Don't Work Until You're Seventy!

I believe that we all have dreams. I know I do. I am still working a JOB, but am closer to becoming full time in Internet marketing. How about you? Are you pursuing your dreams?

We baby boomers are really taken advantage of. We have been brainwashed into believing that there is no other way but to work work work until we are seventy or more!! Well it doesn’t have to be that way, I promise.

Yes, we must learn to think outside the box. And that is more difficult than you may think at times. Why? Because of fear. Oh my, what if I fail? or What if I am not good enough? or What if I look silly? or What will my friends think?

Well don’t tell them, and Of course you are good enough, and you will fail, at least in the beginning. There is a learning curve, which is only reasonable.

I have been a nurse for nearly 40 years. You bet I was afraid. I didn’t want to feel stupid. I was way outside my comfort zone. But you know what I am pretty tired of the same old thing. I am getting older now and really need to slow down physically, and
my brain is thriving on Internet marketing. I love it!!

I want you to love it too. There is no reason not to.  Don’t give up. Keep working at it.

Find someone that is already doing it right. Is already successful, and genuinely seems interested in your success and is willing to help. Then copy what they do. It really is a simple formula. I used to use it in nursing. You’ve heard of mentoring. I have mentored so many people I can’t count. But I also had the most terrific mentors along the way.

I want you to be successful in Internet marketing and quit your JOB, maybe in a few months or maybe a couple years. But when you are ready, and you have found your success you will do it. Me too

Today I a for your list, as a giveaway from your site or to attract subscribers. You can even sell it if you like. However you must not change it in anyway.

It is: How To Break Into The ‘How To Make Money Online’ Niche By Sara Brown (who is, BTW, one of my mentors)

http://www.jskmarketing.com/howtomakemoneyonline.pdf

It is amazing what you will learn in this book. The main thing is not to be intimidated and to not listen to all those people, gurus, that try to convince you can not do something. Well you can and this great e book will tell you how.

http://www.jskmarketing.com/howtomakemoneyonline.pdf

Also take a look at the other e book offered inside this

e book. It is one of the books that have most heavily influenced my decision to replace my income with Internet marketing and even more!

It is called ‘License to Quit’ by Sara Brown, You must check it out. It is worth your time. You won’t regret it. I didn’t.

http://www.jskmarketing.com/howtomakemoneyonline.pdf

Well until next time.

Get to marketing!!

Susan

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It’s really rather remarkable what kind of distractions can get in the way of your focus. You sit down to your computer and you have planned several hours of specific tasks you want to complete toward your internet business. You even have a list!

Then you open your email. Wow, you say, I have 79 new e-mails. Yikes. Of course, you did just join that latest giveaway and they had some great free downloads and all you had to do was give them your email address. That’s pretty simple.

So now you are on their lists. And they want you to buy something… anything!  The next greatest and latest, the best must have thing for your new internet business. Well, what are you to do? What if they are right? What if some of the stuff they are selling really would help you in some endeavor you are aspiring to? What if it might save you some time or effort? What if it really would let you become successful? Afterall, you do have a limited budget for growing your business.

So…you start opening and reading and clicking…

what do you mean 4 hours have passed!! I must get dinner, the kids will be home from school, the dog needs to be let out.

How could this have happened. I had a list!

Sound familiar. Well it certainly does to me. This has happened to me over and over. I love those giveaways and I have been around long enough to have gotten on a few lists that keep me informed of the next one coming. It’s free! You have to check it out.

Or do you?

Here is my take on this. There are just a few things you must do to make money on line.

• You need a product, be it yours, an affiliate’s or google’s (adsense)
• You need a way of contacting people, be it a blog, a website, email campaigns
• you need people to sell it to

These are the essentials, albeit extremely oversimplified.

So you know you have an idea of what you need to to do to accomplish this, remember you had a list, but distractions are killing your efforts. Day after Day, and week after week and soon month after month of your precious time away from diner, the kids and the dog keep slipping away and you are no closer to your dream of working from home.

What can you do?

Well there is something you can do. It took awhile, but I finally learned this and it has made a huge difference in my online life.

You must be aware you are being distracted!

That’s it! That’s the big secret! All the internet gurus know this secret, but they will not necessarily share it with you. They figure you’ll probably figure it out but until then they will continue to be part of the distraction.

So are you going to ignore your email. Tape it shut with duct tape so it can’t get you again. No, of course not. But…

Have a plan…a little better than a list. Here’s what I do.

1. I plan my time to do my online work every week just like a real work schedule.
2. I share this plan with my family. I, of course, made the plan with home life in mind so that no one is neglecte, not even the dog,  and everyone in the family can help me be successful by respecting the plan.
3. When I sit down to my block of time to work online, I have a designated 30-45 min of time to look at email. Now this means peruse. If you have 79 new emails. YOU MUST NOT LOOK AT ALL 79! You are going to have to good at glancing through them, prioritizing them and looking at the ones you feel are really important or interesting. You can always come back to this later and continue to clean it up while you are watching TV with the family with your laptop in use.
4. Here is where you list comes in. Nothing feels as good as being able to check things off your list. Let me repeat that. Nothing feels as good as being able to check things off your list. You feel like you are really internet marketing. You feel like this really is important and you are doing something toward your freedom from the JOB. You are really working from home. IT IS GREAT! Try it!
5. Work your allotted time for the day. Check off a thing or two from your list. Stand up feel proud and go cook dinner and oh, let the dog out.

Feel really good about yourself. You did it! You worked at your internet marketing business. You know you can’t help but be successful if you can behave as a professional and take your work seriously.

Give this a real concerted effort. You may not be perfect at it for awhile. It is really hard to get away from the email and distractions and it takes a minute for the family to fall inline. But it will happen. I promise. It did for me. It will for you.

Next time we’ll talk a bit about that next great thing, that must have something or other. Until then, please be good to yourself and keep working to quit your JOB.

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