Note: The following is a sidebar excerpted from the piece Maintain constructive forward focus through daily check-ups and by releasing lack at its roots:

This is a rough piece of writing. A rough cut. It needs polish. Needs some reorganizing. Needs some tightening. Needs some trimming. And it will get it at some point — but probably not in Mind Body Spirit Journal. In Mind Body Spirit Journal you get (more…)

PLEASE LET ME KNOW if you try to leave a comment and you can’t. Email me. Use the “contact” link at the bottom of the page.

Thanks to Mindy for notifying me this morning that the “comments” function was not allowing people to register to post comments. Another glitch. Have it activated now and will be working on the wording and instructions on the sign-up form so that it’s easier to use.

Am sure that, even after I “officially” launch this site in (more…)

Just discovered, Mind Body Spirit Journal has the:
• #1 and #2 slots on Google for:
“health freedom act, new mexico”
• #7 slot for “complementary and alternative health, new mexico”
• #4 and #5 slots for “alternative health practitioners, new mexico”

Didn’t check any other search terms. And will, later. But that’s very cool, since (more…)

If you are building a publication — online or off — with paid advertising as a business model, here are this old publisher, journalist and marketing exec’s 10 Sacred Rules:

1. Never give away advertising. You destroy your business model when you do. You say to advertisers and potential advertisers that space in your publication has little or no value. They get (more…)

Working on translating the legalese mumbo jumbo into a plain English summary was a much greater chore than I expected. And I only partially accomplished it.

Going to treat myself decently and not force me to do an all-nighter to try to hit (more…)

This is the day I set as my deadline for launching Mind Body Spirit Journal. One major project to be completed today before I officially “launch” — which means (more…)

Armand Morin is a bright young man, an infopreneur, who says he’s just happened to have made $25 million over the internet since 1996.

He made the bulk of it by creating and marketing products needed by other infopreneuers. Marketing to other marketers.

Now he’s breaking the internet, just to squeeze a few more bucks on the sly. Greedy. Truly “black hat,” as he calls it. Too bad.

I bought my last-ever product from him a couple weeks ago. I’d bought at least one earlier product from him. I think it was year 2000. He came out with the (more…)

Mind Body Spirit Journal will differ from Mind Body Spirit Bulletin, the old print version of the publication, in several ways.

1. It will truly be more of a journal. I will use it that way to keep track of observations and discoveries and thoughts and ideas — as well as to post actual, more formal articles.

2. It will update frequently — possibly daily. Whenever I come across anything of interest in the 40-some interest areas Mind-Body-Spirit Bulletin tracked. It will not publish on a one-issue-per-month schedule. In fact, the interest areas will probably expand beyond 40 as it (more…)

Taking this site live on May 15. (Technically, it’s already live. I haven’t mastered how to develop a WordPress site without being live. But I haven’t started promoting it yet. That begins on May 15.)

Expect to have most of the bugs worked out of the very cool modification of the 3-column Relaxation Theme design by then. Expect to have significant posts up in at least five different sections. Expect to announce the existence of MindBodySpiritJournal.com to a couple lists that day. And never look back.

Am also concurrently launching a public “45-Day Challenge” for developing and launching a self-help e-product. (That announcement is to go out on May 8 or maybe after the 15th. We’ll see.) Those joining the challenge will (more…)