How To Blog without Excuses
How To Blog without Excuses
How To Blog without Excuses
"You can have what you want or you can have your excuses for not getting what you want" is what the seminar leader told me "If I told you I had a million pounds waiting for you as soon as you got this done... would you find time to do it?" Of course the answer is a very resounding YES! If I knew there was a guaranteed reward at the end of it I would get whatever IT is done, and quickly!
We all have 24 hours in a day and yet presidents run a country in that time, billionaires and multi millionaires like Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Donald Trump all run their multi-making businesses. So if they can do that with 24 hours why can't we set up one blog and develop it into a big business earner for our own life?
"The greatest revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitude of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives". Author and Philosopher, William James.
As a blogger your mindset and attitude here is so crucial to whether you succeed and to what degree. If you believe you do not have enough time your actions will support what you are saying and you will run around forever trying to "catch up" with whatever you need to do.
You are also stopping yourself from really embracing the truth. What is the truth that your "lack of time" conversation is hiding? Only you can answer that. Of course as you read this you may feel totally annoyed by it, how could I suggest you are trying to find an excuse! In fact I bet you could list a number of reasons/excuses right now and to be honest no matter what they are they will still be a reason you are allowing to stop you.
Do you know who Nick Vujicic is? I encourage you to look him up and see if he found any excuses. He has strong spiritual beliefs and I am not referring to that. I am talking about the reasons and excuses (all of them valid) he COULD have used to not achieve anything in life. He chooses not too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4uG2kSdd-4
I am a single mother of three children so I have loads of excuses I could use, but I have a desire that is far bigger than any excuse I could put in the way. When in 2006 everyone kept saying "the only way to succeed online is to get off your chair and out to events" I thought I didn't stand a chance because I had no one to look after my kids and I couldn't go jetting off to America to attend every joint venture or internet marketing event that took place.
What I did instead was create a little world online where we could support each other and get access to training and JV opportunities I have moved on from that now but it helped to get me established along with my peers, maybe not to the same degree that they are right now but I know I will catch up!
You may have a sick relative to look after or young babies, maybe you are unwell yourself. I understand that we all have our challenges in life that we have to work with but they still don't have to stop you. Even if you could only find 1 hour month to work on your business you are still finding time. It won't make you a millionaire in 3 years, it may take you 10 or even 15 years instead but at least you are working towards it and not letting life stop you.
And as you work towards what it is you truly desire opportunities will open up for you that will help you to continue working towards it. But if you throw in towel and say "I don't have enough time" then you have just sealed your own fate and your dream dies before really getting off the ground.
All you have to do is remember there is $1 million waiting for you, when you receive it is really up to you and how determined you are. Your $1 million is in your bank account IF that is what you want for yourself because we are not all motivated by money. What will motivate you? Is it being able to build that school in an underdeveloped country? Being able to take family and friends on a four week far away vacation?
Whatever it is you want to achieve based on your blog as your business I encourage you to not let ANY excuse get in the way, especially the weakest one of all called "I don't have enough time"
It is all about priorities and commitment
Years ago I worked with a man who was always complaining he didn't have enough time to do what he wanted to get down. Then for six whole months he started an office affair. This man who never had enough time found time to meet up with another person and spend time together. Where did that extra time come from? Did he suddenly gain more hours in a day? No. His commitment changed. He made a commitment to do something and let go of other things so he could have that extra time.
Now an extra marital affair may not be the most positive example I could use but it is a real life one I know of and it serves to get the point across.
When you are committed to something YOU FIND TIME!
No excuses, no reasons, you find the time based on what you are already doing in life. Maybe you decide to watch an hour less TV at night or wake up an hour early in the morning (that's 2 extra hours already).
Another example I can think of is exercising. I haven't made much of an effort to take part in it since hurting my back in 2005. I was left unable to walk for more than 6 months and I promised myself I would make time to exercise to ensure my back stayed strong. Despite that I never did until a few months ago. Being a Jane Fonda addict in the 80s I know what it feels like to be super fit and toned. I also know what it feels like to be heavily overweight and unhealthily.
It has taken some time but I have found my commitment to my body and I am exercising. I probably have 2 or 3 years of being consistent to see superb results but I won't allow that to stop me. Despite being at home full time I never found the time to exercise and the results are here with me right now, hanging out around my hips, thighs and butt :-)
I even found myself using the "time" excuse as a way of stopping myself. I had to slap myself silly and make a commitment to make it happen. It's still a struggle because I would rather be here on my computer than I would exercising but I am doing it anyway and changing my commitment to myself. 60 minutes less on the computer frees up 60 minutes to exercise.
What can you adjust in your life to make time for your business? It is a simple enough question but it may take some time for you to answer it completely.
You have what you want waiting for you. Are you going to do the work to get it?
If you are starting or currently writing in a blog what is your purpose in doing that? If you joined a membership site about how to make money blogging my guess is that you want to discover how to make money from your blog, and a lot of it so that money (or lack of it) never has to be a conversation you have anymore.
How much money do you want?
However much you want it is there in your bank account waiting for you. Like one of those childhood puzzles where you have to help someone get from one end of a maze to another you have a maze to get through in order to reach your million dollars. Are you ready to take yourself through it?
This journey never goes in a straight line, in fact the bigger your desire the more chance your journey will go up and down, round the corner and up, round the other corner and down, along the bumps, more bumps, a few more bumps until you finally find yourself at the other end and in your bank account is 1 million dollars.
Blocking yourself from finding time
When you use an excuse like "I don't have..." you stop yourself from ever experiencing more of what you can have. You will never be open to experiencing more of it because you have decided you already don't have it.
Can you be open to saying "I could find a way to make more time" right now as you say it you don't have to know how you will find that time just be open to it because when you are you will suddenly remember something that is coming to an end that will free up time, or a couple of hours that you spend doing something that could wait that will free up time.
Be open to finding more time and you will naturally begin to discover where that time will come from.
Or just make the commitment to stop some other stuff that no longer serves you and do business stuff instead.
We all have the same amount of time in any given day, how we use that time is what we need to focus our attention on, what we commit to that uses our time is another thing. Stop spending four hours on Twitter and spend only one you suddenly free up three hours of your time. It is a simple thing to do and if your commitment to succeed as a blogger is strong you will do all you can to make it happen.
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