Well a New Year is nearly upon us and it is the time of year we start to think of the year ahead and making some New Year’s resolutions. Now for those who are planning on building a highly successful on-line business it is a particularly important time. Planning is crucial. For those presently doing the mentorship course with Alex Jeffreys – remember way back on our first webinar, ‘Forward to Basics’? I hope so, because it is crucial to have those plans in place to ensure we have a firm foundation to build our business on. All the ’small steps’ we take towards our goals, as written in our plan, take us in the right direction and have a cumulative impact when all added together.

Now notice the word “written” in the above paragraph? You see a plan in your head is just a dream, a thought, an intention. To make it become reality you have to do a bit more and one way of ensuring that is by making yourself accountable. Now I reveal at the end of this post my precise goals for the coming year. Why? Well because announcing them to the world makes them more ‘real’ than just a thought and more importantly it makes me accountable. I do not like to fail and having my goals up for the world to see is one way of instilling the drive and determination to make me succeed. You see I will succeed I told you here. Will you?

Before I go on to reveal my goals I’d like to add a little frivolity to this post but it has a serious point to it as well.  Those following my thread yesterday would have seen some of the banter that was going on. It led me to put the following short video up (it auto started when you got to this site so it will easily have finished by the time you have read here!)

Now some out there will immediately discount it and say what has that got to do with running a successful online business? Well you see it is one of those ’small steps’ I told you about in the opening paragraph. You see you have to get your ‘content’ and ‘message’ out in ‘interesting ways’. You’ve got to make sure people keeping coming back and visiting your blog. Some of your ideas won’t work but you won’t know without trying. It’s all part of the “Failing Forward” as Alex Jeffreys so fondly says. Well did my experiment work? Well, if I was to tell you that the video in less than 24 hours has been embedded in over 400 websites would that make you sit up? Both mine and Gary Simpson’s blogs were specifically mentioned in it. Now if you are one of those who says ‘I can’t see the point of it?’ well then you are ‘missing the point of it’. It’s not what YOU think when it comes to marketing or promoting something it is what others think. It is analogous to what Alex preaches GIVE first, RECEIVE later and that is the mindset you have to constantly be in. It’s not about ME, it’s about others FIRST.

Right that’s the end of my digression, but I hope you understand the message I am trying to convey here.      

So back to my personal goals for 2009, well more precisely I am going to start out by putting up by 90-day goals. You see things have progressed so quickly since putting up this blog a little over a month ago that I’ve got absolutely no idea where things will be in a years time so I’ll stick with 90-days for now. So here they are:-

  • Have 1,500 subscribers on my list (Have to clear easily more than 10 a day to hit this target)
  • Create a video-cast (or podcast) once a week for my blog
  • Publish the Profit Pulling Project Newsletter every 2 weeks
  • Spend at least 1 hour a day posting and commenting on others blogs, etc
  • Create my first ebook (the one Alex mentioned I should write on one of the webinars on exactly how I have managed to have such a dominate blog)
  • Do my first Joint Venture with another Student(s)
  • Implement my ’secret’ strategy (can’t say anymore about that now !!)

Are you motivated and determined enough to put your goals on the net for all to see? If not then I suspect you have not got what it takes to succeed. And it is not just me saying that, all the top motivational coaches say something similar when it comes to having goals. I have mentioned before I have been on many courses with probably one on the best motivational coaches in the world - Tony Robbins. Goals become more tangible if they are in the ‘real’ world rather than just a thought. So what are your plans for 2009 or the next 90-days?. Have a think and post a comment up here to announce your intentions to the world. The more accountable the more likely you are to succeed as most individuals will make greater efforts to avoid failing in front of people but are quite happy to fail if no-one knows about it.

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