I like the idea of putting down on paper what I want for the year ahead.  I usually do this in my journal, yes I even have some stuff that I don’t write about online.

I think it is a good idea to have a plan for the year ahead and for it to be written.  I know that life happens and the plan goes way off the rails, but hell it is good to refer back to and see what happened in comparison.

As always I would like to be happier and for my work to continue, I am fortunate in that I like most of what I do, I would do some of it even if I wasn’t getting paid.  For my self only that is about it.  Is that a lack of wanting or imagination?

My main relationship is good and gets better every year, may that continue forever.  I want my family to be well, I wish them all the best especially those I have not seen for some time – may life be good to you.  I want my friends to be successful and enjoy their life, and of course have what they want along with bundles of happiness.

My concentration on work is becoming narrower, till now I have been building a large network of websites – I have something in the region of 100 domain names, with about 50 of those with the beginnings of sites and about 10 fully formed sites.  This has been changing during the last year due to the pressure of my main work and it will deliberately change during the next year with my focus now being restricted to four websites, of course I will continue to blog here from time to time.

Of the four Cube is the main one, business has been tough and busy during the last year.  Considering the company was formed just as we were heading into this financial meltdown, I am happy to have made it through the last year and continued to grow.  I will continue to market the company and grow during 2010.  I have learned a lot about business and myself in this area.  It has been interesting to see how naive I was at the start, how much harder I have become with clients that don’t pay on time, (really I don’t want to be a credit controller).  The not paying on time, or anywhere near on time, has been a major bug for me.  The way that I work on the web means that I pay for services as I consume them, this works well for me and for the people that supply me.  Whereas I send out invoices to some clients and they think it can be left for three months before paying me – really?  And this is really only a bug, if I have a bug in a web site it has to be sorted in order for it to run properly, this is the same. 

In order of importance and time allocation my new site in the UK, only bones just now, will be the next largest project for 2010.  This will be a long term service company and I hold out very high hopes for it.  It is strange to see me dipping my toes back into the financial world – I thought I had left it behind back in 2002, but hell it is an area that I a quite familiar with and I already went there with another UK business site.

Third on the list is my new directory web site.  It just needs a regular amount of blog posting every week and lots of links. It has a particular value apart from the purely money aspect, but more of that on my SEO blog.

And last in time value is my Camino site which continues to thrive.  This was my first web site back at the start of 2006.  If it had not been as successful as it is I might not being working in this field still, but I was lucky on the web right off the bat.  This year I expect somewhere between 500k and 700k visitors to the site, not too bad for a site that was started as I was bored and recovering from an operation and could not get out too much, (I have recovered completely, thanks).

So what about holidays?  The whole of August has been put aside already, and hopefully I will get another week in Feb or Mar.

I love the fact that I am busy.  I remember being unemployed for a fairly long time in the 80’s – the boredom was a killer, never mind the money and self esteem issues.  I hate the fact that the Irish Government, like most governments, are quite willing to have the unemployed pay the price for their mismanagement, however I rant about them and their theft elsewhere so I will leave it off here for a while.

I will be moving in the next month or so and my address will no longer be publicly available on the internet, the decision of my other half.  I am looking forward to the move and having a bit more space.

Whoever you are, from wherever you are reading this I hope life throws good things at you and you are good at catching.  Have a great 2010.

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