Excited By Life

I am finding that writing every day at ExcitedByLife is taking up too much of my time at the expense of some other goals and projects I had also planned on achieving during my mini-retirement. So, starting from today I will be exiting from the blogging challenges I am currently participating in. Please don’t get [...]

Google could be checking the grammar, spelling and style of your articles and using it to determine your sites overall quality and ultimately your SEO rankings. English was not my favorite subject at school, and yes, I know I need to improve my writing. I now have added motivation to improve as a number of [...]

Content scraper sites have, unfortunately, been winning the war against people writing legitimate and unique content.  I have seen cases of original legitimate content on lower ranked sites being out ranked by copies of that same content on higher ranked sites in Google search. At the moment it’s impossible for Google to tell the originator [...]

Are you unhappy with the quality of viewing on television?  Good News!   You can turn your television off, and start watching our picks of the best online websites for watching documentary movies and educational television series from your PC. Youtube is of course one option for searching for something good to watch, but it can [...]

One problem working from home is that our work is always with us. It is easy to fall into the trap of being there for our families only in body, and not in mind.  In the following heart felt dharma talk Thich Nhat Hanh gives us some solutions. The talk is fairly long, so I [...]

I now have my home desktop set up just the way I want it.  My set up may give you some ideas for setting up your own home office environment.   My Desk I have a curved desk with attached bookcase. We live in Hong Kong where space is a premium, so this is the [...]

Are you amazed by the amount of Pro Bloggers online lately? By pro blogger I mean people who talk about how to blog.  Has the pro blogging market become saturated? Firstly, I don’t consider Excitedbylife to be competing in the pro blogging space, although I do occasionally write about blogging.  Excitedbylife is more of a [...]

Occasionally I come across a blog that I start reading and then just can’t stop reading content on.  There are literally hundreds of thousands of professional bloggers on the Internet and to stand out is tough work. Brankica U’s In Your Love (Blog Like a Star) is one such blog.  What is amazing is that [...]