This and That About Internet Marketing

Here is my list of 25 things about me.

1.  Kenneth Douglas (as in my site name ) is my first and middle name. I have chosen to use them online because I was unable to secure a domain for my first and last name (which by the way is Garrett). I’m sorry for the confusion I have caused some of you.

2. In my offline life I am a dentist and have practiced for 34 years. This is something, which like Gary and his martial arts training, I do not tend to make widely known outside of my professional settings. By doing this I often hear the phrase “You don’t act like a dentist” when someone becomes aquainted with me before they know my profession.. I have found that people often react to their concept of who or what I should be based upon their concept of my profession rather than me as an individual. ..

3. I have been described as being obsessive in the sense that when I become interested in something I tend to become totally immeresed as I pursue my interest (an example can be seen in #5 below). I prefer to describe myself as passionate about my interests. ( this has been recognized as a personality trait of persons who choose my profession)

4. I tend to be a perfectionest being described as a “type A” personality. (Again a professional personality trait)

5. I have done 5 102 mile bicycle rides in Death Valley as part of a fund raising event for The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

6. I am a Type I or juvenile diabetic but I choose not to let this limit my level of activity I have choosen  to view this merely as an inconvenience rather than a limitation.

7. My newest passion is the houseboat my wife and i designed and had built 2 years ago. We now spend the majority of our free time on it. It is also the basis for my desire to develop an online business. I want an income stream which will not be dependent upon location. I want to be able to manage it just as easily from my home office or the front deck of my boat.

8.. I am an animal lover. We presently have three dogs in all sizes,from a 100+ pound Great Pyrenees, to a 30 pound Beagle/ Hound mix with a Labrador/Austrtalian Shepard mix stuck in the middle for good measure. In the past I have owned and shown horses ( Morgans, American Saddlebreds and Hackney ponies).

9. I enjoy watching NASCAR racing and college basketball.

10. I enjoy doing geneology research, connecting with my history and learning about those members of my family who preceeded me.

11. Through my geneology studies I have established that I am 1/16th Cherokee Indian. This has led me to      do a great deal of reading in the areas of Native American history, religion, medicine and philosophys.

12. I am a coffee drinker ( sorry Gary, but I need my poison). As such, I enjoy experiencing coffee from various parts of the world. My favorite variety of coffee comes from the Blue Mountain region of Jamaica. I prefer to brew my coffee by using freshly ground beans in a french press.

13. I prefer to drink coffee without cream or sweetener but when drinking tea (hot or iced) i prefer it with sweetener.

14. While I am not generally a creature of habit, I enjoy relaxing on Sunday mornings with a couple of cups of coffee. When on the boat I enjoy the solitude of watching the early morning lake activity from the upper deck. 

15. I am usually in the process of reading multiple books at the same time. Usually a self-help or management type book, a fast paced action type fiction book, and something of a historical or biographical nature

16. I am a student of the American Civil War. I enjoy reading about this period and also visiting the battlefields of this conflict.

17. I must be active. For instance, I cannot enjoy relaxing on the beach doing nothing.  I must be up and moving about. This prompted me to begin scuba diving on a trip to the Bahamas.

18. I have been studying martial arts for about 2 years. This has given me insight to having confidence in ones abilities with out a need to publicize or draw attention to those talents. It has also helped me to refocus on the fact that there will always be someone who has greater knowledge from whom I should learn and also someone with lesser knowledge who I should be willing to teach.

19. I collect shot glasses as souvenirs of the places I visit. I divide them into three categories, cities, state and provences and attractions or events.

20. I prefer small town or rural settings rather than large cities.

21. I enjoy travel. Two places I have not had the opportunity to visit but hope to in the future are Ireland and Australia.

22. I have become aware  that in life you learn much more by sitting quietly and observing than by making everyone aware of your presence.

23. I am what my wife describes as a “pack rat”, I never want to throw something away because “I might need it”  I must confess I am improving in this area thanks to her tutelage.

24. As a result of the personality flaw revealed in #23 my sense of organization is best described as “stacking”. To the casual observer it appears to be chaos but mentally I can go directly to what I want when necessary. My desk is a monument to this disorder.

25. I enjoy  amateur photography

I hope this has been enlightening. It was more difficult to compile than i had anticipated when I started. Perhaps this was because of the way I subconciously want to filter the image I present to the world or simply because I am not very exciting, I will leave that determination to some brave soul with nothing better to do than to explore my psyche.

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