I have been
thinking a lot about what I told you yesterday: stick to a project, do not give
up, and put in all your effort.
These are
surely the keys to success online and offline. And I wondered why it is so much
harder to really go the extra mile online instead of jumping onto the next
train in a different direction.
I think
that there are just too many offers out there that sound too good to be true. So
why work hard on a project if somebody is promising you riches over night? We
let ourselves be distracted very easily. And we lose our time and money on all
those unfinished projects –sometimes without even actually noticing it.
I hope that
when signing up for Freebies and buying into new money making systems you do
not use your main email address. If you did so far, I want you to go to Gmail and
get yourself an account there now. We are going to get rid of all the dead
weight that you have collected over the time and at the same time free your
main email account from those offers that make your inbox overflow every day.
Once you
have created your new Gmail address I want you to log into your main email
account. This is going to be a lot of work but it is worth it to prepare you
for your online success.
Now go
through your emails one after the other. Do you know who the sender is? If it
is a personal or business contact, fine. You do not have to do anything.
If you know
that the email is an autoresponder mail from a fellow marketer, I want you to
try to remember when you opened one of those messages for the last time. If it
is a newsletter that you enjoy reading on a regular basis I want you to open
the email, scroll to the bottom and click on the “Change subscriber options”
link. Insert your new email address there, open your Gmail account, and click
on the confirmation link that was sent out to you after you changed your
information. Done!
If it is a
newsletter that you usually do not open why stay subscribed? You get tons of
emails you do not read and it does not help the list owner either to have you
on his list if you do not even open the emails. So you will open those mails,
scroll down and click on the “Unsubscribe” link. Sometimes you will have to
confirm that, sometimes you won’t.
Once you
have finished going through all the emails of the last three days you’re almost
done. Your main email account is almost freed already. There might be an
autoresponder newsletter coming in from time to time that is sent out less
regularly. Just open the email then and follow the process described above.
As your main
email account is no longer overflowing with all those “get rich fast” offers,
you will be able to concentrate on the tasks at hand, i.e. building your online
business. Even if it gets a bit harder from time to time, you are not distracted
by “done-for-you, automated systems”. You took your decision how you want to
make money online and you are going to work on your success with determination.
Set aside
one hour or two per week to read all those emails that arrive at your Gmail
account – after all, those are the newsletters that you decided to keep because
they provide valuable information for you. But even if you will see all those
tempting promises once or twice a week, you will see that it is so much easier
for you to stick to your project if you concentrate on making it a success most
of the time.
