Ahmed Bilal has put up another great post on Performancing related to the attitude required to build your personal success. This is something I don’t think we bloggers have spent enough time considering.

My favourite from the list is his seventh point, which is entitled, “Find Yourself and Your Target”.

When it comes to success (and making money), it’s important to know what you want. To figure that out, you need to know what your strengths are (fields of work as well as type of work) and what impassions you. While your interests will evolve with time, getting your bearings right at the start makes it easier to make course corrections in the future.

Once you know what you want, you have to figure out what to do.

This point works well in any job, or even just with your life in general, because for some people, deciding what to do is half the battle. This is a post definitely worth checking out, and even more so if you have wondered, “do I need a personality adjustment to reach my goals?”

Originally posted on October 23, 2007 @ 9:07 am

For years, people have been putting MediaTemple badges on their sites, and it is easy to see why, they are not cheap, but provide an amazing service to their users. Over on Blogging Tips there is a post about how MediaTemple saved the day when a blog got promoted to the front page of the popular social news site, Digg.com.

A bit from the article:

Anyways at the start of those two days when the first Digg hits started flooding in I received an email from MediaTemple which I have pasted below. This is what kept me alive through those two days, and I couldn’t be happier with their service.

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That is pretty amazing, and while eXtra for Every Publisher has not really hit the front page of any major social news or bookmarking site as of yet, I still feel very confident that my host, Hostgator (affiliate link), has this site covered, and while not everyone would agree with me, I have found their customer service and hosting to be some of the highest value for my money I have ever received.

I have used a variety of hosts, and there are very few that have been absolutely amazing. I would say to most people, find someone you can trust to host you, be they a big company, or a smaller one, and that service is the most important thing.

Originally posted on October 22, 2007 @ 10:05 pm