Cleaning up My Act

Recently, I have been evaluating how I can set up my environment for success. Which means I needed to take a cold hard look at where I am vs where I want to be.

I noticed lately that I have been getting distracted pretty easily whether it be by Facebook, YouTube videos or even distracted with day to day life.

Have you ever sat down to work on your blog only to find yourself hopping to Facebook, YouTube and various websites on auto-pilot? What is sad regarding Facebook is I rarely see anything worthwhile. I just find myself doing the scroll. Perhaps you do this with Instagram or Pinterest.

Needless to say this is getting me no closer to my goal of 12k per month. Therefore, I needed to take some action and massive action at that.

Oh No She Didn't!

I removed Facebook from my quick launch after going through and deleting anyone I had not conversed / interacted with over the past year. How many people on your social media do you actually respect or care about? I kept people in my industry, people I know and people who inspire me. I went from 370 friends down to 99 and my feed is much less cluttered.

Furthermore, I deleted Instagram off my phone as I tend to spend way too much scrolling. In fact, I have caught myself picking up my phone and scrolling Instagram on auto-pilot without even realizing it.

Then over to YouTube I went and unsubscribed from all the channels that were not helping me grow. I already do not watch TV or have cable and I removed video games from my computer a long time ago. Admittedly deleting the games was difficult as I loved playing games like WOW, Gems of war and Tropico on rare occasion.

I have even had to limit what I focus on for work as I have 3 websites apart from my new one I launched here at WA. This is in addition to my Pinterest accounts which have a combined 1.7 million views per month. Inherently I know that I can not get far by having my attention so scattered.

Therefore, I had to make a decision on what I need to focus on to obtain my goals which means focusing on my Wealthy Affiliate training and website and managing my Pinterest accounts.

My other websites promote Amazon which makes small commissions but I really am passionate about WA and love the idea of focusing on higher paying digital items. Which is why I have decided to put my other websites on the back burner.

This will give me the time and space I need to put into Wealthy Affiliate and most importantly my income goals.

While these changes were big for me they were much-needed. Because the person who makes 12k a month is not who I see when I look in the mirror. Which means I have to become a better version of myself.

Having said that it feels great to clean up my life as it opens the door to new possibilities. What distractions are keeping you from achieving your full potential.