We took this picture at the computer this morning. Gotta love kids.

As you may or may not be aware of… the United States is in a recession. With higher gas prices, higher food prices and the risk of job loss… What can you do to ensure your income?

First of all, you want to make sure you have more than one stream of income. If you are doing all your fishing from one pond and that pond goes dry you could end up in trouble. Read more »

Wanted to pop in and say that I have built 8 niche websites so far this month. That puts me at the ballpark of around 90 - 100 websites total.

I am also getting the content completed for my first niche membership site (which I am incredibly excited about). Read more »

I put together a rare opportunity for a select few of my blog readers. I am not going to repeat everything here that is on the letter, go here to read it. It is filling up quickly so don’t miss out if you are interested -

http://www.mydebtfreegoal.com/mentoring.html

Looking back to where I started in May until now I see dramatic changes. Not only in income, but in my life in general.

In fact, I have learned more in the past 3 months than I did in the 2 years I went to college. Go figure?

I was able to pay off a decent amount of debt, not as much as I would have liked, but at least I made some progress.

I really want to pay off the rest of my debt completely in 2008. I am still sticking to my April 2009 goal (exactly 24 months from the time I started my blog). However, I secretly want to see if I can do it faster.

I want to streamline my business in the coming year to give me more time to spend with my family and doing the things I am really passionate about.

A book that really struck a chord with me was 4 Hour Work Week.

It taught me that a certain dollar amount of money should not be a goal. (Example: I want to make a million dollars.)

Instead you should make a goal of what you want to do with your life, what you want to accomplish. Then you look back and determine what income you need to meet your goal.

So according to that here are my goals:

My immediate goal would be to get out of debt and live simply. Make enough money from my online ventures to pay my bills and have enough left over to help others.

I want to free up my time to be able to serve more volunteer hours for my church and organizing service projects.

I also would like the time and resources to help the Constitution Party (yes, I am a Constitutionalist) and the Natural Solutions Foundation.

I would like to put my kids in a private Christian school because I am not big fan of the public school system.

I also plan to save up for a home. The homes in the area we like are in the range of $250k.

I would never want to buy a mercedes or any other expensive car. I am not even the type that would wear “designer” clothes. It just isn’t my personality. Sure, I like to look nice, but Target is good enough for me.

So instead of thinking, I want to to make such and such amount each month. Determine what you really need to meet your goals and live the life that makes you truly happy. Then you can determine what you need to do to get yourself there.

When we really know what we are striving for it helps put everything into the right perspective.

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. We aren’t having a great holiday season, I just wish we were able to go up and visit family and friends. We are staying home this time to save some money to help get us out of debt.

I am taking it easy today and tomorrow and will be “back to work” on Wednesday. I didn’t get as much done this month as I wanted to, but hey, it is the holidays.

It is official, I canceled the auction for my blog. After writing that last blog post I felt absolutely SICK to my stomach. (I take that as God telling me that what I was about to do was not right.) Read more »

The first 1,000 members to sign up for Zubby gets included in the passive residual income of this new “facebook” like company.

Here is my referral link if anyone wants to sign up - http://www.zubby.com/signup/refid_91/

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If you are still using Internet Explorer, stop now, you are missing out. You should be using Firefox for surfing and working on the web. Why? Well for one, the added security and for two… all of the great free addons that you can use to make your life so much easier.

I have compiled a list of what I believe are must have addons for firefox Read more »

Well I am officially set up on wordpress now. It took me all day so far to get it up and running right. The header is temporary, I know it really does not fit with my theme. I am actually having a graphics guy create a header for me and am still waiting on it to be completed. Read more »