Today is my last day at SEOmoz. I have been here for about three and half years and it really has been one the most important experiences of my life. I met fascinating people, traveled the world, got a book deal and learned an unbelievable amount about myself and others. I am now heading in a new direction and while this requires me to leave my job, it frees me up to focus on the remaining items on my goals list.
SEO Consulting and Goals List:
For those of you who don’t know me personally, you should know I take my goals list extremely seriously. It is about 250 items long and in the last two years I have completed about a hundred items. These range from the simple (try yoga), to the more complex (save a human life). While checking off the items has been fun, the real feeling of fulfillment comes from the side effects of these. My favorite moments have been deepening my relationship with my little sister as we traveled to the Pyramids of Giza and the moment I realized just how malleable my body really was after losing 50 pounds and trying out my new body at a trapeze class.
I am in the very fortunate position where I can use my passions to make money and provide real value to others. I have been doing SEO consulting for about 3 years and have worked with some of the world’s most well known companies. In all likelihood, you will actually visit one of the sites I have done work with at some point today. I have also written a 400 page book on the topic called SEO Secrets which describes in detail how to do SEO consulting. Doing this consulting has given me the resources necessary to checkoff the items on my goals list and helped the clients I care about drive traffic from countless new search engine referrals. I love this stuff and through the education I recieved at SEOmoz, I know how to get results.
If you are in the need of an SEO Consultant, please feel free to contact me. I may be leaving SEOmoz, but I am certainly not leaving SEO.
What I Learned at SEOmoz:
Rather than just tell you, I prepared the video below to show you:
Happiness Audit:
- Is your work contributing to a greater good?
- Are your daily tasks making you a better entrepreneur?
- Are your daily tasks making you a better person?
- Are you inspiring others?
- Are you still making enough business connections, where making the connections outweigh the cons of working at your position?
- Are you making more money than you could at any other job that you could reasonably get? (Starting own company excluded)
- Are you working hours that leave time for personal growth?
- Are you able to make a name for yourself given your current position in the company? (Public facing position)
Keeping in Touch:
There are lots of ways of keeping in touch with me:
E-mail: [email protected]
My blog: http://www.dannydover.com/blog/
Twitter: @DannyDover
