The power of getting on with it....

And the thing is, some people will spend a day just contemplating ONE of those tasks before executing it, this my friends, is a perfect example of a hard days work. A work ethic like this will take you places.

Think of how much more you could have gotten done if you hadn't started this thread! LOL I'm totally kidding. Thanks for the inspiration. I spend way too much time in here, but I can't help it. I'm an addict.

John

Yes, in order to get work done you need to close all outside playthings and do WORK.

I love it.

The only reason I'm on the forums today is I'm waiting on a support ticket from my host, since I can't do diddly squat until they get back to me about these damn scripts and why the server won't let me make them work.

WORK!

I love that word. Most people hate the hell out of it and are trying to escape it with IM, but thats not going to happen.

Yesterday, during a few hours of working, I signed up with 54 article sites, 15 social bookmarking sites, 20 video sites, and 25 press release sites.

Then I began installing the scripts I'm currently having trouble with.

But before I started the troubles, I wrote an article for an affiliate link of mine, and then submitted it to the 54 directories.

Not sure if anythings happened yet, it was more of something to just make sure the accounts were valid and working, lol.

But you know, its the small things in IM that grow into large things.

Do a lot of small things in a day, and you'll feel like you've accomplished something large.

And that, my friends, is a wonderful feeling.

-Sean

You know what?

When I have a spare day (usually during festive periods!), I LOVE setting up a list of things I want to do and weirdly, I find myself doing more than I ever would in a normal day!

I think it has a lot to do with making me feel like it's a "play day" at the computer, and setting up blogs and social network sites isn't "work", but more of an adventure.

It's almost like you can take the pressure off because theoretically, you're on holiday and not really working. So anything you actually do, becomes more of an experiment or fun test.

I dunno, it sounds weird, but I guess it's about mindset. If you approach your day with a more playful and experimental nature, it seems less like work and more and more fun.

I love this business, but as soon as I start treating it like a grind in the office, is when it becomes like a job...and that's what I escaped from nearly 2 years ago, so screw that!

I always found it is amazing what you can do by unplugging from the internet so you don't get distracted in what I call the "ADD Loop" Checking email..checking Twitter, checking Warrior forum, checking IMs...over and over again.

Turning off the cellphone helps too...

Rick

Yes, it's all in the Mindset. If you FOCUS on what you WANT, then you will ACHIEVE what you DESIRE.

Update - the niche site is now getting about 20 visitors a day, and got my first genuine email subscriber (the other 4 were me testing out email addresses ... and my mum!!). My mum found my site without me telling her, not sure how I need to find out how, she may have just searched my name or something.

I have only written 4 articles, need to get more done. Need to follow my own advice again and have a big session, I reckon I could get 2-3 good articles written per hour, so that would be 16-24 in a day. Although i may slow down as I run out of experience knowledge and have to move into research.

A micro-tip from me to any newbies - again and again - the power of posting useful information onto popular forums cannot be underestimated. And I am not talking about spamming Warrior either. A simple "Yeah I understand .... Advice .... I found this useful ... http://" type post can work wonders :-). In once niche I got 1000 visitors in 2 days with such a post ;-) but I did create something exceptional in that niche.

I agree that forums can be addictive. For me its not just marketing forums though, football and tech forums are also big pulls! Oh well, you only live once.

One thing you can do is to manage your time y "allowing" yourself one hour a day just to surf forums as you want, then you don't feel so guilty I find, and are more productive in the rest of the day.

Great post, I love it! I often spend time contemplating doing something, rather than just getting on and doing it, as you've so aptly illustrated! The fears and apprehension that we build in our heads are very often nothing more than imaginary ghosts that dissipate the moment we actually do the task at hand! It also illustrates what a time-sapper this forum is, and while I've learned a lot from here sometimes we just have to disconnect and be productive in our IM endeavors.

I think that multi-tabbed browsers like Firefox have given me ADD...lol. Seriously, sometimes it's like flipping channels on the television when you've got 20 or more tabs tempting you to click on them. Fortunately, one of my New Year resolutions is to use a Firefox add-on (Leech Block) that will prevent me from surfing to any and all non-productive sites that I specify. I am already seeing results, as I'm kind of banning myself from here during the day, and I was able to get over 5 hours of solid work done as a result!

That sounds like a some good work. You've done the back-ground work and researched your project. The money will surely follow.