This is something that I’ve really been pondering a lot lately because I’m a member of several residual income article sites. I’ve noticed a trend at almost all of them. At first there are a few people who are really dedicated when the site is still growing and write a lot so they earn a lot of money. Then they write ebooks about it. Then thousands of people sign up expecting to earn that amount of money and there’s a mass revolt and conspiracy theories abound when they don’t. Since none of these companies are really transparent then there really isn’t a formula. Good SEO and sheer quantity will earn you money almost anywhere. I’ve seen my earnings at all of the sites steadily grow through these principles although I’m still just window shopping Christian Louboutin items. Ultimately it leads to a lot of resentment. However, the top earners who say “I Make $x,xxx a month without working” is what really draws people to initially sign up in the first place.

Instead of becoming discouraged that I don’t make as much as the top earners I’ve decided to value what my work is worth specifically to me and then write accordingly. Besides, with fibro I really don’t have a lot of options. I don’t know which way is going to work so I can focus more time on my health but I know that one of them eventually will. As Michael J. Fox said in his book he had to work really hard when he found out he was sick because he knew he couldn’t work forever at a normal pace.

I really fell in love with a TV special Michael J. Fox did about optimism when his book first came out. It’s like he always lives on Disney vacations where everything is beautiful, that’s just his personality. I am naturally sarcastic, but I want to be that way. He really had a lot of great points and tips for anyone who tries to stay positive in the face of disease or hardship. So I was excited to finally read his book “Always Looking Up”. I don’t know what I was expecting, probably just more of the “Adventures of an Eternal Optimist” special. It was totally different, not bad, I think that the special was just so amazing that the book fell short. He kinda touched on optimism in the book but didn’t really drive it home.

I used to keep a blog that was just for my day to day fibromyalgia life. This blog focuses more on my work. I really wanted an opportunity to document my pain levels and how they correspond to stress as well as my fitness routine. It might be helpful to also track the weather and what I eat. I know that doctors recommend this for a lot of other diseases. I really think that there is a pattern but it would take me being dedicated for several months to find it. I also don’t know how to use Excel or whatever Microsoft thing you track stuff in. I really want to end up with a spreadsheet or chart. Ideally, it would be a graph.

I want to know what I need to change or watch out for to really affect my fibromyalgia. I really think that this would also help me to stay motivated with my workout schedule. However, I am always so tired and fatigued that I don’t really have the energy to research how to do such a journal let alone actually keep it every single day. Does anyone else keep a fibromyalgia journal? How? If so do you want to keep one for me?