How to focus

Focus.

It sometimes seems that all of us suffer from an attention deficit. Working alone makes it easy to let ones mind wander, there is no one close by to keep your nose to the grindstone so to speak. Working from home you have to multi task and it is so very easy to use that as an excuse to wander off track. A little bit of "research" here, checking that out there, and before you know it you are so far off course that you are totally lost.

How to avoid that trap? Very good question, especially if you are new to this online stuff. Many of us are starting from very close to ground zero and are as lost as we have ever been. One of the biggest problems is impatience. We want to be profitable now and I mean now. It is very easy to get into the situation where you need some funds now or yesterday.

So we "research" and sign up for the latest and greatest. If you are lucky you do not have any charges on your credit card. But your inbox is inundated with newsletters. Breathless hectoring newsletters. How anyone expects you take notice of some of them is beyond belief. Even if you read fast a couple of minutes on each can easily waste an hour or more.

What is the answer? I wish I knew. I do have some ideas. Take a large grain of salt. A saltshaker full in fact. Take your time to learn some of the ropes.
There is no free lunch in this business or any other and dues have to be paid. The motto of Ken Evoy's Site Build It is slow and steady wins the race. That company’s motto is the tortoise.

Try and work with some one. At the very least strike a relationship with a companion. Even if you are both novices you can give each other a reality check.

There are many mentoring programs out there. Most are not cheap and all very difficult to assess their competence. I have one that calls me on a regular basis
but I have not found a way to check them out.

One I did try was about $4000 and did tell me a thing or two, but was it worth it? I don't think so. The one on one was only for half an hour for six weeks. Just enough time to get comfortable with the mentor and have some idea of direction.

I attended an "Internet Marking Center" seminar the other weekend. It was a sales pitch but not obnoxiously so. I learnt a lot and do plan on working with them in the future. I think you do need to have some basic knowledge of this business to learn from a mentoring set up. "Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet"

What has this do with focus? Working with another will help you stay on course.
Mark Joyner's " Simpleology course is a very simple way to clear the mind and focus on the essentials. He is also a very prolific author here, this one is free.

Set you target, Aim at it, keep you eye on it and follow through. No gazing out of the window dreaming.

Rob

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