what you have to ask yourself is this. Is what you are currently doing working?

If the answer is yes, then great, I’m pleased for you. The main thing is not to sit back and relax. Constantly develop your business and yourself. Always look for new ideas and new businesses and spread your risk. Businesses can change overnight. laws can change overnight. What is profitable today will not necessarily be profitable tomorrow.

If you’re not making money then you need to do something differently. I’m not trying to talk down to you here. I think you already know that if you sit on your backside and do nothing, nothing will change. I used to dream a lot. I always thought I was a nice guy so in my mind somebody would come along and offer me a fantastic opportunity.

guess what, it didn’t happen and I don’t think it’s going to happen to you. I think people will come along and offer you fantastic opportunities if you get out there and make things happen for yourself first. And what that means is doing something. Why not start a blog. Write about something you love or else go to ebay.com and check out what’s hot. Pick one of the niche’s you like or are interested in and start writing about it.

Go over and sign up to clickbank.com and then add one of the products to your site. you’re going to promote this product through your blog and you’ll get affiliate commissions every time someone buys off your site.

Is it going to make you rich overnight. No, of course not, but it will get you started. You can then look to add new products and write about them or else start a second and a third blog and add products to those blogs.

A blog will take very little time to set up. This blog is set up using wordpress. It’s simple and it works.  If writing is not your strong point, don’t worry. Just write like you’d talk to your best friend about something you’re excited about.

I get excited about business because I can see opportunities round every corner, with people I meet every day. And the more I do, the more people I come across and the more opportunities come my way.

Do I still buy courses and e books and go to seminars. Absolutely. It is part of my continuing education. But one thing I don’t do is buy every new product out there. I stick to my area and build up my knowledge in my area. I see a lot of people who buy an internet marketing course today, then a forex trading course tomorrow and a course on e bay the next day. I don’t really think that will work. Do you? You need to sit down and carefully think about what you like doing. Once you’ve chosen something to do stick with it. I hear so many people say “‘I’ll give it a go” but they don’t really mean it. Make a plan and put that plan into action. You can make adjustments along the way, like a ships captain but ultimately the captain knows his destination and nothing will divert him from his goal.  Try being like a ship’s captain. Choose your destination and then start working towards it

until next time

Tim Wilde

Getting started on anything is most peoples big problem.

You have great intentions to start a new business. You buy a course or e book as it often promises untold wealth in 5 minutes. You open it and then a sudden wave of fatigue overcomes you and you are forced to retire to the sofa for a rest, maybe watch some tv. Or maybe the phone rings and a friend invites you out to go shopping, play some golf. Or the kids need to be taken to ballet or football or whatever.

We’ve all done it. Made a million and one excuses as to why we can’t start our exciting new project now but we will definitely, almost certainly start tomorrow or maybe the next day because you’re having friends over or something else.

I do it all the time, even now. I can come up with a million and one excuses not to do something. I have, however, come up with a few ways of overcoming my inertia and getting things done. Trust me, I still struggle with focus. The difference is now I don’t beat myself up over it.

when I do manage to do things I feel really good about myself and this motivates me to do more. What’s the key? I believe it is giving yourself small tasks rather than one big task that will always prove too daunting and easy to put off.

If you’ve just bought a new course or  a book that could help you succeed, start off small. commit to reading 5 pages before you go to sleep or first thing you get up in the morning. Set your alarm just 15 minutes earlier and you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish.

More importantly because you’ll feel good about yourself i think you’ll find that you want to do more. So break any job down into smaller tasks and you’ll find it doesn’t look so daunting after all. So here is a simple 3 step plan:

1.Work out how much time per day you can spare and at what time of the day and how may days per week. Be realistic. Give yourself some days off.

2.Stick to the days and the time. On Day 1 write out two plans. First plan is the big picture plan with the project goal. Then prepare a second plan. This is the time to break down your task into more manageable pieces. For example days, 1,2,3 and 4 could be research or week 1 could be research. week 2 could be e mailing people who can help you, sketching out a design for your website, requesting financial information on a website you are thinking of buying etc. Hopefully you get the idea that you don’t need to do everything in one day.

3.Review your progress at regular intervals. if you fall off the wagon so to speak, don’t worry. Get back on! Perhaps you committed to doing too much. If you committed to doing an hour a day maybe scale that back to half an hour a day. Remember this is a work in progress. You will constantly have to adapt and change but the important thing is to keep the tasks small and work on your project regularly. do this and you’ll be amazed at what you can achieve.

Until next time

Tim Wilde