Lost all Motivation - Need Help!

First get rid of your gaming system. I bought a PS3 a couple years ago, and have never played it, I use it as decoration for the man cave. Second, money should be more then enough to motivate you. Third, to hell with Google, there are other search engines and methods that will bring you money...

Did it happen to be COD or Halo?

I used to be ADDICTED to COD. I forced myself to sell it and that was one of the best decisions I made. It all comes down to your priorities.

No distractions. No wasted time. Just productivity.

It might be hard to get rid of ... but what is more important? Being slapped for cash or playing video games?

If you want to get motivated again quit playing games immediatelly..throw your PS3 or xbox through the window..
Make a few affiliate sales asap, and if you are in need of money, trust me..you will be motivated..as soon as you start earning more and more you will be more and more motivated..
My motivation is when I see my family happy especially knowing that I have made them happy by being able to be at home with them..

I wish you fast return to money makers

Choose a niche and compete with others. Fighting the competitors and establishing a stronghold will provide you with enough motivation. Fight competitors than to fight with game players!

I just wrote this, maybe it can help?

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Well, if you don't feel you can sell or get rid of the xbox or ps3 right now, then give it to a trusted family member and tell them to keep it away from you for the time being. Yes, you can find games on the computer to eat up your time. And, however difficult it might be to get rid of gaming in your life . . . spend some time considering the alternative - really considering the alternative . . . and decide which of those scenarios gives you the most motivation.

You have to find something that takes your attention at the same level like a video game. If you don't like doing SEO , building sites etc move on something different. I wasted many years of my life playing mmorpg's online and other crap , now I still play sometimes occasionally but tbh I'm having more fun doing SEO and making $$$ at the same time. If you can't limit yourself then get rid of your gaming sistems and start focusing on your REAL life. Cheers

Only one question for you. How much time did you invest to be a IM professional? If that is not big, then I have nothing to say you other than telling, it is not for you. If you already invested a lot of time here then I will say just keep up, there is no way other than making good money here.

Errr man up and get to work, maybe? :rolleyes:

Don't give up just something you have to take a break and reset, use this as a learning lesson of what time mis management does. Its not about video games or your love for them, its about priorities and "video games" can be replaced with another love that makes you lose your focus.

Learn what is important and manage your time better, put things in order of importance and go from there, take it day by day.

Michael
Adsense King

Unless your back is up against the wall, money is often not enough to motivate someone in to taking massive action.

I know your feeling well, i have had a 5-figure a month income taken from me overnight by a Google update. It sucks.

You need to look for reasons as to why you want to build an online income. When you find enough of those reasons, emphasize them everyday until it is ingrained in your head.

Most people do not fail because they do not know what to do, it is because they give up or don't go through the motions and do the work needed. You need to get a strong enough why, otherwise you will always fail.

My "whys" are:

- I want to earn a passive income so that i can take time off and still live a good lifestyle.
- I want to create something beautiful.
- I want to create something useful that helps other people.
- I want to get respect/recognition as the best or one of the best.
- I want to compete (Outcompete my competition).
- I just generally want to live the best life i am capable of living

A lot of these things are intrinsic and non niche or non topic motivated. I currently make high 4 figures running bingo websites (I am a 24 year old male) who has no interest in this topic. It's not sheer willpower that has allowed me to do this. Its a combination of recognizing how it will benefit my life if i go through the motions and do the work and the additional motivation that i got after i started getting results.

When you start to figure out exactly what you want to do, look at all the things you do on a daily basis and look at which ones contribute towards reaching your goal and which ones takes away from reaching that goal.

Slowly and surely change your habits so they all support you getting closer to your goal.

Hope this helped!

- Andy

Dont put all your eggs in one basket else you could end up like this over and over again.

There are more places to get traffic than Google, infact I do SEO and always advise to look at other solutions rather than Google rank.

Find the best trafficked sites in your market and find a solution to get featured on them.

Also think of the platforms you can publish content to that have massive amounts of traffic that can be leveraged.

Do all this right and Google will take notice without you doing much with your own site!

Google is NOT the internet, who cares what they might or might not do. You can drive traffic from dozens of other sources that they have no control over and never worry about their updates.

90% of my traffic comes from NON search engine / Google sources. Banner ads, forums, blogs, PPC, email list, video marketing, social media, offline ads etc. If you can build sites and know how to monetize them you don't need Google.

There's so many ways to make money w/o Google. Look on this forum I'm sure you can do it w/o them.

No offense... But it's kinda your own fault.

But in terms of motivation you have something that many others do not and that is previous success. Knowing you have done it before should be enough to do it again.

First stop beating yourself up! Hopefully you learned a valuable lesson. Find a replacement for the gaming. Exercise, talking with friends about your experience. Just move forward. Maybe a subconscious thought or other hidden agenda is lurking around your brain pan. Take the advise of others in this thread. Move forward and reclaim what it yours!

go for a walk and think about your goals. If you have an idea think about how that idea is going to make you money and just start generating ideas and plugging them in. This should get to start working. Whatever you do, always think about how your going to make money from that idea and don't stop working on it.

Get a job doing something you hate. Commit to staying there for 60 days. Then quit and come back online. You won't have any motivation problems at all.

You have to seriously understand that when you spend your time playing games you are merely wasting your time instead of doing something useful.

There are so many interesting things you could do with your precious time. Playing games is a silly occupation.

You’ll find the motivation you need when you'll understand that you must be serious and set goals, and then achieve these goals. You are not a child. Playing is for irresponsible children, who have no obligations.

Hi Alex! Boy, do I ever understand where you're coming from. When a somewhat similar

situation hit me what I did was I stepped away for a few days and just gave myself time to think.

I don't know if you are a religious man or not but I did a lot of prayer and associated with

others in and doing well in this business. I basically started back at the bare minimum and

re educated myself and tried to incorporate some things that I picked up. It took me taking baby steps but eventually I managed to get back on track.

Get close with things that do motivate you. Watch youtube videos read success quotes and

if you keep surrounding yourself with the positive watch how the negative will work its way out.

All the best

I agree, ditch the gaming system...those things can become like having a crack pipe in your house. Just get rid of it. Then, start the day out right. Motivation is easy to keep going, but hard to get started...so start the day out right. Put on some headphones and go for a jog or a walk while listening to your favorite motivational speaker. That alone will get your mind started back on the right track.

Get rid of the video games and get back to business. Start slow, then gradually work your way up to getting back full time to your internet marketing endeavors.

I truly understand your position man

Suggestion: turn off your game console and start rising again from
were you have fallen, you don't need to be motivated
because you are naturally born with talent and gifts that
are way better than your game console. Start now coz your
destiny awaits you.

Video games are indeed very addictive, if you want to grow your online business back, you must work hard and give up all the video games you have been hooked too. Time is money, so never squander your time.

Same here but still kicking. All you have to do is to relax some time and
review other WSOs so you could get ideas for your new products.

Regards,

Ross

1) Turn OFF the game.
2) Find a group to work with where you get tip, advice, inspiration, motivation, and where you have fun!
3) Do what you enjoy doing! Write about computer games, share, and make money that way

Really though, there are so many more ways to get traffic than Google!!! Work with the right people and you won't have to work that hard to stay on top of it.

Hi Legit SEO!

First of all, you already had a sweet taste of success. Reminisce and think of the things what made you successful back then. Know what inspired you in the past and what drove you to be successful. Look back at your past and respect it.

As of now, you have been an addict in computer games. My advice regarding to that is to weigh your options and know what is more important. It's just like the saying "health is only valued until sickness comes". Don't wait to be with no money before you make a move. Make a move and keep yourself inspired.

I know how you feel, I work so hard that sometimes I take a console vacation for a few days. I'm a total workaholic and for me work takes over entirely until I'm forced to take a few days off. The few days I spend playing though, helps me to chill out and relax and get my motivation up to get back into the crazy cycle again. I think a break is a good thing, but you have to control it, make your console your friend...not your enemy

It sounds like a matter of going back to what got you where you were in the first place. You know exactly what caused the problem. Now you just have to fix it.

Hi, you have already quoted the concern and the issue. You were making nice money, surely the drive to make that money again can be your New game. The drive with the New game will pay the bills. That is the satifaction.

Good Luck

Motivation is only temporary.

You can never fix the problem with motivation. You need to figure out the root of the problem. In your case it's video games. It's time to put down the games and be professional in everything you do. If you want to succeed you have to put in the work every day. No excuses.

Here's a great video from a guy many people may not like, but what he says is 100% true.


And if your the kind of guy who needs motivation to get up and do something... I always listen to this before I start my day.

Ebay your playstation and games to give you some immediate cash, then prioritize your projects based on level of difficulty and potential income. Focus on projects that are easy with good income upside.

Don't throw away your PS3! There's more to life than making money and I've had an awesome load of fun with Call of Duty!!!

There's more to life than SEO and the Warrior Forum as well. I went niche site crazy for two years, when really I should probably have just focused on my career as a C#/SQL guy. Anyone with a SKILL is usually far better off working at this than messing around with SEO.

As a guy with 2 successful internet ventures (software, then niche sites) I'll also say that its essential to take time out - new business ideas do take a while to come to you, but when you need them most, you'll think of them.

If you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful. - Eric Thomas

How bad do you want to succeed, OP? Is playing video games more important than your future and your dreams in life?

I don´t know anything about video games, but can´t you make screencast videos of your games? Game videos seem to be quite popular on YouTube. Doing nothing else than IM also has it´s disadvantages. If you do nothing else you don´t know anything else and cannot make any websites or videos about something where you are an expert in.

Same idea here... have you seen this?
Are You Taking Advantage of Your Product's Funnel Path? - Ian Fernando it will give you ideas on funnels

Good luck man

kill your game system

no point playing game.
what will you get when you reach top rank or complete the game.
you've got tons of hours gone wasted.
tune back your mind and earn the money to buy stuff for your family.

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@ OP - I used to be heavily into gaming ... in fact I was rank 1 in 2's and 3's in WoW while I was playing. The best thing I ever did was uninstall the game and quite forever. Succeeding in a video game is a false sense of accomplishment ... being the number one player out of thousands and thousands still to this day doesn't mean jack to me because it was in a virtual world that doesn't exist. I received no real life benefits out of it. Do yourself a favor and give up gaming. Fall in love with being productive with your life. Set real life goals and accomplish them. The rewards are much more fulfilling then any video game can ever offer you. Above all of that, don't ever give up because that's what losers do! Life is about how much you can take and keep going ...... keep your chin up!

1) Set goals.
2) Do more things you are proud of doing.
(Anything legal to relax someis okay - in moderation.)
3) Don't be set back by Google alone. Move from SEO
guy to traffic guy. So much broader of a field to play in.
4) Set a path for you to do more and more of the business things
you enjoy and less of the things you do not enjoy. Outsource and delegate.
Dan

OK, I want you to win. Hard work is the key to success. Let us outline a few steps for you.

Get a twitter account, if you do not already have one. Post what you are working on. Make sure to do items on you to do list in order and do not skip any. Keep fighting on. Create a blog on WF, it is free and tell us what you are doing each day so we can help you more.

Often, I will hit a jam. Friends will tell me how to get out. Prioritize each task in order of its importance so all the major ones get done in a timely manner.

TASK 1 - generate more revenue.
This is done by creating more product web pages. If you are not already an amazon affiliate - become one. Like this is a major source of revenue. Then driving traffic to them via {social, youtube, craigslist, blogs, ads, etc}.

TASK 2 - eliminate distractions.
Sell your old junk on ebay - another post already suggested this one.

TASK 3 - find your purpose
Hard to motivate yourself if there is no purpose. People get up early in the morning. They work real hard, but often feel empty at their very core. Why do you get up. What is your reason.

Why don't you apply for Job Of Beta Tester in Gamming ?

This is a great post - I can relate to it so much. I used to be just like you Alex. I used to play Xbox until 3 a.m. every single night, and when I started paying more attention to my business, my Xbox time reduced...and I was seeing a clear correlation between the two. As mentioned above, the money alone should be enough of a driving factor for you - but it won't happen until you're ready. Finish the games, bring closure to these and then don't start another game. Focus on business!! Good luck.

Hey Alex,

I was once big into SEO for websites as well and then once the Panda updates rolled out and I noticed my sites drop I knew I had to do something different.

What I found was that with YouTube marketing you can continue making money off those profitable keywords you once targeted via website SEO.

When you optimize a YouTube channel like you would optimize a sniper site (or any kind of website that targets a keyword phrase) you can get that ranked similarly and start bringing in traffic to you video.

You will want to backlink that video like you would a website, but you don't have to worry about unnatural link building penalties like you would a site.

Include your link below the video and mention your link in the video so that the viewer knows where to go to get that product or opt-in (so you get paid).

This is what saved my affiliate business. It takes a little time to get familiar with but if you already had an SEO background it shouldn't be a problem for you. And once you get it down, it is very rewarding!

I hope this helps,

Paul

Thanks for sharing this, I know that most IM's go through peaks and troughs and at the moment you're in a trough. However you will get out of this, but you need a plan. Focus on what you do day to day, i.e. Blogging for links, creating article content etc. Then set yourself a daily goal. Over time you'll still hit your objectives but it won't feel like such a mountain to climb. All the best, I'm sure you'll be great - let's get you back to that £3k a month!

Quit playing your game all together - then think what are your goals in life?

Buy a new car? take vacations whenever you want? Never work a 9-5 job again?... After you realize what making money online can do for you - that should more then enough motivation

Also for traffic - DO NOT rely on Google. As you can plainly see your always one update away from your business crashing down.

Find FREE methods. This way when the big might Google releases another update - you can still go on without taking such a severe cut in your pay.

First of all, sell the games or at least get them out of the area you use for work. Distractions never lead to success, just wasted time (I love wasting time, but there's a time and place).

Second, concentrate on using traffic methods to build traffic rather than just SEO. Many use article syndication, guest blogging, forum marketing, solo ads and many other strategies to get traffic. Don't put all your eggs in the Google basket.

Third, the fire comes from a desire to live a life uncommon. In other words, I love my freedom more than money, but the money buys my way out of working for someone else. That's all the motivation I need.

Benjamin Ehinger

Great tips in here.

Get out and re-energize your battery, get outdoor and do what you love doing. That helps me stay motivated and relaxed no matter what.

Hahah man, that's crazy. I haven't even played Assassin Creed 3 yet. You just need keep building the sites or whatever you do. Then, play video games on Sunday. Do it like Jesus man, he worked 6 out of the 7 days, and just relax on Sunday. Work hard, play harder. Wake up late at night every day, just do it.

I apologize in advance for my rude question, but how old are you?

I don't know, but lately here I know when I am wasting time now. You have an internal meter stop pretending you don't hear it. When the alarm bell goes off just put the game down and get back to work. nuff said.

Sell the games console. Get yourself a longterm business plan together with goals as you go along. Reward yourself with something everytime you hit a goal, like a new TV, Golf Clubs, Holiday or whatever. Create a wide variety of income streams and don't base your business just on Google's traffic.

wow, that is quite a story

I agree, the amount of times I have been playing something on the Xbox thinking at the same about how much time I'm wasting is crazy.

I found it really comes down to seriously treating this not like a cash making hobby but as a real day job type of business, after all you can't play games in a 9-5, self discipline and remembering ultimately why you are creating these sites should help.

As for google updates are inevitable, google as a company are always going to push updates (improvements as they will call them) that will make life a little harder for us as marketers, but who said it was supposed to be easy, this is not an easy business it takes hard work and dedication but the rewards make it so worth it, so screw google find another method or tweak your current one to make it relevant again, not everyone has the knack for this business, if your one of the lucky few who do then nurture it and it will take care of you for years to come.

Chris

Take your gaming console outside and smash it with a sledgehammer. Be sure to video the whole thing.

Then once you're done, upload it to Youtube and share it here.

Once we see that you're serious about helping yourself, THEN we will help you.

Deal?