Stop focusing on the money!

Hey all,

I'd like to share some thoughts with you guys, and girls of course

I've kind of noticed something very interesting. When I started out with this whole "get rich online" thing, I came across good niche and I've decided to get in there and - HELP people. Of course, I also thoght "I'll get rich too", but my main focus was spread the message, help as many people as you can.

After a few months of hard work I finally started seeing some nice results, the money started coming in, sale by sale - but after 10, 20 sales, I wasn't really satisfied. I wanted MORE - MORE MONEY. Of course, I was still writing articles, responding to emails, and trying to build up more traffic. But my focus was on "building more traffic, getting more sales, and making MORE MONEY" - whenever I didn't make a sale that day, my whole day was crap. Yes, my anger and frustration did get me to work even harder (which is good) - which was good on one hand, but wasn't that good in reality.

I don't know about you, but I believe in karma, energy and that kind of stuff. I believe that if you GIVE, you shall receive back. As long as you FOCUS is not the receiving back thing. 'Cause then you'll get nothing.

As I was checking out my competition, I figured that I was the only one that was actually giving TONS of information out there - without actually asking for anything. But once I changed my focus and stoped thinking about helping people - my entire motivation and feelings in this project of mine (becoming rich on the internet) - changed. It was the moment (of course, this focus shift didn't happen overnight) - when this became a JOB and not something I love doing (helping people). It became a job:

- check traffic
- analyze traffic
- build more backlinks
- spam groups on facebook
- search for backlinks
- reply on emails (potential customers) just to shake them off, short, no-emotion emails, sometimes even just copy pasting when the question seems similar
- put up more links, edit website
- submit X amount of articles to X amount of directories that should result in Z amount of potential traffic and Y amount of potential sales

Great - that stuff is NOT interesting. Because it becomes LABOUR work. Like going to an office and doing manual job - who enjoys clicking "copy, paste" "submit" "reply" all day long? Or checking your email 10 times a day, but giving non-help replies to potential customers.

The bottom line is - as time went by I was less and less motivated - and less in love with the business I have built myself, the same time I became less effective, more robotic. Sure, traffic may became better - but it also started going a bit downhill from time to time. Slowly going down - but still good.

Then it just suddenly bumped into my head "dude, HELP people and stop focusing on the f#$kin' money" - as long as your focus is to truly OFFER PEOPLE VALUE - sooner or later, it WILL come back to you. Plus - once my focus shifted back to the way it should be - out of nowhere - I started getting more traffic, I was MORE motivated to "work" (actually help people) - because my measurement of success wasn't

"I am successful today because I had X amount of traffic and Z amount of sales" - I stopped caring about that so much, of course I did care, but I wasn't giving all my attention to it. I was happy and satisfied when I "helped x amount of people today and made their lives better" - now they were feeling better, that was good karma. Of course - some of them have blogs - some of them recommended my website! The more I help - the more traffic and sales I will have. But only if my primary focus is on offering value and just forget about the money. It WILL come sooner or later.

I just wanted to share these thoughts that were mingling in my head the last couple of days, maybe it helps someone

Good luck,
Jack