Have you ever felt this way?

Have you ever been on track, working hard to develop a specific strategy when, WHAM… here comes a better one!  Gotta get to the free webinar, or sign up for the free ebook, or start doing some Google research on it.

Are all the newest ideas, techniques, info-webinars, systems and tools a whole lot of hype?  Are they just sizzle without any steak?

Sometimes they are.  Sometime they are not.

At one time, Facebook and Twitter were new “flashes in the pan.”  But they turned the Social Media world on its head.  But many other ideas never got any bounce at all, and nobody can even remember their names any longer.

Are You Missing Out On The Hottest Happening?

As an internet marketing entrepreneur, you must decide when to stop dead in your tracks to investigate a new method, tool or system… or when to put blinders on to EVERYTHING blasting off all around you, and just stick with the game plan that you’re carrying out.

I find that a big problem with my clients and fellow marketers is that they are all too eager to jump out of one ship, midstream, and leap onto another going in a different direction.  I think part of it is because the grass always seems greener on the other side, and also because things aren’t going as well as they hoped where they are.

Certainly another part of the ship-jumping problem, is that many entrepreneurs thought things would come easier, and instead of keeping their nose to the grindstone and pushing full steam ahead, it seems like it might be less work and more reward to leap for another ship.

Finally, another reason I see people jumping ship is pure and simple, good old fashioned procrastination.  Why isn’t their business going forward?
Why can’t they complete a campaign?  Because they MUST look into something better that just appeared.  That means more research, another webinar, 6 hours of video, read a new book… anything but getting down to the task of completing the task they started out on.

My Advice?

Know that being an internet marketer is a long-term business, not a get-rich quick scheme.  Don’t have unreasonable expectations of overnight success for very little work.  Don’t harbor expectations of grandeur that come without lots of sweat, hard work and temporary set-backs that teach us more than any book we’ll ever read.

Check out the latest and greatest internet marketing strategies, tools and systems… when you’ve completed the campaign or project you already began.

Could you miss out? Yes.  Will you?  Not likely.  If the latest hype has legs, it will be around for a long time.  If it doesn’t, you’ll miss out on a sinking ship.

In the meanwhile, the hottest internet marketing strategy today, as it was yesterday, is to stick to your plan, see it to fulfillment… then and only then, reassess and consider where to go next.  Chances are, the strategy you’re working on may not be the sexiest and trendiest thing on the internet, but I’ll bet it’s got a whole lot of success history behind it.

So, yes.  Check out the latest and greatest internet marketing strategies.  Just don’t jump ship so many times that you end up drowning.

I’d love to hear about the ship you’re traveling on right now.  Comments, re-tweets, Facebook and other social media shares are always appreciated!

1.  Intention.  Every day you need to TAKE TIME  to VISUALIZE your success in great detail and with clarity and fervor.

2. Action.  You need to establish a daily routine of putting into ACTION the success you are visualizing.  You action need not be extensive if your time is limited, but it is important to make it consistent and persistent.

3. Responsibility.  You need to take responsibility for your life.  Not just your life as you have it planned out, but especially your life as it happens.  All sort of things occur that would derail us from our goals.

But we always have the ability to respond to these occurrences in a manner that will bring us closer to attaining our goals instead of throwing up our hands in abandonment, which circumstances would seem to dictate.

Be grateful for all that comes your way.

Every thing is purposeful and helpful.  Even if you have setbacks in your relationships, health or business… these setbacks will teach us many things if we approach them with true and sincere gratitude. 

I’ve personally found that the deepest level of gratitude can only be understood in terms of faith.

So be in touch with your faith.  It’s not an aside in your life or in your business.  It resides squarely at the heart of the matter.

If you follow through with all these things, then you should be of good cheer!  Rejoice in your labor and know that your success has been attained… not by reaching a particular goal, but in living a life of sincere faith and resolute action to the best of your ability.  That, in and of itself, is your greatest success.

Once you have established this inner peace, you will release all tension.  While it’s great to be determined, do not confuse tension with resoluteness.  Tension is painful and destructive.  It will never lead to success.  Focus on your intention, and release all tension.

Your destiny far exceeds your personal efforts, and you need to harmonize with that higher path, and release the “stress” on your personal struggles.

These are just a few very basic Law Of Attraction principles that I try to weave into the fabric of my success journey.

How do you apply Law Of Attraction principles in your own life?

I’d love to hear how you respond when your life happens!

This is not the entrepreneurial mindset I enjoyed this week.  I started my week doing my faithful, what I like to call “community service”.  I checked out all the great posts of my blogging friends and post comments and retweets to get myself into the groove.  I immediately learned that on my own blog, my retweets weren’t retweeting and my simple face book plugin was far more complicated than it should have been.  Even my commentluv posts failed to link back to my post because, apparently, my commentluv program had to be updated.  Who would guess?

With my entrepreneurial mindset clutched firmly in my grasp, I bravely contacted my plugin vendors for help, only to find my passwords were wrong (of course I had failed to write them down anywhere since I “knew” I couldn’t possibly ever need them again, or … that my memory is so astounding that I’d certainly recall them when put on notice).  We’ve all lost passwords, though, so I courageously entered my emails and requested permission to reset them.  But my emails weren’t registered.  What?  Registered? Nobody ever… wait, I’m an independent entrepreneur.  I need to think of these things myself.  But come on, register my plugins?  This was insane.  Who ever heard… but I digress.

I put out a distress message to Kimberly Castleberry, my favorite, endlessly giving and always spot on technical expert and… in time, all will be well.

So, turn to my Pay Per Click campaigns instead.  A strong entrepreneurial mindset requires that we roll with the punches, endure the valleys as we relish the peaks… yaddy yaddy yaddah.  So I simply rolled up my sleeves and started putting my Google Adwords campaigns together until I learned that Google didn’t recognize my account information and I had to start a new one.  I can deal with it.

Turns out Google also was aghast at the configuration of my capture pages and I was best advised to create sub domains for their URLs, but… the sub domains would, at best, reduce my quality scores to levels that would keep my brilliant keyword campaigns from ever reaching any of those craving eyeballs.  Off to build a custom domain, except I wasn’t sure how to actually apply that to the technological system I’m utilizing so I had to put out an “Urgent” support ticket for direction on that process.  Three days later, the matter was resolved.

Oh, did I mention… by that time the week was pretty much shot, along with my nerves.  I couldn’t do a single video what with pulling my hair out all week I looked afright, so much that my dog wouldn’t stay in bed with me on those rare occasions when I made it to that forgotten repose.  My computer was still intact, despite my waves of threats to dash it against the sharpest corner of the wall.  But it hardly helped any since in the middle of my most critical webinar of the week, it totally froze.  No reason.  It just froze.

Did I also mention that I have some nice little investment properties.  This week I had to pay a plumber over $200 to unclog a toilet, the oil company over $300 for an emergency heating fuel delivery, some guy I don’t know $150 to install a new doorknob so the tenants could stop climbing in and out of their window and… Oh I didn’t have to pay the electrician.  He still hasn’t showed up after 6 phone calls and the tenant still can’t watch TV in the living room or open his garage door (one of those convenient remote control ones!).

Back to my entrepreneurial mindset, and roll with the punches and never give up and on and on.  I really couldn’t figure out ANYTHING of value that I could offer to my readers this week, in terms of incredible learning or inspiring vignettes.  So this is what you get.

I struggled with which category to put it in… seems to have little to do with internet marketing, social media or blogging per se.  So I put it in the Health category.  I don’t really have one for mental health.

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