When it comes to pushing on to make money it helps a lot to be motivated. You’d think that just being able to make money is motivation enough, but not always.
To make money you need to be motivated to make money, so its no good sitting there thinking about how you’re going to make money of you’re not actually revved up to work towards that goal. Of course, when you’re in the online Internet Marketing business then you should already have some residual income streams in place to keep the money flowing into your bank account and not out of it. But you still have to keep working on promotion to keep the traffic flowing to your sites and blogs so that you can make sales of your products and affiliate stuff.
So when you’re feeling a little lacklustre, take a deep breath, maybe make yourself another cup of coffee or tea or better, green tea and tell yourself that you want to make money, you like to make money and therefore you will make money starting right now!
Now get back to work!
Terry Didcott
Make Money
Ok, stop trying to make money for a few minutes! Take a break and regroup your resources. Go have a cup of whatever caffeine-laden brew you like to drink and when you come back we’ll have a quiet moment to ponder the benefits of self-motivation.
Ok, you’re back. Good.
A vitally important part of working for yourself, especially when it’s only you making yourself soldier on, is to stay focused on what you are trying to achieve and above all to stay motivated to achieve it. When it comes to spending endless hours sitting in front of the screen navigating here, there and everywhere through the endless winding maze of cyberspace, Complacency is bound to enter that world. It’s brother, Procrastination is not far behind, closely followed by cousin Diversion!
Once cousin Diversion has taken over, you are in for a frightening time lapse. Once you’ve managed to drag yourself out of that game, or video or whatever it is that Diversion has led you to, you’ll look at your watch and do a double-take in disbelief… Yep, a goodly chunk of your working day has vanished into the void and you are behind with your schedule.
The way to stop that happening is brutal, but necessary. You have to remove every single game from your computer or laptop (whichever you use for your business). Then you have to remove every video playing media and with it all those video clips you’ve been storing up. Hate to say it, but all the music MP3s have to go too.
After you have butchered your PC, have another look around to see if there is anything else that is likely to distract you from your work. I know the very browser you need to do your job is a veritable vipers nest of online games and YouTube vids, but you have to do the best you can and at least narrow it down to a few manageable items. You could also go through your bookmarks and delete any that link to game sites.
If you have kids whose lives revolve around exactly those links etc, then you’ll be doing them a service by forcing them outside into the sunshine to play (remember what that is?) with their friends (if they’re not also symbiotically enjoined with their laptops…
Now by completing that arduous task, two benefits will have been gained for the effort.
- You will be less likely to be distracted from your work
- Your computer will undoubtedly run faster as a result of freeing up all that space!
Now you can get back to the process of how to make money with your online business… refreshed, less frustrated by the increased speed of your now uncluttered hard drive, feeling more positive in yourself because you know you will work harder without those distractions and motivated more than ever to achieve the goals you have set out for yourself!
Until next time…
Terry Didcott
MAKE MONEY
