Inside Pauls Brain

It isn’t very often I feel I just have to open up a notepad page and just type you all
a message.
Today is one of those days, I get a fair amount of email every week and I also get a
number of PM’s across the forums I am on, some people are looking for help with one of
my products others are looking for a starting point but most want to know why they are not
making the gazillions that they thought they would.

I have tried to help people whenever and however I can and I do really appreciate the fact that
people are willing to part with their hard earned cash for one of my products. Today I got a email from a friend of mine asking how my new house is doing (we just had a flood in our basement) and he mentioned that someone had canceled the membership to his latest service “because we didn’t realize we would need to do any work”.
I have had something very similar in the last week “we are looking for something that takes no work”.

I am sure you have guessed what one of the two letter words is by now,

Work

The other one is

Fear

A certain percentage of people seem to think that those of us who are successful online (and offline) have been lucky, had it all given to us, or that people come and hunt us down and give us money. The truth is that everyone who has had success has worked for it, they may choose to work less now than they did when they were starting out (and it is nice to be able to choose) but at some point they have had to work hard for their money.

When people ask for a refund based on the fact that they have to actually do some work I tend to think that is a excuse as surely everyone knows they are going to have to do something?

I wonder if they have a fear of the work. Maybe they are frightened that they won’t do it properly so if they don’t do it at all then they can’t do it wrong.
Another fear that has been mentioned to me is a underlying fear of success, I know it sounds crazy but many of us (myself included) feel that we are not really worthy to be up there with all the real money makers/gurus/successful people.

I hate to sound like a hippy but maybe this is the time that we should all be taking some time to look at ourselves, what do we want and what are we willing to do to get it. Buying the latest ebook or bit of software (even mine) and then doing nothing with it is not “working”.
If you are not willing to put in some work, reading the manual and watching the instruction videos then using the tool for the purpose it was designed then don’t buy it.
If you are not willing to put in some work then you should stop moaning that you don’t earn anything, that others are earning more, that everyone else has been lucky and finally you must stop saying you “work online” or that you are an “Internet marketer”.
If you are not willing to do the work (and this includes learning and then acting on what you have learnt) then you may as well give it all up now and just go back to surfing around you tube.

Look into yourself and if Fear is holding you back, whether it be fear of feeling stupid when you don’t understand something (like I do when people start talking programming with me), a underlying fear of success, fear of being different and following a different path than the ones the “Gurus” try to sell you on then you must start to face it and get help (I am not talking about a psychiatrist)

Find a partner online or offline who you can be honest with and share the fears and the success, A forum can be a harder place as there is always someone who thrives on being nothing but negative, I use skype to talk with my partner. It is a great way to get a boost when you are feeling down, as well as have someone who isn’t to scared to be real with you and pull you up when you get out of your pram (as we say in the UK).

I am reasonably successful online and while I am reasonably clever I am no Albert Einstein (more like beer stein), I have met one or two of the “gurus” and they sure don’t come across as rocket scientists (and I have met a real life rocket scientist). I know people who are Mensa members who have trouble constructing a coherent letter and I know self made millionaires who never finished school.

Any one of us can make it online, but it takes work and an ability to face your fear.

So is fear holding you back, or something else?

About once a month someone contacts me with the best offer ever.
They are going to sell millions of units of my latest software, or they want to partner on something.
The sales usually require that I give them a free copy and 99.9% of the time when I ask questions about their list or their membership site or anything else they never come back to me.

When someone wants me to be a partner what they usually mean is that they want me to pay for the item to be made and sell it into my list and then share the income with them.

I used to get so excited when someone contacted me about just about anything, 3 years of working online has made me very jaundiced about people. Most are looking for a quick million, very few are looking for work that pays, but with no work there is no real income.

So when someone contacts you about just about anything take it with a pinch of salt, and don’t agree to anything at all.

Have a nice long weekend everyone.

I have finally managed to hook up my PC , moving house is far to much hard work and it sure does take up some time, and all I seem to be hearing about is Hubpages.

Apparently you can earn money on Hubpages and it is a good place to get links.

I KNOW THIS..

I worked last year with a guy to produce a excellent video and PDF guide to hubpages, he has just sent me a totally updated version of it as well so we are not talking about something that is behind the curve.

It is really beginning to feel like the “gurus” are purposefully not mentioning stuff, or maybe they are just behind the curve. I do know that I see some well known names buy my stuff and then release their own tool/product. I suppose I should see this as a compliment..

Ok rant over, back to unpacking!

We have had our offer on a house accepted , home inspection is on Monday.
The new place is pretty much double the size of the one we are in, the garden is about 5 times the size of the one here so I will be buying a lawnmower (which is the only downside).

It is 4 bedroom and we only need 3, so I get the 4th one as a office. It already has a huge shelving area at one end which will be perfect for all my books and folders, there is also plenty of wall area so I can put up my whiteboards. They are currently in storage and still have project ideas written on them.

I think having a real office space will improve my work flow , but it will also mean that when I am working I can shut the door and concentrate on what I am doing.

I have noticed lately how many people are doing TV style ads, a bit like the infomercials where one guy talks at the camera while holding up a bottle of cleaning fluid. I am not sure how this would work with IM products but it could be interesting. So I am hoping that I will be able to hang up my green screen and set up the sony video camera I have and test out some ideas, heck I may even shave for you!

Ok time to go and start painting and packing , all being well I will be in my own office in 3 weeks!

Paul