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Hey folks, so I haven’t really been posting much over the last two weeks. Correction, I haven’t posted at all. I even failed to keep up with my Crush It giveaway. I’ve been swamped with a number of little projects and big projects while I try to get my business off the ground. I should be freaking bleeding out of my eyeballs and staying on top of things and Crushing It like Gary Varynerchuck says.

What is my business? Glad you asked. Out of the stuff I’m interested in two of them is web design and technology. I have always been a geek and I’ve been designing and managing websites since 2002. I actually started creating a personal website way back in the days of Geocities. But I won’t count all my teen years, only professional years.

Right now I’m trying to launch a web design and development company that also focuses on new media trends. Helping businesses and entrepreneurs utilize facebook, twitter, and the likes. And helping them develop a powerful online presence.

And I’m really trying to tackle the issue of what I consider BAD DESIGN. I’m not the best designer, but I work with guys who are.

I’ve actually been building a little niche working with companies who are suppliers to the federal government.  I have also recently started dong facebook FBML landing pages. Did one for a local area restaurant, got another going up for a guy who is running for the US Congress, and one for a guy who is a speaker and business coach.

So back to my blog, which I’m taking in a new direction, becuase I understand it’s impossible to actually figure out what the hell I write about.

From now I’m keeping it on the subjects that interest me. Entreprenuership and how I’m progressing in developing my lifestyle, things that piss me off, things that I like and things that I want.

You are not going to believe it, but do you know what is more awesome than my blog or even yours for that matter? I’ll tell you, it’s a PICKLE who really doesn’t like Nickleback. And who can blame him, nobody likes Nickleback. (Alright maybe a few people do. But that’s besides the point.)

I first learned about this over on the escaping9to5 blog and was just shell shocked. Heck I’ve got like what 43 fans. Whoopie. So I thought I’d let everyone out there know that YOU ARE NOT AS AWESOME AS A PICKLE. (Can you tell I just want someone else to feel as bad as me?)

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My new favorite  person online is Gary Vay-ner-chuk. Gary is the author of Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, which is now both a New York Times and a Wall Street Journal Best Seller. This is an amazing book and it motivated me in a lot of ways. I also purchased the vook.com version of this book, which I think you might want to check out too, it has a lot of added video extras.

So I’ve decided to give away 3 copies of this book over 3 weeks starting today February 8th, 2010. I will pick one winner each Friday of each week. One on the 12th, the 19th and the 26th.

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Fear is the one thing stopping you from taking action. And guess what. Not taking action is what is stopping you from having everything you want.

If you want to succeed at anything chances are you’re going to have to get outside of your comfort zone and face some fears, take some risks and take some ACTION.

How do you face that fear?

With ACTION!

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Do you want more success? Then you’re going to have to learn to get outside your comfort zone and start taking some risks! Rock Climbing is by nature a dangerous sport, but the pure thrill and rewards of scaling a mountain are well worth that risk.

Often in our lives anything worth doing involves some level of risk. Quiting your job to go start a business is risky, especially if you’ve got mouths to feed at home.  Just like in rock climbing, we can do things to minimize these risks, but ultimately, we are not fully in control.

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