Find Your Mojo!

WA turned my day to day life upside down. I had a schedule that worked for me. I was happy. I made it through the daily grind without much pressure. I felt satisfied at the end of the day. Then I joined WA.

So, with a home based business as our main income earner, I woke when I wanted to wake. I worked when I wanted to. I had my work to do, but it was up to me when I wanted to do it during the day. My addiction to WA turned it all upside down and inside out.

I was staying up late, or not going to sleep at all. I do what I do when I start a new business venture, I study. I did the lessons in WA, then did them again. I kept changing my niche, then back, then back again. I entered the SWAG training. I began a new site once again. Narrowed it to one niche and one SWAG site. Then....

It hit me one night, I could do both (SWAG and Niche) in the very first site I started. I scratched everything and started over again. Then...(I know right), my son (college grad in marketing) came by the house with two of his old textbooks. He had about 3/4 of one book tagged out and several chapters of the other and said you need to read this.

I dug into them and all my random thoughts, concerns, ideas and the big plan came together. We got on the big board (in my office, one wall is a giant whiteboard) and listed it out from start to finish. The formation of the company. The business plan. The main components of the business were born that day.

But...as I started it all up. I lost concentration. I worked for hours, but it wasn't progressing as fast and efficient as I wanted it to. I was up late, back up early. I was working long hours, but wasn't getting it done even though I had set deadlines. I was falling behind on SWAG Training. I felt like something was holding me back. It was obvious.

I had lost my mojo. The drive was there, but the results weren't. I started doing some testing. I was going to set some hours. Long hours, but set hours. Although previously, before WA, I had a good schedule, it was structured for one job, not two. So I decided to restructure my day.

I was in bed by 10 pm. I put my phone down at exactly 10. No Twitter. No News. It was bedtime big man. Time to go to bed. Lights out!

I started waking up at 4. Showered. Coffee. Started up my motivational spiritual music on Alexa and started working on my day job. When everyone woke up around 6, I was about done. I did what I could do to help the wife and daughter get ready for their day. Then back to work. Finished by 8 every morning. Breakfast. Back to work. Now on to WA.

Alexa off. No music. Plan in hand (well on the whiteboard), I started writing. It flowed. 53,000 words and 21 training videos later, It was done. Not my site, but the first of 3 products. Yesterday, I sent the content to a proofreader. I sent the videos to an editor. With a launch set for 3/1, my 11 affiliates are set and the first product is complete. I am now free to do my SWAG training.

I found my Mojo. It was in my daily schedule. Just changing it up, setting different hours, finding the right work/life mixture allowed me to become 100% more efficient with my time which resulted in two months of work being reduced to only two weeks.

Find your Mojo. Little tweaks of your workflow can change your life and make you a more effective writer, researcher and business owner.