Women 'in denial' .....just like some IM'ers

Hi Gary

I always apply the 24 hour rule - whether its a $7 purchase or a $1997 purchase.

I sit on my credit card for 24 hours and then come back - if I still want it and think it will benefit me, I buy it.

I also pick up every free report I find.

I then have a series of files on my desktop.

Unread, Part Read, Finished and PLR. This helps me keep track of the information I have used, and also helps me keep resources I can give to my list in the future!

We are all students - so the more information we can take in. the better!

Regards

Dave

If you are fairly new to the internet business you might be apt jump around a little because you are learning new things that are available that you didn't know existed. Lots of people would like to do something on the internet but they don't know where to start because they have no idea what people are looking for, as they learn they try new things. As far as the skinny clothes, that is simply part of our dream world. I have seen many men with a lot of tools in the shed have never been used.

Course we do, because we intend to slim into them asap. (Well that's what we tell ourselves)

lol you obviously don't know women very well

Kim

Dave, I also have a 24 hour rule with pretty much no exceptions. I think over everything before I buy it no matter how expensive it is. So I guess "buy now" copy doesn't work on me and I never go for OTOs.

I recall Alex Mandossian some while back saying that he never buys any marketing product unless he can put it to use immediately for what he's working on right now.

Since hearing that, I've tried (sometimes successfully) to follow that rule. When I do, it helps me stay on focus and out of the pogo stick business model.

Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles

Ah, yes. Women... Clothing... Springtime...

Did you say something about IM? I wasn't listening. I was thinking about women.

I think I've discovered why I lack focus.

You're absolutely right about sticking with just one plan. What's that old saying? "Jack of all trades and master of none." We need to concentrate on one thing and master it before we move on to anything else.

On the subject of women and clothes...How can I convince my wife that it's unreasonable that she has 2 and a half closets while I'm stuck with just half of one?

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Just to be fair .... being in denial over weight is not exclusive to women.

People are looking for the magic bullet.

That's all it is.

Whether the magic bullet is buying new clothing
in the hope it will be the thing that finally makes
them put in the effort to drop some pounds...

Or buying the latest and greatest IM product
because it promises to make them money even
faster than whatever else they were thinking
about working on...

A lot of people in the IM niche pin all their hopes
on their very next product purchase... because
doing that is easier than admitting they're never
really going to get started with anything...

So it's always "the next one will help, the next
on will help"

...ad infinitum.

Sad but true.

-David Raybould

Hi Gary,

This was an excellent post. I use to be one of those IM'er's! You are exactly right without a business plan you are setting yourself up for failure. I love the quote: "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail."

For me it was matter of closing my mind off to all the "hype" and make a decision about what path I was going to take with my business & then stick with that plan no matter what!

It's not easy when you have eveyone sending you emails daily saying this is the next hot product because you're on all the lists. Call me gullable or they're all writing excellent copy take your pick.

You get there because you're on everyone's email list and because you attempting to learn all you can about the business (instantly) which is silly, because nothing good happens over night.

I heard Zig Ziglar tell a story of an overnight success. Someone in the audience said "WOW you became successful overnight", Zig's response was "yes it only took me twenty years to get here".

In the beginning you don't know who to listen to. So you go here and do a little of this & then you go there and do a little of that.

What happens you never get any momentum going because you are constantly going from one stragedy to another and never allowing any of it to work.

So I've been there and did just that and now finally I've arrived to the place where I'm "FOCUSED" and I know that it's just a matter of time before I get to where I want to be with my business because I am following a plan.

Thanks guys here at the forum for being there!

--Jackie

You hit the nail on the head!

Before I joined this forum, I
lurked around to figure out
exactly what I wanted to do.

Then I got the necessary
training in order to be the best
I could be.

No regrets. No looking back.

I decided early on that I wouldn't
try to tackle everything at once.

Good advice here!

This could be those IM'ers is having information overload. They don't want to miss a single new information or product release in the market till they don't know which what they should consider first.