I got it!! I do, I really do.

I got it and Im never letting it go.

Doing it wrong.

I am always doing things wrong, that is how I get closer to doing things right.

Looks like my approach to campaigns has been wrong for a long time...

Its time to do things right.

My biggest issue right now is, I do not want to wait. It takes a long time to get campaigns in place with some traffic sources... waiting isnt fun.

I cannot work everyday

I try to work as much as I can but I just become ineffective.

Its alive but not moving.

My copy is weak, also , I learned a lot about pof in just a few hours... this is deep man, Im ready to make money.

I picked up a partner too... lets see how this goes. :D

Alive!! Its alive!

Launching paid ad campaigns now. Blackhat campaigns are living and doing well.  I stay kinda busy, but a lot of my time  I feel like I dont know what im doing. Sometimes I just end up wasting time... I guess that is the game?

Fail Faster

I had some real inspiration hit me this week...Failing faster and spending money to fail faster... you can make more money, you cannot make more time.

Do it now

What would I miss?

If I worked as hard as I could, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week... what would I really miss?

Immersion

Its time to kick it up, make it real..

40K a month... yea, January, here we come. I am serious

October was a blur

I made a lot of changes in the last 4 weeks. The biggest and best move was going to a different company. I get better pay outs on the same offer. Better support too.

Now Im moving into more paid traffic. It has been a lot of work, and quite the ride lately.

Yes

Im making money, outsourcing is working well... but now I have a machine with so many moving parts.

I need a real vacation.

slow train moving forward

Things are good but slow. I have been waiting on some technology to get delivered that is really going to push things up and forward for me.

Expanding and ... waiting.. .it sucks.

Stand still

 I have little or no traffic today after being on vacation. I dove into a project today that went no where, today was one of the worst types of days.

Fake work with nothing getting done.


I also looked at how I rely on others, I always seem to be looking to someone else to do tasks. I need to use this to my advantage and understand when it is a disadvantage.

Vacation

Not only was I on vacation... I had some record sales.

So .. .the less I work, the more I make?

I like this.

Vacation

Getting a short break and I will be back on the grind on monday.

Have a good weekend if you are reading this.

Things are moving fast!

Things are moving so fast and I am growing a little, but I am just growing deep and not wide.

Width is my next goal, but first... Vacation!

up?

I hope!

Making

I am making something happen.

working and work

Traffic quality has really fallen off.. .we have had some great days but really I dont know why. I cannot track down what was going on. I have the same people working on the same traffic using the same methods!

I must get out of this business and onto something better.

Fuck you

Record sales week.

New business moving forward.

New business in the planning phase.

I am kicking ass, and it feels great.

This

Outsourcing

It is happening more and more

Maybe it has been a few days.

I try to blog regularly, but it seems that I have been kinda busy trying to get a lot of things to work. I am buying web traffic and building sales funnels Its a lot of work, and sometimes I get bored because it is a lot of work with no return and sometimes the return is very good. I am keeping it steady and trying to build up a good pace.

Get Shit Done

Nothing is better

my income has dropped pretty low... bills are stacking up.

I have the same habits I have always had, I do not know what will create change.

Outsourcing.

Looks like I found something that really works. Outsourcing some of my work is like automatic money. I just need to scale it up.

Am I just acting emotionally.?

This blog is years old, and I have had my share of professional ups and downs... but why?

Im pretty down now, my traffic has taken a nose dive, quality is pretty poor and bills are stacking up.. but I have been here before right?

How did I get out of it? How will I make sure I do not end up here again?

I have this feeling of dread, like things are just so terrible, but really Im just not making money. Is it that bad? Im am acting emotionally, I think that Im not moving because im in some sort of panic mode that I need to break out of.

Make a list
do it again
make your finest efforts
you will profit

do it again.

Possible progress

yet I keep loosing focus

something new

Im getting closer

Nothing

Not much is happening

Im making it, but barely.

gah

main traffic source is dead.

this should promote expansion and new progress.

We will see how it goes.

Moving - Not Moving

Not Moving is bad
Moving is good

Shifting gears.

I am really shifting gears now, working on something new to me. Driving traffic to a blog, this will make heavy use of social media, automation and any trick I can find to cast a wider net.

Moving slow...but moving

Sales really took a tip this week. Not the best sales week for sure. But I still did better than most guys would pay me. Now to pick up the pieces and move forward.

A Dip

I am still suffering a quality dip. On top of it, I have had issues with ads going live. I must get this under control. My mental state suffers when I am not making progress.

Should I move into SEO? What about blogging?

I lack focus because I lack results.

Paid traffic needs more resources than I have.

Traffic and whatever.

I have traffic and the quality is ok.  I have seen trends in the traffic that move and and down. That is something that no one else has.  Predicable is good.

I do have a problem with understanding what to do next, I am just unsure.  Other people make it look easy, they just work hard and have money.  I have never been able to pull this off so it means that it is me.  I must figure this out.

I have also said the same thing for years.

another birthday

another day failing... I think that Im not taking action where I should, I am in some wrong habits and that I need to focus in more long term projects.

38

Im 38 and i have had the same excuses for years.

I do not understand a way to change, Its not in front of me, I do not know what to do.

Taking steps

I do not want to spend money to make money.

Fallen

Things are going good, I am keeping the momentum, I have several systems in place. My main traffic source has taken a hit but there are many others to work with. I will have this beat very soon.

Moving slow

Things are moving well, but they are moving slow. I have issues remembering that this takes time.

The same thing

Im doing the same thing again and again. . . The same habits. I have one thing that gets some focus and makes my income. I have 3 or 4 other projects that are kinda done and I have 3 or 4 other things that I would like to do.

So where do I put my attention?

How do I do things differently?

How can I make more and do less?

Up Hill

I had a good week last week, my momentum was rolling against me this week and I didnt end as good...

I must break this cycle ... bigger days must come soon.

Moving on up

I have multiple traffic sources now. Everything seems to be going well, now I am working on other sources of income with different offers as well as outsourcing more of my work. This should work out well as long as I keep the momentum.

Rising up

Consistency is my problem, but that takes momentum...now I have momentum and I am building more than 1 income.

I moved and I am still alive!!

Things are starting to get a rhythm around here... and I am starting to get my momentum with work. things are moving... it is good.

Habits

Good habits build discipline, I find that I need good organization to build the habits that I need. 

Im working on it all. 

Momentum helps too...

Slow

In the new house, finalized the old house... getting momentum has been difficult over the last day or two. This will change as I develop more momentum.

Moving

Finally moved, I finally have internet again. Now to get settled in the new house and get to work. I am fully dedicated to building a 100K+ business by the end of the year. That is a ass load of work, but I am ready. Now more than ever before.

Good Bad

Things with work are moving so well, probably better than ever. So what is the bad? Im moving, so my home life is more than upside down it is upside down and split up between two homes. I have no focus, stress is higher than it has been in a long time. I just got to get through two weeks of this and I will arise like never before.

You are not doing all that you can do.

I spend my days working my ass off. Doing all that I can do to get results. It is a lot of blood sweat and tears. 

Many times I don't get results that I need. Sometimes I do, but that isn't what I am here to talk about. Im going to tell you that when you are doing all that you think you can do. Sometimes, many times, you are not.

Ever hear of Cliff Young? 

Every year, Australia hosts 543.7-mile endurance race from Sydney to Melbourne. It is an insane ultra-marathon where participants would run 18 hours a day, stop to sleep six hours and run all day again the race took about five days. In 1983 Cliff Young showed up in overalls and work boots, nothing like the professional participants that were there doing all that they could to win the race. Cliff Young showed these guys that while they were well trained and working hard, and pushing there limits, they were not doing all they could do.Cliff young ran the whole fucking race non stop with a goofy looking shuffle run. He won the first time he participated in the race. 

Cliff grew up on a farm, where he would run down sheep when he was young. He developed some insane discipline and had to push himself to develop his own style. A style that became a legend and blew away the competition. 

When you spend your days starting at your stats, building campaigns, outsourcing images. Think about Cliff Young, how he did something different, was made fun of and then served the competition their breakfast when they came in second.

You can read more about Cliff here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)

Dunno

Sometimes I dont know what I am doing. I have learned to change my focus a bit to a more content marketing stance. It is a little bit exciting, but honestly I havent done much this week. Nothing seems to be working for me so I havent put in any effort.

Doing it right

Lots of planning. I am working hard to plan all ads, all expenses, all angles, daily schedules. I am always missing discipline, maybe this will help. Setting things up, planning, researching, planning more, doing it again and again.

Sometimes I dont know

After a long ass talk with a friend last night I am starting to think that I am just a slacker. I did some work, I made some money, but it was all in just a few hours, what if I worked all day? What if I really worked all day? a 10 hour day could be $600 a day for me I think... I just gotta do it, what keeps me from doing it?

Today I feel like organization is an issue, I guess I need to work on that.

Fitting the pieces together.

business is really like a puzzle. You dont really know what you are doing because it has never been done before. You just dive in and start doing and you shoe horn the bits together until you have results that you can measure.

Then you measure and start over again, maybe you have direction this time, maybe not. Tonight was a night where the pieces were coming together but I couldnt get them to fit. Almost no matter what I did tonight I couldnt get everything to work in harmony. Im going to take a few hours off and hit it again in the am.

Working

I stopped, I had a rough weekend with a lot of social obligations. That kinda threw me off and I lost my spin. Now that has been followed with erratic internet for several days.  Is that enough to stop me? Yes, it has been, should it? No, that's just dumb. I lack discipline, and that has been something really hard for me to establish.  I also feel that I do not get enough time off, either I am working like a beast, or I am doing nothing. I need to make sure that I am taking time off weekly, maybe even two days off.

I am really enjoying this personal blogging, no one really ever sees it, if they do I don't know who it is. But going back and looking at my thoughts over time is interesting. I can see that I am always saying the same thing, Im not working hard enough.

Why do I work ?

I don't know.  I suppose it is a certain level of freedom I have heat. I have the ipad that I am writing this on.  But what else beyond that? I don't love work, that is for sure. At least not what I am currently doing. Can I learn to love it? Or should I? Sometimes I like it, dealing directly with customers I do not enjoy. But no, more than that...

Why do I work? Is it to have freedom? Is it to build a family? I am in the unique situation of having everything that I want. Now I have to keep it together. Being. Arrived with children takes a lot of time and Had been stressful on me lately.  Do this, go there, do that now go here.  It can really feel like to much on top of being the best parent and husband that I can.

Working from home has a lot to do with it.  I cannot say no because I simply do not have the same level do obligation as someone that has a regular job.

I need goals both long term and short term
I need discipline
I need something to be regular in my life.  I think I go to sleep at a different time every night.  I don't even know to be honest.

I need a bigger todo list so that I can see what my goals are.  To see them laid out in front of me paving the way to...my long termr goals.

Working harder

Im trying to hard to get more done. . . working from home has been a real problem this week. We will see what the future holds.

Working hard

Working hard is a lot of work, traffic quality is suffering and it is a lot harder than I wish it was lately. Perhaps I can get this to change soon.

Progress

I think I made some progress, my job is hard, well, for me it is hard. Something that I have discovered is that if I care less about my production work, that I do better. If I do not focus on sale, sale, sale, then the sales come, and I can enjoy watching netflix while I am working.

I find it weird, it is a similar tale that I have been told many times that I think too much, when I really just relax and focus on getting things done and not focused so much on the doing, I was able to make good sales (good for me anyway)

How important is confidence?

When Im confident I seem to make more sales, I also seem to work harder. How are they related? Are they related? Sometimes I work hard just because I know that better things are coming and that treading water is better than sinking.

No, I will not doubt.
No, I will not fail.
No, I will do what I must.
No, you will not stand in my way.

Really big news is going down.

I did have a good work week last week, and this week is also looking good. But what is bad is that we have to move, our homeowner is selling this house so we have to move for the second time in 5 years. So we have decided that we are going to buy a house and stay in Memphis for a lot longer than we expected.  Having friends and family with small children makes moving difficult. Our daughter is doing well in school and building strong friendships. Maybe moving out of the city is just a selfish thing?

What moving does is force my debt forward, it is something that I have never really faced, something I never felt that I could tackle and take care of. . . but now I have the challenge of taking care of it if we want to buy a house. I dont know how I am going to tackle such debt without a serious income... I always just make some money and never much real money. It has been that way for a long time. No consistent income, no real business that I am building , just making by. . .

Its ok !! Everything is going to be ok!!!

Hard work pays off.

Slow but ...

Things are going slow, but progress is being made. Money is being made and that is ... important! 2014 should be good.