26 Weeks to Freedom: Creating an Internet Business

Bob Mann

Recently, in my post for Day 58, I asked the question, “Do you ever get tired of listening to your own excuses for not taking action?”  I certainly do, and today is one of those times when I’m very aware of my well-worn  reasons for not being consistent in making progress toward the goals I want to achieve.

Writing this blog every day is something that has been relatively easy for me to do for the past two months, because I seem to have a talent for writing and it usually doesn’t take more than an hour or two.  And I think most of the time it has been interesting—to one degree or another—especially when I’ve included videos.  But I’m also aware that I have (more often than not) drifted away from the original purpose I had in mind, which was to keep track, on a daily basis, of exactly what I’m doing to achieve the goal of creating an online business and having a decent income to show for it. Just writing the blog itself each day, even if the content is interesting,  isn’t enough.

So it’s time to fix that situation.  Today marks the first day of the third month of this accountablity project, so I think it’s about time for me to get serious about being accountable!  As I’ve mentioned to a couple of friends, even if nobody else ever reads these posts, just the fact that I am putting all this on the Internet (and therefore somebody could be reading it) should be motivation enough for me to take it seriously.  As one who long ago perfected the art of procrastination, I’ll use this or any other “gimmick” I can think of in order to keep myself proactive on a consistent basis!

So, starting tomorrow, these daily entries will be devoted mainly to what I have actually done, since the previous post, to move myself forward in the direction of creating an online business.  That doesn’t mean I won’t also include other things (like videos from interesting speakers, and photos of blossoming cherry trees and tulips!), but it does mean that my “accountability” actions will be the main topic each day.  And if I haven’t done anything meaningful in that regard, there won’t be a post for that day.

So even though, as I’ve mentioned recently, I have extended this original 6-month project to include as much as 5 additional months to coincide with the very solid business plan I’ll be getting at the June seminar in Las Vegas, that does not change the necessity for making the best use I can of each day between now and June.  In fact, it makes my daily efforts now (to prepare for that) seem even more important, because at that event I am going to be in the company of some Internet marketing “heavyweights” who are very serious about making money online. 

I also hope that, by watching me go through this unglamourous process of facing down my doubts and fears and old habits in order to make a major life change, it will be helpful to others who read these posts.  As Frank McKinney says, referring to his own annual challenge to run and finish the ultra-brutal “Badwater” race in Death Valley, each of us has our own Badwater-type goals that require “relentless forward motion” if we are serious about achieving them.  Clearly this quest to create an online business is, right now,  my own personal “Badwater” challenge.  (By the way….what’s yours?:-)

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