I’ve had a string of successes lately. \u00a0May will mark the end of the 7th month of growing income. \u00a0In a row. \u00a0For a salesperson that surfs the payables (thanks, Greg for that phrase), it’s a joy to be there. \u00a0 I’m also cheating: October was the most brutally bad month I’ve had- it might have been $500.00 net, and it took till January or Feb to recover from that.<\/p>\n
I’ve hardly “arrived,” during this time I’ve put on about 17 pounds (despite going to the gym pretty regularly – the battle at the dinner table has been met poorly by me, and that changes Wednesday with a physician supervised 90 day commitment with a variant of the Paleo diet.) \u00a0 I’m on the cusp of paying the monster IRS debt that I acquired in my 20’s. \u00a0On the cusp means July to those scoring at home.<\/p>\n
My wife has suffered from the madness of depression during this time (something I’ve struggled with, and it’s true madness), and there are the usual excuses and resistances that exist. \u00a0But I’ve done stuff to compensate for the Resistance<\/a>. \u00a0And I’m sharing this with you.<\/p>\n I’m also gonna say that I’ve doubled my income and left about 25% of my “hours worked” behind. \u00a0 I am working harder, when I’m working, and making a deliberate effort to refresh myself at the wellspring (more on that in a bit).<\/p>\n In any case, \u00a0let’s talk about the “how” behind this. \u00a0A series of simple change that, taken together, have made for profound growth. \u00a0This year will have a higher income than last year. \u00a0 \u00a0These habits- below- are why. \u00a0Each could get a bigger blog post or treatment.<\/p>\n Daily Read: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. <\/strong>I read about 3-5 pages from this each day. \u00a0I’m a believer in Christ. \u00a0Still the way that this is laid out speaks to me, Scriptures for my thinking and has changed my behavior. \u00a0To the point: I don’t have prickly little testy spats with people because I leave them to most of their own bullshit. \u00a0I can ignore much, easily. \u00a0I don’t need to inform the <\/a>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve had a string of successes lately. \u00a0May will mark the end of the 7th month of growing income. \u00a0In a row. \u00a0For a salesperson that surfs the payables (thanks, Greg for that phrase), it’s a joy to be there. \u00a0 I’m also cheating: October was the most brutally bad month I’ve had- it might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2910,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2910\/the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-25\/","url_meta":{"origin":14646,"position":0},"title":"The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We have 14 entries on the short list this week, out of a long long list of 96 posts. 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