Edie Dykeman Online

Happy New Year, everyone. I’m surprised that 2012 will soon be over and 2013 is just ahead. This year passed by so quickly, I’m still in shock. We had a lot going on in the family this year with my care giving duties and helping my daughter with my beloved grandson who has multiple special needs....

 Continue Reading My Year End Review for 2012

Today I pretty much emptied all shelves of three-ring binders and report covered information I collected during the last few years. I have two bookcases that I use for online work – one is a very tall four shelf that is perfect for ring binders. The other is two shelves and also holds ring binders....

 Continue Reading Year End Cleaning

It’s that time of year once again – when it is time to set goals, make resolutions, and look forward to new beginnings. The current year is swiftly coming to a close and we are excited to start the next year. During the next couple of days I’ll be finalizing my 2013 goals, setting my...

 Continue Reading Finalizing 2013 Goals

Last night was our official Christmas due to work schedules and an extended trip to Texas and back to Michigan by the end of the first week of January. What that means for me, Dad and I are not traveling this year, is that I now have the rest of the year to get a jump start on reading and writing and...

 Continue Reading Reading and Deleting Challenge Day 4

One of the neatest emails to get is when a site lets you know they are adding money to your bank account or PayPal account. Today I received my first Kindle payment notification. While I’m not going to get rich anytime soon, it did light a fire under me to get my first fiction book finished up...

 Continue Reading First Kindle Payment

Well, it’s obvious the reading and deleting self-challenge is not running consecutive days. That’s okay. I’m going to keep moving forward no matter how long it takes. For about an hour this evening I read and deleted another ten ebooks and pdf’s. One ebook was How to Write Fiction:...

 Continue Reading Reading and Deleting Challenge Day 3

For some reason the first nine days of December this year has been a time of chaos, comtemplation, and change. Every time I think I have everything figured out something happens to get me thinking again. I’m still trying to decide what to focus on during the next year. Usually I wait until January...

 Continue Reading Day of Contemplation, Reading and Reviewing

This was the craziest week we have had in a while both online and offline. It started Wednesday morning when I found my Dad on his bedroom floor unable to get up and he was incoherent. Come to find out his blood sugar had dropped to the low 50′s. He didn’t seem injured so I called my son-in-law...

 Continue Reading What Do You Do When Your Plans Tank?

Today was day two of the reading and deleting challenge where I’m trying to get rid of most, if not all, of the ebooks collecting dust on my desktop. I actually got more accomplished than I thought I would. Two of the ebooks I had already printed out, so I deleted them Two more books I decided...

 Continue Reading Reading and Deleting Challenge Day 2

This was a rather strange day and at the end of the day I’m feeling that it was not a productive day. And yet, as I look at what I did get accomplished, it wasn’t so unproductive day after all. Here is what happened: First thing this morning as I was just starting to write content for Elder...

 Continue Reading When Unproductive is Actually Productive

I’m starting my own personal challenge of reading and deleting at least 30 pdf’s by the end of the year - 30 pdf’s that are sitting unused on my desktop. I was going to make it a 30-day challenge, but with Christmas coming up and the varying lengths of many of the ebooks my personal...

 Continue Reading EBooks – Reading and Deleting Challenge

Several gurus are using December to begin planning for the coming year, while others are waiting until January. I can understand starting early so that we can come out of the gate running on January 2nd. Others prefer to get through the holiday season, finish up their end-of-year work, and then move...

 Continue Reading To Plan or Not to Plan for 2013

For the past couple of days I’ve been thinking about 2013 and what I wanted to accomplish in my online business. I’ve pretty much decided my goals for next year, at least in the overall view, although there are certain things I want to accomplish or tweak in every area of my life. AWeber...

 Continue Reading Setting Goals for 2013

Two wonderful things have happened in the last few days that have me so excited about my first fiction book. First of all the cover for my inspirational romance has arrived – and I love it! I had also order the cover for the short stories I’m writing and it will have a similar look to it....

 Continue Reading Inspirational Romance Book and NaNo Updates

Several years ago I created a Facebook account for my niche persona with great success. We had a lot of fun connecting with others who were also building niche blogs at the time – this was about four years ago. I also was using it to connect with others around the web and on television, but no...

 Continue Reading Have Facebook Groups Taken the Place of Forums?