DAY 35 UPDATE: Wednesday, 09-Mar-2005 9:04 AM

Ahhhh... what a good night of sleep can do! Just starting out, I spent some time reading about southwest at southwest.com. If you want to see how good, efficient operations are run and learn something about how well companies can be governed, take some time to read about Southwest Airlines.

Then I took a moment to see cnn.com and read about this poor guy in Italy. After that my "blues" didn't seem bad at all. What was I thinking?

Here is the story from cnn.com:

Heaven can wait, Italian court tells dying man
With six months to live, man told to return to court in 14 months

Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Posted: 4:42 PM EST (2142 GMT)

ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- A man given six months to live by his doctors has been told by an Italian court to come back in 14 months to hear the outcome of his demand for insurance damages.

Carmelo Cisabella, 39, has an inoperable spine disease and is anxious to pick up some 450,000 euros ($596,300) in already-agreed damages from his insurers to help ease his final months of life, Il Messaggero newspaper reported on Tuesday.

In a bid to speed up the process, Cisabella turned to the Sicilian courts to put pressure on the slow-moving insurers, but was told to return next year to hear their decision.

In his frustration, he chained himself to the gates of the law courts to bring attention to his plight.

Il Messaggero said Cisabella's woes dated back more than a decade when he was left paralyzed by a motorcycle accident. Confined to a wheelchair, he subsequently developed a lethal infection of the spine.

The insurance claim dates back to the road crash.

Italian justice is notoriously slow and it takes on average 3,041 days to obtain a definitive sentence in a civil case.

End of Story from cnn.com

Back to my thoughts...

Today my primary project work continues. Maxsimo.com's marketing plan is still with me and will undergo some fine tuning and will be finished by the end of the day.

Work at nextsuperstock.com needs to be updated with a new list of companies that I have researched, as the old lot had "expired" after getting some great results. More than 100% return in 2004 and a good Q1 in 05. Now on to Q2 and the rest of the year.

This was true of Apple Computer. However, before the companies stock split 2 for 1 I got rid of everything a few weeks back.

And if there are 2 or 3 such companies in a year, that is a great year for investing.

I don't know what type of year it will be this year, but things are looking OK so far. Hope it's a good one as I aim to get several of the 20's STEPS done in 05 and I am counting on the investing to do it!

Some new companies are emerging as good candidates and I need to update the stock site with those pics.

Lastly, my progress. I am confident as I keep chipping away at the things I need to do to get the traffic built and doubling STEPS moving along.

So I'll keep 'chipping away' at the 'to do' list. What else do I need to mention today?

Not much more. I feel an air of energy as my project had "stalled" for a while, or so it may have seemed looking at the lack of progress. But, behind the seen a lot of other work that needs to support my progress got done. I am happy for that and the results of that effort are now paying off. I hope to show more STEP building progress from that.

Out for now... Well, same day, different time. Back again!

Wednesday, 09-Mar-2005 7:18 PM

I was going over my list of key words, that I am going to propagate throughout the site as I keep writing and writing!

Here they are, in no particular order. One item before I do so. The way I created the list was by using a google tool. You'll find it at google.com. Then go to "MORE..." In this menu of items looks for "GOOGLE LABS" and when you are there scroll down to the "GOOGLE SUGGEST" tool. This will be the 4th or 5th item down.

The tool is cool because it lets you know in real time the popularity of the search engine word or phrase that is getting searched. How cool!

Ok, so I like it.

Here is what I got from it --Some popular key words:

Financial Success
Financial Success System
Financial Success stories
Financial Success course
Financial Success coaching
Financial Success systems

Financial Planning
Financial planning association
Financial planning software
Financial Plans

Business Stories Business Stories Success Business Story Business Group Business tips

Life long learning
Life Long learning plan
Life long education

Business Model Definition
Business Model Example
Business Model

Starting a business
stating a small business
starting a new business
starting a company starting a website

Make money
Make money online
make money at home
make money from home
make money on ebay
make money on the Internet
make money now
make money Internet.

Wealth
Become rich
become wealthy
get rich
get wealthy

Stock trading plans
stock trading systems
stock trading secrets
stock trading success

Anyway, I could keep going and going, but these key words seem to cover about 100 million searches every month just on google. That should do it.

So the game plan is to "infuse" pages that I write with the above key words. I purposely picked words that I was confident were going to be repeated in the future as I keep updating the site and writing some articles on subject that are used to develop p31.com and the 31-STEP Financial Success Plan.

Ok, that is done. Now I need to pin the key words some where and keep using them.

One to another subject. Gas prices. They have been going up and up. Well, I am in the Netherlands and paying $6.50 per gallon. That's the bad part. The good part is that most of my local travel is by bike. The push kind. Yes, the Financial Success "guru" updating the site daily leaves the car sitting around and uses a bike to get around. I realize that many around Columbus, Ohio would smile at this... tying to bike around in the midst of winter, but it's not a problem here. The country is as flat as a pancake and the winters are very mild. Temperatures in Celsius looks bad, but feel great --In the winter.

Well, anyway, back to the price of gas. It's going up. Expect to pay around $2.20 to $2.40 a gallon on the East and West coasts. Some of that money will help several US companies make great profits. I picked Occidental Petroleum earlier in the week and brought options. Yesterday after selling HOV, I brought OXY options, with a August expiration.

Again, the plan here is to take the funds from the sale of HOV options and double that. Again, this is practice for the eventual period when I have the funds from about STEP-20-something to keep doubling via investments in the market. My pick last time didn't do so well. I got out quickly.

Now I am into OXY options that expire in August. I'll keep updating this part of the story as I progress. Or retreat... Better be progress!

BTW, I have no stock in this company. It's too large for my portfolio type and the stock is over $70. The best way to participate in these type of opportunities is via options. That's being done.

So what's next? Key words are done. Yes, I have some optimization of the web pages left. That I think will take weeks.

More proofing of the maxsimo.com marketing plan. It's done, but some steps to make sure that it's understood and the programmers won't get lost. What more? Not much. Just sure and steady to get all of this done.

Two posts in one day. It's addictive! Out now...

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