Reached my Goal of $500/day - Writing It Down Works

[greff]

Nice job, Rebecca. You are inspirational!

[Adrian Cooper]

Originally Posted by RebeccaL

I'm sure you've read at least once during your online travels that "writing down your goals" embeds them into your mind and can subconsciously lead you to take actions that will lead to the achievement of said goal.

For a long time I waved that off as hogwash. Rubbish I thought.

Then one day a few months back I decided what the heck, and I made a quick desktop background that had some desirable images (mostly travel locations that I want to visit) and a big banner in the middle saying "$500/day by December 31 2009".

Well today I have reached that goal. At 2pm my profits for today are $505 and the day isn't over yet.

It wasn't achieved over night. My income has been increasing day by day. Every $50 increase was a new milestone.

I'm not the type to believe that my desktop background has led to my success but I tell you, seeing that same old boring desktop every time I boot up my computer made me see $500 as not a lot of money and something I would achieve.

I probably won't earn $500 everyday but anything over $300 is pretty darn good in my book.

I'll be changing my background now to $800/day by December 31 2009 - I'll need to add a few more revenue streams to consistently see that sort of money coming in.

So write down your financial goal, put it somewhere visible and glance at it everyday. And don't be afraid to aim high.. I can live on $100/day but why settle for that when there's so many opportunities out there in the wonderful world of affiliate marketing.

Just a bit of motivation for the people struggling as I've read a few "down and out" threads here lately. Don't give up!

I have thanked you for this Rebecca because you are an example to all.

Writing down your goals and objectives is indeed a very powerful way to success.

As I have said in post after post here, success is 90% Mind and 10% application.

When writing anything down always do so in the present tense as if true now.

And no limited thinking. Most people do not believe themselves that they can achieve their wishes, yet I assure you - keeping in mind this is my niche in which I am followed globally - that there are no limits except those imposed by the Ego.

Anyone can make a huge amount of money in IM, but if the Mind is not right failure is inevitable.

Congrats Rebecca - you can and will make as much as you desire from now on.

[Raiel Schwartz]

I agree that writing down your goals is extremely beneficial. I use to think all the affirmations and positvie thinking were hog-wash as well, but having goals put up at places you visit daily serves as a constant remainder (at the least) of the things you need to be doing everyday.

What I like to do is have a day by day action plan and then a goal.

So for example my day by day action plan may be something like

1) Submit 50 articles for my site
2) Sign up with link directories
3) Send out e-mails

etc

but my monthly goal would be to earn $5000/month (just another example)

Point is - you need action plans (actions YOU need to take, not the results you want) and the GOAL should be the desired results you want from your daily actions.

Otherwise, sure, you can go around and say you want to earn $X amount of money by the end of the month, but your not actually taking steps to get you any closer to your goals.

Day by Day Plan + Consistent Action = Reaching Your Goals

[birdfood]

Sounds like you've read "think rich, grow rich"

A good suggestion

[Alminc]

Congratulations Rebeca.
Really inspiring post.

I have reached $50/day working part time.
$100/day is my goal for the next year.

[Marian]

Great news and congratulations! :-)

I myself try to be more focused and it seems like it works.

Marian

[lamta20]

thats really great rebecca, keep up the good work

[Superior Content Creation]

Thanks for the inspiration! That's a motivating story, and it reminds me of the story about the vision board in "The Secret." I just made my own desktop collage with a banner, and I have to tell you, looking at the physical representation of my dreams invokes a strong emotion in me and an even stronger urge to succeed. I've always been a believer in the driving power of your emotions and subconscious. Thanks again for the inspiring post. :-)

Cheers!
dru-man

[ThalesMM]

Way to go Rebecca, you've reached my first monthly goal.. hahaha
I wrote down on my blog I want to make $500 per month first until december 30th (my b-day yay!), then $1000 month.. it would be really nice to reach $500 per day.. but I don't know if it would be possible with article marketing, since my articles get around 100 views each..

[Viktor Bebel]

Thank you for this inspirational post. I am newbie in IM and this is very helpful.

[sts2k]

Congrats... is that net profit or gross profit?

[uzomaeze]

Rebecca, I had lost hope already about reaching this type of goal, but the moment I saw this write up, you seem to have rejuvenated my spirit, not only in IM but everything that has to do with my life, you are awesome, cheers lady .. go on gal

[FlashDriveDT]

I'm using a desktop wallpaper of the universe that has a big, green 8 pasted into it. Thanks to this thread, I'm now going to paste my specific income goal as well.

[aniebee]

WOW!! You are my hero!!

Another woman who not only works online, but is tremendously successful!!!! No offense men, your wonderful too & very helpful, but helps me see that "it can be done as a woman."

I'm writing my goals write (he - he) now!
Ann

[Blackmediaprop08]

Originally Posted by RebeccaL

I'm sure you've read at least once during your online travels that "writing down your goals" embeds them into your mind and can subconsciously lead you to take actions that will lead to the achievement of said goal.

For a long time I waved that off as hogwash. Rubbish I thought.

Then one day a few months back I decided what the heck, and I made a quick desktop background that had some desirable images (mostly travel locations that I want to visit) and a big banner in the middle saying "$500/day by December 31 2009".

Well today I have reached that goal. At 2pm my profits for today are $505 and the day isn't over yet.

It wasn't achieved over night. My income has been increasing day by day. Every $50 increase was a new milestone.

I'm not the type to believe that my desktop background has led to my success but I tell you, seeing that same old boring desktop every time I boot up my computer made me see $500 as not a lot of money and something I would achieve.

I probably won't earn $500 everyday but anything over $300 is pretty darn good in my book.

I'll be changing my background now to $800/day by December 31 2009 - I'll need to add a few more revenue streams to consistently see that sort of money coming in.

So write down your financial goal, put it somewhere visible and glance at it everyday. And don't be afraid to aim high.. I can live on $100/day but why settle for that when there's so many opportunities out there in the wonderful world of affiliate marketing.

Just a bit of motivation for the people struggling as I've read a few "down and out" threads here lately. Don't give up!

Very motivational..I've had a few $500 a day sites, but none of them sustained it and most went down to about 100-300 per day, but that as you say is enough to live on.

May I ask were these adsense sites or mainly affiliate based income sites?

Thanks for the info shared so far.

[Saidar]

Thanks for the inspiration. I'm still struggling to make $200 a month LOL! But hey, we all got to start somewhere.

How long did you take to achieve this goal, from the start of your IM career?

[RebeccaL]

Blackmediaprop08 - it's all affiliate/CPA income. 100% profit as I don't use paid advertising at the moment.

Saidar - I've been working full time online for about 3 years now. Over that time I've done various things. I've earned a lot more than $500 per day at times, but that was mainly providing services for people so it was not sustained or passive income.

It wasn't until this year that I really put my foot down and started focusing on my niche sites and thus started increasing my income from $50-$100 per day up to the level I'm at now. I slowly scaled back the services I provide and started using that time to work for myself. I now work 90% for myself and about 10% for clients - last year and previously that statistic was reversed.

So with that in mind I'd say that all this has taken me less than 6 months of pure action and determination. Now if I had of actually done all this 3 years ago, who knows where I'd be now - but I've learned alot along the way

[Philipc]

Thank you rebecca. I think I'll do the wallpaper for my screen. I just happen to stare at that all day, so it might as well do something for me other than eye strain! Cheers!

[jasonl70]

I'm trying to figure out how come I never thought of using my desktop wallpaper for this! excellent idea...

[4thstreet]

Rebecca,
You have a great motivational story and glad that you have decided to share it with us.
Such great news - Congrats big time!

[raymagnetic]

Originally Posted by RebeccaL

I'm sure you've read at least once during your online travels that "writing down your goals" embeds them into your mind and can subconsciously lead you to take actions that will lead to the achievement of said goal.

For a long time I waved that off as hogwash. Rubbish I thought.

Then one day a few months back I decided what the heck, and I made a quick desktop background that had some desirable images (mostly travel locations that I want to visit) and a big banner in the middle saying "$500/day by December 31 2009".

Well today I have reached that goal. At 2pm my profits for today are $505 and the day isn't over yet.

It wasn't achieved over night. My income has been increasing day by day. Every $50 increase was a new milestone.

I'm not the type to believe that my desktop background has led to my success but I tell you, seeing that same old boring desktop every time I boot up my computer made me see $500 as not a lot of money and something I would achieve.

I probably won't earn $500 everyday but anything over $300 is pretty darn good in my book.

I'll be changing my background now to $800/day by December 31 2009 - I'll need to add a few more revenue streams to consistently see that sort of money coming in.

So write down your financial goal, put it somewhere visible and glance at it everyday. And don't be afraid to aim high.. I can live on $100/day but why settle for that when there's so many opportunities out there in the wonderful world of affiliate marketing.

Just a bit of motivation for the people struggling as I've read a few "down and out" threads here lately. Don't give up!

Congratulations on your success. I've recently started writing everything down and trying to become more organized. I'm hoping better organization and goal setting will lead to more success for me in the near future.

Your story is definitely motivating to me.

[penny_preston]

Congratulations! What are you doing to earn this income?

[AlexKaplo]

Hey, congrats on the success man!

[Saidar]

Originally Posted by RebeccaL

Blackmediaprop08 - it's all affiliate/CPA income. 100% profit as I don't use paid advertising at the moment.

Saidar - I've been working full time online for about 3 years now. Over that time I've done various things. I've earned a lot more than $500 per day at times, but that was mainly providing services for people so it was not sustained or passive income.

It wasn't until this year that I really put my foot down and started focusing on my niche sites and thus started increasing my income from $50-$100 per day up to the level I'm at now. I slowly scaled back the services I provide and started using that time to work for myself. I now work 90% for myself and about 10% for clients - last year and previously that statistic was reversed.

So with that in mind I'd say that all this has taken me less than 6 months of pure action and determination. Now if I had of actually done all this 3 years ago, who knows where I'd be now - but I've learned alot along the way

Nice, passive income is what makes the internet such a wonderful place to invest your time in. But you have to remember the skills you learned in the 2.5 years made it possible for you to build that passive income in 6 months. It took me 4 months to learn all the basic stuff, so I'm doing a bit better now but I'm still struggling! I just wish I discovered this forum 6 months ago when I started...

Good luck with your future projects... Maybe you can write a small ebook to help us beginners out and sell it

[Nick Brighton]

Hey Folks,

The big secret behind the success of this
simple idea is...

When Rebbecca wrote it down and viewed it everyday, she
became very comfortable and accustomed to that figure.

So what subconsciously happens is that she no longer sees
$500 as a big deal...

And because we are preprogrammed to believe that achieving
big goals means busting our butts, that when we break the goals
down and see them as smaller than we first thought, it becomes
easier subconsciously.

It's really weird...

The more money you make online, the more "used" to it you get,
until cranking out sites, products and new businesses that make
daily sales, seems like a gentle walk in the park a lot of the time.

Well done Rebbecca!

[jenniesweetie]

Originally Posted by Nick Brighton

Hey Folks,

The big secret behind the success of this
simple idea is...

When Rebbecca wrote it down and viewed it everyday, she
became very comfortable and accustomed to that figure.

So what subconsciously happens is that she no longer sees
$500 as a big deal...

And because we are preprogrammed to believe that achieving
big goals means busting our butts, that when we break the goals
down and see them as smaller than we first thought, it becomes
easier subconsciously.

It's really weird...

The more money you make online, the more "used" to it you get,
until cranking out sites, products and new businesses that make
daily sales, seems like a gentle walk in the park a lot of the time.

Well done Rebbecca!

The power of Subconscious ....Amazing but so real and TRUE...

[EquestrianGal]

Originally Posted by Saidar

Nice, passive income is what makes the internet such a wonderful place to invest your time in. But you have to remember the skills you learned in the 2.5 years made it possible for you to build that passive income in 6 months. It took me 4 months to learn all the basic stuff, so I'm doing a bit better now but I'm still struggling! I just wish I discovered this forum 6 months ago when I started...

Good luck with your future projects... Maybe you can write a small ebook to help us beginners out and sell it

I think this is a very good point. Although I only have a few posts on here, I've been learning for months and it is true that you need to have some knowledge in internet marketing to build upon and that takes time.

Having written goals is great for motivation as well as organization. At my day job if I write a list, it makes things so much easier not only to prioritize but to feel that sense of accomplishment when things are complete!

[biden788]

This is great post,i'm fresh,i want to make money from internet.
who can share or teach me some method to make some money.
thanks.

[YourVirtualAssistant]

So very very true! Love your idea of putting it as your background. Must figure out how to do that myself!

[James12C]

Originally Posted by Joe118

I am emotionally attached to my niche and as a result trying to go with that one niche to 200, instead of diversifying and trying new niches)

THAT is a real insight - I found that I was addicted to the first niche I chose and just couldn't move on. When I did, finally, the leverage clicked in.

[pizzatherapy]

I love this post. I'm writing...I'm believing... I'm writing.

Very inspirational... Thanks you for your positive method.

If you think it, you can achieve it.

[RebeccaL]

This is not meant to be a thread about strategies or anything, but here is a bit of inspiration for the people who think that article marketing is all too hard, or a waste of time - it certainly isn't.

Keep in mind this article has only been live for about 1 month. It has been positioned on Google page 1 for a variety of key phrases ever since it went live. So don't believe the hype about rankings dropping quickly, because they don't always. Hit a good keyword and it's gold.



This particular article had 2000 views in the first 4 days of going live. I got lucky with the keyword, but from there I simply leveraged it by writing similar articles both on my own blogs and to article directories.

Case in point: you never know just when things are going to boom so don't give up.

[Thallewell]

A $500 day can give a person a lot of freedom in life. Congratulations. I am looking at $200 days for my better days and $100 for the bummer days and frankly I am grateful for both=).

Congratulations on reaching that milestone and good luck on $800.

Thallewell

[Zack Lim]

Hi Rebecca,

Keep on going and I am hopping to see you posting on the forum that you have hit your $800 in one day soon

Zack

[hsvdm]

Congrats,

very inspiring post and I can see that it works. I had my first $100/day yesterday.Well, the problem is that the most days there is $0 and then 5 days later $30 and 5 days later...

Not consisitent but I will work on it with more articles and niche review sites.

Cheers
Mirko

[Srikanth D]

Originally Posted by hsvdm

Congrats,

very inspiring post and I can see that it works. I had my first $100/day yesterday.Well, the problem is that the most days there is $0 and then 5 days later $30 and 5 days later...

Not consisitent but I will work on it with more articles and niche review sites.

Cheers
Mirko

Way to go! you will eventually get the consistency when you expand into greater areas

[ramone_johnny]

Awesome, just awesome.

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by RebeccaL

Keep in mind this article has only been live for about 1 month. It has been positioned on Google page 1 for a variety of key phrases ever since it went live. So don't believe the hype about rankings dropping quickly, because they don't always. Hit a good keyword and it's gold.



This particular article had 2000 views in the first 4 days of going live. I got lucky with the keyword, but from there I simply leveraged it by writing similar articles both on my own blogs and to article directories.

Great job, Rebecca!

You are a living example that article marketing works! Finding good keywords is truly half the battle, but once you find them, it's all downhill from there!

Many people think that the only way to have $500 days is through PPC. Well, they should look to you as their inspiration. If they put in the effort and stay focused, they will see the rewards. Again, all they need to invest is their time!

Again, Congratulations!

[Emmanuel Betinis]

Originally Posted by RebeccaL

...it's all affiliate/CPA income. 100% profit as I don't use paid advertising at the moment.

Are you saying you didn't outsource anything?

[Lisa Gergets]

Wow wow wow! It is SO important for newbies like me to read threads like this - real people who've trudged through, done their time, and are now reaping the benefits!

I am so happy for your success!

[isler45]

Congrats. I just want to hit $50 a day. Then Ill look to add another zero on.

[Zachary R. Skinner]

Nice Job!

And yes, writing stuff down certainly does help embed your goals....

[Amy Bass]

Wow Rebecca! That is fantastic! I write down EVERYTHING and yes it DOES help quite a bit.

[Viktor Bebel]

I enjoy reading the success of others. Keep it up!
Well Done!

[Nigel Greaves]

Congratulations Rebecca on achieving on your goal and for motivating so many more of us.

Nigel

[mrrichesinniches]

Writing down and also visualising helps.

[RebeccaL]

Originally Posted by Emmanuel Betinis

Are you saying you didn't outsource anything?

I spend about 2 hours a day writing articles for my sites/blogs and article submission. So no, haven't outsourced at all. No need to as I enjoy writing and am very productive at it. I also spend about 5 hours per week building links (web 2.0, blog comments etc).

Not a big time expenditure for me. I could and will scale up eventually by outsourcing but for now I'm happy to keep the profits and work a few hours per day.

[Emmanuel Betinis]

That's great...

Congratulations, Rebecca!

[projectx]

Congrats! I'm a firm believer in writing down your goals and your case is even more proof. (I've also down the wallpaper image thing too).

[RebeccaL]

Originally Posted by John McEachern

Hey Rebecca, congratulations and all that!

I just have a quick question. I'm new to back linking and it seems pretty time consuming and laborious. Without saying exactly how you do it, could you expand a little on how you get the most bang for your buck out of just 5 hours of back linking per week? To me, that's seems like a huge accomplishment in and of itself.

Thanks!

I just create a few web 2.0 properties, post some content on them and link those to my ezinearticles and my blog.
Also do some social bookmarking.
Commenting on blogs.

Basic stuff works