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Aging prematurely

This week I just feel too festive to write anything.

What ever is going on in my world, one thing is for sure, I don't feel like I have aged beyond my years. That is, not until today.

50Plus, an insurance company that specialize in insurance solutions for the aged sent me a letter congratulating me on the fact that I am now old enough to qualify for their discounted priced.

I'm only 36 (and a half) so I was a tad surprised that I qualified.

So with that bombshell I went for my afternoon nap.

As for the rest of my week? it went well as I have started to use a planning method I came up with back in 1997/8. I got rid of it quickly as it just seemed too simple. But it still works. Even got over the finish line a day early with the NHA stuff I do for Kim.

Cheers,
Jon ( still progressing )

=Every Day In Every Way, I'm Getting Better And Better=

Time stealing software

I was happily progressing with Butterfly marketing last week, but now I am seriously fed up.

And I am getting paranoid. I mean, why would a perfectly happy installation work fine on one day and then for some reason a few days later the sign up form will stop working?

Everything else works and I can add members manually, but that kind of defeats the object of installing a fully functional membership script. And the support has been non-existent.

And the problem with my other membership script, easymemberpro is that it does not support multiple memberships in one installation.

So I am STILL not getting anything done - simply because I am fed up with having to troubleshoot stuff that should work out of the box. The biggest time stealer for me is software that doesn't work like it should. And I havent installed enough of these memberships to justify paying a technical support person to take care of all of these things for me.

Although that problem is directly related to the fact that I can't get the stupid installations to work

What really annoys me is that this is stopping me from progressing the stuff I want to progress. Every time I do the installations you see it seems to be working fine. I add my design, I add the content and update the membership types and find that everything is working fine.

Then two days later the sign up stops working. It's like someone is turning it off.

I guess the lesson is that even with the best will in the world, sometimes there is just no way of getting things done because the tools let you down.

Cheers,
Jon ( still progressing )

=Every Day In Every Way, I'm Getting Better And Better=

It's all there in your head already

Friday Progress

What I did this week? well. fixing endless problems with a Butterfly marketing installation that I had done. All of my problems relate to the sign up form that it provides, and for some reason, some times the form just does not let me submit at all.

So I have resorted to leaving the form well alone and concentrated on updating the pages for the memberships.

I am also considering the merits of one of my other projects, as one of the experts I was relying on did not agree to take part. Weird cause it would have helped her put her business and expertise on the map and also helped her spread the word about her parenting methods. She told me she wanted to write a book "one day" when she had more time, and could take more control of what was created. Don't quite understand, because I was only asking her to comment on the tips and ideas that real parents and academics would be coming to me with.

So I have to look at either changing the format of this book process, finding some other expert, or replacing the project with another one. I favour the latter but for what I feel are the wrong reasons.

But considering I haven't got much time every day to work on the internet stuff, I think I've done well this week.

And with John S's business plan questions and Martins "rant" about outsourcing fresh in my mind, I have also experienced serveral "learning moments" this week. ( you know, those moments when something suddenly comes together in your head and you realise you suddenly have a new understanding of how things work )

I never realised how simple internet marketing actually is. The challenge is all in my head really. All it takes is some hard work. Either by you or by someone else who you have outsourced it to! :o)

Well that's it for this week.
Jon

Cheers,
Jon ( still progressing )

=Every Day In Every Way, I'm Getting Better And Better=

Rocket up my backside!

When I wrote my report last week I mentioned that a video made me wonder how specific I had to be about the problems I wanted to solve for customers.

(like the abundance of landfill material we have- can that material be used up or consumed in some way that generates a benefit for society above and beyond simply removing materials from landfills? Did you for instance know that a landfill site generates a significant amount of heat? Can that be harnessed in some way? yes (follow the link)

I then started thinking about how detailed I am when I plan (and I use the term loosely..) my projects, my business or my life and I remembered a picture I drew when I was 25 or 26 and was working in Dublin as a team leader in a call centre.

Funnily enough, I am the sort of guy that grows with responsibility... throw me in at the bottom and I behave like it, but give me responsibility and I thrive on it - so when I was made team leader I started thinking more about career, self development, motivation and so on. And it resulted in a simple yet ingenious way of mapping out my development.

Yet it took me until this week to realize what was missing from it. And when I adapted and updated the original picture with my new findings it made perfect sense.

So as a result, The 5 hours I had spare on Thursday was spent getting the first 20 steps of my publishing projects completed.

Other than having a PA ( who I must admit no longer works for me ) I have not found anything as effective at getting me to take action! In fact this is equally effective.

And because I have a 60 hour a week work week, the Phil Wiley kitchen timer principle works even without the kitchen timer - simply because I only have x number of minutes in any given day to actually do anything with my online stuff. So I have to cram in what I can in those minutes. And I have to cram in what makes the biggest difference in terms of progressing my projects, my business or my life.

and I find this system of planning central to my future success.

As is the fact I have about 4 hours a week to work.

I guess it is a bit like "the 4 hour work week" meets "How to get from where you are to where you want to be" - neither books I have read by the way.

Oh, I have said somewhere that I never finish self development books - that is not entirely true. I have read one from cover to cover.

Synchronicity.

I did not even finish the "booklet" by Jim Rohn called 7 strategies for wealth and happiness because it so obviously did not deliver the whole message.

These books bore me because they always tell you what to do, but never HOW to do it.

Anyway, the way I am going at the moment, I'm sure I'll have enough material for my own self help book before long!

Not that anyone would be interested in what systems I use, as they haven't resulted in anything in all the years I have tried.

But carving away all the BS and useless stuff from my to do lists I certainly have more clarity about my business direction.

So in summary - to succeed as an online entrepreneur, I need to work 60 hours a week and then follow my own system in the 4 hours I have available every week.

Easy! And not entirely obvious!

Cheers,
Jon ( still progressing )

=Every Day In Every Way, I'm Getting Better And Better=

What about the environment?

Yeah, I didn't do one last week. I had other things to get on with, and time is at a premium these days.

I do actually spend just over 65 hours a week working and commuting.

But there is actually quite a chunk of time that I am currently dedicating to family time that I could eat into for a bit when required just to get things done. Why I choose not to last week? Who knows. I know a small sacrifice now could yield quite a good return. I've done it before.

This time however I think I am waiting until I am clear in my strategic thinking before I leap in. I also have some constraints which means I have to adjust my game to that.

For some reason they look like excuses to me, so maybe they are. I did achieve quite alot actually over the last few weeks, and I should also thank John F for posting that video on Martins forum because it provided me with some clarity.

One of the things it made me wonder was... do the problems that you want to solve with marketing have to be very specific in its nature or can it be a bit more lofty and unspecified? The reason I am wondering this, is that I keep on seeing these problems that obviously wants solving, but I can't seem to find a solution to those problems. Unless the problem is a very specific one.

can you tell I over complicate things?

Anyway. Enough about my ramblings. I am ment to be asleep as I am getting up at 4:50am to go to work...


Cheers,
Jon ( still progressing )

=Every Day In Every Way, I'm Getting Better And Better=