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Making Money Online and Your First Goal
Jul 8th
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am going to share with you, my faithful readers, a great goal to consider: How about setting a goal to make $250 dollars per month from your online business? How does that goal sound? Does it sound small? I hope so – I want it to sound small and achievable – doable, and yet there is a great reason why to choose this goal for your Internet business.
(Now, I know that many of my readers are not based in the United States and $250 USA dollars may not have any meaning for you. Let me try to find kind of a way to translate this into virtually any kind of money: In the USA, the minimum wage for most workers is around $7.00 per hour. At $7.00 per hour, $250 dollars equals about 36 hours of work – nearly a full work-week of 40 hours here. $7.00 per hour is the kind of wage that most people right out of high school will probably start at – without any particular speciality skills. So for you, whatever someone working an entry level job for 36 hours can expect to earn – that should be your initial monthly monetary goal. Does that make sense?)
Now, why $250 dollars per month? In study after study of families and individuals in the United States that end up declaring bankruptcy or become financially insolvent, the amount that they are short each and every month that finally builds and destroys their finances and credit, is around $250 per month. Interesting huh? For the vast majority of people, if they had a consistent additional $250 dollars per month of income, they could stay afloat financially. That is a great goal and a great starting place!
Now I know that the Internet is full of get rich quick schemes and some of these might even be real – let me repeat the might. Most of them are not real or they are certainly not sustainable. What I want you to consider is getting to a real and consistent and sustainable additional $250 per month from your Internet business. (If you are already way past this amount, and I know that some of you are, then consider what I talk about here from the standpoint of making your income more consistent and more sustainable. From past experience income that rapidly builds without a solid foundation can also rapidly decrease and that is no fun!)
There is another great reason to choose $250 dollars per month (or your local equivalent) from your online business as a great starting place. Once you are making a consistent $250 per month, you will have already built a great foundation that will let you move up rapidly and consistently from there. How long will this take? Come back next time and we’ll talk about that.
By the way, I have also set this goal for myself. Although I already make much more than this amount from my blog – in terms of getting hired to speak and coach, I do not currently make any income from my blog from product sales – so that is my initial goal – to make a consistent $250 each and every month from product sales and together, we will go over every step to make this happen.
Till next time…Jack
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” ~John Quincy Adams
Have you come on board?
Jun 15th
“Suddenly, it seems as though all the world’s a-twitter.” ~ Newsweek
Okay, I’ll admit it. I was skeptical and I should have started sooner. I am by nature a early adopter of new technology, but in the case of Twitter, I just did not see how I could fit one more thing into my schedule. And for Twitter, I needed to fit a bunch of little things into my daily schedule and what was it going to do for me? It turns out that it could do a great deal. Within less than 3 days of joining Twitter and making just a few entries, I got hired for a speaking gig directly as a result of Twitter. Wow! Double Wow!
So, now I am a believer and if you are not already using Twitter, and your business has some internet component, then it is time for you to become a believer as well. I’m not going to go into the nuts and bolts of how to use Twitter – I’m just learning myself and I know there are many much more qualified people out there writing great information. Just go look for them. I will give you just a few links:
You can sign up for your own free Twitter account here.
You can follow me here as I learn about Twitter and grow my coaching and writing business.
You can follow Biz Stone, one of the cofounders of Twitter here.
That’s it for this blog entry. I have tons of great writing to get done this week. Very exciting!
Till next time…Jack
“Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app.” ~ TIME Magazine
What Do You Do When You Don’t Succeed?
Jun 4th
“Fall seven times, stand up eight”. ~Japanese Proverb
Last time I started to talk about what I do when I have set a goal – a result with a deadline – and I fail to achieve it. I might have achieved part of the goal – within the time that I had allocated, or perhaps I didn’t achieve any of the goal. Either way, what I do next is critical.
I’m going to start first by talking about what I don’t do.
- I don’t beat myself up.
- I don’t tell myself that I’m a failure.
- I don’t make myself feel terrible.
- I don’t make excuses (although I do look for reasons and patterns).
- I don’t quit.
- I don’t blame anyone else (even if they were involved).
All of these items involve negative motivation and although I recognize and use the power of negative motivation – moving away from something that you don’t want, I don’t start here when I am looking at goals that I failed to achieve in the time that I had given them to be achieved.
So what do I do and what do I coach my clients to do? Come back next time and we will start to give you a nice clean and highly effective pattern to model. Bye the way, how many of you have seen the Disney movie Meet the Robinsons? If you haven’t, go find it. I you have seen it, watch it again and look for the empowering beliefs and great self-talk that is nested into this movie. I just love it!
I was saddened to read today about the death of the American actor David Carradine. When I was a young man looking for role models, the show Kung Fu staring David Carradine was a favorite of mine. I still own much of my love of helping people and many of my empowering beliefs to this show. Thanks David (and of course the show’s writers and producers). You can read more about David here and here.
Till next time…Jack
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else”. ~Benjamin Franklin
Have You Checked In Lately?
Jun 1st
“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable”. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton
How are you doing this year? Specifically, how are you doing with the goals that you set out to accomplish this year? Five months of this year are already behind us and if you are off track there is still time to make adjustments and bring it all home.
For me, I set some some very challenging goals for this year. You can look at them here and also read some of the background about the creation of them: Jack’s Original Goals for 2009. So how am I doing? I already have some mixed results.
Here again are my top five goals for the next twelve months:
- Health: I will return to my optimal bodyweight before the end of 2009.
- Family: My wife and I will take our family to New York for a great vacation to celebrate my elder daughter’s completion of her graduate program.
- Business: I will blog 5 days per week – every week of 2009.
- Finances: I will earn more in 2009 than I ever have before – at least 25% more.
- Fun: I will run in the USA’s largest cross-country race: The Living History Farms Seven Miler.
Here is a quick recap:
Goal 1) This is a health focused goal – my largest challenge in the past decade. It has now become impossible to achieve this goal in the remaining 7 months. I need to look at what happened here, make adjustments and recommit (I have already done this, but I will explain what I did and what I am doing so you can see the process. You won’t always get your goals done in the time that you originally allocate. How you react when this happens is critical!)
Goal 2) This is a family and fun related goal. We are well on track to making this goal happen.
Goal 3) This is a business related goal. This is a complex goal – a seemingly simple task with multiple rewards and changes. This goal cannot happen now although the results behind the goal are exceeding my expectations. Again, I will adjust and show you what I am doing.
Goal 4) This is a finances or money goal. I am certainly going to exceed this goal for the year.
Goal 5) This is a fun and health related goal. I can achieve some of this goal – but not all of it. We will talk about it.
Well, that is a new beginning for me. How about for you? Come back next time and see an example of what to do when you aren’t on track.
Till next time…Jack
“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” ~Dale Carnegie
Your Vision of the Future Part Eight
Jan 29th
“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.” ~David Brinkley
Did you get a chance to read through my personal vision for this next year? If not, take a few minutes and read it over; you will find it as part of yesterday’s entry. I want to point out a few of the special features of my vision statement for the coming year that you might consider incorporating into yours.
- Everything in my vision assumes that I have already been successful. I mentally want to be in the place where I expect to succeed. Sure, something could happen that prevents me from achieving one or more of my goals, but every day, as I read my vision, I am going to put myself in the mental frame of mind that I succeeded – that I found a way and made it happen.
- I talk in my vision about how it feels when I have made my goal into my reality. I talk about how great it feels to have achieved this. I am creating an anchor of feeling great that I am attaching to thinking about each of my goals and to taking action on each of my goals. More >
Your Vision of the Future Part Six
Jan 27th
vision: noun – the ability to see or a vivid mental image produced by the imagination or great perception of future developments
So, how did it go creating your vision of the future based on your top five goals for the next twelve months? Do you get excited when you read your vision? Does it feel great when you imagine yourself in the vision – in the time when these five goals are now your reality? If it doesn’t then go rewrite your vision until you absolutely love how it sounds and feels and you can’t wait to make it happen.
Now, here is your first assignment with your vision – tape record it on to a small portable recorder. If you don’t have a small digital recorder, then go get one. They are a marvelous tool for personal development. Once you have your vision tape recorded then I want you to start to listen to it at least twice per day. Listen to it first thing in the morning. Listen to it just before you go to bed a night. Each time that you listen to your vision, make it even more real for yourself – really be there. You will almost certainly find that you can enhance your vision quite a bit a first; you will be able to add details that make it even more compelling. This is a very good thing. A compelling vision makes it easy to take the necessary action to make that vision become real.
In the next entry, I will talk a bit about using your newly created vision to stay motivated and on track for achieving your goals. Later in this series I will talk about creating visions with business partners and also problems that I commonly see with visions. I also want to give you a sample of my vision – my vision for the next twelve months and my vision for the next ten years.
Till next time…Jack
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” ~Louisa May Alcott