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Thanking people

Thanking & Promoting the people

who help me be who I am

I was reading Chris Brogan’s blog and in one of his posts he said to stop talking about yourself and do some promoting of other people.

I had a think about it and that’s what this post will be about.  I’m promoting and thanking as many of the people who have helped me be who I am and enabled me to do what I do.

First and foremost will always be my mum and dad, my son,  my two brothers, their wives and their kids.  I know they are always there for me, no matter what.  When I need help, I know I will get it.  Having that sort of support is pure gold and can’t be bought.  I love my family and know I’m so lucky that they are there for me.

For what I’m doing here and now with my websites, I have to thank Aaron Schubert for telling me about this ’stuff’ and convincing me to find out what this guy he had been talking about really was like. Aaron has been a friend for many years and will be for a long time in the future.  Thanks Aaron.

“This guy” is Sean Rasmussen who’s the creator of the Year of the Affiliate forum which I’ve been a member of since July last year.  I’ve learnt so much about blogging and internet marketing during the last 8 months and the majority of it I’ve learnt on the YOTA forum.  I love working on my websites and I wouldn’t have them without Aaron and Sean encouraging and helping me.

The YOTA forum has been essential for me and the moderators and members of the forum have to be thanked.  Yang, the Zodiacs and my fellow YOTA members are great people.  We all support, help, congratulate and commiserate as needed each other and the YOTA forum support structure is one of the best I have ever seen.

Chris Brogan is another person who has helped me with his newsletters and his blogs.  He’s always making me think and I thank him for that.

Another person to thank is Dave Freer.  He’s one of my favourite authors and I’m so happy he’s now moved to Australia.  He’s now living in Flinders Island and you can read about his adventures there.  He’s written some of the best books I’ve read and I really treasure that he’s my friend.

I also have to thank the people I work with and the care workers who I supervise.  They make working something I enjoy rather then something I have to do.

I also have a huge group of people who I have come to know from my hobbies.  There are people on Tibia who help me and there are people from Baen’s Bar who have done the same.

Do you have people who need thanking or promoting for what they have helped you with?

Have you written about them or thanked them in person recently?

Take some time to let me know what you can do to promote and thank them.

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Productive week

I’ve had a very productive week and I’m feeling good about all I accomplished.

Monday I had a day off and got a lot of things done at home.

Tuesday and Wednesday were respectively our branch meeting and my team meeting.  We are working to improve ourselves and came up with strategies for both the branch and my team for some improvements.  It’s very satisfying planning changes and acting on them

Thursday and Friday I finally had a chance to do all the rostering I was supposed to be doing in the previous 8 days at work and I got it all done in time.  It was hard work but finishing it was an achievement and it could have been so easy to just say can’t be done and leave it half finished.

Saturday and Sunday I’ve been working on my websites.  I lost my passion for blogging in January but it’s back now and I’m enjoying it again.  I added a book review to Lot of Book Reviews, had a lot of participation in the YOTA forum and started blogging about Tibia and my character Tannylouise from the game I play online.

To add to all this, I’ve started exercising 3 times a week plus I went to water aerobics.  So body and mind were all worked hard this week.

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Busy 2 weeks

It’s been a busy two weeks

It was the 1st Anniversary of my grandfather’s death 2 weeks ago.  Ozzi Pont, Pop, I will always miss you.  The miniature roses are blooming at the moment and when I look at them I always feel closer to you.

My Great Aunt passed away last week.  Audrey Armstrong, Aunty Audrey, was my favourite great aunt.  She was a great role model.  I’m really going to miss her.

Mum had her second knee operation last week.  She’s out of hospital today, I’m heading down to see her today.

Work was a mad house last week.  I did payroll on Monday, had Dementia Training on Tuesday, had a teleconference meeting Wednesday morning, then left straight from that meeting to travel to Macksville to sit on an interview panel (about 1 hour south from Coffs Harbour), Thursday was a meeting in the AM and training in the PM until FINALLY a flex (day off) on Friday.  I think for the entire week I did about 5 hours of work on the computer.

Being busy is good but there are times when you just find time just running away from you.

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