Attention All Warriors - I have a problem, and chances are many of you are on the same boat!

Hi,

My name is Ron, and I am an addict.

Nope, not a drug addict, an alcohol addict.

I am actually physically very healthy and have a healthy relation with people around me.

I even am about to embark in some very lucrative, green, fun offline projects!

And funny, in life I manage to break many addictions that are actually be very hard to break:

-Food
-Sex
-Constant entertainment
-The gods know what other addiction.

But NOTHING beats this addiction: Internet Marketing. I have a feeling that it is worse than gambling (not that I ever was a big gambler).


How did I come to this realization?

After a solid 30 minutes of deep meditation, I realized how my entire life has resolved around internet marketing over the past year and that it was just eating us so much of my time, energy and thoughts!

I started online marketing 6 years ago, and last year, I broke that addiction for a solid 6 months, before relapsing again.

I go to bed with my laptop next to me. I wake up in the morning with one goal, check what's happening online. I spend half my day online, trying to figure all of this out!

Even as I was about to start writing on this thread, I got distracted by a warrior ad, an email from Ryan Deiss, a tweet on getting more traffic from facebook. Sounds familiar?


I learned and tried:

-SEO (White had and bl@$k hat)
-PPC
-Banner Ads
-Social media (Facebook AND Twitter)
-Website flipping (new one to the list)
-All types of list building
-Copywriting (to a certain extent)
-...

Yes, we are thought to focus. But I did focus for quite some time and got bored then distracted and found something nicer to focus at. And so on.

I learned to outsource. Saved me a lot of time, but still not seeing the end of the tunnel.


Then I thought to myself, why on earth am I putting myself through this?

Fine, I learned so much, and I definitely know more than most people I meet about online marketing. And all of these tools do have value online and offline as well.

But it still takes so much of my time, and money, and energy.

Yes, IM has its advantages (Automation, easy monitoring, work from anywhere in the world...) - ONCE you can let it run on its own and peak at it once in a while.

But man, I miss spending days without worrying or thinking about it. I miss not being addicted to it.

So I am making a commitment right here. "I will break from this addiction once and for all, even if it means dropping it completely. If I do succeed, good, but as long as it doesn't eat my life away. Life is meant to be spent outdoors, in nature, with loved ones (or alone as well) and not in front of a computer screen "

There, I've said it. I hope that many of you warriors never fall into this trap, and if you do, to carefully come out of it and transform this addiction to something much more fulfilling.

Cheers!