I usually do not subscribe to the point of making New Year’s resolutions, this has been part of the conditioning that I have been subjected to all my life. I have made resolutions in the past only to forget about them a couple of weeks later. I think this year may be different. I just read an inspirational post over on Steve Pavlina’s blog that makes me think perhaps I’ve been going about it the wrong way.
I’ve grown to t rust Steve over the past year that I have been reading his blog and this post really sends it home for me. You need to begin each year with a purpose. I’ve been wallowing lately and I’ve only recently decided to build my online business into a true business and leave the corporate world behind. I’m not sure exactly how I’m going to do that yet, but I’m going to just believe in the intention-manifestation model laid out by Steve and attract it to me. I have several websites, so are pretty good and some I need to just dump and spend my time on the ones who actually have a chance of turning into something prosperous. One way to do that is to focus my time and consider the consequences of certain actions. Time is a precious resource and when you must spend the majority of your time at a JOB then you are not going to have the time to work on tasks that are of the most benefit to your long term well being.
One way to do this is to focus on the goal and not let it die. My New Year’s resolution is to build my online business to the 5 figure per month revenue level and to finally find the freedom to do what I want to do, not what I have to do. I’m going to do this by focusing on building great content and a lot of it by blogging every day on at least one of my sites. I’m going to try and do it on all my 5 sites, but I know with spending the majority of the day at work this is going to be hard. I’m going to work harder on generating traffic to my sites and I pledge to spend at least 1 hour every day on those tasks. And the biggy, I resolve to spend less time at the office and more time on my own stuff. I will not work more than 45 hours per week at the office. If something does not get done then it does not get done. After all no one is going to die if the email stops working for 10 minutes or even an entire day. I pledge to give to myself this year more than I let the job take away from me. Thanks for the great post Steve and motivating me.
Bruce
