Stressed? Me? Well, I’ve never been one for melodrama but the Oxford English Dictionary rang up yesterday and asked me to write next years dictionary definition of “anxiety”. Apparently I’m an expert.

To my frequent detriment, I do have an extremely high stress personality. When I go off, its a little bit like a cross between the Cuban Missile Crisis and The Sinking of the Titanic going on inside my head.

Now, in a previous life when I used to work for a marketing agency I had a really great way of dealing with the old stress. It involved at least 5 double measures of some kind of evil alcohol and in cases of severe misjudgement would duly invoke a hangover from hades. Possibly even a spectacular outbreak of vomitisitis. Not a cure I’m considering this time.

I’ve not really had much in the way of stress in the last 3 years. My new lifestyle has seen to that! But this week the old stress monkey on my back has returned – and this time it’s personal! The stress of organising a certain wedding and having to completely re-work all my sites before the end of this month, staving off possible Google death has left me with that familiar old feeling.

I can’t sleep. I can’t think about anything else but weddings (specifically that perfect tiara that is STILL eluding me), and Google filters and their wily ways. I’ve got chest pains (see? I told you it was bad!). Finally, I’ve got insomnia.

Affiliate Stress – The Perfect Solution!

In the hope that it will have an effect broadly similar to vomit-inducing quantities of alcohol I’m going to deal with my stacked out schedule by…

Sacking it off!!!!!!!!!!

Bugger all this for a lark, I mean honestly who do I think I am trying to cope with all this stuff? Sir Alan Sugar? I don’t even have the beard for it!

So here’s my stress cure and I’m doing it first thing tomorrow: -

I’m going up to Hervey Bay for the weekend to go humpback whale watching. Basically I need to do something that will help me regain a little perspective, and I can’t think of a better way to do it than watching these magnificent creatures migrate.

Basically, I’ve a damned cheek being stressed out. What have I to worry about in the grand scale of things. Really?

“Oh woe is me, I can’t take a second longer of living in this awful year round sun!”

Hmmm.

So there you go… all you need to get rid of affiliate stress is a “bugger all this for a lark” attitude. Easy.

Finally…

I must apologise for a lack of decent posts this week. My ability to come up with creative and interesting stuff is hampered by my preoccupation. Tell you what, if you guys shout out some suggestions and it might help inspire me.

Note: things like “give us a comprehensive guide to affiliate feed sites!” and “tell us your conversion secrets!” are unlikely to help

See Y’all after the weekend.

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