“Your content is not commercial so it must mean that it is loaded with good stuff.”

Thanks. That’s true.

Anyone who is prepared to plough in enough INTELLIGENT ACTION can do what I have done. In fact, knowing what I know now I could probably do it in a lot less time. Because a lot of what I have done action-wise wasn’t necessarily real intelligent. I just kept throwing a huge effort in. I’m a bit smarter at it now ( I hope!).

But, we all need to “graduate from the school of hard knocks.” When you have people blazing a trail before you the learning curve isn’t quite so bad.

Gary

Happy Birthday to your blog.

Amazing achievement for you and I know you’ll get to the next desired destination of yours.

I got here a bit late but I always enjoy finding out what you’re up to and learn a thing or two.

If I can be honest there is a bit of an irritant associated with coming to your blog – it takes a lo-o-ong time to load.

I don’t have the fastest internet connection but there is only one blog that causes me a similar problem on the whole internet that I know of. In that case it’s because it is loaded with banner ads etc.

Your content is not commercial so it must mean that it is loaded with good stuff. But it would be nice if it loaded faster.

I heard and read that the search engines very much take into consideration the loading time when they rank sites.

Knowing you though you won’t cater to that.

I appreciate what you share in this post about what it took for you to get where you are now.

Do I think i can do it too?

Yes I do.

Even if I take twice as long as you did it’s worth going for.

Congratulations on your first anniversary with the blog.

Vance

See what I said above?

3 – My Alexa Ranking has gone from 5,179,210 on the 27th November 2008 right down to being in the top 100,000 websites in the world with a present popularity rank of 92,216 (and still falling like a stone) – and that is a significant achievement to be ranked 92,216th in the WORLD out of about 50,000,000 (50 million) websites!

Well, that AR fell even further this morning. It’s now on 84,775 and my NEW target is 75,000.

Just in case anyone is interested.

Gary

PS: I know that AR results are not entirely accurate AND they are skewed towards Internet Marketing sites but they do give somewhat of a guide to site popularity. I’m happy with my present ranking anyway.

Thanks for the compliments.

It always amazes me how dentists can have “conversations” with their patients. A lot of “u-huh” and “uh-uh” always seems to go on when you’ve got your gob open and somebody is jamming stuff into it. LOL!

So, you now know that a “Banana Bender” is a person from Queensland and a “Sand Groper” is a West Aussie (like me) huh? We are a WEIRD lot over here in Oz!

Thanks for posting Ken.

Gary

It is hard to belive it has been a full year since I started to hear about the “Gazz-man” and then begin to read the content at The Temple. You are to be commended upon your accomplishments and for the inspiration and example you provide to others.

While other life issues and duties may keep some of us from moving as rapidly as we would like, it is always good to be able to look to the front and see some one going where we want to go who regularly turns giving us a wave and say’s “C’mon mate, you can do it”. Keep up the good work. We are coming…..

BTW, I had an interesting conversation with a patient yesterday regarding “banana benders ” and “sand gropers” ……. LOL

Er, regarding Skype and Twitter… yeah but here’s the “secret” – all those seemingly useless conversations allow people to know me, sort of. When they “know” you then you are no longer a stranger and, chances are, they may just know or like you enough to want to know more. So, there actually is a surreptitious method in my madness.

@ Paul (Hmm, here comes a joke… all we need now is Mary…OK, it wasn’t all that funny – best I can do ATM).

Back to business… That is why I made this post Paul – to INSPIRE others. If other people are like me, I like to kinda see what is ahead so I can shoot for it. There is NO replacement for HARD WORK. Sure, you can work smart. But when you add the GRUNT to it that is when the big wheel starts to turn.

I gotta tell you though – I am NOWHERE NEAR where I want to be. This is just my opening salvo, my first innings. I want to vacate this space and move on. And that leaves a place for you guys to come to in your own journeys.

Thanks for the birthday wishes but tsk… tsk… not the Temple… no sir – the TEMPLE!

Gary

It’s really good to look at how far you’ve come in just 12 months, and also an inspiration to anyone just starting out.

I’m sure planning has had a lot to do with your success too, but I hear what you’re saying… It’s all those things your mention and mostly the fact that you worked damn hard. That was what made you take action on your plans, and that’s what has got you to where you are now.

Happy 1st Birthday to The Temple!

Paul.

Thats one hell of an achievment, something to be very proud of and for the rest of us mortals to aspire to.

The Alexa ranking says something in itself – you have done very well to fit all that work in between your Skype and Twitter conversations LOL!

Any well done

Pete

Yep, I agree. I have learned a lot too. I think the MOST significant event was going to Las Vegas. I got the drive there. I saw and heard about people there who were doing things that I wasn’t. I mixed with like-minded people all wanting to head in the same direction. That’s when my turbo kicked in. So… Hils… are you going to Vegas in January 2010? You said you were.

Yeah, that Lizzard video was fun, huh? I hope Lizzie got a bit of a kick out of it. She’s a good kid but she needs more consistency in that blog of hers. I’ve tried to tell her that – several times!

Just remember Hils (I know you already know this – it’s for the benefit of my other readers) – it ain’t a race. Having said that, I am in a constant battle with myself to do more and be more productive here. And when the shackles come off (due to a “disturbance” in my life here) then WATCH OUT!

Thanks for coming back so soon.

Gary