Hi all,

My word doesn´t time fly? I cannot believe that it´s been so long since I last posted.

I am sure that after writing this post I may well get a lot of  flack but, in the words of Clark Gable “quite frankly my dear I don´t give a damn”.  Since the end of the Alex Jeffreys training course I have been beavering away at quite a few projects and I´m pleased to say that they are all coming along quite nicely. The thing is only one of these projects is remotely connected to the IM niche. 

The main thing Alex´s course brought out in me was the ability to focus and , as he describes in his own words, not jump on and off the chaos wagon, i.e. stick with one method.

My main reasons for working predominantly outside the IM niche are as follows:

1.  Whilst we all know that the IM niche is a burgeoning market, it is one of the hardest nuts to crack and the percentage of new marketers who are actually able to break through is tiny.  Obviously there are exceptions to the rule and a couple of the students on the course appear to be breaking eggs with big sticks, i.e. Dean Holland and Garry Parkes, and all good luck to them.

This post will be one of those heart on sleeve moments.  I am looking at the clock in my office and it´s telling me that I should have been in bed five and a half hours ago, the time is 4.50  am..

It´s not that I don´t need to sleep, I do, I´m feeling totally drained.

Alex Jeffrey´s sent me an email about an hour ago saying that it was very important and that I should to go to his blog, so I did.  He has made his first video of 2009 in which he talks about his plans for the year ahead.  I watched the video intently as he describes how he intends to go away on holiday, and whilst he´s away from all the stress of his normal working environment he will make his plans for 2009 in which he will blast his way to a million dollar turnover for the year.

As I watched this video it hit me like a sledgehammer, what the hell was I doing watching a video of Alex at 4.30am !!

We all have busy lives and have to fit things around work and all the other mundane tasks that life throws  at us  but, what am I doing still awake at 4.30am. The reason I´m sat here at stupid o´clock in the morning is because the forward planning that I had laid out for myself at the beginning of this year SUCKS like a big one !!