#TheThingIs... I Haven't Really Been Hiding For The Last 10 Days...
Okay, so this is the first bit of content I've managed to publish in ten days.
What have I been up to? Have I been hiding under my bed all that time?
Well, not quite. I'm still up and running about so I thought I'd give a quick update about what I've been up to...
Carry on Teaching (and Earning Yen)
This September has been a particularly busy one, with a full teaching schedule even though both the colleges I teach at were on summer vacation during the first half of the month.
One of those colleges won a contract to teach a three-and-a-half week intensive English course to three young police officers, and I was offered a bunch of those classes to teach.
I put together a summer course for some of my former students and have been teaching them once a week.
My private classes have continued as usual.
I had a couple of free days last week, but they were taken up with college exam grading. Groan!
Okay, that covers my efforts to earn Japanese yen during the off season. What about my "other projects"?
My Current Projects
I've been putting some time and effort into studying the "endgame" in chess. I've been solving "checkmate-in-two" problems on my phone while commuting to my classes, and back at home I've been going through Jeremy Silman's "Complete Endgame Course" for a couple of hours each day. (I want to blog about this in the Hive chess community...)
This month I started reading and listening to Tolstoy's War and Peace. I haven't read any Tolstoy since I was an undergraduate and had to read "Resurrection" for a seminar. This is going to be a major preoccupation during the rest of this year... (I hope to blog about this project in the next few days.)
One other project that takes up quite a chunk of my free time each day is... Splinterlands! Yes, I have been able to maintain activity on the Hive blockchain not by blogging but by fighting endless battles on Splinterlands. The only reason why I avoided playing Splinterlands for so long was because I thought it was likely that I'd get so sucked into playing the game that I would neglect my other online tasks - such as blogging on the Hive blockchain! I was right, but now I'm hooked on fighting monsters, staking SPS, and earning more Splinterlands-related tokens in the Tribaldex liquidity pools.
I am enjoying a nice four-day weekend with absolutely nothing scheduled from Friday to Monday. During this time I'm working on a new online business project. I'm putting together a 14-day course on how to build the foundations of an online business with a blog, an autoresponder, a free offer, and so on.
I will be offering this course as a follow-up to everybody who subscribes to my Leadsleap Video Training Course - and yes, I intend to blog about this on CTPTalk in more detail in due course!
So there you go. I haven't really been hiding under my bed, although I do enjoy plenty of downtime relaxing ON it after lunch when I'm at home! Yesterday, for example, I spent a good hour and a half lying down and watching a fine Russian film version of War and Peace on YouTube (so it counts as "working on one of my projects). ;)
Cheers!
David Hurley
#TheThingIs
#InspiredFocus
I like the sound of the online business course - look forward to hearing more about it.
Thanks @shanibeer - It's nearly ready... I've done the emails and this morning I made the freebie "cheatsheet" that I'll be giving away to subscribers...
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Good to see you are keeping busy or not for 4 days at least.
I'm in the "or not" phase now!
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Hehe great (not) work (ing) 🙂
My, you really have been busy, David! Between your projects and your teaching schedule you hardly have any downtime at all.
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Good Morning and Thank you, @youarealive! Enjoy your day.😀
You too Lisa, and enjoy your new week. 👍💖🥳
Good Afternoon and Thank you, @youarealive! Enjoy your day.😀
It's been non-stop since 22nd August, but it's good to have those late-summer contracts to keep the yen coming in during the college break.
I'm really enjoying this four-day break though!
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Sounds crazy busy but definitely nice to have the income. Glad you're able to enjoy a break. They seem to fly by quickly.
Happy Sunday or Monday! 😀
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Good Afternoon and Thank you, @youarealive! Enjoy your day.😀
Nice to hear from you, David, and that you are #aliveandthriving.
You certainly have a busy schedule right now.
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Thanks @beststart - well, I'm enjoying a four day break from teaching and appointments right now. Loving the time to myself and an opportunity to work on my non-teaching projects.
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Wow, David! Thank you for checking in.
Great to hear from you. You are indeed an extremely busy man!
Good for you and all of the projects and teaching you are working on.
It is amazing how much you do.
Have a great day/evening!
Barb :)
#thriveonhive
Thanks Barb!
You wouldn't think I was busy if you checked in an hour or so after lunch! That's where I am now... feeling the old afternoon snooze coming on!
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Great to see you not hiding under a rock David, and fantastic to hear about your course for LeadsLeap, that will be awesome to see launched, enjoy your weekend and stay !ALIVE
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Thanks Erik.
It's a course that I'm going to offer to my Leadsleap video training subscribers. It will help them create products and content, and emails for Sendsteed, but takes them beyond Leadsleap to other platforms and resources.
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Great to hear David, by the way have you looked into the Funnels feature on LeadsLeap, it looks like you can make a share code for a duplicatable funnel.
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Yes, you can share entire funnels with a single code now.
Funnels are a way to organize your pages if you have multiple pages. In a typical campaign I have three pages - one opt in page, and opt-in thank-you page and a confirmation thank-you page which sometimes combines as the freebie download page.
I haven't made any videos on the funnels feature yet as it's really for advanced users, but I intend to do so sometime soonish!
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Yeah, I thought more in the way of using the funnels as a way of making a downline builder, sort of.
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Okaerinasai, Hurley-Sensei!
Just the thought of you reading War and Peace, I tip my hat because you have a LOT going on 🤣
It's already challenging for me to finish Superfans and two other books waiting for me, can't imaging that one. But who knows, one day I'll be ready to dive in it!
Until then, like you I have a million and one things going on!
As long as you keep coming back and fight, nothing else matters ;)
!CTP
I read it while commuting on the trams and trains around Hiroshima. I'll be doing a lot of commuting in the coming weeks!
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