Creating a Project Is NOT the Same Thing as Starting Them!
Your ideas are the gold nuggets you happen across as you pan through the waters of contemplation. If you do not take note of them, they will become covered by the sands of life.
Successful entrepreneurs NEVER disregard any thoughts or ideas that come to mind. Thoughts are extremely transient...here today, gone tomorrow. No...Here this instance...gone the next! How can I create a new project without getting involved in it?
Keep Notes!
I usually carry around with me, a little pocket-sized note pad. You can get these for less than a buck at your local Wal-Mart, etc. Have an idea? Jot it down. You will not lose it (unless you lose the book) and the act of reading over these will immediately bring the ideas back to life!
If you have another, perhaps several other projects going...resist the temptation to act on the idea...unless you recognize it to be that million-dollar idea and it must take precedence.
You may think this counterproductive...but depending on your situation, starting new projects when other unfinished ones are hanging on the line out there.
Why You Should Not Start More Than One or Two Projects At A time...
If you are like most people, too many irons in the fire will burn you out!
We all love the sensation of launching a new project. It is an exciting part of being an entrepreneur...albeit, most projects, when delved into very far, have their own share of nitty-gritty work involved...the research, development of the campaign, downright hard-core menial tasks. All projects come with housework - how much, depends on the project.
As you might expect, you will be thinning yourself out too much and in trying to manage all the projects you have going, you get none of them done and wind up with a mess. It's as simple as that. Yet many people bog themselves down doing this.
However, There's Nothing Wrong with Creating Projects for Another Time...
Budding ideas can quickly be lost if not recorded. You can create new projects without even starting them with the pen & paper method. It works on the computer too. In fact, it is good to have the notepad with you. When on the computer, it is easy to fetch Window's Notepad, creating a file especially for passing thoughts when you are at the workstation.
You won't lose the thought if you record it. You will be able to decide a day, week, month later, after having come back to it, whether it is still a noteworthy idea, to pursue it...or drop it. It's far better than having the thought come up, acting upon it right there and then, and days, weeks or months later, decide this half-done project isn't viable.
What to Get Out of This Page: Record Your Ideas! Work with a very small group of projects that you can schedule into the day and promptly get done. Do NOT start a bunch of projects. You will regret it...unless you are a Superman!
Keeping notes brings about the best of both worlds: You can create projects without starting them!
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For a very long time, I had the slow atrocious Internet connection myself right here. My earlier content on here and in the old Forum was full of complaints about my connection.
Since then, someone on here taught me how to hack into my landlord's modem from my computer and have since, been able to reset it when needed. They all do. The modem is in the house behind which I live and many times the folks in there were reluctant to take the two or three minutes it takes to reset it. As a result, I'd be without the Internet for two and three days at a time until one of them needed to go on themselves and would reset it.
This was one of the things that impeded my earlier attempts to work in WA and get the job done.
I ran out of steam or I would have included an illustration for the summation at the end but then decided, well, it doesn't really need one and I need to go to bed. So I did.
Thanks for your comment :)
I did this just last Tuesday and came up with a pile of documents three inches thick that needed to be shredded. I don't have a shredder, so I used fire to shred them with.
Between my shed and my camper, I turned out two cans of rubbish. There's more work to do on this end, but when done, it is a GREAT relief to the mind and a sense of newness.
People with clutter often forget what it would be like to have it gone and there is a real sense of freedom that comes from tackling the mess and getting rid of it.
Like I said above, I decomissioned several websites I had. It was time to renew them and I let them go. No sense in paying for these year after year and not doing anything with them, even though they were good keywords.
Clean off that desk so all you have on it are the very essentials you need. You will find it will have a positive psychological impact on all of your work, including your campaigns.
If you have cubby holes and such around your desk, clean those out too and only have a modest amount of stuff that you use every day in them. Note that the office spaces of most highly successful people are very tidy and only what's needed is found in the space. The same goes for the entire home. I once had a lot of media and had it on shelving everywhere. I removed all of that and put it all out of sight. Except for an occasional book shelf, this stuff is neatly stored in closets.
I have 21 email accounts. You can be sure some of these have not been entered into for YEARS! I am probably a holder of a million unopened emails. Entire accounts need to be deleted. Albeit, they are out of sight, out of mind. My latest email accounts are based on content, and this works for me. One account is exclusively for WA. Another for liabilities. Another for other memberships. Another for alternative health, and so forth. These email accounts I use often. The others...
Well, there was a time when I used to delve into those giveaway opportunities. I fell upon one of these in 2004. It was the "119 Christmas Gifts" giveaway by Henry Gold. It was the very first one on the Internet. I've found some of the greatest resources I would ever find (until I found WA later) in that year. None of the later ones did much more for me except fill about ten more email accounts full of never-ending streams of emails that persist to this day.
My oldest existing email account is still bursting with email from subscriptions I created in 2004! I still go into this account and it contains a unique batch of subscriptions. One of these is among the earliest of my subscriptions - The newbieclub.com. I think it has finally updated from the old ugly green and yellow website that had been up since the late 1990s. It was once the main source of my learning online and about computers in general.
LOL! That old green and yellow website is STILL there! It is a relic today, and one that would make it in an Internet museum for pioneering sites that came up just after the days of the BBSs.
Amongst one of my email accounts, I have the very first email that made me aware of Wealthy Affiliate - sent by a friend who had found WA back in 2009 and passed it on to me as something I might be interested in, that she considered was junk.
This particular email, a welcome letter from Kyle & Carson, is the very thing that changed my life. So there are relics in these old emails however few and far they be.
In completing it, I rewrote much of it to make sense. It needed some work. Your expertise in the English language probably finds errors in it, but I try to write right.
I have another resource that was meant to be an ebook. It was a project I had with another member on here but it fell through. Instead of it sitting there, I need to perhaps put it up as a training resource like that no other besides Kyle has used.
It is so large that putting it into a format as used by the episodes used in the BootCamp and Entrepreneur Certification Course would be the only way.
I got your email. I will have it up today if you would like to chat later :)
Daniel
Others I have refurbished. One of these is a personal website I had created which contained my earliest writings on the Internet.
At Jay's advice, the site is now the only one I have that has made me money. It is now my WA campaign.
