Hi Guys – If you have been following my previous blogs you will know that we were coming to the US for Christmas to spend some time with family and friends.

Well the flights were great and on time and we even arrived ten minutes early- so that is unusual because we had three planes to get here. When we got to LA and saw on the airline advisory board that there was three inches of snow on the ground at Chicago, we feared we could get snowed in. It has happened to us there before but luckily it stopped snowing before we arrived and we left there on time. When this did happen to us a few years ago, fortunately on the way home, we were supposed to leave Chicago at 9.30am but never left till after 10.30pm and had missed our flight back to Australia. Just the joys of traveling!

Well now I have to do some Christmas shopping. We went to New York City for the weekend and we went to Macy’s but it was so crowded. It was wall to wall people and so difficult to move around. The real reason for the trip to New York was to go and see the Rockettes at Radio City. They were absolutely fabulous and the four of us really enjoyed them. Should have been on my bucket list but I missed it out- but well worth it.

We took the sight seeing tour bus but I think we walked more miles than we covered in the bus. This was my third trip to New York so I had an idea of the general areas. We went to Chinatown for lunch and enjoyed it. This Chinatown is no different – mostly copy goods that are sold there and all we bought were two pairs of gloves to keep our hands warm and our lunch and then walked back to get back on the bus.

So after breakfast and more shopping on Sunday morning, we left New York to drive back to Rhode Island and it rained all the way. So now we are settled back into work on the computer.

We discovered we did not have the power pack for the computer so we had to order one on line and it took 3 days to be delivered by post. The company said next day delivery but that was not true – so now I am back in business and can continuing doing what I like.

Well Guys this is the real Sue McDonald and I will tell you more about my holiday adventures next time. Stay safe till then!

Well this is certainly the countdown now. We fly out to the US tomorrow and I still have not even packed my bags. So I have less that 24 hours to get all the rest of my jobs done.

I love traveling but one thing I don’t enjoy is the time you spend in airports. If you travel a lot you will understand what I am saying. We fly from Brisbane to LA and then on to Chicago and then to Providence. Now if all flights are on time I estimate we will only wait about 7 hours on the way over but the return journey we have a waiting time of nearly 10 hours. Our flights have been changed twice already and who says they cannot be changed again.

On the way home, the first leg of the journey stops off in Washington then to LA and then home.

I am really looking forward to this break, but in truth, it will not be a break from Internet Marketing. I am taking the trusty laptop so I can continue to do all the things I have to do to have a successful business on line. I still have three weeks of the present course I am doing. So I have my homework and webinars that I have to do.

The advanced course with Mark, starts two days after I get home and I am really looking forward to it. In it, he teaches how to create multiple streams of income and basically make money while you sleep, or better still, while you are go on a holiday.

Well Christmas is fast approaching and then comes the New Year and all of those resolutions that we all make. I have but one resolution and that is that I am going to be successful at whatever I do. This is not boasting but just stating a fact. I am prepared to work very hard for what I want and I know if I do that then I will achieve all that I want. I believe that if you do nothing you will get nothing so think about what you want and how you are going to achieve it. Think carefully about your New Years resolution and whatever you want, plan how YOU are going to get it. YOU are the most important person and you should only want the best for yourself.

If you are in the field of IM and you want to be a success, I would suggest that you get yourself a coach/mentor and learn the business step by step. You didn’t drive your car without being taught and IM is no different.

So this is Sue McDonald saying will talk to you when I get to the US. Take care till then and I will let you know about my holiday.

Hi Guys. Just read a blog from Lisa Wood. Now let me tell you what is happening. Lisa and David are taking their 5 boys and starting a new life on the road. They are asking people to give their bus a name. Lisa is an internet marketer so it will be a working holiday.

I can’t imaging traveling with a whole family in a bus but the only way to know what it would be like is to try it and that is what they intend to do. Australia is such a vast country that people do not realize how big this island is. Now I am a traveler and I have been overseas about 15 times and some of the questions I have been asked about our country can put a smile on your face.

I live on the Gold Coast and someone was coming from the States for a visit. They wanted to know if I could drive them to Cairns on Sunday so they could go white water rafting. The distance between here and Cairns is 1783 kilometres or 1107 miles. When I explained that to them their reaction was “it looks like a tiny island on the map”. I said it takes the same time to fly from LA to New York as it does to fly from Brisbane to Perth.

People overseas are always fascinated by our wild life. One person in England asked me did we have kangaroos in our back yard. Answer – no I live in a city. If you live in the country you may see a kangaroo in your back yard but not in the city. Another worry from a friend in England was the sharks in the water and the snakes on the land. We have some of the deadliest snakes in the world. Snakes live in bushland.

Nowhere in the world have I found beaches like we have here – not in the US or Europe or the UK. We have the most beautiful beaches in the world. Now that is not just a biased statement – Surfers Paradise was named one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. The sand on our beaches is just soft white beautiful sand not pebbles or ground up shell. You can walk without shoes on the beach and just enjoy it.

Now this is what the Wood family are looking forward to while they are traveling in their “Busy Lizzie” – busy because of the amount of people in the buss and Lizzie as a play on Lisa.

So this is Sue McDonald wishing Lisa David and the family – a great adventure.

Hi Guys! Like the sand falling down in the upturned hour glass, time is running out for me to get all that I have to get done. I have not done any Christmas shopping and I know there are family and friends who will be looking for their presents – so I had better start moving. I still have some Internet Marketing projects I want to complete also.

I have four weeks exactly tomorrow till I fly out on holidays and if all the flights are on time and we are not delayed it will be 38 hours from my home till I touch down in Providence. Now that is a long time, but that is just if everything falls into place and there are no hiccups. So apart from times in the airport, I will not have time to turn on the trusty laptop. I dare to say I will not turn it on till the following day after I arrive.

I have done this particular flight several times now and sometimes things have not always gone according to plan. Once we were held up in LA and missed our schedule flight and ended up flying to Atlanta and then Providence not Chicago and then Providence. On one of our return journeys in January 2007 we spent a whole day snowed in in Chicago – not a lot of fun that day. We finally left Chicago around 10.30 in the evening but we had missed our flight back to Australia.

Oh the joys of these long hauls but earlier this year I flew to London and that is 25 hours in the air.

Going to the US, we cross the International Dateline – we leave Australia on Tuesday 7 December and arrive in Providence in the evening of the 7th. Now the reverse happens on the way home. We depart January 15 and lose the 16th all together and arrive back in Australia on the morning of the 17th.

My grandchildren do not understand how you can lose a day and I have tried to explain it but I don’t think they still get it. Their biggest worry is what if that was your birthday or even worse than that – Christmas Day? The things that children worry about.

So this is Sue McDonald saying I am really looking forward to Christmas with my family and friends in the US but still have a few things to do. Will keep you posted on how things are going.

Hi Guys! These last few weeks have been killers – just trying to get everything done before I go on holidays. I only have 6 weeks and I know I still have so much that I have to do. I have joined a few giveaways this week and added my products – so hopefully they will bring me some results.

But the big news is…..The yoga DVD has finally been shot and is now in the editing stage and we are still running around trying to get quotes on the clothes. We have finally met the right person who can quote for us to have them made in Australia and she also has an agent who can get us a quote from China. We would have liked to have them made here but I think the cost is too prohibitive , so it looks like the Chinese option is going to win. We have, however, found someone to produce the DVDs for the same price as we had sourced in China so Australia won that part.

The last few months setting up this business has been very demanding – by that I mean getting everything in the right order. From one idea the was bandied around between my business partner and I, three years ago, has now developed into a fully registered business. They say if you have a dream you should follow it and I think that is what has happened here.

However, during that three years, I had decided to pursue Internet Marketing and I am really enjoying it. So it looks like I will be employing someone to do the accounts for the company so I can keep doing what I am loving right now.

I still have the Advanced Course to do with Mark in January and I am really looking forward to that. I know that I still have so much to learn because like everything else that you want to learn “you don’t know – what you don’t know”.

So this is Sue McDonald saying with only 6 weeks till holidays – I better get stuck in and lose those few extra pounds that I have gained because I am sitting at my computer for long hours and not exercising like I used to do. Maybe I will use this yoga DVD because you can do the entire practice or 15 minute intervals and that will get me fit like I was last year.

Hi guys I wanted to write a quick post here to offer you a really great product, because this product will tell you how to be a successful affiliate.  My coach/mentor Mark Terrell has given me this product. Normally selling at $47 – he has allowed me to discount it to $9.

It is packed full of information that you need to know to be successful. Here are some of the important points that you will discover.

So if you think that this book will help you achieve great success – then I urge you to grab a copy now. I am not sure how long he will let me sell it at this low rate.

This is Sue McDonald saying just click on this link and get it now - Operation Affiliate Cash.

Adding Hundreds Of New Subscribers To My List

Hey guys,

I’ve just signed up for the Social Marketing JV 2010.

It’s one of the largest Giveaway Events of the year and if you want to add new subscribers to your list, then this is the place to go to.

For those of you who don’t know what a Giveaway Event is, let me try to explain it in a few words.

A giveaway event is basically a place where several internet marketers create a Team to add new subscribers to their lists.

Every marketer enters a Free Gift into the giveaway event that people
can access once the giveaway event opens.

Also, every marketer promotes the giveaway event, that’s how people
find their way to the event.

The Social Marketing giveaway event is currently in Pre-Launch, that’s the phase when all the internet marketers signup and add their gifts.

If you read this, you are invited to join us in this Pre-Launch phase.

Be aware that this is not a free-ride… you’ll either have to promote the event or you can upgrade your account to add gifts (and other stuff like banners, special offers and your profile with links to your blog, website, twitter and facebook).

Are you ready to join the Team?

Then signup now, Click Here

I’ll see you inside! This giveaway is definitely over but there are new ones all the time.

I have been issued a challenge by my mentor/coach – to create an original product for the Warrior Special Offer. I have no PLR as a guide, all I have is my ability to research the subject matter and create my product.

This is a pretty daunting task but I love a challenge so I am just going to see how it works out. The challenge is based on creating a product in your own particular niche and by the time I have completed it,I hope I have a very informative product. So, as I am primarily in the Internet Marketing niche, I have to decided  what subject I want to write about.

Not to make it too easy or too hard I decided to write about how to create a product for any niche. So within the next few days, I will have done all my research and produced my own report. I am thinking of doing it as a video – again, another challenge, because I find video rather frightening.  I believe that if you can produce a product in one niche you can easily produce on in another niche.

The thing is, there are rules to follow when you are creating your own product. Most new marketers like to take a PLR and rewrite a large percentage but I do not have that luxury this time so I will tackle this head on.

When I have completed I will post a link here and then you will be able to go see the results.

So until then, this is Sue McDonald saying thanks for reading this and come back in the next few days and I will tell you how I went. I know it will be a fair amount of work but I am sure I will give it my best.

Well it is happening again. They want to Sue McDonald’s. I type my name in a Google search and this is the type of search results I am getting.

‘June 24, 2010
Sue McDonald’s over toys in Happy Meals? Not necessarily, says CSPI director
By Caroline May – The Daily Caller | Published: Thursday, June 24th, 2010 | Updated: Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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Kids may be able to continue enjoying Happy Meals after all (AP)

McDonald’s faces lawsuit over Happy Meals, reports the LA Times. McDonald’s and toy lawsuit: Are Happy Meals tricking kids? reads a CBS News headline. A Google News search turns up hundreds and hundreds of similar articles about a looming lawsuit over using Happy Meal toys to illegally market junk food to kids.

But the litigation director of the Washington-based advocacy group threatening legal action told The Daily Caller that his group doesn’t really want to sue.

We are hopeful that McDonald’s will settle so that we do not have to go to court, Stephen Gardner of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) said.

The CSPI has never even seen the inside of a courtroom. They just use the threat as leverage, Justin Wilson, senior research director for the Center for Consumer Freedom said in an interview. This is just another in a long chain of frivolous lawsuits by the CSPI.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/06/24/sue-mcdonalds-over-toys-in-happy-meals-not-necessarily-says-cspi-director/#ixzz0rog1lN8o

Hi this is Sue McDonald and if you read my blogs, you will know that I am big on goals and having a plan to achieve those goals. Well, that went out the window this week in the worst possible fashion.

On Monday night, I started to feel sick and I thought I had managed to get a “24 hour” virus – so even though I had been sick I told myself, if I could get some sleep I may feel washed out in the morning but well on the way to recovery. I had a very restless night and by the time morning came I was starting to feel a little better. I thought I would just have a little extra time in bed and catch up on lost sleep.

I got up at about 8am and wandered out to the kitchen but didn’t want anything to eat. So I went in and had a shower and still felt a little weird so I thought I would lie down again. Fortunately, I fell asleep. I got up a few hours later and I felt a little hungry. Ah! This is good I am getting better. I stayed up and had a bowl of soup but by 7pm felt really tired. I decided bed sounded like a good idea again. I then thought – this 24 hour virus might be a 48 hour virus and the body needs the sleep.

Then within 2 hours, I started getting aches and stabbing pains all over my body. I couldn’t sit up, I couldn’t lie down and I found it difficult to stand. Every part of me said “do not touch, I hurt”. My husband wanted me to get in the car and he would drive to hospital but I knew I couldn’t sit in the car – it was going to be difficult to get in and then difficult to get out. Has this ever happened to you? It was the worst feeling. He rang an ambulance because I was really a mess and he was concerned. The ambulance delivered me to accident and emergency and then I had to lie down ( I had sat in the back of the ambulance). It took all my strength to get on the bed and then the doctor went to touch me – I had an ECG to see if I wasn’t having a heart attack and because I was so upset by this time she ordered morphine and a drip.

After about another 2-3 hours, things got a bit blurry, she finally said she thought it was appendicitis and she was calling a surgeon to confirm it. He came and confirmed it and said theater in 2 hours. I was still sore and sorry for myself, after the operation, but well on the way to recovery. The surgeon told me the appendix was so close to bursting it wasn’t funny.

So from now on, I will maybe think of getting to see a doctor in the middle of the day. The operation was performed using keyhole surgery so I was allowed home after 24 hours. Now all I have to do is wade through the emails and catch up with the work I had planned to do.

So if you are like me, a little stubborn when it comes to going to the doctor, I would advise you to give it serious thought. I was really lucky but even though I was in agony, I didn’t want to think it could be anything major but who knows – never be your own physician (unless of course you are a doctor) always seek help.