After a busy week, we are headed off for a 4th of July Vacation, so I will check back in on Tuesday the third.  Have a great rest of the week and weekend. 

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First off, I want to talk about my new business.  Since I have started this business with my cousin we have made it on two of the three major tv news stations and have had an article written in the major area newspaper.  The business is Nevada Poop Scoop.  That is right, I am making money by picking up dog waste!  It is a strange thing, but it is turning out to be very viable in my city.  You can visit our website at NVPoopScoop.com and view the news video and read the newspaper article.  The videos are pretty fun with jokes such as “Entremanuer” or rather than going from “Red to Black” it is going from “Red to Brown”.

Since this blog is about my road to success, I plan to keep people updated on my business ventures. In the next few days, I am on a mission to let my blog gain steam again and then I will finish on my “Image is Everything” Series and then move on to some exciting new topics about suceeding in life.

Welcome back readers! I hope to hear from you soon.

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Have a great week!

Adam

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This is a story I wrote about a Backpacking trip in which I screwed up big time and almost made a very bad situation.  It is a long story, but the lessons learned are invaluable.  Success comes with learning from mistakes made in life.  It is an interesting story to tell and probably pretty interesting to read, so take the time to read it and tell me what you think. 

Summer 2006 Backpacking Trip Disaster

Near the beginning of the summer, I decided to take my Little Brother Luke from Big Brothers Big Sisters on his first backpacking trip to Star lake which is somewhere between Lake Tahoe and Carson Valley in the Sierra Mountains. It was around the middle of July, when I set the date to go on our trip to the weekend of August 12^th.

Now on the week before the hike I stayed very busy between work and other various events, one of which was attending an orienteering class. In this orienteering class, the instructor emphasized how important it was to have a good map of the area in which one was hiking. At the time, I kind of baulked at the idea of needing a map for I was just planning on taking the Tahoe Rim trail to Star Lake. How hard could it possibly be? So on the day of the hike, Luke, my brother Ben and I quickly gathered our supplies and headed off to the trail head. The day was beautiful with the temperature around the mid-90’s and not a cloud in sight. We drove through Gardnerville and down Highway 88 before turning to Highway 89 to get to the well known dirt road which would eventually lead us to the trailhead. From years past I remember having to pass 2 bridges before getting to the trail head, so I looked out for the bridges and felt comfortable as things looked familiar from the last time I had been on the road. We made our way past the two bridges and followed the path which looked most traveled and later ended up at a nice circle dead end with a trail head. I was proud of myself for finding the trail head so easily. We lathered ourselves with plenty of sunscreen and even practiced some of the skills Luke and I had learned from our orienteering class. Soon after, we headed down a nice trail with the intention of ending up at Star Lake. Within 5 minutes, something didn’t seem quite right because we were climbing straight up a mountain and Luke was already complaining about his shoulders hurting. It was only about 10 minutes into the hike when I decided Luke wasn’t going to be able to carry a backpack, so we distributed Luke’s equipment between Ben and me. I knew in my mind that about 1 mile up the path was when the trail would join the Tahoe Rim trial, so we continued to hike. Not before too long we were still climbing up a massive mountain and there was no Tahoe Rim trail in sight. For some reason I didn’t even hesitate and continued climbing up the hill hoping that eventually we would run into a familiar spot which would lead us to Star Lake. At the top, I got rather excited, because the terrain looked very familiar and I saw what I thought was Freal peak. We quickly moved down hill looking for Star Lake, but it wasn’t there. I hiked around ridge after ridge searching with no luck. I officially realized we were on the wrong trail and that we were going to have to stay the night in a different place. We made the best of the situation by finding a nice place next to a river and setup camp for the night knowing that we would just backtrack to get to the car on the next day. That night was good and we all slept well. The following day seemed rather simple knowing that we would just climb uphill until we saw the peak again and then head back down the trail we came up on. The beginning of the hike back started out very steep, but I kept Luke motivated by reminding him that once we got to the top of the mountain we would head straight down the trail and be back at the car. As we neared the top of the mountain I was feeling pretty stressed since Luke could not hike for five minutes without needing a break and water. I couldn’t understand it for the life of me why he needed so many breaks, since I didn’t need a break anymore than once in an hour. At one point he started crying and said that he could not go on, so I stopped for about a half hour and we talked and ate some food until he felt better. Remind you that this was before we hit the top of the mountain. So we continued to hike until we reached what I thought was the location of the trail we had hiked up the previous day. To my surprise, there was no trail in sight. We hiked up and down the ridge line of the mountain to find the once obvious trail, but could not find it. I was pretty sure that the trail was around that area, so I decided to just hike down the mountain until we run into the trail. The terrain going down the hill was more than challenging as it was a combination of sand and boulders on a 45 degree slope. We were careful to keep a safe distance between us as each person was very capable of causing a mini rock slide. It was about 15 minutes into going straight down that I decided to evaluate the situation and make a strategy for the rest of the day. As I stood on a tall rock looking down the massive mountain all I could see was rock, sand, and thick bushes, a sudden realization came across my mind that we were going to have to deal with the rocky terrain until we drop about 3000 ft. At the same time we had just lost cell phone signal. Inside my heart I knew I was lost and in trouble, but I also knew that I was the leader and had to lead no matter how crappy I felt inside. So I consulted with my brother and told him that we have to work at this together. I put on a fake smile, turned to Luke, and said “You see that small dirt patch way down at the bottom of the mountain, the car is somewhere down there and it looks like we have cell phone service.” It made me feel sick knowing that I was lying to Luke and that the chance of the car being down at the bottom of the mountain was no more than 1% chance. There were a few basic survival skills running through my mind: Keep a positive attitude, Stay near water, and be aware of the conditions around you especially the weather. I looked down the mountain, cupped my ears to listen for water and heard a small stream a ways down. I told everyone that I was getting thirsty and that we need to head in the direction of water. We slowly slid down the mountain while taking breaks no more than 5 minutes apart so that Luke could sit down and catch his breath. Ben and I were laughing and/or crying because we could not understand why Luke needed so many breaks. I just wanted to get somewhere safe in the least amount of time. If it was up to me I wouldn’t have taken any breaks. Finally we made it to water and pumped it from a mosquito infested area. Once again we were on our way down the mountain sliding down sand and steep rock slabs that were rather dangerous. Eventually, I got so frustrated that I decided to have Ben watch over Luke while I booked it down the hill to find a trail. About 10 minutes and several deep scrapes and cuts later, I was about 40 minutes ahead of Ben and Luke. Eureka! I had found a trail. At this point, I realized that we were no where near the car, but at least a trail would take us somewhere that maybe was close to a road. I figured that it is much better to be rescued on a marked trail than trying to explain the terrain features to give a location if we needed help. I finally got cell phone signal and called my mom to tell her that I was okay and that if I didn’t call before 5 P.M. to call Luke’s mom and tell her that we are safe and almost down the mountain. I didn’t want to portray in anyway that I was lost to either my mom or Luke’s mom, because mother’s become very irrational when they think their kids are in trouble. Within 30 minutes Ben and Luke had caught up and we made our way down the trail. At this time it was just a matter of hiking along this trail until we hit an end point and I could call for help. All of the sudden the sky cracked with thunder and I quickly prayed to God that he would take care of us, because I knew that we could not deal with rain showers on top of an already horrible situation. As we hiked, a little rain sprinkled, but luckily it never got worse before the sun came out again. For the next hour we hiked while still taking the regular breaks which were becoming so frequent that I almost went crazy. I swear I was hardly breathing more than a resting rate and Luke said he needed a break. I could see Carson Valley and knew that we were probably headed to the valley so that someone could pick us up. When we were near the valley, after Luke sucked it up all day and hiked like a champ for an 11 year old, Luke finally broke down and wanted his mom right there and then. I had to comfort him while he cried and yelled at me. It was rather intense and his mood was going down hill quick, so we called his mom and they had a talk which gave Luke more strength to continue. Within a mile of where we would eventually be done, I called my uncle Mike to help me out and he pulled out the maps and told me where to go so that he could pick us up. That last mile went pretty quick because we knew that we were going to be safe without involving the search and rescue. At the trail head, Uncle Mike and Aunt Barb were there to pick us up and take us back to my car. I had called my mom and Luke’s mom and told them that we were safe. For the next 3 hours we were up in the mountains getting my car and getting something to eat. Luke then remembered that he should call his mom to tell her that we were just leaving to head back to Reno. When Luke got off the phone, he said that his mom had called Search and Rescue. I was thinking “What the F*^K” and then checked my messages on my phone to see that indeed the Sheriff called my phone. This goes back to what I wrote before, how moms are terribly irrational when they sense trouble. How in the world was Search and Rescue going to help when Luke’s mom knew we had safely made it off the mountain and were with my uncle. It didn’t matter, because when moms are scared they are irrational and call Search and Rescue as some kind of comfort or something. Anyways I called the sheriff and told him that we were on the highway on our way to Reno. It was understandable that she would be worried since we didn’t call for 3 hours, but we didn’t have cell phone service, so what were we to do. I dropped off Luke and my horrible weekend came to an end. I took the next day off of work to emotionally recover.

The moral of the story is to always have a GPS and detailed map and compass of the area you are hiking, because you always know exactly were you are until you are lost. We were very lucky that the weather was on our side and that no one got hurt. This same kind of thing happens all the time and in many cases does not have an ending nearly this good.

Hope you enjoyed my story and learned something.

Adam

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The deal is, that if you win, you must plan a romantic evening for someone special and then send me your plan.  I will review it and post it, so make it fun and entertaining. It must meet the requirements for a hopeless romantic evening by having it be somewhat of a surprise to your date.  That means you must do something that your date doesn’t know about that will make the evening more exciting.  On the date, take a picture of you and your date and send it to me.  If you give me permission, I would like to post the picture, but I don’t have to.

HOW TO ENTER:

1.) Leave a comment about why you should win and what you preliminary plans for a hopeless romantic date would be. The contest will be judged based on your response.

2.) Digg and Reddit my story by clicking the links.(I can see if it was clicked), also Favorite Me on Technorati if you want.

3.) Tell all your friends internet savvy or not.

4.)Additional emphasis on entries for those who mention this contest on their blog using the following text.

Adam from TheAdamBox.com is making it easy for you to be a hopeless romantic for an evening by giving away a $50 gift certificate for a romantic outing. Enter Here.

The Contest will be run until I recieve at least 25 applicants.

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Though this article was posted before, I felt that it fit perfect with the next item in the Image is Everything Series. It is also a very fun and touching article to read, especially when you get to the story about Jerry.
We all have our ups and downs, but do we ever think about who else our attitude may affect? If you think about the last time you were in a bad mood who was it benefiting? Did you feel better because you were depressed about your day? How do you think your friends/family feel when you are in a bad mood? I think bad moods are a flaw with the human mind. In most cases it does nothing but harm the mental well being of people. In some cases it could be said that attitude’s drive motivation such as failing an exam in school may cause one to work harder for the next test. But what’s to say that one can’t have a positive attitude about the present and the future by learning from the past and improving in the future.

How to have a positive attitude?

Learn from the past, don’t dwell on it. Live for today and make today a good day.

It is a hard thing to just forget about the past, but when you find yourself dwelling on the past, just ask yourself “How is this helping me by dwelling on something that is in the past?” If there is not a clear answer, then you need to stop thinking about the past. Move forward with positive outlook learning from the past to avoid the events that made you have a poor attitude.

• Ask yourself “How is this helping me by dwelling on something that is in the past?”
•  Continuously remind yourself to be positive in the present.
• Avoid people or change activities that make you feel bad.
• Stop before speaking and think about the positive side of every situation. Remember positivity creates positive people, so speaking positivity is a must.
• Eliminate Stress as it is the most common cause of a bad attitude.
1. Try meditating for 15 minutes when stress has you down.
2. Exercise regularly and whenever additional stress relief is needed.

Having a good attitude has so many great benefits. By consistently striving to have a good attitude, your feeling about life in general will be better, your relationships will be fuller, and it will lead to success in whatever you do. As far as success, creating friends and networking is essential and having a positive attitude will make that task much easier.

Don’t make excuses, because your life is your own and only you can control what makes you have a poor attitude. Changing is hard, but the consequences of not changing can bring much harder times in the future. One will never know what they are missing until they have successfully become a positive person.

To motivate you to make a change in your attitude about life, here is a short story about a guy with a perfect attitude. Notice how people feeling about him and how his attitude helps him.

Read this, and let it really sink in…Then choose how you start your day tomorrow…

Jerry is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!” He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life. “Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested. “Yes it is,” Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.”

I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?” I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “the first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”

“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?”

I asked.

Jerry continued, “…The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read ‘he’s a deadman’. I knew I needed to take action.” “What did you do?” I asked. “Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead’.” Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

For further information on having a positive attitude, visit these useful sites.

Twenty One days to a positive attitude.
Have a positive Attitude
Keys to having a positive attitude.

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1. Fuel for my imagination - My goal in blogging is to use it as means to help me succeed in whatever I do.  By writing about various things that have to do with success, I challenge my mind to think of new creative things.  The more active my imagination is the greater my potential success will be.

2. Hobby - I have always liked web design and have designed and run several website’s.  So starting a blog was just a continuation of my hobby.  I started out designing a custom wordpress template which didn’t work that well, because at the time I didn’t understand what made wordpress templates good or bad.  But it all started with the desire to build a custom blog.

3. Money - Making money while doing something you like is always awesome.  So this is part of the reason I blog, because it gives me potential to make money while working with website’s and design.  I tested out trying to monetize my blog at the beginning with just Google adsense and the results were poor, so I have cut back for now. 

4. Image - To me image is pretty important and that is why I wrote the Image is Everything series.  Image also motivates me to have this blog and try to make something that is a success. Improve my image is like improving my life resume.

5. Entrepreneurial Spirit -  If not for anything else, it is just because of my desire to do things that have the potential of making me a financial stable successful person while I work for myself.

Leave a comment.  I would appreciate it.

Here is the next round of tags.

SmartWealthyRich.com

BloggerLounge.net

Lifeisrisky.com

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As you may already know, Image is everything, because it is how people make impressions about you.  When people see the stuff you live with day to day such as you car and house, does it create a good image or a nuetral or even bad image?  If you have an organized and clean living environment, than you are probably beyond this article, but if you have to clean up your car or organize you house or room significantly everytime you have new guests than you are who I am targeting.

I always ask myself if my future wife was to knock on the door would I let her into my bedroom.  Right now I would have to say “No”.  This is a problem, because anyone might be able to clean up there room in times of necessity, but part of these lessons is to perminantly improve image.  So how is it that we move forward to perminantly improve the image of our living environment which reflects who we are?  Well, I am going to list several helpful ideas, but it is more about wanting to improve you image.  As with all of the lessons, practice makes perfect, so if you work to keep your stuff organized all the time then eventually it will be natural.  If you are commited to changing your image, take these lessons to heart.  Have fun seeing youself in a clean and organized lifestyle.  Hopefully it will be something you can be proud of.   So on with the helpful tips.

These may seem simple, but it is necessary.

1. Have a logical place for everything and keep it there.  If you use something, put it away where it belongs.  If it doesn’t have a good place, make a good place.  Buy organizing bins at the store if you need to. Eventually you have to put it away anyways, so why not just put it away now instead of then.  I know this is tough, but it is only tough because you are not use to it.
2. Remind yourself how nice an organized environment feels. 
   There is nothing like the feeling of cleaning up and seeing a clean organized space.  The cleaning up part is not fun, but having an organized place is very rewarding and more functional.  Remind yourself continuously how much you hate cleaning up and how much you enjoy a clutter free area.  Staying organized all the time fixes both of those, clutter free and no major clean-up. 
3. Know that clutter increases stress and too much stress hurts your image.
   Do you know that the idea of seeing clutter and thinking about cleaning it up causes stress?  Well it does, so just eliminate the clutter and eliminate the stress.  Stress and a good image rarely go with each other.
4. If you aren’t proud of your living environment, improve it.
   Don’t learn to be content, learn to be proud.  I always tell myself, if I am not proud of it, then you must change something.  So ask yourself if you are pround and if not make a commitment to change.

These are tips will help you try to stay organized in general, but to really improve your environment there are many pages out their with specifics about how to organize your room, kitchen, garage, car, etc.  Learn about the specifics organizing a place and then keep in mind the tips I have written.  If you do both, then you will be one step closer to being more proud of yourself thus improving your image.

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Hidden Conspiracies -Dirty Little Secrets

At first sight, I thought this blog was about unusual conspiracies and phenomenon like you would hear on Coast to Coast AM, but no it is just an intriguing attention getter title.  This blog is really about a journey of a guy who wants to be a millionaire by 30.  He writes about making money on the internet and miscellaneous ramblings.  It is much like John Chow’s site in a way, but very unique as well.  I really like his writing style. 

Jenna’s Blog

This blog was fun to view, because there is something about pink and cute attractive girl.  I must say that I already like this blog a lot.  It is on my bookmarks as of yesterday, because you never know what kind of interesting stuff Jenna will talk about.  She posts sometimes 5 posts in a single day and has interesting stuff like Energy Pills to replace your coffee in the morning or a cool free site that makes it easy to sign-up for contests on the internet.  If you are looking for good random sites and information, Jenna’s Blog is the place to go.  I look forward to seeing what next she might write about.

MyOnlineWorld- PixelHead Blog

The author of PixelHead blog, Adam, has really been one of my best supporters of my blog and we have the same name, so I like this guy and his blog too.  He wrote about my challenge, because he knew I would like his true love story about him and his future wife.  Adam has topics about almost everything from Home Improvement to Las Vegas.  He also runs a Directory which will list you site for a link in return.  Go check out his blog and say “Hi”!  He seems to be a really friendly nice guy that is always willing to go to distance for friends.  Thanks Adam.

ThePiggyBanker

If you are looking to use a bank for anything such as loans, saving or checking accounts, credit cards or whatever, ThePiggyBanker is the place to check out first.  At the PiggyBanker, you will find the highest CD rates, the best credit card deals, the best savings accounts, and valuable advice on money management. 

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Stay tuned for information on the Hopeless Romantic contest, because nothing is better than winning something that forces you to treat yourself.

If you want to take part in the challenge,

For anyone who is willing to incorporate this phrase into their blog I will write a review of your site.  So if you want a mini-review and a link back, than write this phrase in a post.

TheAdambox.com is running a campaign in exchange for a  free mini-review to become the #1 ranking “Hopeless Romantic” site on google.

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Have you ever met someone and before you can even say “Jack Robinson” you feel extraordinarily comfortable with that person?  Is it magic or is there a physical reason?  Well today I am going to touch on the methods behind creating that sort of affect.

Let’s first set one thing straight.  Knowing what I am going to tell you today will do you no good unless you practice so much that it becomes natural.  I have known these techniques for a while and I am not sure if I am any better off, because I just don’t focus on practicing them enough.  Maybe writing this article will give me a new energy to practice my body language, vocal tone, and my word choice.  Know also that this is just the bare minimum information about this topic and there are many great books that touch on this in detail. Look down further to see my book suggestions.

Body Language

Some people say that what you have to say means a lot, but I would have to disagree. It isn’t about what you have to say, but rather how you say it.  The very first way that you communicate is with your body.  Almost anyone can tell what kind of mood you are in just by looking at you.  So if you want to appear great, first you must have a good attitude and second you must show confidence and friendliness. 

Showing confidence and strength is a very easy concept, but a very difficult task.

  Would you believe me that by looking at someone directly in the eyes for just a fraction of a second too long can show enormous confidence?  Yep, that is the key.  Easy, right?  Well, give it a try and see how easy it is to remember to do it.  Unless you focus on doing it you will either forget about it or be afraid to do it.  When looking at someone, let them be the first one to break eye contact and then you follow immediately after.  From there on out, during conversation, use your eyes to show extreme interest by looking at their eyes more often than what is initially comfortable.

Now that you have the idea of eye contact, the friendliness comes from your smile.  Doesn’t it feel good to know that someone is happy to meet you?  When we see someone that has a smile that overwhelms their face, we subconsciously think “can they really be that happy to see me? I guess so, this is great.”  The key to a great smile is a big and slow smile.  A genuine smile is a slow and powerful smile.  Look at someone in the eyes and then slowly smile HUGE.  Practice a Huge smile in the mirror so that you know what a Huge smile feels like.  I use to always find myself half smiling in pictures in which I thought I was full smiling.  It is a feeling you have to train your brain.

The best way to get good at this stuff is to first practice in a mirror and then go out and focus on using these techniques with as many people as possible.  Over time it will become more natural.

Vocal Tone and Wording

Vocal tone is the key to making someone feel that you are interested and on the same level as them.  When someone is sad, a vocal tone of excitement will more than likely be unexpected and awkward.  When some is happy, a sad vocal tone is really awkward and depressing.  So the key is to match the person vocal tone and if necessary slowly make changes to control the mood of the conversation. 

Again it doesn’t matter what you say, but how you say it.  With the right vocal tone any topic of conversation can sound exciting, so speak with enthusiasm when talking about yourself.  If you speak with enthusiasm then they get the impression that you are an interesting person.

Another key idea about sounding enthusiastic is to always have something interesting to say.  This does take some practice, but you should have a list in your head about interesting facts about the city you live in and interesting facts about yourself.  Next time someone asks you “Where are you from?”, you should respond with something interesting about your city relating to the person you are talking about.  For example,  I am from Reno,  If I was meeting someone on a backpacking trip, I might respond with “I am from Reno, 20 minutes away from the great Lake Tahoe.”  This opens up the conversation to talking about Lake Tahoe and the outdoors there.    This same technique can be used for any normal question like “What do you do?” or “How did you meet?”.

When talking to someone it is good to repeat and compliment stuff that they say, because it shows you are listening and interested.  Use phrases like, “That is great, that you are able to take a trip to Europe.”, if they were talking how excited they are to go to Europe.

All of these techniques are just the tip of the iceberg and will only get you so far.  Using these techniques regularly will indeed improve your image which directly effects your success. So take the time to practice these techniques and then when you are hungry for more check out the following books.

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There are a lot of factors that can help me achieve that spot, but the most important is probably having some link love which isn’t very easy for a small blog like mine.  I have previously set out the “Hopeless Romantic Challenge” with no results, so I am going to focus my efforts on things such as keywords in my posts, alt tags, mybloglog promotion, and of course a contest.

I have to think about how the contest is going to work, but it will definately relate to romance and the prize will probably be a gift certificate to a romantic restaurant.  How does $50 to Ruth Chris Steakhouse sound?  If you have any suggestions as to what thing people can do related to romance for contest entry please comment and let me know.

As of today, I am #35 on google for

Hopeless Romantic

Oh boy that look funny, but search engines supposedly love <h1>.

Follow me along this journey as an experiment to see how easy it is to move up Google Keyword Spots (without having JohnChow Link power).

If you want help me get started, then I would love this link “Hopeless Romantic” somewhere on your page.  I always remember favors.

To Do List

1. Write Article about this upcoming contest and link bait opportunity on BlogBait.net which now is PR 4.
2. Optimize keyword use and linking in existing hopeless romantic articles.
3. Use MyBlogLog and MySpace to add exposure to this experiment.

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