Learn,Get Real and Focus

Reality hit last week while I was on Spring Break. I had spent a week catching up on blogs, websites, home and our three quarters of an acre garden. I also had lesson plans to finalise for my teaching and art work. A cold brewed into a chest infection and I found I had to just rest and let the antibiotics do their thing. I still kept up my daily goals and took the time to watch and learn loads at WA including Boot camp and from the internet. A chest infection wasn't going to hold me down but a feeling was seeping to the surface, a feeling I hadn't had before because I love each day of my life but it it still a considered life and finances have to be really placed. I am not financially free!!!
Several You Tube inspirational films, posts and videos later, I took the time to really get down to what I wanted from life. In the next month, year and five years. Writing this down started to ring alarm bells. Yes! I have been doing daily goals since the day I joined WA at the start of the year, I am pleased that I have been achieving these and more but the aims I have in mind I would be in my late retirement before getting to most of them because the numbers weren't adding up!
Yes! I would be enjoying my life but life goals still would be 'wishes'. I got real!
How could I make the numbers add up?
Would my day job achieve my aims in the next five years? No!
What do I really have to do with my websites?
New ideas, new plan, new niches!!!
Focus! Niche, Product, Readers, Customers.
Set up a site that is for real and earning.
An hour brainstorming!
Brought a website, hosting and got down to it. Putting into practice all I had learnt over the last three years. Spent two days totally focused. In between adding inspiration and extras to the blogs and sites that are technically hobbies that advertise my day job. These earn a living for my daily teaching career but don't earn enough to have a dream day off or those life goals.
A newsletter campaign learnt how to do, sent out to my local clients and good feed back led to the confidence to add a capture form on my new niche site and start really building a list of potential customers I have no way of ever meeting other than on line!
Affiliate Sales started coming in but today ten days later I can give you the feed back I have earnt more in IM sales than todays day job wage! A result! I had great day teaching so I feel this is icing on the cake, there is a change on the horizon!
A change in mindset!
I will be honest I had to focus, be hard on myself and do it. I had to be real!
Cut out the crap! (Sorry don't normally use language!
Still being real I need to work out now how to do this extent of concentrated IM work around the day job,family and life. It has made me more focused about what I do with my time. Also the everyday routines are they serving my future?
De-clutter! Spring has really hit!
I will keep WA up to date, that's if you don't mind. It has been great to learn, share and Thank those who have given their knowledge, TLC and open comment.
Thank You!