This is the third test in the series.

This is something we had on our anniversary dinner at Trabuco oaks steakhouse. It’s called a Gizmo. It’s delicious!

Hopefully this worked and went to Facebook.

Ok if all goes well this should go out and notify Facebook that there is something new on the blog. Looking forward to getting it all hooked up again!

Here’s a test post from the iPad that includes an internal image upload. Again, this is just a small test.

Awesome! This is me blogging from the iPad again. Seems the connections weren’t uploading my regular content so I had to do a bit of a reset. Look for more content here coming soon. Talk to you later. Marcus

A lot of people say that they get their best ideas in the shower or maybe in the car, maybe just in the restroom in general. I don’t really get any of it that way. My biggest ideas come while I’m working on other ideas. Sometimes that in itself is a problem.

We all tend to over complicate ourselves with tasks. Many people try and get around this by claiming to be a “multi-tasker”. While computers and smartphones are excellent examples of multitasking, humans are absolutely incapable of it. If you see a job description that has the phrase of multitasking required, run! What they are really saying is there are so many tasks that you’re going to be stuck juggling tasks throughout your entire career with them. What it means is, that company has no idea how to delegate responsibilities.  They don’t know a thing about process management or workflow. Sometimes you even need to know a little bit about the human psyche when you run a successful business. And if you yourself know just a little bit about those things, you’ll clearly understand that the phrase multitasking is just a line of bullshit that corporate America has tried to feed you to get you to work harder. After all if a company just piles the tasks on you, you always feel like you are behind. you’ll always feel like you aren’t cutting it in your position because you’re always swimming in overdue tasks.

There’s a system that I learned about around a year ago called “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. I learned about this from Adam Curry’s significant other, Micky Hoogendijk. I use an app on my iPAD called Pocket Informant HD. It lets you categorize and sort your tasks. Sort of like you would a blog post or submitting something to a search engine. You determine category, project, context and what it is that you’re supposed to do next. Sort of like moving things along in giant Bozo buckets.

As long as you keep moving from bucket number one to bucket number two, all the way to bucket number six, your project will get done, and most likely you’ll win that new bike! Well maybe you won’t win a bike every time, but as long as you keep completing projects on a consistent basis whether that be business, family, personal or whatever you want.

Now it’s great to have a to do list and project system that keeps track of what you’re supposed to do. The key though, is actually doing it. Here’s a system that I’m hoping to use that was inspired by something I read about Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry always had the philosophy that the way to be a better comic was to create better jokes, and the way to create better jokes was to write every single day. But his method is a little deeper than that. He has a great leverage technique that he uses on himself that you can use as well, even when you don’t feel like being motivated. He uses a great big wall calendar that has the whole year on one page and hangs it on a prominent wall. For each day that the task of writing was done, he would take a big red magic marker and draw a giant red X over that day. After a few days of Xs, a chain started to develop. The secret is to just keep at it and have that chain grow longer every day. When you look at your calendar you’ll love seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next, is not to break the chain. Don’t break the chain.

You can use this technique for anything. work projects, fitness programs, dieting, learning something or even a personal vow to give up something like swearing. It works because it isn’t just one day efforts that get us through. As with anything it’s the consistency that makes us great. Daily action builds great habits, but remember that skipping one day makes it easier to skip the next. Most health clubs out there rely on this factor to stay in business. Credit cards too!

So if you are like me you’re probably four days into the year going, “Holy cow, I need to get some resolutions in order!” Think again my friends. You just need to join me in drawing Xs on a big giant calendar. Let’s get some stuff done! Single tasks, long chains and consistency every single day.

I got a lot of cool stuff done on an upcoming project today. Just a few more loose ends to tie up and there will be a really cool thing at the end of this.

Looking to find a cool app guy to do a video podcast player type app for my new daily show.. Lots of challenges to find the right people in the new year.

At the start of the year I set out a goal to try and get a blog post out every day or so. Sadly that one slipped away from me when life got in the way.

With the new iPad I’m able to do just about everything I used to do, but without being chained to my office chair. Hopefully this will help to raise the bar all over again.

Marcus

Being in the Internet marketing field is an uphill battle most of the time. We’re always fighting with others in the Google sandbox, vying for position and rank. When we’re up, our mood soon follows. When we disappear off page one, it seems like an old friend has just up and left us. It’s rare that there is an in-between moment.

Recently I’ve seen a few of my side projects get dumped by Google. No dear John letter, no break-up Twitter, just vanished in thin air. At the same time there are blogs I own that have one post in the last year that ranks in the top 10 consistently depending on the term variant. I just can’t figure it out sometimes and I am working to improve my scope of awareness.

I have also noticed a lot of my friends are writing books and claiming to be Internet Marketing specialists. People who I know are no match for the skills that I have been using for a number of years. What are they doing that I am not? Well, tooting their own horns mostly. And that’s something that I have to get better at. Everyone I talk to “outside the sphere” in the real world is blown away by the things I tell them regarding online marketing. I think I need to do more of that kind of thing, more often. Especially now. If I have the ability to teach someone a skill that can make them money, it might be all the difference in the world in that person’s life. From making their rent payment to getting food on the table for their kids. I owe it to the struggling people out there to get this message out.

So as I look myself in the mirror and wonder out loud, I think to myself.. Am I a Guru, or just plain Goo? Am I the kind of person that I was as a teenager? One who was eager to show off the technology and all the benefits around it, or am I merely the adhesive that binds one product to one person? Hard to say, but I know what direction I’d like to take. It’s up to me to do it and up to you to egg me on along the way. For me to grow as a person, I need to learn to help others grow first. Sounds weird, but hopefully it all starts to make sense soon.