finished, rendered.

-Page one functional & user appealing, video plays on it.

MAY: Minimum goals surpassed
-rewritten several times
-all audio recorded
-most editing done
-youtube v. recorded and edited

SMART Goals failed -- but upon reviewing the importance of this video (along with the youtube video) as being literally the most leveraging piece of content I have in all future advisertising and traffic endevors, I realized that several re-writes and a lot of reworking was in order.  Now it is close to being finished.

Re-eval of Q2 Goals:
Smart Goals are out.  The second video may need to be re-recorded... at the very least, it's going to take a bit of work to make the new mic work with it.  Minimum goals for Q2 are still the same, that should be stupid easy to finish off this vid and get it working on a user appealing web-page.

SMART Goals for Q2 (aka June) need to be made.  I would think that it's vids 1-4 + their pages up, running, and user appealing.  The 5th video is going to take a lot of work so I am thinking that is a Q3 thing.

GOOD WORK THIS MONTH!
-77.5% CDH Integrity -- NEARLY @ GOAL!
-At least 20-30 hours put into website in basically 2 weeks.
-Size during CDH's has been improving and overally fairly solid.

AND JUST THE FACT THAT YOU ARE LEGITIMATELY BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR AGAIN, BACK IN THE RENAISSANCE, AND BACK ON YOUR LIFE PATH IS FANTASTIC!!!!

The only problem is LEAF size, at 4.22 avg in May.  You can do better -- just realize this:

-Sentient being separation and observing yourself is an easy way through almost anything.

-You must ACTUALLY PURSUE THE GOAL of mental mastery and 3x daily meditations.

-You must ACTUALLY play the 1-up game / intensity game every hour of the day except 10-12 and 3-4.  You must actually want to keep your finger on the pulse of intensity.

-You must ACTUALLY catch AND THEN REPLACE trolls, you must ACTUALLY address the bad ones against Eric, T, Sean, the resistance, the rebel, the pride, the ego... and ACTUALLY reprogram these.  You can't keep missing these!!!  It's the dumbest thing ever that you don't see these trolls right in front of your face.  You must actually be in active pursuit of them, see them as opportunities to reprogram (and therefore, my BEST opportunities to grow) as they arise, reprogram them via catch and replace, and then you'll laugh at how extreme the contrast is between the shitty thoughts that have been running the show and the good thoughts that lead to happiness and the good & right way.  It's literally what that paper "what does it take to get it across to you what the good & right way is?" is talking about.

Day 35

Review of last week:

Average calls per day: 64 [Goal: 70]
Hours on ROARS: 10.83 [Goal: 10]
Average size per day: 4.55 [Goal: 5]

Better week, things are headed in the right direction.  

Review of OCTOBER:

Average calls per day: 54 [Goal: 70]
Average hours on ROARS per week: Undetermined [Goal: 10]
Average size per day: 4.1 [Goal: 5]

October was a ramp up month and I was trying to figure out what I was doing and how to do it.  Rituals failed and were re-written, schedules were adjusted and honed, word was molded. 

October's ROARS Goal:
-Website  and sales funnel 100% setup

This failed -- the website is setup, however the domain and sales funnel were not setup.

November

November's New ROARS Goals based on October's Achievements:
-Domain & funnel setup pre-product (nov. week 1 goal)
-Product setup, everything works successfully and it's ready to be sold (week 2 goal)
-Google analytics setup
-old URL NaturalCuresForInsomnia.org setup as redirect
-5 backlinks made on places online that drive traffic, and I want to see SOME organic traffic coming in from those links on analytics.

Nov. Week 1:
To achieve this week (mostly today, obviously)

-Buy and setup HowToCureInsomnia.com
-Create wordpress on site (on actual URL, not IP) & install SEO plugin RIGHT AWAY before salient.
-Get the main salient blog established and get the video and opt-in on the front page.
-Have the front page opt-in (aweber) lead to the core content video (the pre-cursor to the adv series)
-Setup the sales letter to be the logical next step from the core content video to sell the advanced series, from there next logical step will be to buy advanced series.

WEEK 2 I will work on the portfolio (the other content), like top 10 remedies, RLS, Apnea, w/e.  I'll do the main design stuff and flesh out the rest of the website then.  Week 1 is pure funnel & functionality.

Today

LOG: 7:30am - 4:15pm
8.75 hours

Linking URL to server w/ DNS -- link to Elastic Load Balancing or a single image?

First obstacle to overcome -- Domain name -- turns out to be much harder than anticipated.

The tutorials on doing this are by default for S3.  I am not interested in hosting with S3, I am hosting with EC2 as it has much more functionality.  Therefore, I need the "Web APP hosting tutorial".

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/web-app-hosting-intro.html

The problem I ran into when trying to setup the domain is that amazon is not setup to link a domain directly to an EC2 server.  It can be done, but doing so is kind of missing the ENTIRE point of using AWS to begin with.

AWS is all about making MULTIPLE EC2 servers, but you ONLY PAY FOR THE ONES YOU ARE USING -- hence I have a few servers to handle lots of traffic but I only pay for one since the others are turned off most of the time, they only turn on if the first one is maxing out capacity on traffic.

So, what you want to do is set up a load balancer.  The DOMAIN URL links to the load balancer, so the traffic hits the load balancer which then routes to one of the servers.  In my case, it'll only be one, but the point is I can add more seemlessly.

PROBLEM: just to run, it costs $18 a month, on top of the $30 / month I already use on the instance, and I don't have any use for it yet!!

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/getting-started-create-as.html

However, I finally am really starting to understand how to scale my website when the time comes.  You essentially take your instance, set everything up, then make an image of it (an AMI) the same way you'd make a disc and then make an .iso file to image it.  Then you can burn as many CD's as you want... in this case, you can use an AMI to make as many instances as you want.

And you use the load balancer to control it all -- the load balancer sees your current instance at 70% and rising so it automatically uses your AMI to create a copy of the instance, and then it redirects the extra traffic to the new one.  Once traffic dies down, it terminates the instance it created.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instances-and-amis.html

IMPORTANT NOTE!

MY SERVER IS NOT SETUP TO BE DUPLICATED CORRECTLY.  

WORDPRESS AND SALIENT MUST BE INSTALLED ON CORRECT DOMAIN NAME:

INSTALL BY GOING TO HOWTOCUREINSOMNIA.COM ; NOT BY GOING TO 52.11.177.228

IF YOU SET UP ON THE IP AT ALL YOU WILL EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS LOADING PAGES, CSS FILES, EVERYTHING.  IT CREATES LONG LINKS ACROSS THE BOARD IN THE CODE PER THE URL IT IS CREATED ON ONCE IT IS SETUP.

So this is all for later... how do I set up a single static EC2 Website?

All you do... in Route 53, you goto the record sets, and change the "A" (a being link, like <a href="">) record to this: howtofixinsomnia.com. A 52.11.177.228... which I got held up on because I didn't understand that I didn't need an "alias" like they make for Elastic Load Balancers and Static S3 sites... I just needed to edit the value to the elastic IP... that's ALL!!

GAWD. I got off track on learning everything and anything related to this.  It's important for scaling later, and yes, this is the WHOLE point of using AWS to begin with... but man... what a loss... 4 hours and due to it being scatter focused the size today will either take a hit or I'll "NA" it due to the learning factor.  But either way, the goals of this week are getting away from me quickly.

It'll take 24-48 hours to see the change with my DNS since I took the liberty of deleting the old name servers and making new ones in my various attempts to get this done.  So I really hope howtofixinsomnia.com is going to that Apache page in a few days.

/end rant /begin lunch

End of Day

So, what was done today:

-Figured out how to link domain and static ec2 instance (and explored how to scale up and link domain to the scale with AMI's to create instances with an ELB)
-Solved PROBLEM -- creating wordpress / salient on the IP vs. on the URL.
-Bought HowToCureInsomnia.com ... still pending... work will continue on http://52.11.177.228/testwp1/?page_id=14 until then.
-Learned how to use the Visual Composer in salient and how to design pages.
-Found code for placing a video with an opt-in to the right side, used <div>'s to size everything.
-Contacted Hostgator about actually unsuspending my access to my content, not just my account, so I can actually port over the content into a design.

Honestly, not a bad day.  The main things I needed to accomplish today were done, and now I have everything I need to finish up the design work and get the funnel finished with a straightforward port.

While I'd like to have made it further into the design process, it's nice to have a strong understanding about how everything works and to know how to switch over from static to scaling once the site starts getting traffic -- so I know I'm doing things the right way and can move forward with full confidence and a good understanding of the basics.

Day 28

Review of last week:

Hours 9 (3 given due to lifted meds and LEAF)

All around a great week.  Reality is I am limiting the hours I give myself when I pre-determine LEAF over Roars... extra-circular hours put me well over 10... so I will count it as "Around 10"

Average calls per day: ?? (ADD THIS AT WORK LATER) [Goal: 70]
Hours on ROARS: ~10 [Goal: 10]
Average size per day: 3.9 [Goal: 5]

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Sunday, Day 28

LOG:  6.33 hrs.

GOALS:
-Get SCP sudo access
-Re-install wordpress correctly now that you have access to edit your own server.
-Get the plugin install thing to work... with any plugin
-Get your Salient theme installed.

See if you can get all that done and we'll re-evaluate at that point.

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WinSCP Sudo Access

Seems that I need to connect as the root user, however there is a problem.

http://serverfault.com/questions/613393/getting-received-too-large-sftp-packet-error-when-connecting-with-root-account

I believe that the error message you are getting explains it.

Your server's root account has wrongly setup profile scripts. Some of them print a message that violates SFTP protocol. There's different profile script for a terminal and non-terminal session (one that has and does not have TTY allocated). Messages can be printed only from the script used for terminal sessions. When you print a message from profile script used for non-terminal sessions, it breaks any client using a strict protocol (such as SFTP or SCP).

The message starts with "Plea" as the error says. It can easily be something as trivial as

echo "Please be careful when using root account!"

You will see a complete message when you log in using SSH terminal (such as PuTTY).

Typically you will need to move the commands that print the message from .bashrc script to .bash_profile.

It works with ubuntu account, because its profile scripts do not print the error message.

See also WinSCP documentation for the error message:
http://winscp.net/eng/docs/message_large_packet

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I opened with PuTTY to see the full message:

Googling -- "Please login as the user "ec2-user" rather than the user "root".

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Appearently, Amazon blocks root access by default.  One solution is to make it so you can login to root without needing a password.

I am going to keep this in my back pocket as a solution but I am not going to do it this way unless I fail to get sudo working.  This has obvious security implications and it means that I will be going against Amazon's default parameters, which they obviously have setup for good reasons, whether its security or just preventing me from making stupid mistakes with root.

Solution:

http://khaledammar.com/technical-tips-and-tricks/technical-tricks/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4230516/sshing-into-ec2-server-via-gives-error-please-login-as-the-ec2-user-user-rather

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Now, the other tactic is to get SCP to be able to Sudo, which RED HAT prevents by default (by default TTY is required for Sudo, TTY = command line console like PuTTY), but they admit that this is outdated and will be removed in the future.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-bsd-sudo-sorry-you-must-haveattytorun/

TTY disabled...

You can't change users (meaning, no sudo / su) after login with WinSCP, so you have to do it on login.

https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_su#use_sudo_on_login

Aaaaannnnd permission is GRANTED!!  I'm finally passed the security guard and in the club.

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INSTALLING WORDPRESS

Requirements:

https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

• PHP 5.6 or greater
• MySQL 5.5 or greater
• The mod_rewrite Apache module

Not required, but recommended for better security

Hosting is more secure when PHP applications, like WordPress, are run using your account’s username instead of the server’s default shared username. The most common way nowadays for hosting companies to do this is using suPHP. Just ask your potential host if they run suPHP or something similar.

^ suPHP MAY BE REQUIRED for some of these plugins to install.  Might explain where I got held up in the beginning of the year.

Since I don't know yet, I am going to proceed without it, maybe install it later for security if nothing else.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

0. (Pre-req) Creating a secure password for your Secret Key in wp-config
1. Download / Extract
2. DATABASE.  I know one has been setup by AWS already... need to figure out the name / location and MySQL username / password.
3. ...hold-on... need to figure out 2

STEP 0: Secret Key in wp-config

Step 1: Installing... easy enough

Step 2: Database

What is my info?

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define( 'DB_NAME', 'database_name_here' );

/** MySQL database username */
define( 'DB_USER', 'username_here' );

/** MySQL database password */
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here' );

/** MySQL hostname */
define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );

Database name: insomniadb

Username: jcahoon (in theory... may have been changed to jcmo per my accident below, prob not tho)

Password: standard

Hostname: I suspect "localhost" is ALREADY correct.  After all, in my stack details, it says "creates a sample wordpress blog with a local MySQL database.
UPDATE: Wordpress install guide is saying "It's usually just localhost".

Man, if only I could find the "Stack" it made and maybe just get access to all this stuff.  I mean, where'd it go, am I rite??

Yeah.  Which is why we dont put 8 months of blank space in between working on the same project.  Here's the "stack", I used "CloudFormation"

You can also press "Update Stack" and update things... so here's what's up... there is no username lol.

Fuck, there was, it just shows up blank in edits, and now I don't know if I changed it or not.  When you look at design mode it doesn't say them there either, like it's hiding the info to protect me but at the same time it tricked me... thought it was blank.

Annd another wall... an hour of failure being able to add, change, or do anything with the above... I keep getting a fucking retarded error when updating the username / pass saying that I must use alphanumeric on DBpassword... last I checked, the letters of the alphabet ARE alphanumeric...

So decided I'm wasting time, just find the originals and try those, I see this from when I made it in Jan:

"

Making a stack using Amazon's sample WP blog template.

db is insomniadb
db passwords are standard,
user is jcahoon

"

but how do I know for sure it'll work???  I don't even know if I just changed it or not.

Based on the error, if I failed to change something it was just the DBpass.  That or nothing changed.  Feels like nothing changed... no confirmation that any changes went through.

Found
the
DB:

var/lib/mysql/insomniadb

But I doubt that's going to help me.  At least I am pretty sure I know it's name for sure :)

Back to wordpress:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Using_the_MySQL_Client

• Should you need, you can make a new database.  Seems that if anything I will just overwrite the old one which is fine.

Okay let's just try this.

Secret Key Generator:

http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

Installation Link:

http://52.11.177.228/wp-admin/install.php


AND SHE'S BACK!
http://52.11.177.228/testwp1/

Working just great too :)

RECAP

Objectives completed:
--Security issues solved, WinSCP full access gained,
--Personally installed new wordpress blog.
--Various learning and understanding about wordpress, accessing databases, security & how to connect to SSH with sudo, AWS services & stacks, etc.  Big learning day.  Getting the theme installed is going to draw upon this knowledge.

Failed to complete:
--Install Salient

At least I know what to do next.  Do it on the wptest1 blog.

HOURS: 8:50 - 3:10 -- 6.33 -- PASS

January Review

Average calls per day: 80 (just under 400 per week) [Goal: 90, 450 / week]
Average hours per week on ROARS: 6 [Goal: 4.5]
Average size per day: 4.4 [Goal: 5]

All around, not a very good effort.  While there was forward motion towards becoming an entrepreneur, it's a weak start, as the wheel is pretty much at stand still and you'll NEVER succeed as an entrepreneur at this rate.

Far more is required of you.  Not a bad effort at LEAF, but you've actually done better during times when you were not pushing hard in a 90 DC.  You should be at your BEST during the 90DCs in 2015.  That's what the renaissance is all about.

The biggest thing missing is multi-tasking and prioritizing.  I need Cobey style chunks during the work day.  I need real blitz action between 6:30 - 9 every day.

Week 3 Review -- Fail Morning Ritual, Fail As An Entrepreneur.

Last week I did the implementation of wordpress and the background coding that makes it work.

At 2 hours out of 5, and only the first 20% or so of the implementation, I am going to call this a pretty heavy failure.

The wheel rolled backwards this week.

1. Do not drink on thursdays.  If Nick or anyone invites you to anything non-friday / saturday, say NO.  Seriously.  Just say no... because that was not worth it.  Instead of getting myself back on track, this was the excuse to lose the week entirely.  No bars on week nights, period.

2. Losing integrity is not an excuse to be reasonable about "all word-given items".  Think about what this means!!  Would you give your word to someone to do something, and then when the time comes, not do it just because you broke your word to someone else?  Can you imagine how someone else would feel if you said, "Sorry man but I've been bad with keeping my word the last few days, so I just said fuck it."  WOW!!

If someone said that to me, I would say they can't be relied on for anything.  And that's EXACTLY what this troll does to your word -- it completely destroys it.

WHAT A TROLL.  This is the "I don't need to follow my word 100% because..." troll.

Good "AKA"s for this could be "The Word Burier" or "The Integrity Destroyer"

This is a direct indicator that you are losing your code and going off the path of success.

This is always a troll, as by my very definition of the word, it transcends the very idea of being justified.  It is NEVER okay not to follow your word just because you haven't lately!  The ONLY time it's not okay to follow your word is if you have real reason to believe it is irrational, which can usually be tested by the question, "Will I go back and change my word in writing due to this reason?"

Biggest area this troll is beating me up on is the morning ritual.

The morning ritual, at least Monday - Thursday, is THE WORD.  It should be followed to a T, 100%, regardless of whether or not you need to take a dump or if you started out off course.

Smoking or watching something or sitting and thinking or dream chasing or WHATEVER is not a reason not to follow the morning ritual.  These are ALL trolls.  Once you catch one, you have no choice.

It sounds dumb but this morning ritual defines the day and therefore it is destroying you.  YOU CANNOT START YOUR DAY WITH FAILURE.

If you go off course, you are likely to stay off course, but ALL word is still in effect, and as soon as you catch yourself "being reasonable", you MUST pull yourself over to your word.  Yank yourself into a plank or pushups and only do 10 pushups or 1 minute planks.  I don't care how well you do it -- the morning ritual is about defeating your human mind and the trolls as a way of starting your day.  If you can't win on something this simple, how can you expect to win during the work day?  How do you expect to be entrepreneur material.

I will say that again...

The MORNING RITUAL is about starting the day as a big person by beating back the trolls & small-size habits right away.  You cannot expect to be an ENTREPRENEUR if you can't even start your day powerfully.

And by setting a strong context every day, you will find you stay on track more throughout the day and get back on course quickly if you fail a day in the middle of the week.

Here's some new updates to my word (this is OFFICIALLY my new "choice")

-The word on morning ritual is this:

1. I will not snooze, I will not hesitate, and I will do every item on the checklist as it is listed, regardless of what other obsticles arrise.

-And here's a new choice I give my word to:

2. Any morning I fail my word, I will set the "morning ritual failed" Alarm, which will remind me at night to review this page.  When the alarm goes off, I will review this very page.

At the end of the day -- any failure of word is OKAY as long as it's a one time thing, and best to be learned from.  As long as it becomes in the past and you go for integrity the next time, you'll be fine.  But if you don't understand deeply that failures cannot be allowed to stack -- that the futher you get from your word, the worse off you will be -- do not expect to be successful in life.  This is essentially "the pulse of success"... you cannot ignore one failure after another the same way you can't ignore one missing heartbeat after another.  You must understand, and uphold, this concept on a very deep level and very thoroughly.

Week 2 Review: 1/11 - 1/15

100% OF ALL GOALS ACHIEVED.

I was going to judge integrity but I feel like it's a guessing game.  I pretty much went straight to work every day I was supposed to, which was the word.

This week I established my website, answered all my questions, got on thevault.bz, selected my web theme and design, and began implementation.

Next week, the goals are:

1. Complete implementation of Salient web theme.  This is the primary objective.
2. Begin creating my website's content (tweaking the theme, getting the video and opt-in on there, etc.)
3. See if I can, and if possible, begin recovery and transfer of all worthwhile content from HostGator.

Good shit.  Very fun week.  Spent a total of about 10 - 15 hours (guesstimate of 12) working on stuff this week... so I'm already on Q2 hourly goal levels.  Which is good, but only if you keep the momentum going.  I need a strong week 3 and I have to keep the wheel turning forward.

LEAF this week I've been slightly under a 5.

But ROARS I've been slightly over a 5, based on sheer hours, resistance to tiredness, integrity to word, beating back all trolls, and pushing myself outside my comfort zone by working when I didn't ever initally feel like it and achieving all the goals of the week while being exhausted.

Overall average is slightly over a 5 as far as progression goes, so that wheel is slowly turning in the right direction.  Let's speed it up next week by focusing on less hours, but more intense focus and seriousness during those hours to really try to beat back the comfort zone trolls and achieve the goals of getting the site not just implemented, but more or less up and running.

Week 1 Review 1/4 - 1/8

100% Failure to achieve any goals whatsoever.

3 Problems and what needs to be done to fix them:

1. Problem: No plan / word for how to transition from LEAF to ROARS, so I went on auto-pilot and slacked when I got home.  Procrastinating directly leads to failure.
   Solution: New word addendum -- Monday - Thursday, FIRST THING you do when you get home is come to this blog and post plan for the day.  That's the word: I will start right away -- I will not procrastinate, whether I fail to start or not I will try.  Ideally, you will also get amped on pushing the limits of your comfort zone.
2. Problem: Messy Environment.  Since I am hanging out with Dave tomorrow, this lead to this task demanding my attention.
   Solution: Keep the room and house clean in general -- if there are other tasks demanding your attention, you will have a harder time focusing.
3. Problem: Drinking on a week night.  I was feeling very disoriented on Monday / Tuesday as it was, so drinking Monday night and not getting enough sleep made me too exhausted to work on Tuesday.
   Solution: Do not drink on week nights.  Keep the wine off the desk.  Come on now... there's no word needed here... this is basic stuff.  Drinking Monday night just goes to show you are not ready to be an entrepreneur.

Next week I still intend to move on to 4 hours, I want to do 2 on Sunday and then 30 min per day, M-Th.

I am failing.  If I don't get a lot more serious about pushing my limits, and I don't do it quickly, this year is going to unravel before it even begins.  Let's approach next week a lot more seriously with a lot more focus.

Review on Week 1 (12/1/14 - 12/4/14)

Tuesday and Thursday are the only days I worked on my business this week, but both days I worked much longer than intended.

The goal of the week was:

Objective: Get an amazon-based website setup so that I am ready to port over.  Also check other's experience with web hosting through them, if necessary, just upgrade the gator.

In this goal I only achieved 50% -- I checked on other's experience and made a call on that.

One thing I did wrong was not plan.  Realistically, getting an AWS version of my gator site up in 45 minutes total time isn't going to happen.

One thing I did right was starting a new movement.  I can almost consider this the 2014 version of "Consumption" from back in the day.  I've realized a better way to pursue my goals, and my objectives have been modified.

Now it's been figured out, and it is time to stop thinking, and start hustling.  No more getting pwned.  Gotta start honing in my focus.

Next week:

-30 minutes per day Su-Th, 2.5 hours for the week (guideline / minimum, not a goal)

-GOALS:

• Have an AWS website (not natural cures / how to cure insomnia yet... just A site.)
• Understand what will be needed to port over:
  -Domain redirecting?
  -Wordpress / Site code setup on new server?  Is it just copy and paste?
  -What else, if anything, do I need to do to get everything operating on AWS?
• Answer these questions:
  -Port... or reinvent?
  -Should I start a new SEO campaign centered around "How to Cure Insomnia."?
  -Do I do both -- does natural cures still have enough value to keep alive after being dead nearly a year?
  -Do I still need the links, data, etc?  How does Google Analytics play into all this?