Enough Already – Back On Topic!
Right, I’ll be honest here. If it hadn’t been for the half-dozen kind comments I received on my last post I would have deleted it, since it played havoc with my AdSense content! Okay maybe not, since I hadn’t posted anything in a month and even this post is being written two weeks on. So my one post a week target needs a bit of fixing and this is my latest offering, on topic this time.
So, I’ve lost a bit of business building momentum over the last month or so, most particularly on my product creation as part of the Masterclass program. If you lose momentum it’s a well known fact that it is difficult to regain it, however I watched one video and read one blog post today that have given me the jump start I needed.
The video was by Lee McIntyre (I subscribe to his newsletter) and the subject was basically…if you don’t believe you can succeed online then you won’t. Now this was a 25 minute video, which is fairly lengthy to get such a simple message across. Sure, Lee recounted some of the self-doubts that he experienced in the past but he kept banging on about this self-belief message. It took me the full 25 minutes to really get the message though; it’s not simply having the belief that you can succeed online – that’s easy, and I do believe that I can. It’s having the self-belief to get your products out into the market, about casting away the self-doubts about whether those products will succeed or fail, and so on.
The blog post was John Thornhill’s latest offering which can be viewed here. John’s message about basic online success is frighteningly simple – create your product, drive traffic to the sales page and then repeat the process. After reading this post, I felt as though it had been directed at me personally. Sure, I had had a medical issue and lost momentum on my product creation effort, but then I go and write a blog post about it and I also started a similarly themed thread on the Masterclass forum! Enough already! Real action was required, not some kind of self-pity.
So, thanks Lee and thanks John. Your reminders that self belief and effort are required to succeed couldn’t have come at a better time for me. Even writing this post has got me back into the swing of, well, writing – and product creation will resume tomorrow morning sharp!
