Your Commitment

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.