Life Gets In The Way

My $10,000 in 90 day challenge is about getting me activated and doing daily tasks that guarantee an ongoing income online.  The problem I have is the life gets in the way.  I keep backsliding into old habits. 

Right now our rental house is for sale. Tuesday our landlord  announced that she is having an open house Sunday. That means ANY ONE can stroll through our house and some may "case the joint" for a late night visit. We live a block away from a problem area of apartments.  This has me stressed out this week. I cannot control someone selling my house out from under me.

I have often found that life's circumstance block us from some goal or activity we desire.  The thing is to IMMEDIATELY pick up the pieces and move on.  In the past this would have almost stopped me. Actually it did stop me yesterday as I did nothing productive all day long. Today I am moving on.

Life throws a lot of obstacles at us.  How big the obstacle is depends on how we interpret it.  It is really a decision we have to make.  Is it good or bad. If it is bad how can we make it better. 

The need is to find answers that are bigger than the problem.  Positive answers that allow us to move forward. There is a saying out of "Think and Grow Rich" that says, "Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage."  Or, out of anything bad, you can find good if you look for it.

I am looking at this landlord thing as a opportunity to find a better place to live.  I am also looking at it as a wake-up call to take action on my $10,000 Challenge and put myself into a position that obstacles have less impact on my life.

OH, today I am giving my landlord her 30 day notice that we are moving. 

Plan To Take Action On Plans

One of the big problems my wife and I have is that we make a lot of plans. We write the plans down. We detail them out, but then we never make a plan to take action on the plans.  We write up business plans, personal plans and all sorts of plans.  Next we file the plans away before any action is taken on them.

Does this sound like you?  Are you forever planning to do things and never doing them.  If so, the biggest plan you can make is to plan to take action on one of your plans. 

For those who just jump in and do things, this may not make sense. Their answer is to simply take action.  Taking action is scary.  We live live on two principles, pain and pleasure. What is painful we avoid, what is pleasurable we do. 

Pain and pleasure fall into two categories, knows and unknowns.  If something is known to us we are comfortable with it and it is pleasure. If something is unknown, it makes us uncomfortable and it is therefor pain. 

Pain and pleasure, knowns and unknowns.  I have trouble getting internet marketing going. PAIN.  IM is an unknown.  Yes, I know the details but I lack the experience, unknowns.  It is more difficult to try to accomplish an unknown than a known.  Our subconscious gets in the way.

The answer is to "Eat an elephant one bit at a time".  What I mean is to break any new thing down into small chunks and work on a single "bite" at a time.  A project can be overwhelming, but writing two paragraphs is fairly easy. Completing a complex project may be an unknown, but writing a couple paragraphs is a known. We have written a few sentences in the past, we can do that. 

Guess what the project in internet marketing is usually just a  bunch of paragraphs arranged into a finished product.  So, a paragraph here and a page there and the "elephant" (project) gets eaten (written) one bite (paragraph) at a time. 

Join me here. Plan to make a plan to work on your plans.  Decide you can achieve new and unknown things as you take on just one small aspect of them at a time. 

MY $10,000 challenge in 90 days is ending April 17.  That is not a lot of time and yet it is more than enough time to achieve even more.  It all depends on taking action on plans.  As taking action continues is becomes a know and a pleasure rather than the pain of an unknown.

Weekly Goals Make Sense

We are often overwhelmed by a HUGE task or goal.  I have talked about "Eating an elephant one bite at at time". My wife, Sharon, and I are breaking our $10,000 in 90 Days Challenge down into more bite sized chunks.  One way is short term weekly goals. Weekly goals make sense. 

Our current goals do not even involve money, they involve activity.  We have small goals to get reactivated.  We have been doing nothing for so long it is a habit.  A bad habit that we are breaking with the help of Richard Butler, the success coach.

Yes, we have been working.  We are self employed selling on Ebay.  Between the warehouse we work out of and our home, we pay $3050 a month in  rent.  Obviously we have to work/are working to keep up with the rent and the rest of our bills. We just do not work hard or smart enough.

We have no credit, so we have no credit related bills. This is good, but also scary. If a car breaks down we have to pay cash to fix it.  We cannot "solve a problem" by using a credit card. We either pay cash or it does not get paid.

The work habits we have are sloppy.  RUSH at the end of the month to pay the rent. RUSH when bills come due.  RUSH! is not the way we should have to  live life. 

A simple attitude adjustment could alleviate the RUSH syndrome and bring a little tranquility to our lives.  A plan of action that includes a plan to take action on the plan is what we are working on. 

Join us. Make a plan and another more powerful plan that says, "Take action on  my plan". 

I have written many plans over the years. I just have never written a plan of action to follow my plans.  I hope that makes sense to you.  It is sort of like New Year's Resolutions that never are fulfilled. We make the resolutions, but not the plan to follow through on them.