Inertia. You may the best at defining goals with laser-like precision, giving them deadlines, and formulating an action plan. Unless you take the first step toward your goal and keep walking, your chances of achieving your goal are pretty darn slim.
Why is it so hard to get moving on a goal’s action plan? Is it the plan? Too many steps? Too vague? Is the connection between the proposed actions and the desired results too iffy? Or is it the goal? Do you really have a driving need to reach your goal? Is the goal something that really motivates you? Can you see yourself, goal reached or surpassed, and when you do, are you happy? Maybe your goal needs to be honed, redefined, or in some cases abandoned (if increased effort is not going to bring you any closer to success, and is not going to increase the rewards… why am I doing this?). For a good discussion on when to do the latter, read Seth Godin’s “The Dip” which you can find here.
As part of my goal to replace at least $2000/month of my income with residual income, I searched around for possible paths. I found Squidoo.com, a great place to publish sort articles, called lenses, with some good monetization modules… very quick, very easy. Through Squidoo itself, I came across a *lot* of lenses discussion how to drive traffic to your lenses, improve their rank, bios of “Squid’s” who make a regular income through squidoo. If one of your goals is to make an online income, I highly recommend anything written by PotPieGirl. My favorite is “One Week Marketing Action Plan - From PotPieGirl.” PotPieGirl is offering the first 18 pages of her eBook for free, which by itself is a great value. This is the marketing plan that I personally use… It has clear action steps and checklists. It explains the why of each action. It’s very well written.
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