So you’re becoming fairly popular on Facebook. People are adding you as a friend left and right. Yipee! Hold up. You’re justnow beginning to realize that you’re adding bunches of people and increasing your numbers, but you’re not building on personal relationships with those folks. Uh oh.

I ran into this problem myself not too long ago. As I started increasing my online following, I began adding more and more people to my Facebook profile, and it got hard to remember who was who. That’s when I discovered Facebook lists.

What are Friend Lists, and how do I create them?

Friend Lists are a way to organize your list of friends on Facebook and to target privacy settings. You can also filter your view of each list’s stream of activity separately on the home page.

To create and customize your own Friend Lists, please follow these steps:

1. Go to the Friends page. Clicking the Account drop-down at the top of any page, and then click on “Edit Friends.”
2. Click the Create New List button at the top of the page to create a new list, or type the name of a friend in the left-side search field to add a friend to an existing list. You can also click on an existing Friend List on the left-side of the page, and then click on the Edit List button.

If you have more than two Friend Lists, you can easily add or remove friends from lists by using the drop-down menu that appears next to their names on the “All Friends” tab of the Friends page.

Do you know what the word “drab” means? Boring. I don’t want to be boring. I want to be exuberant, colorful and absolutely FULL of life.

I’ve found myself somewhat caught in a spot this past week that I don’t really care to be in. I have so many things I’m trying to get set into place and it’s a bit overwhelming. While I love owning and operating my own business, the operating part isn’t always so easy, and sometimes I just wish someone would do it for me. (Yeah right, don’t we all…)

What’s this got to do with being drab? Well, I feel like that’s what my mind has been looking like. With everything I’m trying to get put into place all at once, sometimes I just stare blankly at my computer screen asking myself which of my gazillion projects to focus on for the next hour. Then I end up tackling too many at once and not feeling too accomplished once I rush through everything.

I know that being an entrepreneur means I’m in this for the long haul. I’m okay with that…in fact, I’m more than okay with that. I’m used to busting my butt to get where I need and want to be. They call that passion, and I have plenty of it.

Every business owner or entrepreneur wants to know, “If I start a blog, how much of my time is it going to take to keep it maintained?”

It’s a valid question and one that I’m asked on a regular basis by newbie bloggers as well as my clients. They want to know if they’re truly going to have time to write the articles as well as the additional time to post them online where they can be read and viewed by a hungry audience.

The truth of the matter is, most people can take the time to write something every once in a while. However, the busier we get, and the more our businesses grow, the harder it is to squeeze extra things into our schedules. Right?

So, how long does it take to write a blog post? Let’s break it down, looking at my own personal time clock.

Bad spending habits can make a person feel like crap…and make their checkbooks look like crap too. True story…a few years ago, I was making decent money at a nearly full time job. While it wasn’t by any means a big income, it was more than I was accustomed to making, and I took advantage of my “large” paycheck. I spent a ridiculous amount of money on clothing and electronics (specifically an iPhone for $500), and only a year later I found myself with a nearly empty bank account and unsightly credit card bills.

This wasn’t the life I wanted for myself, so when I happened across Dave Ramsey, I quickly start turning my spending habits around.

Now, I spend a very minimal amount of money on clothing (and I still dress nice, do I not? ) and I only upgraded my iPhone when I deemed it absolutely necessary for business use. I no longer open new credit cards and I’ve nearly paid off the ones that are left. I also stayed away from car and student loans, and I’m in a new business that I anticipate will be making some GREAT money.