Last Productive Day of the Week! Influential Thought, Cooking Niche Tool w/Tip

Published: Sat, 12/23/17


Well we had so much fun last night - a great dinner out and then I took the kids to Dave and Busters (too loud for me, but I managed to survive) and then Whataburger, what else? It's what we do here in the South late at night. The kids had fun and I was happy to get home and collapse in my bed and sleep late. 

Today is Christmas Eve Eve, which means I do two things: 1. Wrap up any last minute work stuff and 2. Prep for tomorrow. 

We always do our big Christmas dinner with family on Christmas Eve so Mom and my kids and their significant others will be here. We'll laugh a lot, play games and watch Christmas movies and enjoy a feast. And then the doorbell rings (conveniently when Scarlett's out of the room) and the "Elves" leave Christmas Eve gifts on the porch - always new cozy pajamas and a small gift (because what kid wants pajamas?). We'll open those and call it a night before Santa comes the next morning. 

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday - regardless of what you celebrate. Or even just take time to enjoy your loved ones and relax and think about what matters most to you. I get very reflective this time of year as we slow down a bit. The days after Christmas will be highly based on relaxation and consideration of what I want 2018 to be. 

Positive Thinking Influence

One thing I noticed in not only my own but in other peoples' content online is that while people notice negativity more, the action and attraction comes more from positive thinking and sharing. Whining, complaining, berating and all that? We're all tired of it - me included. I think we all look back and see so much discourse and it's time to just lighten the mood and lift people up. That's part of my plan for 2018. 

In marketing on your blog, or on social networks - or even your emails, use images to grab attention. 

Darren Ross launched a Positive Thinking social posters PLR pack with 100 posters in it here for under $10:

https://jvz5.com/c/5810/287224

His pack is applicable to almost ALL niches - not just one. So for instance, one of the posters that's my favorite says, "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." You can apply that to a post about financial success, weight loss, stress/anxiety relief, relationships, health - you name it. Any niche has problems and solutions and this type of quote can be a jumping point for you to work with. 

So how do you use a pack of social quotes like Darren's? Each day you use one, and by the way, I drag mine into a "used" folder so I know I've used it before, think of what lesson you could share about it. So for the quote above, I might post about how much time all of us spend beating ourselves up about what we could have or should have done differently. Such a time waster! We have tomorrow to succeed, so use today to plan that success. I might make a little 1 page cheat sheet planner for my people to use to plan for their success tomorrow. Something about money tasks or things they've been putting off. 

Give them a way to be proactive in that very moment - something bite sized where they'd be able to do the activity in 10 minutes or less. 

I love how positivity not only makes the person receiving it feel good, but it makes YOU feel good, too. 

In fact, I was thinking as I was reading about this bundle that I want to plan a group get together for my daughter and her friends where, instead of hanging out having typical fun, we all have a day of surprising people with happiness and uplifting stuff - everything from the homeless to a senior citizen to a veteran to our men and women in blue to random people who aren't expecting it. 

Darren did a fantastic job on this. 

Cooking Niche Boom

People are getting so into cooking thanks to little short videos that pop up on their FB feeds - and then they go looking for advice on how to make other stuff, or tips on cooking better. I love this niche - and my Mom was in it years ago (she let it go for traveling but it was starting to take off) and it's great because it's FUN and something almost everyone does.

Cooking can be for entertainment, for health, for plain everyday necessity or for fun - even romance! 

Shane Paxton has a neat cooking niche site builder he launched but I want to tell you how I suggest you use it:

https://jvz3.com/c/5810/286509

I asked Shane about this because while I LOVE automated site builders, I also LOVE injecting my own personality and building a rapport with my audience. So he said YES! You CAN do that with his site builder. It can do everything on autopilot and then you can go in and edit it however you like (or delete or add your own posts). 

So this is a nice shortcut tool for you. What it does is: So for example, there's a demo site you can look at - and when I took a peek, what I was thinking was, let's take the post example for a vegetarian slow cooker meal. It has a nice article But I would add my own personalization to it - my own story of the years I was a vegetarian and maybe how sometimes it was draining coming up with a meal without meat, so having a slow cooker to take the hassle off of me would have been great. 

Just little things to make the content more unique and individual to you. Of course, another thing you might want to do is get in the kitchen, turn your video camera on and record yourself cooking the meals! 

Around January - March, cooking takes a big health slant so this is a great time to get into the niche if you want that approach. 

Okay I'm going to make my dad's banana pudding now. He was always so proud of that dish! I can't do it justice, but it'll be nice trying. 

Y'all have a wonderful Christmas Eve Eve!

Tiff ;)

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