The question of the day is:  How many posts does your blog need to be considered  a blog worth looking at?  Do you need hundreds, or just a few.   I went looking at some of the sites that will pay you to post reviews in your blog.  (More on them later!)  Most of these sites have a certain criteria for the blogs they use.

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As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been reading a lot about food. Right now I am reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.  Michael Pollan gives a facinating look at where our food comes from.  Starting with McDonald’s chicken nuggets,  he eats his way through an organic meal, a meal from a sustainable farm, and a meal he hunted and foraged for himself.   It is a good read that will make you think about everything you put in your mouth! 

I saw a site today that promised to show you how to get rid of all your debt…even your mortgage….in 3-5 years.  It would only cost you $47 to download their free e-book that would give you all the secrets of becoming debt free.  Well, I can tell you in two words how to become debt free.   Quit charging!   Quit using your credit cards, quit borrowing money, quit taking out loans.  Keep making your payments and eventually you will be debt free.

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Lately I have been having trouble focusing.  I do a little on this project, a little on that….and nothing gets done!  There is nothing like a bunch of half finished projects staring at you.  It makes me just want to go back to bed!

But then I remembered something I’d read somewhere…. (there’s that scattered brain again, something…somewhere!).  It said that chaos on the outside was a reflection of chaos on the inside.  

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Someone in the Earner’s Forum asked me the other day for some quick tips on Google Adwords. I have been quite successful with Adwords, and so my post got longer and longer as I thought of things, and each one seemed more important than the last-It occurred to at that point that this would make a pretty good article, as it’s something lots of people participate in, and I don’t feel that many people get as much out of it as they should do! I think it’s a pity because in the work at home and home business arenas, some decent Adwords skills can make a huge amount of difference to your online money making! With that in mind, here are my 9 Adwords Tips You Were Never Told!
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