What do you do to stay on track?

You call it your business yet it sounds like you treat it like a part-time hobby. Why should your motivation and focus be any different than if it were a brick and mortar business? The way I stay focused on my online business is because it is just that; a business. Time and money is very precious to me. I create a business plan, a budget, and a daily schedule and I stick to them. I wouldn't open a shop down the street and then not show up for a couple of days a week. Maybe you're not passionate about what you're doing?

What I do is that I use evernote and I create a note titled:

"This Week" (you can do this on a piece of paper and hang it some where you will see it)

In that note I dot down the MAIN things I want to accomplish this week, For example I might put something like this.

- Content Creation
Write a blog post on "XYZ"

- Website Development
Create a squeeze page for facebook ad
Create a a variation of it (For slit-test)

- So on..
another task you want to accomplish..

Now I might get inspired to do something else in that week that I did not dot down and I will not hesitate to do it.

But I know that if by the end of this week I got at least most of those things done, then I have made great progress this week and on the weekend I can relax fully knowing that I am moving in the right direction.

And on Sunday night, after two good days of rest I lay out a another basic list of what I want to get done this week. and I also find my self adding to that list during the week.

I do not fill the list with a bunch of task, I dot down maybe up to 4 major task and I leave room for what ever else I might think of during the week as I'm working on things.

Also I know that every day I must contribute to facebook and to the warrior forum as I plan to make these my main sources of traffic.

The key here is to keep it nice and general, and to not be afraid to change the script

I find that if I try to enforce this stuff on my self then I will begin to see it as a chore rather than an exiting action that will move me closer to my success.

I used to do this on a daily basis, like I would tell myself what needed to get done today, but that was leaving me no room for inspired creativity, which is how you keep your motivation engine running.

Instead, now I have a good idea of the main things I want to get done this week, I do them at my own rate and I do what ever else I get inspired to do on that week.


You need to be very clear with where you are going with you business and with what your goals are, but at the same time you need to have fun with it and allow your self to get inspired thoughts and to act on them fully!

Writing task down has helped me with my clarity and acting on my excitement has helped me with my motivation and on my creative inspiration.



Hope that was useful!!

Mike Vietri

1. Discipline, discipline and discipline.
2. Separate your emotions so you won't be doing something only when you "feel like it", but always.
3. Do not focus on all tasks at the same time as it will stress you out. Focus at one task at a time.
4. Keep your day as simple as it can be, do not overload with tasks.
5. Meditate and program your subconscious mind with positive affirmations.
6. Be grateful for the progress you did and keep in mind a clear vision of your goals.
7. Have a strong WHY.

I would like to know more about this, thank you.

Have a morning routine that puts you in a peak state of mind.

Although I am new to the internet stuff. My approach for remaining focused is simple:

I simply wrote out a planned 'schedule' for the day which ensures short time frames where the chances of me becoming distracted are minimal.

so for example ill wake up at 7 or 7:30 depending if I am being lazy and hit snooze then ill have it clearly planned in that my first two hours will be focused on one thing, say your website / blog / youtube ....whatever the focus is. Then ill do something away from my computer so I'm not tempted to be lazy and refresh facebook over and over. Ill plan in an hour of Going to the gym / cooking food / housework / some sort of hobby.....whatever keeps you occupied. Then ill have it planned for the next two hours solid ill work on my next thing......(insert next productive task here) .....then ill repeat the cycle....move away from my computer for half an hour or so. I genuinely feel these shorter, yet focused timeslots work for me. When I sat down at my computer with no clear, written down short term goals to achieve I was just procrastinating or yunno watching bloody cat videos or aimlessly scrolling through forums haha!

small incremental goals is key I think in anything.... my goal for the day may be to write a blog post or search for things to sell, it may also be to smash out a 10k run...so separating things into timeslots has been much more effective for me to remain focused. doing something as simple as writing it down really makes you attack it. When my mind starts to wander and I start watching epic fail videos on youtube I figure its probably time to move away from my computer and go focus on a different goal that isn't business related.