Too much information is my downfall.

Everytime I am on a website reading something of interest, there will usually be a link leading to another article or website…then another….then another. There are plenty of ways to get traffic and make money, but it’s so easy to get distracted by new methods and forget something or a website you discovered that you found half an hour ago. I wish I had a photographic memory like Ruck to be able to store all this information in my head.

I find it is absolutely vital to write down and plan exactly what I am going to do. Utilise all the valuable information which can be found not only on this site, but on the internet in general and create a plan or checklist of things to do. Create a timetable for the week so that each day you are doing something different to help you achieve your goal.

-Eric

What’s standing between me and the success I believe I can achieve this year in my business is lack of focus and lack of consistency. Some days I can’t get myself on track and it shows up in my results…my affiliate commission checks.

;p

Just kidding. I think for may of the new guys it could be where to start. For me it’s not having any idea what I want to do with a website.

Then came myspace, and I’m sure many of you know how easy it was to make money with myspace.

I guess it has made me lazy, but I’m trying to change that :).

1) being afraid to bother people who know what I need to know. I hate bothering a guy as busy as Ruck for example with my dumb ass question because I’m sure the answer is already out there somewhere on the net. The problem is it may take me a week or a year to find it.

2) Not being smart enough to know what parts of the advice I’m given to actually use.

3) Time.

I for example have 15 things on my “must get done today” list for marketing and at least 4 times that for my 9-5 job.

I actually manage to get at least 4-5 done per day on my own list but I can’t do the most important ones.

The problem is, the most important ones take the most time and things like “create a map of all the steps between where you are and the $250,000 you want to earn this year” isn’t exactly something I can do on a coffee break.

I actually have a chart I’m working on. I titled it, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Where do you start? At the stinky end.”

:)

So I save those for the weekends when I have a few hours at a time to sit and think. I’m slowly chipping away.

The good news is, by getting my butt up early and going to bed early, I have several hours each morning to do the things I need to get done without being completely mentally exhausted after the 9-5. They don’t deserve the best of my day, so I’ve stopped giving it to them.

This morning for example I’ve spent some time working on my “day schedule”. A to-the-minute breakdown of how to get my morning routine down to the smallest amount of time possible. Just by listing the things I do and how long it takes I’ve realized that by paying attention, moving with purpose and rearranging the order of things I can multi-task (write down my to-do list for the day WHILE my eggs cook, pack my briefcase WHILE I brush my teeth) that I can “create” another half hour of day that I can use for my marketing work.

I also realized my non-thinking tasks need to be done when I think the worst. I pack my lunch and do laundry and dishes at night when I’m mentally tired because those things don’t take much mental energy.

Rearranging my adwords campaigns and checking my spreadsheets takes some brain cells so I do those when I’m most alert. Early to mid morning.

I exercise when I’m already mentally dead. It refreshes my mind a little, but doesn’t waste premium brain time.

So my biggest hurdle has been me getting in my own way.

Now I’m gettin’ the hell out of my own way step by step, bite by bite.

Mmmmm. Elephant tail.

4) Sleep.

I gotta have it.

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About the only luck I’ve had is $1 an hour on a niche blogging site. I just don’t know how you guys do it, or find the time in the day to get the kind of neat ideas out there. I also see you spending money to make money, but they are risks that may perhaps give you no return. I’ve also seen too many people have to dabble in blackhatting, or borderline TOS violation stuff, and that’s too much of a risk for me. There’s only so many CPA networks out there, and you can’t go violating all those TOS’s so fast unless one is recreating LLCs over and over again with different names and then changing phone numbers.

So, for now, I’m focused on advanced PHP freelance work that earns me $12K a month. However, I’m working a full 60 hours a week for that $12K. On some days, it’s pretty darn tough. I wish I could get paid on autopilot like many of you, even for just a couple days, just to taste what it feels like.

@sparky I agree, if you need to test 30 words , really you need 200 clicks to be fair (say .25 per click), that’s (.25 x 200) x 30 = 1500 USD worst still i can only get a UK adwords account so that’s more closer to 1320 GBP or approx 2603 USD.

AC