Does My Destiny Really Depend on Google? (Day 5)

Today started better than yesterday!  There were no distractions from this morning’s writing (unlike yesterday).  I was able to plow through, making great strides with one of my writing gigs.   This is the good news.

Does Google really control my destiny?

Now, the bad news:  I get paid by the page view and the website I write for has been “sandboxed” by Google. This means that page views are horribly lower than normal.  How horrible, you ask?  At this point I have earned a whopping $25 for about 4 hours of my time. 

 I am mortified that this may continue through the end of the month. When this website is in the good graces of Google, that number easily reaches 6 or 8 times that number for the volume of work I published today. 

Thankfully, I have another writing gig that – though I haven’t touched it in 14 months, and is also Google dependent – I can turn to.  The bad news is I have to reinvent the wheel a bit and get caught back up with the news in this specific subject area.

After toiling away at 2 articles for that website, I decided to sit down and write my daily blog entry.  I was greeted with this nugget:

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – Winston Churchill

Today’s lesson boils down to this: every choice I make shapes my destiny.  If I keep banging my head against the wall for $6 an hour then I will never reach the main goal of this project.   

My homework today was to choose one dream from my list on Day 1 and launch my journey.  Now I feel like I have already launched toward paying off the college debt, losing weight, and starting a new set of business projects.

I am reminded that I don’t need to see the top of the staircase.   No one said I needed to reach my destination today.  I just didn’t realize that Google would have such a miserable impact on the start of said journey!  Meh!