I asked him what he'd tried and what effort he had put in. I won't bore you with the conversation. I'll spare you that.
Basically he was whining about the fact that he had to work a 9-5 job and he just didn't have the time to make any money online. He'd love to quit his job etc etc blah blah...
Just think about this for a second. He didn't have time...
I met him in the PUB for goodness sake!
Any newbies reading this who think that they don't have time to make money online, please take note!
This is the thing. Lots of people get started in internet marketing for the same reasons as you. Because they want to be able to eventually quit their day jobs and make money online instead.
Let's face it, it's a much more enjoyable way of earning a very nice living.
Some of those people succeed and some don't. Here's why...
Having a nine to five job means that you have worked those hours. That's 40 hours a week. Or you may work 50 or 60 hours a week. That makes you tired and all you want to do when you get home is to eat your meal and then relax in front of the TV, then go to bed and get up for work again the next day.
The people who fail to ever make any money online are the people who do the above and maybe fit in an hour or two a week working on their online business, (or they do absolutely nothing).
The people who succeed in making money online and eventually replace their day jobs with an online income are the people who want to quit their jobs badly enough. They want the lifestyle that they see so many other online marketers enjoy. So what they do is this....
They work their 9-5 jobs AND they work on building their online income. They don't come home and watch TV. They come home, grab a coffee, and start doing something they enjoy i.e. working on building their online business. They can see the future. Their future. They can almost taste it!
They do something every day. Instead of watching TV they are working on their online project.
Building and building until they start to see some income and then building on that until they start to see more income coming in, then building on that until they are seeing a regular income coming in and then building on that until they have much more than their job income coming in.
Then they quit their jobs and start really making some serious money by working at home full time an building their online business.
Honestly, how many hours of TV do you watch a week? Add those hours up and tell me what you get. Five hours a day is about the norm (and some people watch TV before they go to work).
So five hours a day equals 35 hours a week.
What if you watched just five hours of TV a week? Only watching the things you really wanted to watch? That leaves you with 30 hours a week to work on escaping your day job. Working towards your goal to escape the 9 to 5 rat-race.
Do that and you will succeed. But it takes commitment. If you want something badly enough, if you can see how different your life could be, then you'll make the sacrifice.
But really, is it that much of a sacrifice? No. It's enjoyable and can pay off BIG time IF you want it badly enough.
Those that don't succeed and will always have to work for the man for a lousy monthly paycheck are those exact same people who whine about the fact that they have no time to change their lives because they are too busy with their jobs.
HOGWASH!!!
MAKE the time. Commit to learning the methods that will allow you to truly change your life in a way that you can hardly imagine. Then work diligently at putting those methods into action.
