Your problem is NOT inspiration or motivation Part 1

 

There are 3 simple things you can do immediately to get your online income off the ground in the next 30 days.

(If you have something going already, nice! Do these 3 things anyway and ASAP to grow your online business even bigger and get back a whole lot of free time.)

By the way, most people will never act on these things.

They’ll think it’s either too simple, or they will lack the discipline to do them for long enough to see any results, or who knows. It’s good news for you, because therein lies...

Your Advantage!

Let’s get started.

Success Tip #1: Pay Yourself First

I think originally this idea comes from the personal finance world, where you’re told, basically, "before you do anything else with your money, put aside 10% somewhere". I don’t now.

What I do know is that there’s something way more valuable than money because there’s a finite supply of it.

It’s time.

Each and every one of us, rich or poor, healthy or sick, young or old, only get 24 hours every day - and a lot of that time is spoken for already. Sleep, work, family commitments, and so on.

It’s no wonder, then, that most people’s biggest problem when it comes to starting and running a successful online business isn’t inspiration or even motivation.

It’s spending actual time to do things you need to do as an entrepreneur.

There’s a whole ton of them in any business model, and they all need to get done.

Which is why you have to treat your time just like money. (What a novel concept - time is money, after all!)

Here’s what you do.

Pay yourself in time and money will take care of itself.

There are 24 hours in a day, and sleep is non-negotiable. You gotta protect the asset, which is your physical body - without it, none of this will matter. That leaves us with 16 hours every day.

Invest 10% of those 16 hours in your online business. That’s 96 minutes every day, and if you can’t swing that right away, do 5% or even 2%, but make it a habit. That’s the most important part.

I don’t mean consuming Youtube videos or podcasts, either. I mean sitting down and doing the necessary deep work that produces actual outcomes that move your business forward.

Where do you find extra 96 minutes (or less) every day?

My favorite time of the day is the early morning. If it means having to skip a Netflix marathon before bed in order for me to get up on time to work on my business, that’s the tradeoff I’m willing to make - because I’m darn sure paying myself first before Netflix!

For you, this might be different. You might be someone who does their best work at 2am and then sleeps until noon. If your lifestyle allows it, who am I to judge? Find what works for you.

But start paying yourself in time before everything and everyone else. It’s your life we’re talking about and you deserve to spend it the way you want.

Now what do you work on during that time?

Continued tomorrow....