Master Mind Progress

How I'm Doing This week:

I am so shattered this week I really didn't feel like writing anything at all today.

It's been a long eventful week with days when I was ready to quit my job (Wednesday), Days where I spent 4 hours solid on a mastermind conference call, ( Thursday ) and days where I thought my job was going to be tolerable for quite some time to come ( Today)
As someone who has been used to controlling his own schedule and his own structure for the day for the last 4 years, it is a big culture shock being sucked back into an environment where the number of bums on seats are measured and 9am is a religious moment that no one in their right mind will willingly greet from anywhere other than their office chair.
This is a serious drain on my enthusiasm when I let it be, and so I am aiming to generate enthusiasm from the fact that the calls that I have had to practice with have gone well ( With real customers )
And that worked REALLY well today :o)


Current Goals:

= My Clickbank Money book: One evening a week at least ( up to 3 hours )
= Our Business must grow ( 2 to 3 Evenings a week ) - 6 to 9 hours )
= Succeeding in my new job. It is commission based and I need to focus on getting great.


New things I will TRY to do:


List & Sell the 43 things I have marked for ebay sales


Things I am Dropping:


There is little left to drop. I could do with spending less time surfing and checking emails.


Last Weeks Achievements:


I added 3 ideas to my ideas sheet, which is progress from the previous week. but I would hope that my mind is capable of producing more than 3 ideas a week!
I've also completed 85% of the writing of my book, and if this call on Thursday hadn't gone on for four productive hours ( and they were productive! ) it would have been complete by now.
I also finished a web based sales course and qualified for a diploma saying I passed. Good thing I have access to a laminating machine for when it arrives... ( rah rah rah )
I wrote quite a number of articles for the money tips website as well, but I don't seem to get my head around actually sending out the newsletter. You'll see if I make it THIS week - ONLY if you have signed up! ;o)
That's a joke by the way as there is no newsletter signup option on the site anymore. There is a log in which will give you access to another menu, but nothing exiting there at all.
Yet.

Next Weeks Targets:


= finish writing my ebook
= Create & follow exercise schedule
= Complete all assigned business tasks
= moneytips newsletter
= make my first sales calls for my JOB
= pick up my ebay selling again

This weeks lessons:
Long Talks Make Big Man A Babbling Idiot. 4 hours is pretty much my limit when it comes to calls!
If I choose to concentrate on the negatives, the job that I now have will be unbearable. When I re-focus on the benefits of the job, and remind myself why I am there, it is so much better.
The short term financials will be a nightmare, but I'd hope to get some kind of rewards quite quickly. Even
Although I have to suffer the punishment of going to Las Vegas first! ( Sorry Martin... )
Although I will take a leaf out of your book and try to experience the place through your enthusiastic eyes. It will make my stay there far more pleasurable. And I can remember with a smile that one day, the hotel might get demolished in style.

And no I will not be flying over the canyon as all the helicopter operators are fully booked already. Which is a shame. I've never thrown up over a canyon before.

Progessing in multiple ways!

How I'm Doing This week:
Pearson would have been really depressed about this week as it was absolutely fabulous!
It's been mad busy to sort everything out. especially I was sick for about 3 days of this week. But we have made tremendous progress, and we were only £21 off the weekly sales target, which isn't bad 3 weeks into trading! and especially as the sales target I set is based on the level of business I am expecting us to trade at when we are fully operational.
We've also discovered that our niche is served by two completely different industries, that both seem to shun each other. In one of those industries we are authorised suppliers to around 300 outlets - the other: three. The second one has over 800 outlets in the UK alone. so we've got another 797 potential places our customers hang out that we haven't even approached yet.

Current Projects:
= My Clickbank Money book
= Our Business
= Fitness
= Sales Job Success

New things I will TRY to do:
Catalogue my new product ideas so that I don't waste time researching new ideas when I should finish off other products further down the pipeline

Things I am Dropping:

The weekly time table from this post. It doesn't seem to add any value to anyone.
Last Weeks Achievements:
Get 90 minutes worth of exercise, including brisk walking. => I did 45 minutes. Walking up the stairs on Wednesday ( 3 flights ) I stil got puffed out as per usual, but it only took me about 20 seconds or so to recover and not 10 minutes )
I have now completed 51 percent of my ebook, one percentage point over my goal. I think this is another first - I have actually over-achieved on one of my goals!
Managed to get loads of research done for the events that my wife are attending this weekend and also wrote an advertising pack for her to take with her
Stay on top of, and keep on updating my money website with newsletter = not done at all!

Next Weeks Targets:

Finish the ebook?!? Could be done actually as I am really getting into the "voice" of the money tip "ranter and reviewer". And I am a natural ranter on many more subjects other than money!
That elusive exercise time table needs working out. I have scheduled in the work to set it up for Sunday Morning.
There is a lot of follow up actions comming out of the events this week so I will be carrying out those. I also need to write a press release that.
And of course trying to get some more structure on this fitness of mine.
This weeks lessons:
Funny how I get to cultivate and do something productive with a trait that is un-productive! The ranting I mean.
Just goes to show you never know where your interests and talents may lie.
Has anyone else that works for themselves and have a job as well, that when the business is going well it is incredibly difficult to motivate yourself for your job? I guess it helps if your job is really motivating you, but if it isn't then I find that a business that IS interesting has such a demotivating effect on the JOB.
Or can have. I have been trying to focus on the fact that the job will teach me something I really need to learn. I know what some of it is, but I am sure I will learn something I hadn't even thought of. And I am already finding out that things that you guys have taught me helps me understand my new sales job better.
Although due to the non-disclosure agreements and non-competitive clauses I am even more restricted than before when it comes to creating software products.

Cheers,
Jon

PS, if anyone has received notices of Instantbuzz but haven't been able to get an invite, let me know and I'll send you one. just drop me an email on mr_otherwisen AT hotmail.com
( I'll review it in more detail when I have had more time to see it perform )

What Is it that structure has against me?

How I'm Doing This week:
I am having a VERy busy evening!

I've not been very good at following up all the actions I have given myself this week. A consequence of my lack of dicipline I am afraid. Typing for 45 minutes once a week is the easy bit in this life long experiment of mine. Actually following through on the things that I set forth to do is another matter. Look at my current goals and you can see that I have set myself some steep challenges between now and new year.

On top of that I now have a completely new job to learn. And I must admit that one is taking me through an emotional roller coaster at the moment. It is fair to say I am now working in the least respected part of the organisation. That doesn't bother me. There isn't much that bothers me about the job to be honest, but I do experience so many different emotions in a week - covering ALL of the spectrum. Like I really don't know what I'm doing in this type of job to be honest. But then again, I seem to be reasonably well articulated and seem to be able to talk intelligently about business to the people I call.

And the fact that I don't have a choice about wether or not to go in to the office seems to help my dicipline!

Which is VERY good for my business. And eventually VERY good for my health. Once I get into the swing of exercising again. I am walkign the stairs more often at work now, which is a start. But I need to do more.


Current Goals:
= My Clickbank Money book: 3 hours writing a week
= Our Business must grow. I'll tell you the plan when it has worked.
= Succeeding in my new job. Shouldn't be too hard.

Current Weekly Time Table:
Thursday: Google & inspirational day.
Friday: Remain my progress report day.
Saturday Mornings I am accountable to others.
Sunday: Free Day / Business focus meetings
Monday: Money product day.
Tuesday & Wednesday: Business Days.

New things I will TRY to do:

setting aside some dedicated time for exercise in my weekly schedule. and then exercise at that time

Things I am Dropping:

http://www.telecomplus.org.uk/fareham
Is getting ditched this week. As an MLM proposition it's not all that great, but as a customer I love it.

Last Weeks Achievements:

I didn't write for 3 hours on my book, but I got some work done. 10 percent of it done in fact. And that was in just an hour. My new aim is to see it finished as close to the 20th of Novemeber as possible, as I managed to get so much of it done in one sitting.

The exercise this week consisted of playing with my son, walking the stairs for roughly 12 minutes and a woodland walk in the Queen Elisabeth Country Park

The newsletter got sent out - eventually! What a lark. My autoresponder website stinks to high heaven. I don't know why I bother with it to be honest as I'm sure only about a 3rd of my subscribers get the email.

And my business actions ( all three of them) - two of them are complete and the 3rd I can't do until Sunday. But I'm ready for it.

Next Weeks Targets:

exercise 3 times 20 minutes!

I hope to complete another 20 percent of the book content before Friday

and beyond that, I better start cracking on with the various roles I have in the business. The sales are trickling in, but I need to help open the flood gates.


This weeks lessons: