>> This
is only my second letter in seven or eight weeks. Sorry
about that, but at first I had no Internet connection
when things went wrong with my satellite service (I'm
now on wireless broadband)
and then I developed a quite serious illness which I'm
slowly getting over.
If you want to, you can read more on my forum I reckon
you should go there anyway, it's a great community.
Incidentally the forum posts are being indexed by
Google, which makes it a good place to get links to your
websites - as long as you've got something useful/interesting
to say that is :)
Ok, I'll keep this relatively short because I'm still
not feeling too good. But I hope that normal "service"
has now resumed.
1. Concentrate on what's important...
First of all, it looks like I'm missed seeing a lot of
new products since I've been offline.
When I visited my forum I saw a number of programs/software
being talked about that I'd never even heard of.
And, do you know what? I didn't really care that I'd
missed the products being announced.
There's probably nothing wrong with them. They're most
likely useful. They're probably worth investigating.
But... remember this.
It's IMPORTANT to not get distracted with new things all
the time. You could spend all your limited web time
learning how to use
new tools, when really you should be focusing on
improving your sites and your skills and your own
business.
I remember David Garfinkel and Mark Joyner saying to me
in Vegas that I should focus on what I'm good at (in my
case writing).
And that's what you should be doing too.
Play to your strengths.
Work out what you're good at/what your main interests
are and give them most of your attention and time.
Don't get sidetracked by everything new that comes along.
Write down your "online business" plan, even if it's
only on one piece of paper. And work out the steps you
need to take to achieve success with it. Doing this will
help you focus on what matters, and it will clear your
head so that you know where you should be spending your
time.
Once you've mapped out your action steps you need to
follow them. Don't make a plan and then not stick to it.
Don't let anyone or
anything put you off. Go for it.
Don't sign up for every crappy new scheme that comes
along. Don't buy every new piece of software or every
ebook.
Do what works for YOU and use the tools that works for
YOU.
And just go for it.
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