Focus and Staying Focused

How many emails do we receive, that we just delete without even reading? If you are like me, you pick the ones from people you know and the ones you will obviously benefit from.

I just read an email from Daniel and Marc from PLR Pro. It was titled ‘Focus, what you should do and when.’ I wanted to share this with you because I know it happens to everyone at some time or other, and for some it might be just what they need to read to get back on track.

‘Hi Susan,
Ever get that feeling that you just have too much on your plate?
Or that you seem really busy, but at the end of the day look back and go “what did I just do all day?”

Chances are you answered yes to either or both those questions, and that’s fine, because you’re not the only one, and if you’ve been honest with yourself, and accepted that this is the truth, then you can move on and begin to work towards a focused life.

What is a focused life?

A focused life simply means someone who exerts their entire will and being into a single, purposeful activity until that activity is mastered.

This is what creates champions; of industry, of sport, of religion.

Let me give you an online analogy…

You buy a book that teaches you about Adwords, and directing traffic to affiliate links, and it sounds awesome, you do that for 30 days, start to get a little results but it isn’t producing what ‘they’ told you it would.

Then all of a sudden a new course comes out teaching you about how to build “flawless Adsense and affiliate sites” over and over again to produce a virtual real estate empire! So you go hard at that for 30 days and just as you start to get your first few clicks in Adsense, you think to yourself, this is getting a little boring, I have to do the same thing over again, I hate writing articles.

Then a new method called ‘arbitrage’ comes out where everyone is making… and on it goes, jumping from one thing to the next.

What happens is that in 12 months time, you burn out, and you tell all your friends how it’s impossible to make money on the internet, how do you know? You tried it all!

You know, everyone of those methods probably WOULD work if you stuck at it for 6-12 months and did JUST THAT ONE SYSTEM.

This is modern human nature, we live in a world of instant gratification, we don’t have to walk 30 miles to get our food, we go to the supermarket that is 5 minutes away, spend an hour there, get all our food shopping for 2 weeks, and still complain it takes too long!

The problem with sticking to just one thing is, just how do you know which one thing truly does work?

As much as I hate to say it, there is a lot of crap out there, when we buy our food, we don’t need to worry about whether it will be off, poisoned, contain something it’s not, there are regulations in place to ensure it’s safe to eat.

When it comes to success, there is no regulatory body that says “Well, these methods work, but these don’t, so no one is going to know about the bad ones, and everyone can use the good ones.”

So what this means is that out of the people who have the focus to stay with a system, many of them will fail because they’re sticking with a sinking ship. And the only way to know which ship is going to sink, and which isn’t, is knowledge.

Focus really is 2 parts, being able to cut the crap, and deduce what is good, and what isn’t, and then choosing a single method to stay with until it works. Once you have mastered that first method, then, and only then should you consider or think about moving onto the next.

Wealth and Abundance,

Daniel Turner & Marc Lindsay’

IM Alliance, PO Box 4973, Robina Town Centre, QLD 4230, AUSTRALIA

Goal Setting and Focusing On Your Goals

Goal setting, focusing, dream building.

This is the time of year when many posts are written around Christmas and the new year. Most people have their new years resolution formulating in their mind. It might be giving up smoking, or losing weight or saving for a holiday. Unfortunately this is quite often the only time that some people set goals.

Setting goals, dream building (oh, did that make some of you cringe? I cringed once or twice when I heard that term!) future planning, it all means the same. Written down goals is what all high achievers do, yet for some unknown reason we mere mortals feel it is not necessary. Do we feel that concreting them on paper we have to follow through, otherwise we have failed? Do we fear the commitment?

It is at this point we have to decide how serious we are - is it just an idle wish or is it truly a goal? If we are serious about achieving our desires we must be definite in both intent and application. This must start with a clearly defined and written goal. This will provide the target for our subconscious mind to assist us in achieving our goal.

I’m sure most people have seen ‘The Secret’ by now and heard all about the Law Of Attraction. I have some friends who made me watch it (and I’m glad I did) but they are the ones who think it is trite now. It saddens me when it is the very same people who keep doing what they are doing and achieving the same result, but expecting a different one.

So the new year is approaching! Internet Marketing is going to be astronomical. The business opportunities at our fingertips never ceases to amaze me. Every page we turn on the web is yet another money making extravaganza. Why don’t we all write down just how much of it we want, and when! Start setting goals, the how will follow. . .

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