Not Just Another Internet Business Success Journey

Relax and your business will thrive

No matter how fast we run our lives, we all get the same 24 hours. We can fit no more in to those 24 hours by stressing about what needs to be done. In fact, stressing about it will often lead to less getting done.

Take the time to relax now! Not later, not next week, not when you retire! Now!

Now is when you are alive. Now is where you live. Now is the best time to do what your business, and your body, really needs you to do.

If you are waiting to relax, waiting until you have finished all your tasks, made all those phone calls, edited your websites/blogs, read all your RSS feeds and read and responded to your daily emails, then you will be waiting for a very long time.

Your inbox will never be empty. Start living with that fact. Get used to it being half-full or half-empty, whichever suits your point of view.

Relaxed people can still make an impact on life. They can still run successful businesses. They will probably be more successful than someone running full-speed through every day.

The difference is the one who spends a little time each day relaxing is the one who is living life now and not waiting for some fictitious “future” when he/she will relax and “really” live. That future will never come.

Choose today to live today. Take some time out from your busy schedule every day, from now until the end of your life.

In just a few short weeks you will be thankful that you started this habit. You will discover that there is a whole new dimension to life when you step off the treadmill and take a look around you. Apart from seeing all the other people madly running on their treadmills, you will discover life, real life.

Enjoy it.

You owe it to yourself and your business. In fact, I predict that your business will profit from it. You will be fresher each day and more likely to come up with ideas, profitable ideas, that might otherwise be buried in the busyness of the day.

When you have given it a go, come back here and leave a comment on how it has impacted your life and business.

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Pause before you act, in business and life

Although this “old gem” of advice has been around for centuries, it is valuable to recall it from time to time.

Pausing before acting is not a cop-out to buy you more time or another way to procrastinate, it is a genuine business-building, stress-reduction strategy.

This technique, when used in conversation, will gain you respect with everyone your speak with. Pausing and reflecting on what another person says allows you to respond thoughtfully. It indicates a degree of maturity and respect that can be uncommon today. It acknowledges that what the other person has to say is important enough to hear.

In business the principle can be applied in several ways.

Although many websites will scream at you to buy this limited-time-offer for this never-to-be-repeated price, resist the temptation to press the BUY NOW button. Pause and reflect on other products you may have purchased that you have never really used. Do you really need this one?

If there is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor with a limited subscriber offer - first 100 coaching clients get to lock in at some incredible price! Again, take the time to pause before jumping at this latest attempt to separate you and your money.

If you are attempting to establish an internet business then you do not want to be the source of income for all those others out there trying to do the same. A pause now will often pay dividends later when you recall how close you came to spending another $97 on something you probably will not use.

Getting back to conversations, they are often just a competition between two people waiting for their chance to say something without really listening to what is being said. Poor listening skills can lead to poor communication, resentment toward you and ultimately poor relationships.

The same can be said of how you run your business. Spend time listening to your customers needs and wants. Pause before jumping in with a solution to all their problems, for just $47!, and you may just win their hearts.

You will be pleasantly surprised how much less stress you experience when you are taking the time to pause and listen, before acting. Whether in your personal or business life, try it the next time you get a chance and see how much difference it makes.

When your customers sense that they are being listened to they will begin to see you are a genuine person who cares about them more than you do about “the sale”.

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See your business as already broken

This might seem like a strange way to promote an online business, however every online business success is the result of one or more attempts ending in failure.

An old proverb says that everything has a beginning and everything has an end. The computer you are using to read this will eventually be retired and ultimately be recycled or, if you are not environmentally conscious, rot away in a landfill. At some point in the past your computer had never existed. At some point in the future it will again be non-existent.

Everything around us is changing. Even we will not last in these bodies forever. We die, get buried and return to dust.

Just as this happens in the world around us, it too happens in business. Business activities and strategies begin at some point, work for a time, then it is time for them to be retired.

Accepting that not everything you touch will turn to gold is a strategy to prepare yourself for some failure on the road to success.

Take a look at something that is working for you now. It might not even be a business activity. Visualise it as a broken and worthless activity. What would you do to overcome this loss? Diversify, replace it with another income-producing activity or just fret and wish that things would just “stay the same”?

Preparing yourself for the eventual “moving on” of the things that currently make your business, or life, successful is a great way to plan for future success.

You begin to realise that everything does have a beginning and an end, and that when the time comes for something to come to an end, you can appreciate the prosperity and life that it brought you.

It is fairly obvious that you do not want good things to come to an end. Do not go about looking for the “end dates” on everything. Rather, maintain a positive outlook at all times, accept that things will come to an end, and you will be prepared to deal with these “endings” when they occur, and then move on.

Approaching your business, and life for that matter, with this in mind will open up a whole new perspective for you, giving you a new angle to appreciate what you have and how much it is worth right now.

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The tortoise usually wins the race

Internet business is a quirky thing. There are so many products on offer that if you were to buy them all you would not have enough time to read them all before you died!

So, quality is more important than quantity. If you do buy something, anything, to help with your internet business, use it. Spend time reading the documentation. Set it up, if it requires setting up. Try different settings. Test the product in your marketplace.

If you buy a product a week, you know, SEO Magic, 1001 PLR, blah, blah, blah, and they sit around waiting to be used all you will end up with is a lower bank balance, lots of unused products and probably lots of regrets. You could read yesterday’s post about overcoming regrets but that will not help with the other two outcomes.

Rather than doing that, buy one product and “use it to death”. That is, be a tortoise with it. This requires patience. Applying patience to your internet business will not only produce long term success but it will help create a more peaceful you.

Patience with a product or service or whatever you are working on will allow you to be more accepting of what it is rather than what you expect it to be. Without patience you are likely to experience severe frustration. You will find that the smallest glitches with a product annoy you and you put it aside and go buy something else to give your business that magic boost.

See yesterday’s post about living for the moment. Patient people live in the present. They get the most out of each second and work like a tortoise towards the next goal.

Take a breather when things are not working out the way you expected. Remind yourself that you are working on your business. There is no need to stress about it. Keep working toward getting this product or service working and accept setbacks as a normal part of building anything worthwhile.

Everything is “small stuff” in the big scheme of things. You can regain that train of thought. You can redo that page/post. It is not lost forever. Try again. Enjoy the journey and apply patience to everything you do.

If you look closely at everything you are doing you will determine that many things are not really the “emergency” that they seem to be. We so often live life at 100 miles an hour to “get there” but “there” never comes over the horizon.

Develop patience and you will find that your internet business keeps growing, and you get to enjoy all of it as it happens. Slow down and enjoy the journey. The hare might cross the finish line first but there are enough prizes for everyone. Be the tortoise and you can not only finish the race but enjoy the journey each step of the way.

For an internet business opportunity with a difference, take a look at SiteSell. The approach is very much slowly-slowly, just like the tortoise, but the results speak for themselves.

Cheers, Brendan

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Living for the moment

In any internet business there will always be regrets of opportunities that have passed us by and concerns about what tomorrow might bring.

Leave all that alone and concentrate on the here and now! What has today got to offer you? Living in the present moment is a refreshing way to get more out of life with very little effort, in fact, less effort than you are probably expending now.

We are always in “the present moment”.  What value can we add to our lives now by becoming obsessed with worrying about things past, present and future?

If past issues clog up our thoughts and sap our time we can end up frustrated, anxious and depressed. The result, nothing from the past is changed and we have just stuffed up our day! Which of your past mistakes can you change by spending any amount of time on it?

Likewise, if we spend a lot of time worrying about what might happen in the future; such as the latest tweak by Google and how it may affect our website rankings, we are again stuffing up our day with something that may not even happen!

Are you waiting for that magic day in the future when all will be “done” and the business is running smoothly?

Are you convinced that someday soon you will crack the big time and until that day you need to keep hammering away?

Stop wasting your life one day at a time. Rather, live for the moment, now! What can this day offer you? Don’t get busy living for tomorrow and spending time regretting the past. Don’t miss out on life!

We get 86,400* little opportunities everyday to enjoy our life. Use every one of those opportunities to make today a winner for you and your business. Now is the only time we really have. We have spent yesterday’s time and we do not yet have access to tomorrow’s time.

Leave the regrets of the past in the past, and any fear of the future for tomorrow. Then begin living today.

Once you have put aside regrets and fears, what do you have today? What difference can you make now? Can you finish working on that new product or setting up an affiliate link that you used to think might be a failure. Now that fear of the future is irrelevant, what other products might you be able to successfully set up?

Brendan.

* seconds in one day

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