Streamlining the Business

There are many lessons that the universe wants to teach me but the most pressing one, I think, is the value of focused effort. I’ve been putting a lot of thought into my business and the strategy that I should take to grow it to the level that I know I can take it. I have so many ideas and I made the mistake of believing that I can do them all at the same time and they would all be wildly successful.

The truth is that I only have enough time and energy to focus on one. This was a hard fact to face. I want to work on all of these ideas floating around in my head but my mind, my heart and my life are not in a place where I can do that. I’m trying to leap over tall buildings when, in actuality, I’m only able to walk around them.

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking hard about where I should focus my efforts. Since I decided that I want to get into publishing, I figure I should focus on my writing career. I have decided to work on building a successful freelance writing business. I have set the goal of being among the top writers who are able to command rates of $1250 per hour.

This goes beyond becoming a six figure writer. For me it is less about the money and more about the opportunities that will become available to me to spread the positive messages knocking around in my brain. To be able to convince someone that they can achieve their dreams, show them how and then have them do it means more to me than anything that money could buy.

Now don’t get me wrong. This doesn’t mean that I am willing to work for free. I believe that people should be compensated for their time and effort. But if I was forced to choose between spreading the message and getting paid, I would choose the message.

Anyway, now that I have decided on a focus, the first order of business is for me to set a goal to work towards. I’m going to set it low, on purpose, because it is really important for me to build up a history of success in this area which will, in turn, boost my self-confidence. The goal is to make $100 by July 31, 2008. That will be the goal each month until I hit it. When I hit it, I’ll increase it the next month.

So far the business had made a whopping $0.95 via Google Adsense but I attribute the lack of sales to a lack of real effort with the lack of effort being the result of a lack of focus. So now that I’m focused, I can concentrate on making an effort which I know will lead to sales.

Thank the editor. Buy me a coffee!

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