Here I am again!

I have been searching out my options and working on a plan for online connections... how to organize my "attack" of the online world and try to create some income for my retirement years!  It's been a hard process. I am getting to the place where I can connect all my blogging and websites and shops and marketing and social media and....  I am only one person still... I have to find a solution that will work until I can hire help.  :-)  SOON, I hope.

I can't believe how long it has been!  Almost a year by the records I have.  I thought I added posts over the year, but they seem to not exist, so I guess I didn't.

What have I decided so far?

I am going to focus most of my energy on my PATREON page because it is directly related to income options and is also flexible for my life changes.

I'm working on how to set up an email list for contacting interested people about changes in my efforts everywhere. One list, I think... that will be enough for me.

I suppose we can expand that if I can hire help.  :-)

I am working on sales options... drop-shipping through a variety of online places like my ETSY shop, EBAY store, PINTEREST account, social media like Twitter and Facebook, here, and via Patreon.

I am learning Canva for posting at social media and other formats.

I am learning MailChimp for the email lists.

I am learning a lot of things... and it is all beginning to work better than I have been able to get it to work in the past.  Finally. 

I have hope.  
My faith is growing.  
I am praying more than ever!   
haha - I couldn't resis the play on words.  :-)

I still have a lot to work out, like a shipping process and various rates, the photo process for posting listings, costs I can't afford yet, and workspaces. I keep trying to build my ideas into things to post, and am going to offer my downsizing items at eBay (mostly, I think).

I discovered how to reduce my feed at Twitter with their LISTS options, so I am working on that concept. I am deciding who to put back on the main feed for receiving posts.  It is really strange to see so few posts, but I am letting it sink in for awhile while I decide how much I want to see every time I check my Twitter feed.

I have started a project to post #BibleVerses at Twitter. It began with one or two posts and then felt like a great way to make myself open my Bible and read as often as possible. I am trying to do one verse post a day, but not obligated to it so it doesn't become a chore. I am at around three months I think... or going into three months... something like that.

It allows me to comment on my lifetime experiences with the Bible and how they affect me. Some verses mean more than others, and controversies in the church are one of my pet peeves so they get included when possible.  I end up with a long thread of tweets sometimes. I am working on shortening my threads, but there is so much to share it is hard to be brief with my words.

I haven't decided what to do with my Facebook options. 

I will try to add one of my Canva creations, if I can. Blogger seems to have changed since I started my blogging - about photos, but I am trying to figure that out, too.  

My GOD help us all to find our place of safety in this life and the next. Pray for America... we are battling a lot of serious problems and no one wants to care about the ordinary people. Persecutions are increasing. We need a PLAN!

In Christ,
Deb

I guess I found the way!  

Thursday, 17 January 2019

Another week has already flown past me!  I wish I were better at doing my days... life needs have to be dealt with, I am pondering how to do the future, and both require time to explore my options.

I was checking my emails and decided to follow a link to the Compass.org Prayer Wall.  I am about to try some designs at Printful.com so I asked for GOD's financial blessings.

I still need to find out the payment process for orders... who gets what dollars and when... but I have been thinking about designs to try.  I may need two accounts because some are for WT, some are for me.  Or... I may connect my designs for me at my Etsy shop (work2gather) and put my WT designs at the WT eBay shop.   I think that would require two Printful accounts, but I haven't figured that out yet.

I watched one movie at PureFlix.com today... my afternoon respite.  I may watch another later.  I like the ability to watch decent movies that don't  "surprise" you with a filthy scene.  They never really apply to the movie's story... they are just included to add some smut to the film.  That is Hollywood's idea of a "good" movie.

Life goes on... every day.

We just have to do our best with what we have.

Watching Christian movies helps me remember that GOD does not do things the way we do (Mankind).  Problems always exist, whether you are Christian or not, but GOD helps us to find better ways of solving our problems.  It is always a better way with GOD.

I better get busy with my drop-shipping plans...  I hope my efforts work this time...  I am like Edison and the light bulb... I have discovered all the things that don't work.  I would love to discover the way that does.  :-)

I hope GOD is kind to me this time.

Until next time,
In Christ,

Deborah Martin

work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times

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May the GOD we trust in help us to build a better future.  Amen.

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Lots of change going on these days... I am working on my plans for 2019... Doing a lot of thinking about the past, the present, the future... how much I can do as a senior, within my budget... all that kind of stuff.

I started a goal collection... one of those school supply journals that I am putting pictures and notes in about all the things I have thought about getting over the years... and may still get.  I'm working on how much money I need to do the goals I want to do.  I may change to more than one of these journals, color coding them by topic... maybe.  I have been working on color coding for my debts.

Finding the path to our dreams and goals is a changing thing... for me, anyway.  It has always been a process of -- well, that didn't work, so what can we try next!?  The New Year process is a great time for that.

The other day I was lamenting how dehydrated I get so I was trying to figure out how to get more liquid into my body... I finally decided to fill up a bottle I have on hand and make it a goal to drink ONE of these every day.  I am on the third day.  It is HARD!!!  I have never been a water drinking kind of person... maybe that will change by the end of the year.  Less calories, more hydration...both would be great for me.

I finally decided to sign up for the free month at PURE FLIX (.com) … so I will be checking that site out for a month.  I wanted to see APPLE MORTGAGE CAKE and watched it immediately... I have to say I was very surprised that the filter went on for at least three words... makes me wonder what they were!  :-)  I had no idea it would be a worrisome language movie.   haha   It was an inspiring film, and I wonder if I could ever have accomplished anything like that.  It is great to see that someone else succeeded like that.

I write so many different things, like letters and social media and blogs, it is hard to keep track of what I have already said.  One of my thinking projects is deciding how to avoid that problem.

For the long term... as a senior... I think this blog will be my main effort.

BUT, it is still all up in the air.

I'm in the middle of making food, so I will think some more about what to share, and how often, until the next time I get back here... random posts are kind of good, maybe... it's hard to be out of a routine.  :-)   I sometimes have a big problem staying away... but I am trying.  haha


Until next time,
In Christ,

Deborah Martin

work2gather.us
Working Together Inc
Building for the End Times

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May GOD provide all that we need to help each other... protection, provision, direction, and more.  Amen.