Alex Jeffreys (apprentice GOO-ROO, not GNU Mr Garry Parkes) is off on a well-earned vacation in sunny Florida, USA while the rest of us are here still hard at it building our blogs and loading them with content anxiously awaiting his return. Well, some of us are.

You see, I have noticed something, something rather normal actually. While the cat’s away most of the mice … do bugger all. I see it in business all the time. When the boss or supervisor vacates the premises, most of the staff slacken off. Well, let me tell you something here. This is YOUR business. YOU are the boss.

I have been my own boss now for almost 20 years and I know that the face you see in the mirror every morning can be the hardest boss of all time (very rare - as in workaholics - eg the person typing all this up for you) or the easiest boss of all time (yeah, I think I’ll go and have a surf, play golf, hang out at the club, blah, blah, blah…)

Well, if you build your business to the level that Alex Jeffreys has, or Rich Scheffren has or Newt Skobernacker has or Mike Filsaime has or Michael Cheney has then yeah, maybe it will run largely on auto-pilot without a lot of your presence. But in the early days YOU should be hussling.

So, I have compiled a little check-list for you to look over. This is just to let you think about how you might like to go about things and what is gonna separate the winners from the losers. Sorry to use that term folks but there are always gonna be winners and, unfortunately, losers in every endeavour in life.

I think there is a lot of learning to be had here in this 20 point check list that I have constructed for you. So here is my 20 point list that discerns the difference between winners and losers. You can learn very quickly here why winners win and losers lose just by checking this list…

  1. Winners have dogged determination. Losers lack the ability to see any project through to a satisfactory conclusion.

  2. Winners never give up, give in or surrender. Losers quit the moment things get the slightest bit difficult.

  3. Winners make exceptional use of available time. Losers waste time engaging in useless activities.

  4. Winners plan and map their route to success. Losers consider plans belong to builders and maps belong in glove-boxes.

  5. Winners take responsibility for all outcomes. Losers shun responsibility and prefer to place blame on others.

  6. Winners commence a task at the earliest opportunity. Losers procrastinate, delay and run out of time.

  7. Winners learn from their own mistakes and the experience of others. Losers make the same mistakes over and over again.

  8. Winners are committed to projects. Losers display whimsical interest.

  9. Winners make things happen. Losers watch things happen.

  10. Winners are pro-active. Losers are re-active.

  11. Winners have vision and imagination. Losers are backward looking and lack initiative.

  12. Winners encourage and inspire others. Losers criticize and ridicule others.

  13. Winners are methodical and organized. Losers are haphazard and slipshod.

  14. Winners seek information and embrace new knowledge. Losers ignore better methods, concepts and ideas.

  15. Winners ask: “How can I do that?” Losers state: “How do you expect me to do that?”

  16. Winners invest in income producing assets. Losers waste money on depreciating consumer goods.

  17. Winners develop 5, 10, 20, 30 years of experience. Losers repeat one year of experience 5, 10, 20, 30 times.

  18. Winners continually push existing limits and boundaries. Losers feel comfortable operating below their self-imposed ceilings.

  19. Winners take calculated risks. Losers take hazardous gambles.

  20. Winners are inspired to do more to be more. Losers conspire to do less and not be noticed.

Now, if you want you can print the Gazz-Man’s check-list, take a pen and give yourself a tick or a cross against each of the 20 points above. There is only ONE requirement - be honest. That is another characteristic of winners - they are honest with themselves.

I welcome any discussion on any of the twenty points listed above. But, can we just stick to one or two coz if you address EVERY point or even every second point this is gonna get horrendously large and messy very quickly. In fact, it may be wise just to pick ONE point and give it a darn good hammering!

Maybe, without naming names, you might work with someone who displays a characteristic listed above. Wanna get it off your chest?

Or, maybe you would like to discuss some of the principles that Alex Jeffreys has been teaching in his Internet Marketing course.

You can even RANT if you want. Come on. Who wants to have a red hot crack? I won’t censor anything so long as it doesn’t hurt an individual.

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