I missed my Personal Accountability for Saturday. My computer went down last week and so I have not been able to post since last week.  I have to say it actually was pretty nice to have a bit of a break from business!

I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving!  I did and I have so many things to be grateful for!

Here is my personal accountability:

• Complete 10 Squidoo lenses.-No
• Write five articles for article marketing.-No
• Update my auto responder.-No
• Create a new website for my Squidoo lenses.-No
• Blog 3-5 times this week.-No
• Continue doing affirmations twice a day and my gratitude journal!-Yes

As you can see I didn’t get much of anything done last week. I am okay with that which is what counts right?!  I am renewed and ready to go.  I have a lot on my list of things to do this week but I am not going to push to hard.  It is the Christmas season after all and there are many things offline that I must attend to! I do have to share that in the last week I have had many affiliate sales from my squidoo lenses and from my affiliate websites.  I am really excited about this.  My hard work is finally starting to pay-off!  I am very excited!  Today I am going share with you a few of my Squidoo lenses: GPS Systems: In-Dash, Handheld and Fitness, Bananagrams Word Game, Nintendo DSI Console and Vtech Learning Laptop.  I am excited to share them with you!  I will be working on some more this week as I have involved in a group called the Rocket Moms on Squidoo!

My Personal Accountability Goals for the Week:

• Complete 5 auto responder messages.
• Complete 10 pre-scheduled blog posts for my blogs.
• Complete 5 Squidoo Lenses.
• Continue to write in my gratitude journal and affirmations

I am going minimal on my personal accountability goals this week but I will be working hard for sure!  I hope you all have a great week and work hard.  I would love to hear what your goals are for the week!

Until Saturday,

PS. Don’t forget there are great deals today because it is Cyber Monday check out Amazon’s Lightning Deals!

photo credit: Justin and Elise

I am so excited to tell you that I have got my first Squidoo affiliate sale! On Saturday during my Personal Accountability I talked about doing affirmations.  Well a big part of affirmations is feeling that what you are saying is true!  Yesterday I briefly got only and check some stats.  When I checked Amazon to see if I had any sales I found that I didn’t have any.  That was okay because I felt so strongly that I would have one today!  So I got only and checked my stats this morning and there it was!!  My first Affiliate sale that came from my Squidoo lenses.

This is only the beginning you know! I feel it all coming and it is so exciting!  Today I am going to go to the movies and see the much anticipated New Moon movie.  Also today I am going to the new In-N-Out restaurant, here in Utah we just had In-N-Out open up near us.  What a great day!!  I hope the beginning of your week is just as good!

Have a great week!

PS. I would love to hear about your very first affiliate sale!

photo credit: Mike Knell

photo credit: jeffweese

“I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store.

“For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

“I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.”

Once again it is time for my personal accountability for the week! This week was different.  I haven’t had one of these weeks in a while.  I just was not motivated to do a darn thing!  So I didn’t!  Okay I did accomplish some things but for the most part I gave in to my lack of motivation.

Here are some of my issues for the week:

I have been doing my affirmations each day and a few of my affirmations have really got me thinking.  One of them is “I deserve to be free of guilt.”  Doesn’t everyone deserve to be free of guilt?  Well on Thursday of this week I really didn’t want to do anything. I had my exercise clothes on but I didn’t exercise.  I got both of my younger kids in bed for there naps and instead of working like I normally do during nap time, I curled up with a blanket and a book in my big leather recliner.  It was great.  Now all day I fought my inner voice that said “You are falling behind.  You need to be working.” or “You shouldn’t be doing this!”.  But guess what I did it anyway!

Next issue:

Thursday started a day of reflection for me…Friday.  I started thinking about why I am not just happy being me.  Why am I not happy being a stay-at-home mom and doing sahm stuff!  I went through all the many issues I have in my life.  You know the ones…we all have them!  This is stuff that makes us who we are and why we react to things, the way we do! I haven’t come to any certain conclusions but I did start reading a book called Happy for No Reason by Marci Shimoff.  I really feel that this book may help me through this. I don’t want to feel guilty about taking a day off to just read a book.

Okay on to my personal accountability:

• I will complete ten squidoo lenses for a Christmas niche.- Nope…I have a few started but none completed.
• I will write an article each day and submit it to ezine articles to bring in traffic.- I did do two.
• I will write at least two press releases.- Nope.
• I will add four messages to my auto responders. – Nope not at all.
• I will post five times on this blog.- This I did do!
• Affirmations and Gratitude Journal- I didn’t this most of the week I missed a few mornings of affirmations and two days of my gratitude journal.

So as you can see I didn’t stay on track.  I have no real excuse and for the first time in a long time I DON’T feel guilty about it! That I am proud of!  I am committed to getting back on track this week.  I feel really good about things.  I am grateful I had the time to kind of take a break this last week.  This week even though we have Thanksgiving, I will be working.  My husband works at night and works Wednesday night and Thursday night.  So it won’t feel like much of a holiday because of that.  On Friday I may take the day off to go shopping.  I do love black Friday! It will really depend on the deals!

Here are my goals:

• Complete 10 Squidoo lenses.
• Write five articles for article marketing.
• Update my autoresponder.
• Create a new website for my Squidoo lenses.
• Blog 3-5 times this week.
• Continue doing affirmations twice a day and my gratitude journal!

To close my personal accountability for this week I want to say how grateful I am that I get to report to you every week! I enjoy showing what I have accomplished and what I have learned for the week.  We all have ups and downs and I really believe that how you respond to them determines what you gain!  I hope all of you have a fabulous Thanksgiving this week!  Keep up your hard work!

Until Next Week,

PS. Enjoy a good book during Thanksgiving!

photo credit: Vassil Tzvetanov