Seven Days without My Blog

It’s been seven days since Successful-Blog.com went down. And it still doesn’t work now.

If you visit you’ll see what appears to be a working blog, but it’s not.

The issue isn’t nearly so much the code or the database as it is that folks reading the messages that explain what’s going on. The system they’re using is based in support tickets meant to keep conversation focused and to a minimum. Unfortunately, some things are not well explained in writing.

The fastservers.net team hosting my blog seems to have decided that because I opted for a managed account that I have minimal credibility. No one listened long enough to find out.

Instead they told me:

• fill out a support ticket (I already had)
• you can’t have access
• we don’t service applications

As a result, attempts to locate and fix the issue have been more difficult because the support team draws lines around their job.

SEVEN DAYS and No action that says they want to be sure they’re not part of the reason my blog is still down.

Some folks go ballistic when a site is down for 7 minutes.
I’ve remained calm. Perhaps they’ve misinterpreted that to mean I don’t care. Hopefully this might correct that wrong assumption.

What do you expect I’ll say when folks ask me where they should host their blog?

Liz Strauss

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Something in Every Job, Every Person

If you consider the people who truly light up a room, to a person they are always people who are quick to see value in others.

If you smile at such a person, she’ll smile back in a way that shares the smile and gives you all of the credit. You’ll hear a “Look at you!” or a “Wow! How you made my smile brighter!”

It’s about more than giving thanks.

Deep gratitude is understanding the contribution of another. It’s about valuing another person’s time and what they give. People who have true gratitude understand that the most generous givers often do so in ways that are hard to see.

And the most generous givers are grateful that they have something to give and someone to give to.

Look closely, people who are grateful for the value in others often have a large following.

Gratitude, true and deep, is irresistible, as it should be.

All good things given freely are sticky.

Liz Strauss