Yours?
Me, 2011 sucked. I started out strong, built upcominggames.com from scratch, forums included, spread myself thin across even more new projects, but I ignored my existing projects and because of that, I made a tad bit less than I did last year.
This year I'm focusing on my strengths, what makes me money and expanding on them. It's exciting starting new projects, but I have to resist that temptation until I've absolutely maxed out my ability to earn from existing projects.. and I'm no where near that.
I've also learned a very valuable lesson within the last 2 weeks. Don't fucking become complacent with your income. While I make money from multiple sites, they're all fueled from the rankings of a single domain. If those SERPs are lost, I'm fucked all around.
Talk about stressed out as fuck lately with the diminished traffic due to the holidays, significantly reduced sales, death of a cousin new years eve (best friend growing up), making my mind whacked the fuck out thinking I'm done for.. But I'm confident it'll pick back up in January; but the lesson learned is to not become complacent. I've maintained steady income from steady rankings for over 4 years, but I need to rip my head out of my ass and start creating new sources of income because that shit won't last much longer.
So 2012 for me is all about truly diversifying my income and making money from at least 2 other unrelated sources, by focusing on my current projects. I have a lot that are already developed that I've abandoned because I get bored of them. Time to break that cycle and stick with my strengths/projects that have potential.
Oh, and fitness wise since most new years resolutions deal with health, I'm all about running a 5k in less than 23 mins and curbing my appetite for alcohol.
Me, 2011 sucked. I started out strong, built upcominggames.com from scratch, forums included, spread myself thin across even more new projects, but I ignored my existing projects and because of that, I made a tad bit less than I did last year.
This year I'm focusing on my strengths, what makes me money and expanding on them. It's exciting starting new projects, but I have to resist that temptation until I've absolutely maxed out my ability to earn from existing projects.. and I'm no where near that.
I've also learned a very valuable lesson within the last 2 weeks. Don't fucking become complacent with your income. While I make money from multiple sites, they're all fueled from the rankings of a single domain. If those SERPs are lost, I'm fucked all around.
Talk about stressed out as fuck lately with the diminished traffic due to the holidays, significantly reduced sales, death of a cousin new years eve (best friend growing up), making my mind whacked the fuck out thinking I'm done for.. But I'm confident it'll pick back up in January; but the lesson learned is to not become complacent. I've maintained steady income from steady rankings for over 4 years, but I need to rip my head out of my ass and start creating new sources of income because that shit won't last much longer.
So 2012 for me is all about truly diversifying my income and making money from at least 2 other unrelated sources, by focusing on my current projects. I have a lot that are already developed that I've abandoned because I get bored of them. Time to break that cycle and stick with my strengths/projects that have potential.
Oh, and fitness wise since most new years resolutions deal with health, I'm all about running a 5k in less than 23 mins and curbing my appetite for alcohol.
