What happens to the time?
Many times I find myself ignoring those that mean the most to me and really do not realize what it does to them until the tears fall from their eyes. In the past in my ambitions to make the best possible life for my family I have gotten so caught up in work that then they only see Dad on the rare occasion when I have taken a day off. With a schedule of leaving before they woke and returning after they are tucked snuggly in bed.
Now that I am a fulltime internet marketer even now I find myself ignoring those that mean the most to me. While not intentional it does happen more frequently than anticipated. When buckling down on a project interruptions really throw me for a loop and if I get side tracked sometimes it is impossible to get back on track.
Now I have just discovered I have a nagging health issue that I thought was ok to resurface and now have to figure out a way to achieve that balance we all strive for. While at the same time not ignoring those I love the most.
Every time I am faced with these gremlins I listen to “Cats in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin and it puts things back into perspective.
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Anonymity - Trolls and Blogging
It is great when you get a spike in traffic for various terms. This site has started to get a lot of traffic because people are searching for my name. Granted that is not the only traffic I get here but I think the recent surge in name searches for “Paul Rushing” has spiked because of how vocal I have been about a couple of different Internet Marketing issues.
One thing I have never done is hide behind aliases, masked who I am or how to contact me. It is all out there for the world to see. So it is comical when I get troll comments where people use fake email addresses and aliases to post comments on my blogs. I can understand why people may want to be anonymous online and definitely respect peoples right to privacy. I have been a victim of Identity Theft in the past and even after after that I really do not go out of my way to hide who I am. I do subscribe to Life Lock and that does take away my fear of Identity Theft happening again.
On another note though no amount of Identity Theft Protection protects personal safety and when you see troll comments from an IP range within driving distance of your home it does make you wonder especially when I have been recently threatened by someone running a fraudulent marketing campaign. Even then though I know someone really out to do harm to me would not leave a troll comment, they would just do what they set out to do. Threats are for cowards. Especially when they infer things that they do not intend to do.
Granted I do get many spam comments on this site and many others that I own but I do have effective spam comment controls in place, but that does not stop trolls who use email addresses like bob@yahoo.com from showing up in my moderation cue. So I have now set up a membership requirement to post comments. That is unfortunate for people who like to comment and ads a few steps but it does cause the “Bobs” of the world to verify an email address before they can submit a comment so if they want to troll they at least must use a real email address.
Back to personal safety and being a highly vocal person when people do things that you do not agree with. I have several publication style sites that I am testing my journalistic skills on and they do concentrate on subjects that are controversial. Kind of like the news reporters that call out companies that take advantage of consumers. Instead of showing up with a camera in their face I just put it on the web. I thought about my personal safety when I started sites like that and realized that I am not going to live under a rock because I call a spade a spade no more than reporters that you see on television.
One thing I like about living in Rural Coastal Georgia is owning a gun does not carry the stigma that it does in other parts of the country. Nor is it considered unusual behavior. Since childhood I have been a collector of sorts for guns. My wife calls it my arsenal. I have pistols, shot guns, hunting rifles, although I am not a hunter, and assault rifles. High end and low end. So as far as my personal safty goes I have never really been worried and never really will be. My family is another story.
My wife and adult children are more than capable of defending themselves as I have spent countless hours out plinking with them. My wife and adult daughter both carry .25 pistols in their purse and know how to use them. My adult son loves to look at guns as much as I do and there is no telling what he owns now but I am positive that he is more than capable of defending himself as well. That just leaves my primary concern with my small school age children. They know not to let strangers approach them and how to conduct themselves if they are approached and am confident that they would seek an adult that they know if they were approached. That does not change the fact that they must to be overly cautious and requires me to spend more time with them teaching them how to protect themselves in a bad spot.
Being a father of five children and the oldest of five brothers it does instill a strong sense of family that coupled with standing up for what you believe in does give emotion to retribution if someone harms those that you love. Everyday the news is polluted where children have died due to drunk drivers, abuse, not being in seat belts and mean hate crimes. I consider myself very fortunate that I have never had to bury a child, I have had to bury a brother, he died in a car wreck driving way to fast. If I were to ever have a child harmed, hurt or scared by the hands or actions of someone trying get at me or through careless behavior hell hath no fury compared to what I would rain down on them not to mention that there would be no need for a trail if they are identified. I would be the one on trial like Samuel Jackson in the movie “A Time to Kill”.
So bob@yahoo.com be aware that I have pinpointed your location within a very targeted geographical area. If you wish to post a comment you will have to register an account. I am apologize to my regular readers for this and Troy when you come back around I like the idea of JedBuilt drop a note and say hello.
Some Internet Marketers Refuse to Grow Up
My 6 year old son Alexander, who is in kindergarten, was assigned the task of learning the four seasons. As good parents should we help our children with their school work. When he was asked what the four seasons are his first answer was HUNTING SEASON. We died laughing. One thing I must let people know is that I am not a hunter never have been one and really have no intention of taking it up. The only place he could have gotten that from is school. That is ok. It is one of the benefits of living in Rural Coastal GA. Your children are exposed to thing such as shucking oysters, wearing shorts in December and the barrage of hunters driving into the woods every morning prior to and during hunting season.
I have recently entered a strong debate in a niche that I am not really a part of. The make money niche of online marketing. There has been a lot of hoopla about downline integrity and the formation of the Downline Integrity Brigade and usually a debate like that I would extricate myself, but I could not refuse. Hindsight being 20/20 I may not of reacted in an such an overly verbose stance but I do believe in standing up for what is right and cannot stand it when people take shots at others because they disagree with their opinion.
The bad thing is it caused me to lose some focus on other projects and now I must play catch up. Sigh…
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