The Virtual Hammock

Welcome back!

I’ve been working online for a while now, off and on, since 2000 when I taught myself html from a book and started a website creation business. I did dabble with posting video on my website way back in about 2003 using my simple little webcam but as I’m so self critical, and of course didn’t realise how ahead of my time I was, I didn’t do more of it.

Well of course, nowadays every internet marketing bod on the planet is waxing lyrical about using video as a more dynamic method of capturing your visitor’s eye, imagination and if you’re offering something half decent, their cash too.

And of course, as someone who gets suckered into reading a whole load of fantastic – and errrm not so great – sales letters/pages I have to agree with it. It’s like the Big Brother thing – people love having a sneak peak at the person behind the screen and it DOESN’T MATTER if they are sitting there being critical of your big nose or tragic hairstyle that day, they are still sitting there engaging with you.

So I’ve finally bitten the bullet and ordered a great webcam and a digital camera – my friend Flugel will fall off his chair at hearing that as I’ve been procrastinating about it for ummm a year or more. My sister Nicola is constantly frustrated at me for taking NO action as I start researching things and either take forever or give up as there’s just too much choice.

So how did I overcome my complete overwhelm at looking for ‘the right one’ for the job?

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I decided to upgrade Microsoft Office from 2003 to 2007 after seeing the sexy new graphics on my sister’s computer. A simple process you’d think…. wrong!

*lol* I don’t know what it is about me but everything at the moment seems to involve ten other things to do so I can get the original thing I wanted, completed. (re-reads that to see if it makes sense!)

So I stick the installation disc in and it get nearly all the way through then throws up the error message that it can’t find a file called SKU011.CAB aarrrrghhhh. I retry – still nothing so have to cancel the installation and wait for it to reverse what it’s done.

Hmmmm… what now I thought. Maybe I need to restart my computer. So I do that and STILL did the same think.

Thank gawd for Google! I input the name of the missing file SKU011.CAB and up came lots of forums so I read a few and this was the winning formula!

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What did you do this weekend? Well I lazed around… that is, until I went to see Nicola on Sunday!

After a relaxing lunch at the Crown & Anchor in Shoreham, overlooking the river and basking in the unseasonal hot sunny weather we went back to hers and got out a bundle of brightly coloured Post-it notes.

Nicola’s daughter Phoebe, and I, looked on bemused at Nicola caressing them before laying them out on the table and handing us both pens.  What did she have in store for us???

A very neat system for chunking down goals into actions and turning obstacles into objectives!

Nicola had discovered this from her mentor, Rich Schefren, and immediately tested it on clients at her Lets Talk Money workshop on Saturday – see www.TheMoneyGym.com/events for info of the next one.  Buzzing with the successful breakthroughs people got from doing it she wanted us to do it too.

First we…

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