Monday 28th November

I'm back after a 3 week absence again. Writing a blog is hard, to keep updating it is even harder.

Payday came and went, and already I've betrayed my own definite chief aim in the savings respect. I'm supposed to be saving 5% of my income - all my income - but at the moment, I'm still fighting to survive and that savings money - which I did leave in the account - had to be pulled out to pay some bills.

I'm not sure what's happening to my motivation at the moment as it appears to have died. I've had the flu over the last fortnight or so, and all this has done is given me an urgent need to sleep (last weekend/19th & 20th), and simply chill out on the couch and not do anything at all, business wise.

It's so difficult, sometimes.

I'm arguing with myself as to the reasons for this - logically, when you're down with the flu, you don't want to do anything much anyway - and I'm defending this, to myself at least, by saying that a two week break is normal. It's a way, as well, of getting everything ready for the future. This weekend just gone I've redecorated the kitchen and planted some more plants in the garden, Erysimum Wallflowers actually.

Erysimum Winter Sorbet

The garden represents my future in a way as I want to be working in the back garden next summer - and I want to be surrounded by beauty, fragrance and inspiration as I'm on the computer. I've no doubt that working from home will be incredibly lonely at times and I think working in the garden will make a welcome change.

The business format is going to change. I'm going to stop selling the PLR & Ebook downloads (which don't sell) and instead changing the WHOLE business around to provide an information service using blogs which will be based around affiliate links for various products in that specific blog's niche. I'll be dropping Adsense soon, along with their links for pennies, in favour of quality affiliate links which will generate greater amounts of cash.

All that is in addition to the Homeworking magazine which will be the central focus of my business from January. The first edition of the mag is already done, having finished it last weekend, and I'll be putting the sales page up for it in January - but first, I've got to pay £90 + VAT (sales tax) to the Royal Mail to get a PO box address to collect the post (rather than having it come to an house address - which won't work).

Once that's done, I've got to open a basic business bank account to be able to process payments for advertising. 

I'm on the way!