Great Start, lousy follow through

It has been many months since I started this blog and many months since my last post. The reason is that I really haven't progressed from where I was in terms of setting up an online business.

I came down with a crippling case of information overload. The more information I got the more confused I became. Given the amount of information out there I believe there are many would-be internet entrepeneurs out there who are feeling the same.

When I wrote my first post, I was all fired up, I had thought about what I wanted to achieve and had taken what I considered inspired action (others may not agree). And so I posted my second article and then, nothing, no more inspiration. A few weeks later the idea had gone right out of my head as life moved on.

So it is with a lot of things in life. We decide we want something, often without putting much thought into it. This becomes our goal. We get excited, telling only our closest friends and confidantes or keeping it quietly to ourselves.

We start out gung-ho, carried along on a wave of enthusiasm. Beginnings are exciting, following through when the going gets a little bit tougher is hard.

More often than not, the goals we set are not the things that we truly want, but what we believe we should have or what others want for us. They are not in alignment with our beliefs and values and they are not in alignment with our true purpose in life.

We may work at it for a while, but that is exactly what it is … work, struggle! Time passes, it doesn’t materialize and we get disheartened. We begin to doubt, this was not meant to be, who are we to have such high notions?

In short, we aim to fail. And failure has its payoffs. Success takes hard work, failure takes very little. Most of us don’t like hard work. Because hard work without a plan is often wasted effort. Hard work on a goal you don’t really truly want, that is even worse.


In my next post I am going to write about goal setting. We all need ‘em!

Looking for Focus, finding Information Overload

In the week since my first post, I have continued to research potential online business opportunities. The problem with researching online is the amount of information that is available ... google Affiliate Marketing and get 20 million results plus paid ads. Being naturally cautious and a bit sceptical I have to google the results – is this a scam or a potential winner. This all takes valuable time, isn't the whole point of an online business to give you more time to do things you enjoy. The result of cyber time-wasting is that I don’t get time to read any of the websites or blogs I have subscribed to or any of the free ebooks I have downloaded.

The main problem at this point is a lack of focus and a clear direction. Right now I don’t have a clearly defined goal or set of goals rather a general direction in which I am heading even if I am taking the long way round. The more I read, the less clear I become.

Ever have this problem, I’d love to hear.

Taking the first step to creating an online business

The accepted wisdom about blogging is to blog about what you know. But if we only do what we know how will we learn and grow. Take me for example. I recently decided, or perhaps due to economic circumstance it was decided for me, to endeavour to create an online business.

I have worked with computers all my working life but have never created a web page from scratch and have no idea where to start in creating an online business.

Having thought long and hard about this over the last few weeks something told me to begin my online adventure by creating a blog about creating an online income but I have never created a blog before and to the best of my knowledge I don’t know anyone who has, and I know very little about creating income online. Fear masked as the voice of Reason then took over

... what will you write about? ... will it be any good? ... will anyone be interested? ... what makes you think you will be successful where others have failed? ...

The list is endless. In spite of this internal nay-saying the idea remained and so after a few attempts and some scarily blank pages here is my first attempt.

Do I know the answers to any of those questions? Of course I don’t! But I’ll never know unless I try. What I will know is if something is working or if it not. If it is successful then do more of the same, if not, just try something else. Isn’t that the advice we are given in all walks of life.

I am sure there are many out there like me, confused by the amount of information out there on the subject of creating an online business. There are many systems available guaranteeing five figure monthly incomes – simply follow my easy step by step guide.

With so many systems out there how do you choose the right one? If you have advice I'd love to hear.