Internet Marketer, World Traveler and Armchair Psychologist

Stress = Productivity?

by Stephanie Woods on January 14, 2010

I realized today that over the years I have conditioned myself to associate stress with productivity. The more stressed out I am, the faster I work and the more I get done.

Photo courtesy of Rosie Hardy on Flickr

Unfortunately this is not a healthy habit.

I wonder how many other people are like this? I imagine this is normal behavior for the most part.

My goal is to retrain my brain into associating happy and relaxed with productivity. I am a little apprehensive about how I am going to do this. I’ve been equating stress with productivity since the first time in high school I downed a pot of coffee and wrote a killer report (that I got 100% on). I was hooked from the get-go.

I like this post: Happiness is the Best Productivity Tool

It gives 10 reasons why happiness is awesome for getting work done:

Photo courtesy of Ashlee Chae on Flickr

Not to insinuate that I walk around all grumpy all of the time! Not true. I tend to put myself into stressful situations on purpose sometimes just to get work done (i.e. procrastination).

Anyone else out there finding themselves doing the same thing?

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Creative vs Generic Thesis Theme

by admin on October 8, 2009

Each of us strives to stand out from the rest of the world in own special way. Whether it’s through the way we dress, or the photographs we snap, a little creativity helps each of us to establish our own identity amongst the masses.

I come from a traditional advertising background where I used Internet Explorer, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. That’s it. I can shamefully admit that I had no idea how to even cut and paste in a doc back then. Sounds ridiculous hey? Sad but true.

My previous job provided me with the opportunity to enter the world of online marketing. Now my eyes are wide open. Since then, I’ve been slowly learning how to do a bit of code. I am attempting to go beyond 301 redirects, and other basic HTML stuff (e.g. H1s, links, images, etc). I had web devs at my last job to do everything for me. Now that I am on my own I am trying to figure it all out. It’s not rocket science. Just time.

This brings me to point of this post.

Smirk All You Want

Yes my site is a Thesis template with zero changes. I started to play around with the site two days ago and still have no idea how to change the rotating images that are on the front page here. I also can’t figure out how I messed up my page titles, all I know is that there is an excess of words I can’t figure out how to remove. Yup. I know jack squat and I am not afraid to admit it.

My intention is to figure all of this out. In the meantime, please be nice and don’t think I’m a total idiot for not customizing my Thesis theme. I am aware that this is what needs to be done, I just need to figure out how to do it still.

I have a kickass brain for all things marketing/creative and a somewhat challenged brain for all things technical. I will conquer. Just give me a little time. Thank you for being understanding.

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SEO 101 on SEO Scoop

by admin on October 6, 2009

Hey kids,

I’ve been getting myself motivated to write more (finally). I have a bunch of ideas for articles on the horizon.

And in case you’re wondering, this is the same Steph Woods as found on my other Steph Woods SEO blog. Which reminds me, apparently there is another Stephanie Wood (no ’s’ on the end) that is giving me a bad rep in the SEO world. If you come across a Stephanie Wood - with no ’s’ on the end - and they are doing something (a) shady, or (b) unethical it’s not me.

I’ll also be doing a bi-weekly SEO 101 series on SEO Scoop. Originally I was going to use that material for this site, but SEO Scoop already has an average of 20,000 readers a month. Figured I might as well start there and use those posts to link back here to this site. Makes sense from an increased online visibility point-of-view. This means I need to add more content and a little customization to my poor ol’ neglected blog here ASAP!