Three things that I appreciate and two affirmations are:

WordPress’ scheduled posting feature for making this post possible while I’m away. I could’ve written a post from my phone or while I’m at Oxnard, but I don’t think I’ll get the chance.

That Oxnard is 10-15 degrees cooler than where I live. I know it’ll be cool, but hopefully not too cold.

When somebody’s death brings people closer together. Loss of a loved one is never easy for anybody, but it’s amazing how losing someone can show others how petty they’ve been acting and really bring together people who haven’t gotten along in years.

Everything I need is already within me.

Happiness is everywhere I choose to see it.

People who help get me out of my comfort zone. It’s definitely good for experiencing growth as an individual when I do something that makes me step out of my comfort zone.

NBC and Hulu (and maybe other places) for putting episodes of Breakthrough with Tony Robbins online. This is such an inspiring show and a shame that it was pulled off the air after just two episodes. I’m glad that I’ll be able to watch the remaining episodes.

Today’s webinar with Sue, Steve, and John Assaraf. John really gets me excited and interested in learning more about how the human brain works. He’s an excellent teacher and explains things in a way that makes complete sense.

The Challenge TV recordings – I completely missed today’s show, so it’s awesome to be able to watch what I missed.

Deadlines – as a person with a degree in computer programming, I’ve noticed that a lot of indie programmers don’t like to give deadlines or release dates and will usually tell you the next release is when it’s out. But I think setting deadlines is really important because it forces you to at least get something done. Even if the thing you’re working on ends up being subpar, at least you’ve got a stepping stone to make it better. I need to set more deadlines for myself.

Thank you for the following five things:

Another rest week for the Challenge. I’ve got a little bit of catching up to do (posting one of my articles to EzineArticles and using Posterous to auto publish to the accounts I set up), so it’s nice having this week to be able to do those things.

The disappointment that I experienced yesterday. I was expecting something completely different than what I got from a paid webinar (it was pretty much something I already knew about). I definitely learned that I need to trust my gut more often when it comes to buying things without really knowing exactly what you’re getting. It was a very convincing video sales letter that made me think it was going to be something completely new.

The horse that I bet on yesterday not winning, placing, or showing. It really made the race a whole lot more exciting when my horse had the lead for about 3/4ths of the race, but it seemed like out of nowhere came horse #2 to take the win in the end, putting my horse in 4th place. Still, it was pretty fun to watch.

Taking a side road home yesterday. Taking the freeway probably would’ve been faster, but taking the side road gave me a chance to see more of Rancho Santa Fe, which I wouldn’t have seen had we taken the freeway. Really a nice area to drive through.

A webinar coming up on Wednesday. I’m thankful for this and it hasn’t even happened yet. I know I’ll definitely get a lot of value from this free webinar than the paid webinar that I attended on Sunday. The reason why I know that is because I always learn so much from John Assaraf any time I watch anything from him. I’m super excited for this!

Well, that’s all for now. Time to give my computer a break.

I almost forgot about today’s daily gratitude post. Yesterday’s post had to do with web browsers and I guess today’s mostly has to do with my phone. So, thanks for the following…

Screen protector on my phone. Thanks for helping keep my screen from getting dirty or scratched. It’s better that those things happen to the screen protector and not the screen, right?

Osfoora for iPhone. It’s probably one of the best Twitter clients I’ve used for the iPhone. I don’t feel like going in depth into that since this isn’t meant to be a review, so that’s all I’ll say.

Google Maps for iPhone – for showing me real time traffic and helping me find places while I’m on the go.

Sigalert – speaking of traffic, this site is great for that too. It’s only for Californians and Arizonans (is that what you call someone from Arizona or is it Arizonian?) though, but still great for checking traffic. They also have a mobile version of the site too, but it’s easier for me just to open Google Maps.

Being able to download apps on iTunes for transferring to my phone later. Very useful when my phone doesn’t have the latest OS installed and I want to make sure I still get the app.

And that concludes my phone appreciation post. I don’t know if I’ll continue with having another theme tomorrow, but it’s been fun doing it this way so far. Well, have a great day, everyone! And I’ll post again tomorrow!

Tabbed browsing – what did I ever do before this? Oh yeah, I used to have multiple browser windows open and taking up room on my taskbar, that’s what. I love my tabs… I used to not like them (crazy, right?), but now I can’t browse without them.

Saved sessions and session managers – it’s so nice being able to reopen the tabs I left off with and also having session manager add-ons/extensions that let me save and load specific sessions.

Adblock Plus – I rarely see ads anymore on most sites. There are some sites where I have to allow them or the site won’t work properly and some sites where I’ll allow them if I want to support the site by clicking on ads that interest me, but for the most part I don’t get annoying banners with sound, flashing colors, etc.

NoScript or Google Chrome’s Javascript blocking feature – it really helps keep my browsing sessions safe from possible malicious attacks and I know it’s my own fault if I ever get any malware because I manually have allow sites to load scripts. The only malware I’ve ever really had to deal with in the past few years is any that’s on other people’s computers.

The Gmail Manager extension for Firefox – if Chrome ever gets an extension similar to this, I’m permanently making the switch from Firefox. But right now this is one of the few I can’t live without because I have a ton of Gmail accounts for different purposes – a few personal (1 for family, 1 for friends, 1 for really close friends), internet marketing, junk mail, shopping, gaming, niche websites (I pretty much make a new address for every keyword I target). Gmail manager makes it really easy to switch between accounts.

Okay, so not only were all of those things tech related, but all browser related… and I still have a few more browser related things I can write about, so maybe I’ll continue with this tomorrow… or not, depending on if I still want to write about it by the time I make my post tomorrow. We’ll see!

• The business provides a product or service that people have a real need for and is highly profitable.
• I am grateful for all of my customers/clients and make sure they are extremely satisfied with the product or service.
• My customers/clients know, like, and trust me.
• The business leverages the skills and talents of people who can perform the day-to-day tasks of the business better, more efficiently, and more effectively than I can.
• My team is full of outstanding, motivated, exceptional, driven individuals who are good at their respective fields of expertise (writing, SEO, backlinking, lead generation, programming, etc.)
• I provide my team with all of tools that make their jobs easier.
• My team is paid very generously for their efforts.
• I appreciate everything my team does for the business and always listen to their comments or suggestions on ways to improve it.

That’s my business(es) in a nutshell. I may edit this post later when I think of more things that can be added to it.

Amazon’s affiliate program – so far this is one of the affiliate programs I’ve been paid by. Yay! Here’s to more sales with this and even more affiliate programs in the future!

@TotesMcGotes on Twitter – I would love to learn from him or at least see this guy give a presentation! This guy is living the life to the fullest and is really funny and inspiring. It’d be great to have him as a mentor and I think that is definitely a possibility since he’s somewhere in San Diego county.

Our mailbox – it’s not exactly new anymore, but I’m glad they replaced our mailboxes with new ones a while ago so now it’s a whole lot easier to get the key in the hole.

Understanding PHP enough to be able to tweak scripts. It really comes in handy to be able to tinker with other people’s code.

That my eyesight hasn’t changed in over 10 years. I got new glasses this year since it was time for new frames and the doctor who gave me my prescription said it was still about the same as the last time I had an eye exam. He said that since there wasn’t much of a change that it would probably stay the same until I’m in my 40s. It’d be cool if my eyesight improved, but I’m happy that it hasn’t changed much.

Those are the five. Thanks for reading! Five more tomorrow.

I’ll write about five things I’m grateful for and will try to do this every night, trying not to repeat anything I’ve previously said (and, yes, if you’ve been watching the Mind Movies 2.0 prelaunch videos, I got this idea from video 1… I think it was video 1). I have a lot of things that I’m able to write about for now and really want to be able to keep this as an ongoing daily habit. If I miss a day, I’ll do catch-up like I did with the prosperity game, covering multiple days in one.

I’ll start it off with these five:

The first thing I’m grateful for is that I have been blessed with some amazing teachers throughout my life (from preschool through college and even all of the people whose information products that I’ve learned from) who really love what they do and made learning fun for me.

Number two is my incredible ability at remembering things. Some people might say I have a photographic memory. I wouldn’t exactly call it that, but it’s definitely really good. I love the way random things will trigger my memory.

The third thing is that Cox helped get my internet connection stable again. My cable modem has been working for 9 straight days and counting now. Thank you, Cox tech!

Fourth is Hulu. Yes, Hulu, the website for providing me with a lot of entertainment – TV shows, movies, anime, etc.

Saving the best for last, my bestest friend (if you’re reading this, yes, that’s you, Koko ^^). For as long as I’ve known her, which actually isn’t long compared to how long I’ve known my other friends, she’s always been there for me and I’ll always be there for her. I’m gonna do everything I possibly can to meet her in person (yes, we haven’t met in person, but I trust her a lot) so I can give her the hug I’ve been wanting to give her. I really want to make this happen sooner rather than later.

Until next time, thanks for everything I’ve written about so far that really make my life truly awesome.

I’ll admit that this sale comes from a site that has been dormant since last year’s Thirty Day Challenge ended. So I haven’t even been trying to create new content, build backlinks, etc. I really haven’t focused on Clickbank at all since my focus this year is on Amazon’s affiliate program.

The reason I know what site the sale is from is because I checked where the person was from who bought the product, then I looked at my Pretty Link stats and the IP address of the click matched the location of the person who bought the product.

I probably won’t see a dime of this commission due to Clickbank’s customer distribution requirement:

ClickBank will withhold payment of any account balance until the following criteria is met:

* Sales made with 5 or more different credit card numbers; and,
* Sales made with two different payment methods (either Visa, MasterCard, or PayPal). Note: PayPal purchases do not count toward the minimum 5 different credit card numbers.

This requirement is in place to help prevent Affiliates from abusing the ClickBank Affiliate program by using their accounts for the sole purpose of fraudulently collecting rebates and/or discounts on their own purchases.

Once you have met the Customer Distribution Requirement, your account will begin issuing payments normally, in accordance with our Accounting Policy, beginning on the next payment issuing date.

It’s still a pretty damn awesome feeling to know that one of my 30DC sites actually made a sale. Kind of horrible conversion rate for that site, but still nice to see a sale nonetheless.

We’ll see if I can get it to rank highly in the search engines and keep its rankings.

Creating the website will probably be done with a WYSIWYG editor of some sorts. Since I have a Mac now, I figured I’d try an editor for OS X. I tried out iWeb before, but I don’t think I’ll be using that for this site. I think I’ll give Rapidweaver a try.

For traffic, I’d go with a combination of on & off page SEO, article marketing, social bookmarking, and YouTube videos.

I already registered the domain. Time to get started creating the content!