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10 Things you Probably Don’t Know About Me

Laura — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:14:13 +0000

Today I decided to share with my readers 10 things about me that you probably don’t know.

1 – I’m Portuguese and I live in Portugal.

2 – English is not my mother tongue.

3 – I only have one pair of boots.

4 – I only have two pairs of shoes.

5 – I live 15 minutes away from the ocean.

6 – I love the fact that right now I don’t have a full time job.

7 – I wish I could live in the US to receive products to review.

8 – I would love to be an extreme couponing person. (that doesn’t exist in Portugal).

9 – I only have a few real friends.

10 – I count have cent I spend. Financial instability is present.

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Just to say…

Laura — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:13:54 +0000

These last days, almost two weeks, I have been more relaxed and at easy with my life.

I finally realized that it is not easy to make fast money online. I run several blogs but income is decreasing and no matter what I do I can’t increase it. I have a fan page, I keep regular posts but it seems the articles are not interested enough for people to engage.

I know that a great topic that will for sure have popularity is the “make money online” subject. The problem is that I don’t feel comfortable writing about it when there is already so many people doing that so well.

I will continue to write on my blogs regularly and I really won’t be expecting a lot of income. I will do it for pleasure instead of due to a income search. Of course, if opportunities pop up I will take them but I won’t be really upset as I have been in the past, if I don’t earn the expected money.

I’m kind of tired of looking at my adsense account every day and a big fat zero is waiting for me. I have to let go and take it easy. The future will tell if I will have a good income online or not. Let’s wait a little longer.

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Wondering If I can Make Passive Income or Not

Laura — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:42:00 +0000

My kids are back to school full time now and I’m home alone.

My dream to be a work at home mother still persists but it turns out to be really hard. Now that I have several hours a day to dedicate to my blogs I feel it will be very difficult to make a living out of my blogs.

I follow people with influence like Lynn Terry, Pat Flynn and Darren Rowse that are doing well in life. I watch webinars, podcasts, I read blueprints, reports, ebooks but I just can’t reach the point where I can say that I’m succeeding.

I have a niche blog for two years now where I have been posting on and off. It never reached a PR1, I get no comments, google adsense is null. I don’t know if I should give it up and move to another niche or if with continuing writing I can get some results.

I see Pat Flynn earning so much money with adsense and for me, if I earn 5$ a month, it is a victory.

I might seem pathetic but it is how I feel now. I really want to avoid a full time job away from home where I will only see my kids for a couple of hours a day but I’m feeling hopeless right now.

I try to watch Abraham Hicks videos, to read inspiring articles to keep the flame alive. I really want to make this work I just don’t know how. I have so much information available, all the tips are there, the process, it just seems that it doesn’t work for me. At least now.

What are your thoughts? Was it hard to make money out of your blogs? Should I get more niche sites?

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I’m on Mute Mode

Laura — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:35:05 +0000

Well, once or twice a year I go into Mute Mode. Usually it starts with a sore throat and then the voice just goes aways. It started yesterday and today I’m “off”. It’s really difficult to answer to the kids when they are on another room calling me or when they behave badly. Lucky them!!!

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Believing the Power of Our Thoughts

Laura — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:34:50 +0000

Image by Coach Cassandra Rae via Flickr

I can’t believe I haven’t updated this blog for a few days. I have been busy doing what I always wanted to do: be a work at home mom. Sometimes I think I’m living a dream.

After dark days on the first months of the year I am living now…I mean living…I feel alive and happy.

I was never a very “positive thoughts” person, I never paid a lot of attention to the Law of Attraction, but after watching The Secret movie, after watching Abraham Hicks videos on YouTube and after started attending Monday webinars with Sue and Steve, my attention is completely focus on believing.

Some people might be shocked but I don’t believe in God, I always believed that faith is in us, we have to have faith in ourselves. In times of despair, pain, sorrow we have to search for strenght inside of us. I did that these past months. I read a lot, I heard a lot of inspiration and motivation videos and I begin believing that I was strong enough to succeed and be able to climb out of the dark hole I was living in.

I was never alone, not physically but virtually. Blogger and online friends are wonderful, they are very supportive, caring and always ready to help others in need. Thanks to modern technology we are able to communicate from and to everywhere in the world. Thanks to software like Conference Genie we can talk live with other people. Even if we are unable to leave home, (due to medication, physical or emotional problems), we can have friends and family on our screen, right there talking to us.

I also love chatting without an actual call. Messages are always welcome and we can answer them when we can without messing up what we are doing on that moment.

Finally I see a light at the end of the tunnel. I feel I can accomplish my dreams if I fight for them, if I believe in them and if I really want them to come true.

Believing the power of your thoughts by Abraham Hicks

“You have the ability to control the power of your thoughts. You have the ability to control the power of your mind. You have the ability to make a vibration dominant that matches your desire. You do. And that’s all it takes. And that’s all any successful person ever has done. It’s all anyone who has ever achieved anything that they wanted has ever done. They just wanted it, and talked themselves into believing it.”

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Welcome New Subscribers and Fans

Laura — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:43:42 +0000

I want to welcome all the new subscribers and facebook fans of Soleflor Mom. It has been an amazing weeks, meeting new people and new blogs. I found quite impressive blogs that already are on my google feedreader.

I have been having a busy days, fortunately, and I didn’t had time to thank everybody but I will. In a couple of weeks I will be full time online without my kid’s distraction because they will be back to school.

My kids are still on summer holidays and my niece and nephew usually come to my house every day, their parents are working and they stay with me at least during the afternoon. So the house is full of laugh, running, screaming every day. I love that although I must confess that at the end of the day I feel tired.

On the other side I’ve been busy online, not only networking but also working. Some opportunities have arrived in my inbox and I’m really happy with that. Working online from home is something I’m willing to do full time.

I received a Blog Award some days weeks ago but that’s subject for another blog post.

Thank you all for reading my blog!!!

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Uncontrollable Hood Fires

Laura — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:22 +0000

: Image by slworking2 via Flickr

When I wake up in the morning what I first hear is the sound of the helicopters. This sound continues in and out during the day. No, we are not under fire, but the wood are. All over the country there are hundreds of fires consuming our pine trees, entire hoods, protected parks, eucalyptus and everything green. This is the truth…and …I’m sad.

Everybody knows that trees, hoods, forests, are the lungs of our planet but, it seems some people just don’t care. Green areas are decreasing at a high speed rate because, during Summer, pyromaniacs take action. They take advantage of heat waves and high temperatures to put their sickness into action. When they are caught, they go to jail a few months, sometimes only a few days because most of them are considered “not capable”. These people need treatment but they are released and they do it again.

I’m not saying we grab a badge printer and make an ID badge saying “pyromaniac person” and make the person use it, but they shouldn’t be released without proper psychological evaluation and treatment.

Some people just don’t get it. They are destroying the best we have, the things that give us oxygen, the lungs of the planet. I might sound dramatic but, I’m mad, I’m angry and I wish I could do something to stop the tree killing. We have beautiful green hoods where we can walk with our children and show them how beauty the nature is, how healthy the air we breath there is but, some people are taking that away from us.

How can I explain my children why this happen? How am I going to explain them that their future is being destroyed?

I have to thank all the firefighters and volunteers that are working non stop on woods on fire. At least two European countries (Italy ans Spain) have sent us two Canadair planes each to help us fight this “war”.

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It is complicated

Laura — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:08:20 +0000

Image by programwitch via Flickr

I haven’t seen the movie “It’s Complicated” yet but I have too. My life has been so complicated these past weeks that any similarity with reality is reality. I need to see if my life is similar to the movie.

From abuse at work last year, from been jobless since January, from taking antidepressants, from lawyers to my boss’s threatening letters, I have been among a huge thunder storm. I really need to start blogging here.

I’ve been blogging at Buy Better and Have a Better Life but when it comes to personal issues I have been unable to write them down.With no income right now I really have to start writing if I want to make money online and work from home.

Keep tuned.

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I am still here

Laura — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:40:42 +0000

I apologise for my silence on this blog. I had a difficult week, with many out of the house tasks to do for me and my parents. Things with my (quit) job are rolling slowly, it is how things go with this type cases. It will end in court for sure but there are a lot of letters and papers to take care before and this week was really busy around that subject.

Many friends call me and message me to now how I am doing with all the medication I’m taking and how the job process is going and that also makes me waste a lot of time. However it is good to know that people care and want to be informed about the process.

Talking about the “job problem” all the the time does me no good because I revive the whole problem and it hurts. But I keep going.

My next post will be Time Management titled. It is already in draft but I need to finish it. I will need some ideas from you then. Tomorrow or Monday it will be online.

Meanwhile, participate on my Giveaway for a FREE membership to Big Universe (see previous post for details)

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I’m Almost Free…

Laura — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:32:07 +0000

Today it’s the day I’ve been waiting for a long time. I am very nervous, very anxious and my ideas are a little mixed up so I will just write as things flow out of my mind.

I’m starting to cry. Will it be joy? Happiness? Sadness? or just anxiety? I don’t know.

I will be meeting my lawyer later in the afternoon and we are going to write my resignation letter to the company I worked for 15,5 years. I’m quitting my full time job but it’s what I want.

After years of “serving” my bosses, taking care of my office work and their personal matters I’m finally taken a step forward and put behind my back all the humiliation I was put through.

There were good moments in the earlier years when I liked my work, the bosses, but people change, money changes people and people become nasty and mean to others. Money changed my bosses minds, made them careless about others and they felt they should be served instead of having someone in the office to do the it was supposed to be done. I stopped being a worker to be a servant.

But money was also the main reason why I didn’t leave the job sooner. I need money, who doesn’t? I have two kids to feed, a house to keep and sometimes I just pretended I was in a nice place doing my job with great people around me.

I loved my co-workers, they were fabulous, they still are. We used to help each other going through the day. Most of them are not there any more, they all left before me.

For the last 60 days my life has been upside down waiting for TODAY. 60 Days ago I ended up in ER because of the bosses. TODAY I will be free.

TODAY I am going to send my resignation letter because due to bosses stubbornness they refused to pay me two months of salary and now, the law says, I have the right to resign and they have to pay for it.

I believe this case will end up in court, I might not receive a dime but I’ll be FREE. I don’t mind about money any more, I want to be where I want to be, not forced to be. I want to be respected and if people don’t respect me, than…bye bye.

Tomorrow it will be another day…of FREEDOM.

Problems will show up, I will need money, I will count every cent I have but I’ll find my way through tough times.

I will start to be only everyday and I hope I can make a living out of internet. I don’t know…but I will be FREE.

My eyes are filled with tears so I won’t be checking up for misspelling. I need to go out now. I’ll be back in a couple of hours.

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Translation job needed English/Portuguese/English

Laura — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:21:24 +0000

I’m about to lose my full time job and I really don’t now what I want to do next. After almost 16 years working in the same office I feel I’m stuck in my carrier. The company never offered improvement courses, never did brainstorming reunions, I feel like I’m stuck in time. Probably it’s my fault because I let that happen and never got out of there to search for a better job.

I am full time at home now and everyday my head struggles with the next step I will take. I would love to work from home but I don’t know if that will be possible.

Having Portuguese tongue language and fluency in English I already sign up for two sites that offer translation assignments. I keep looking for job databases, checked the Entertainment workers job search to see some jobs related to writing and I’ll keep looking in the next weeks.

Do you have a successful blog that you want to translated into Portuguese to have more readership? I know google translator does that but it’s not 100% accurate there are always corrections to make. If you need or know someone needing translations from/to Portuguese/English/Portuguese feel free to contact me.

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The time of my life

Laura — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:32:25 +0000

: Image by Te55 via Flickr

Well, guess what, even without a job right now, I’m having the time of my life. I always wanted to be a WAHM and right now I am. I’m writing posts, searching for online income, the kids are both at school and although I’m having some emotional problems I am rather happy to be here, in my room, in my desk. It feels good but unless I find some regular income I have to start sending resumes and search for a new job.