These are my Momentos, short personal diary entries I write daily – since 2013 – and publish monthly. Some links are affiliate links.
Momentos
Momentos – Oct 2019
1 Spent pretty much the whole day working today. My “work” involved going through an affiliate marketing course and taking notes so I can write an in-depth review later. I was fully engaged, loving the process – digging, questioning, reasoning, investigating. 2 In my early 20’s I worked two jobs one summer. I remember telling …
Momentos – Sept 2019
1 Sluggish weekend after the madness, have to zone out and do nothing for a while, wait for the energy and motivation to kick back in. It’s tough, feeling like you’re working as hard as you can and it’s still not enough. Hard work is only part of the equation though. 2 One of those …
Momentos – Aug 2019
1 Published my best survey sites article ten weeks ago. Looks like it finally hit the first page of Google today. That’s the tricky thing with SEO – takes a while to find out if what you’re doing is working. I was ready to write off the survey site stuff as a waste of time. But now, …
Momentos – July 2019
1 Mentioned before how you get used to living with all kinds of bugs and lizards in Bali, hard to keep them out. Up before sunrise this morning, turned on the light in the kitchen, and got hit with a massive swarm of termites. Our house geckos were loving it. Me, not so much. 2 …
Momentos – June 2019
1 I’ve had 5 different needles in my body today. Rash on my arms and legs. Sweated through my bedsheets. Took four pills. Ate an egg sandwich. Watched a scary movie. Took a shower with my hand in a bag. Drank lots of water. Made countless trips to the bathroom. And I’m not allowed to …
Momentos – May 2019
1 Came home from a nice dinner at a nice restaurant to find a lizard the size of my hand in the kitchen, light blue with red spots, took a bite at a clothes hanger when we tried shooing him out the window. Now there’s a young Balinese man here with a plastic bag tied …
Momentos – Apr 2019
1 Pretty much all my adult life I’ve used an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Experimenting without one now. Set a timer when I go to sleep, stop it when I wake up, see how long I slept. In theory, my body should rest as much as it needs to, and wake …
Momentos – Mar 2019
1 What’s better for making money: great product + mediocre marketing, or mediocre product + great marketing. I wish it was the first but it’s got to be the second. How else do you explain people the success of people like Tai Lopez and Donald Trump? The one thing they know how to do best is get …
Momentos – Feb 2019
1 Walking down a quiet street in Chiang Mai and I bump into a legend of a man I last saw in Colombia back in 2014. We promptly drop all plans and spend the next 4.5 hours catching up. He’s aiming to visit 40 countries this year (on a mission to see the whole world), …
Momentos – Jan 2019
1 Every year on this day I watch Benjamin Button, have done since 2009. But not this year. Didn’t feel the urge. Went ice skating instead. Hard to know sometimes if it’s best to do something even when you don’t feel like doing it, or if you should yield to the resistance. 2 You ever get …