Today I had a bunch of calls and got the store bought corned beef cooking. The beef was pretty good. Not too salty. Decent corned beef flavor. Looking forward to the one I’m curing. Our refrigerator is pretty full here so the pot with the brisket I’m curing is in the garage where it’s below … Read more
Had my small mastermind group this morning. It remains the three of us regulars and I’m not actively trying to grow this group at the moment. As I bring on more clients in the world of email or finding clients on LinkedIn I’ll start additional discussion groups which are bonus offerings to what they are … Read more
We did another expedition for supplies. We went to Sam’s which was partly disaster tourism and partly getting some supplies. One exciting find was a USDA prime grade beef brisket at $3.29/lbs. It was about 11lbs and I split it. One 1/2 for the freezer and 1/2 for house cured corned beef. It won’t be … Read more
Chris’ Sons of Norway lodge is still going ahead with their meeting today. It’s honoring 125 years of the Sons of Norway and there is a Norwegian dancing and singing group doing a presentation. Everyone is going to try to keep a safe distance. I did some grocery shopping in the morning to pick up … Read more
Had the call with the guy who wants to work with me on doing his emails and we figured out deal terms. We’ll have a call next week. Also finished up the draft of an email sequence I’m writing for a local client here. With not feeling well last week and part of this one … Read more
I had several calls today and Chris has teacher/student conferences at school so I took her to school and knew she wasn’t going to be done till around 7pm. One call was the first paid email coaching session with the guy who signed up for my big program 2 weeks ago. It was a good … Read more
Now I have 2 calls set up with past clients, as well as someone else I’d tried to set a meeting with a couple months ago. I’m getting back to contacting people via LinkedIn and did an experiment with a small group and set a couple meetings from that. I’m still refining the message I’m … Read more
I was expecting to feel poorly today and ended up feeling pretty good. I had a coaching call with the coach I’m trading services with. It was a good session, we went over some sales techniques and he further encouraged me to reach out to some past clients and contacts to see if those conversations … Read more
Expecting that I might end up tired in the afternoon and evening I did some guitar practice in the morning. I have not been regular on that and it was good to get back to it. Despite not regular practice, my fingers remembered some things and it was a little easier. Then trying to get … Read more
Chris and I planned out food for the week and I did grocery shopping and some prep cooking while she did some cleaning in her niece’s car. (Niece and Chris’ daughter are in Hawaii for the week for a family gathering. Car was left here while they were away.) Anyway… I caught up on writing. … Read more