You’re one in a million and you deserve your SBI success. Please keep telling people the truth even though 99% of them don’t want to hear it. We need more honest people out there like you. If more people were honest we would have a lot less people quit SBI.

The difference this time is that the learning curve is much less harsh – I already got a lot of mistakes out of the way on the first site, struggled through some of the basics of html and got pages published.

This time I’m not running into motivation or inspiration issues – just a case of distractions from the path.

I’ve got a real job that I enjoy that pays the bills, but at the same time I’m determined to be free of it in the future. I almost wish I was dependent on SBI for my living – scary as that would be – as it would give me that determination to keep on and on and on up that mountain.

Thanks for another thought provoking post!

Either embrace the changes in yourself that the process demands or don’t do it.

Ask her where else she thinks that she can find another business system that essentially places big red arrows pointing out your where potential customers are and tells you exactly what they’re thinking?

Heck in my off line real estate biz we’d KILL for that kind of knowledge. But it’s not available and the stress from that job is killing us both slowly.

So it’s literally do or die for me.

I have limited time to write. And money is horribly tight. But my husband pointed out that the costs for mailing out a single postcard to our real estate “farm” are more than paying someone to create 100 pages for my SBI website. And the real estate postcards will not bring in residual income.

So I’m committed to 3 pages a week and 100 pages by June 1, 2010. I’m also committing at least 4 hours a day of my time. TV is gone. Creating reusable writer guidelines, drafting link exchange letter templates and creating and finding other tools to multiply the effectiveness of my time is in.

“S” HAS to make a commitment. Just “wanting” financial independence isn’t enough.

I’m nearly 2 years into my SBI site. It’s definitely starting to make a profit, but there’s a long way to go before I can quit my day job.

Thank you for the kick up the pants that I’ve been needing. I’ve got to get back to link-building and also reviewing my keywords.

Thanks again Tomaz.

Cheers

Conor

It is too easy to procrastinate by browsing the forums longer than necessary, by constantly checking email, or by studying the updated Adsense report for the 20th time that day. (Been there and done that)

Not that these things are bad to do. But if we want to see income coming in, we need to see our websites as a business and work on projects that will reap rewards in some way, either directly or indirectly.

Tomaz, thank you for reminding me of the importance of persistence and commitment to my site.

I guess that I better go work on my site now.

Thanks!

Thanks for sharing! Gave me an idea for another post…

“I met Mike and his wife from Ireland at the SBI Barcelona conference. They asked me for advice about their site.

I was explaining to them for about an hour all the things they needed to do and they were SHOCKED at the amount of work I suggested. All that?”

Firstly – when you graciously gave us your time in Barcelona we were at an interesting point in our website business.

Put simply – we had taken on too much.

Kind of contradicting the impression you got abov – we were putting in a huge amount of effort up to that point – BUT were lacking a full focus for that effort. What Barcelona and your advice did for us (especially me) was provide a CLARITY as to where the focus was required – and what we just had to leave go of as it would never work.

As a result, we are now looking to go cashflow positive at the end of March with the sites.

One of the things that struck me most in your post above was to do with “trying” vs what I would call commitment and resolve.

The way my brain works is that once I plug into resolve – the game changes completely. Jim Rohn (sadly just passed away) used to describe resolve as “I will climb that mountain – either you will see me sitting at the top grinning back at you – or dead on the side of that mountain”. A bit dramatic – but that’s the sentiment of resolve that also works for me.

When we met you in Barcelona – we were very careful with our resolve as we still felt somewhat unfocused even after 1 year as SBIers. But that changed in Barcelona and we are happily focused and now fully committed.

So – thanks for the time and attention. It did not go to waste. And we are looking forward to providing you with a success story for your site in the near future.

All the best – Mike.