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With 2008 wrapping up, and 2009 right around the corner, I thought I’d review my 2008 goals & resolutions.

Affiliate Marketing

• I’d like to win a contest… nope. The merchants that I work with don’t hold these types of contests. It seems contests are only held by CPA networks these days (you know, the guys with the exclusive offers and highest payouts) and I don’t do much work with them. I either need to drop this goal, or start working with those CPA networks.
• Attend Affiliate Summit East in Boston – done!

Fitness

• 11% body fat, or lower – done! But I’m sure I’m over that now. Maintaining 11% isn’t easy.

Finance

• Max out savings accounts – not yet. I still have time to fund mine, but I didn’t get anywhere on Laura’s or the kids’.

Other

• Watch less TV. Nope – in fact, I probably watch more now. I lessened the impact of TV by putting one in my office, so I can have it on while I’m working. Some people listen to music, I watch (listen to) TV. One result of this has been that I stopped watching Heros – I couldn’t spend an hour reading all that Japanese translations. To make things worse, I installed FIOS recently and now have like 85 movie channels for the next couple of months.

In all, 2008 was a good year. I joined the Black Ink Project back in April, followed the directions line-by-line, and in August my website. Back then the Black Ink Project was free, but today they’re charging $97 to join. Believe me, it’s worth it. In fact, my first 3 days of having my site launched, I made exactly $97 ($32.34, $13.64, $51.02). Since then, it’s done much better, even giving me a day with $1,000 in revenue! I’ll be continuing what I learned from the Black Ink Project as I expand my affiliate marketing websites in 2009.

I’m currently working on my 2009 Goals & Resolutions and will hopefully post that from my new laptop on Jan-1.

This entry was posted by Eric on Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 10:58 am and is filed under Affiliate Marketing, Finance, Fitness, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Yesterday I, along with 10,000 others, ran in the YMCA Turkey Trot: an 8k run in Buffalo, NY. Back in September, when I started training, I wanted to do 8:00 miles and finish under 40:00, but I quickly discounted that idea and just wanted to have a good time. Well I finished in 41:38, an 8:20 pace time. I guess I could have done 8:00 miles if I trained harder.

I was really happy with my time, and looked over my results from the past 6 years:

2008 was 2 seconds slower than my best time of 41:36 (in 2006). Like we’ve done the past few years, we started at my house, ran to the starting line, ran the race, caught the bus back to the Big Lots plaza at Hertel, then ran home. The long downhill at mile 4 was much appreciated and even though the starting line was mobbed, I still finished the first mile in 8:04 (which worried me, because that was faster than I wanted to do it in). My last mile was 8:06, so I managed to somehow find the energy to finish strong.

This year, we relaxed by laying in the hot tub for a bit. I wish I was able to do the Reindeer Run next weekend, but I’ve already got a few things going on that day. I’ll have to look for other runs to do but today, I need to get ready to turn the Christmas lights on at 7pm!

This entry was posted by Eric on Friday, November 28th, 2008 at 10:32 am and is filed under Fitness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

I got up this morning and went out for a run, but man was it COLD! When I started out, it was 19.22° but it got colder as I continued, dipping down to 17.96°. I was getting cold, so we cut the run short at 4.5 miles. I usually don’t run if it’s under 20, but with the Turkey Trot next week, I wanted to get this run in. It may be the last time I get to run before the race, although I think I’m going to try to get out again before Mass on Sunday morning.

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So we did 4.56 miles at a 9:22 pace, and only hit ice once.

This entry was posted by Eric on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 9:04 am and is filed under Fitness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One of my goals for 2008 was to get my body fat down to 11%. At my last weigh-in (3 months ago), I was down to 12%. When I started, I was at 22%, so I’ve made good progress so far.

Today I was measured at 11% body fat!

I lost another .25 lbs of fat, and added 1.5 lbs of muscle. I think the VO2 Max Study I was in helped, as well as all that running. Now I just want to maintain this level, maybe lifting heavier, which I’ve been slowly doing.

This entry was posted by Eric on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 at 8:33 am and is filed under Fitness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

I once again ran before my plyometrics class today, which means I was up at 4:30, out of the house (after eating a piece of toast w/ PB and a 1/2 cup of coffee) a little after 5. From 5:15 to about 5:50 we ran, then 6 to 7 had class. Our class was a bit hard for me today, which I think was because I ran a little faster than last time.

Father’s Day this weekend throws things off a bit, so I don’t know what I’ll get done. With rain expected for Saturday, looks like there’s no use in getting up early. Maybe I can run Sunday morning, before anyone wakes up.

I’m really looking forward to getting to bed early tonight, though!

This entry was posted by Eric on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 9:25 am and is filed under Fitness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

I ran this morning before my 6AM class, which means I was up at 4:30 to run from 5:15 to 5:45. I love eating up so many calories in such a short time – 477 this morning. I had just enough time to cool-down before getting all worked up again from 6 to 7.

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The run was a bit of a faster pace than last week when I ran before class (and realized about 1-1/4 miles in that I never started my watch, so I have no data from that run) so I was pretty tired. There were threatening clouds the entire time out, but I only felt a few drops of rain. However, leaving the Aquatic Center after class I could see it rained pretty good (still not enough to register on the weather station, though).

My next weigh-in is supposed to be June 15th, but because of timing, I think it’s going to be the 18th. That means I have 2 more weeks to really watch what I eat and take advantage of these double-sessions.

If anyone wants to join me, it looks like my next run will be Friday morning at 5:15 (I don’t like running in the rain).

This entry was posted by Eric on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 at 10:05 am and is filed under Fitness. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.