Thanks to friends on Facebook who led me to this excellent 6 minute talk. It is very encouraging for me because I personally don’t think I posses any skill, knowledge or intelligence that is higher than anybody. In fact, growing up, I’ve thought of myself as untalented, nothing special, average and unlikely to achieve anything great. In many ways, a lot of that still remains. There is one silver lining though. I’ve always thought of myself as being stubborn and determined. After listening to Angela Lee Duckworth, I like ‘grit’ much better because it explains so much more.Well worth listening to. Particularly if you don’t feel you have what it takes or feeling a little beaten. I also loved this bit from her talk Also, there is a short ‘gritty’ quiz you can take to find out how ‘gritty’ you are. Check it out. I scored 4.25. What did you score?

Among the most annoying things to be asked to do is… “Clear cookies from your web browser” When you do that, you’ll have to re-login to many sites you are in and out of daily or even several times a day. If your work is entirely online like mine. This is a huge pain but at times very necessary so you can gain access to the site you are having trouble viewing or when you need to test out a plugin. The great news is, clearing your cookies doesn’t have to be an all or nothing exercise. Especially if you use Firefox and Chrome. If you don’t then… you should Below are steps how remove a single cookie or all cookies relating to a particular web site domain. Removing Selected Cookies On Chrome 1 Click on the Customize and Control Google Chrome button, then on Settings 2 Make sure you are in the Settings section. Scroll all the way down and click on Show advanced settings. 3 Click Content settings under the Privacy section. 4 In the Cookies section, click the all cookies and site data button. 5 In the pop up, enter the domain name of the cookie you’d

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If you want to sell something online, you first have to put it up on your site. Being a solo entrepreneur, you probably do this yourself. Along the way, you may have tried different methods of creating the landing page or displaying your products within your website. That’s perfectly OK… until the day you decide to start outsourcing this. All of a sudden you realize your product pages are a mess. Some landing pages use a special sales letter plugin, others don’t. Some products have clearly laid out features while others are buried deep in a copy. Some have customer testimonials running down the side, others have them sprinkled everywhere and some don’t have them at all. They all use a different order button and the order button may be in different sizes and placement. It is very difficult for someone to help you when you don’t have a standard way of doing things. The upshot is, they will be asking for your input and guidance at every turn of the way. When that happens, you will feel this outsourcing stuff is way to difficult, takes too long and the person you hired is incompetent when that could be the

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