{"id":391,"date":"2009-08-19T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deegardner.dmgsouth.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2009-08-19T07:59:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T14:59:07","slug":"trying-to-get-some-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/2009\/08\/19\/trying-to-get-some-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to get some Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of days I have reflected about topics I want to right about.\u00a0 I just realized I need to put those things into my categories list so when I want to look at what I have written I can just select the category.\u00a0 I have also been playing around with twitter for the last couple of days to see what that is all about.\u00a0 My fear with twitter is that it may just be a fad and It is also becoming a very crowded social network.\u00a0 I have a personal twitter and a twitter for my business dmgsouth and on other one to play with so I don&#8217;t hurt my other two.\u00a0 I have found a couple tools that can automate a few things, but it still seems like most of it is just going to require time\u00a0 and work.\u00a0 I found a post about the seven deadly sins of blogging from <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/D15wS\">copyblogger<\/a>  #2 is Sloth.  here is a small quote<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 1,000th time I heard a client say, \u201cBut that sounds like a lot of work,\u201d my brain exploded<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>it was a great article while it is about blogging I think it applies to the twitter. It is just going to take some work.<\/p>\n<p>While I believe twitter can be a good tool now.  It is more about getting people to notice you and not much about a real message.  I had decided sometime ago to have two blogs a personal blog and a professional blog.  This is my personal blog and may never, and sometimes I hope that is the case, that no one ever reads this blog.  Mostly this is just for me. to work through stuff.  On my professional blog I will give information that I think people can use for there businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The thing I think I am going to focus on primarily for the next couple of years is the web development and secondarily I will focus on the Motivational Pay.  With the ultimate goal to become a full time consultant for the Pay for Performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of days I have reflected about topics I want to right about.\u00a0 I just realized I need to put those things into my categories list so when I want to look at what I have written I can just select the category.\u00a0 I have also been playing around with twitter for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-book-topics","7":"entry"},"modified_by":"D. 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