Much obliged for your participation in the Simply Successful Secrets project and I apologize for taking so long to swing by here and check out your post.

I share many of your habits, and I am especially careful to document these days. Between my own blog and products, and the hundreds of blogs that I read each day, it is a great habit to jot things down when they come to me, lest they slip through the cracks. I use a program called EverNote that keeps all of my thoughts in one neat stack.

Thanks again for sharing your success habits, Mike, and be sure to swing by my blog on May 16th. I will be posting the master list of habits from all of the participants, and I will also be including a link back to everyone’s site.

- Aaron

http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/01/the-dark-side-of-blogging/

Mike

Okay, Mike…I’ll accept your invitation. Give me the evening to get my thoughts pulled together. I doubt that “workaholic tendencies” and “shortchanging on sleep” are quite what you’re looking for.

One word: exercise. I try to get to the gym three days a week. In fact, I purposely start work later two days a week just so I can get to the gym.

It really helps keep me sane! If I go a week without exercise, my back hurts, my chest is tight and I am a chocolate mess, to use my husband’s words.

I also walk the dogs 2x a day.

Thanks for adding my site to your blogroll.

I will be finishing up this article in the next few days on the darkside of blogging.

The best way to make sure you read it is to signup for my newsletter at the top of this page.

Mike

Let us know when you have completed the “Darkside of Blogging”.
In a bookclub I belong to, we had a few months ago the pleasure of reviewing “Citizen Marketers”. One of our members opened a question on this topic and a reference to Citizen Kane. Here is a link to it:
http://www.marketingprofs.com/ea/qst_question.asp?qstID=16322

I haven’t been to your site in ages. I recently started my own blog, and am happy to have you in my blogroll under communication. Keep up the great writing!

First, thanks for stopping in guys!

Regarding “The Secret”

You should know that if you practice Christianity or Judaism, that The Secret is a form of secular humanism that is very dangerious.

For example, there is a point in the book where the author suggests that had the people in India who died from that great tidal wave only had the right vibrations, they would have avoided such as catastrophe.

Anyone who believes in a sovereign God should avoid “The Secret.”

Stepping off my box…

Mike

Thanks for the linkback! I’m in the middle of moving home and hosting my brother and sister at present, so time’s limited. I hope to post about this in the near future though. There are a few other posts I have to make beforehand but thanks for thinking of me.

Bye for now,

David