Thanks for the kick in the pants.

It was well and truly needed.

Gavin

I opted in last night to your new Productivity series and watched Video #1, twice, and one thing REALLY caught my eye (although nearly EVERYTHING on the page applies to me) from the Sales Page: How Creativity Is My Enemy.

I have way too many ideas. And I get distracted by everyone else's ideas which give me more new ideas. Every new idea spawns at least one more new idea. And I love research and writing more than I love what comes next. (Not to mention all the attendant fears.) And I probably have the equivalent of several Paid Reports I've written sitting in forum posts (on other peoples websites!) that of course I will not be paid for. Do I pay attention and act when people tell me it's great stuff and do I go ahead and write for profit instead of fun? ... No.

Every time I think I'm less than a week or so away from being able to Go Live with a Paid Product, I let something else get in the way, or figure out a **BETTER** way to do something. ... NOT. (Even if it is better, it's probably not worth the lost time.)

And it IS true: Perfectionism kills, unless you're on a renewable government grant.

So I have way too many things undone. It is driving me crazy, and broke. ... Yet I am hoping that if I can channel myself correctly, I can turn that creativity into an asset. ... But we'll see.

I've right now got one report open on my screen, I've re-edited it twice already, and I'm thinking of starting with that ONE THING. ... I'm also considering buying Time Management on Crack, but I have bought so many things, including time management systems, over the last few years, the thought of just one more product drives me nuts. ... It's a good thing you had the one dollar tryout option.

But you certainly do force a person to re-think how they think. ... And the accountability partner idea is something I did years ago that worked pretty well.

I am now going to re-read your sales page for TMonC.

Take Care, Robert,
David

When it rains and were I to have a broken leg [unable to get out and about] I am sure I could turn out the info.............but I'd still like to know and have all the help I could get:-).

Serious and genuine congratulations on turning out all this work and remaining so focussed - which is certainly the answer.

Shirley

Great post, and very true. I for one always try to run before I can walk. My thinking if I work on many projects one of them should get finished and then I can work on the rest.

But that never happens. Very good post.

John

To answer your other question, I always to start and launch a product within 7 days.

@Jay: I like the writing an ebook by accident idea and that's how I've written most of my stuff. Heck the table of contents of my first paid e-book said "Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc."

Congrats on the 100th post!!!!!!!!!!!!

so where's the 99% off sale????

Semmy

Yet.

I'll follow along, though, if I can even cut 50% off lead time that would be superb. I may not have quite enough base content in valuable market either.

Back to the salt mine...