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The Dead Simple 4 Step Formula for Achieving Results

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There is a very simple formula for achieving worthwhile results in virtually any area of your life.

The formula is dead simple, but each part of it must be followed in order for it to work.

The formula is simply this:

“Do the right things, correctly, long enough, consistently and you’ll achieve the results you want.”

Sounds pretty simple, right?

Well, it is, but let’s dive into each of the parts individually to see what it really means.

# 1 – Do the RIGHT Things

The first part of the formula states that just going out there and DOING things is not good enough, you must also do the RIGHT things!

As an example, I first started working out when I was still in high-school.

My older brother had a very basic weight lifting bench he bought and I used to use it to do bench press and a few other strength training exercises hoping to build muscle.

Then for the next 20 years I dabbled with all kinds of different ways of strength training.

I bought a gym, barbells, dumbbells, and a bunch of other strength training equipment.

I then read some books on strength training and tried working out based on what the books taught.

I only stuck with it for a short period of time before giving up.

Then I tried joining a gym, and that didn’t work for me at all.

I found it so time consuming I never ended up going to the gym.

I tried programs like P90X, gym equipment like the Bowflex, free weights, a vibration plate machine, and a whole bunch of other things.

The challenge with all of these different things is that at the end of the day, no matter what equipment I had, *I* was still in charge of creating my own “workout plan”.

What I didn’t realize though is that I wasn’t QUALIFIED to do that.

It seems like it should be something that SHOULD be easy to do – right?

Just get a book like the encyclopedia of bodybuilding, and pick some exercises that focus on the upper body, then pick some that focus on the lower body, and then maybe some that focus on the core, and boom – you’re set, right?

Well, not exactly.

See, as human beings, what we tend to do is if we’re given a LARGE list of possible THINGS that we could do towards achieving a certain result, and we are given the task of CHOOSING a small set of things from that larger list, more often than not we will pick things that are either easy for us to do or that we are already proficient in doing.

Continuing on with my strength training example, given the choice of over 300+ different strength training exercises I could do, when I would put together a strength training plan for myself I would choose 10-20 exercises that were either EASY for me to do or that I was good at doing.

For example, I’ve always enjoyed doing bench press, so that always ended up on my short list of 10-20 exercises I would do, but something like PLANK would never make the list.

Why?  Because as anyone who has done PLANK will tell you – it sucks!

It’s not an easy / comfortable exercise to do, especially if you’re out of shape and doing it doesn’t make you feel strong and powerful like bench press does. 🙂

So what I’m basically saying is that for 20 years, when I’d try to start a strength training program, it would already pretty much be doomed before I even started because *I* wasn’t qualified to know how to choose the RIGHT things to do in order to strengthen MY BODY.

Now, contrast that with my recent decision to hire a personal trainer from Ivanco Fitness and we’ve got a totally different situation.

Before even putting together a program, I went through a body assessment process with my personal trainer and we identified my goals as well as doing a proper assessment of my strengths and weak areas in my body.

Then a qualified personal trainer put together an exercise program for me which told me exactly what the RIGHT exercises are for me to do.

So now I’m actually following a plan which shows me the RIGHT things to do.

It’s the exact same thing with something like building a blogging business online.

Most bloggers get overwhelmed with about a billion different things they could do as a blogger, but very few know exactly which RIGHT things to do in order to start making money with their blogs.

This is why you need a blogging mentor.

Otherwise you’ll just waste years struggling and accomplishing nothing like I did with my 20 years of “Do it yourself strength training”.

If you’ve never made money blogging you are NOT QUALIFIED to mentor yourself to make money blogging.

Sure you can waste your time trying to figure it all out via trial and error, but why would you want to?

It’s so much easier to just join my team with Empower Network and learn from the best of the best!

Now, let’s look at the next part of the formula.

#2 – Do the Right Things, CORRECTLY

The next part of the formula takes things to the next level.

See even if you know what the RIGHT things are that you need to do in order to succeed, you can still do the right things INCORRECTLY and fail.

This is why you need to also be taught how to do the right things CORRECTLY!

With my strength training example, when I work with my personal trainer, he doesn’t just tell me what the right things are for me to do, he also makes sure that I’m doing them CORRECTLY.

Meaning, my personal trainer watches my form, posture and body mechanics to make sure I’m doing the right exercises CORRECTLY as well.

He makes sure I know HOW to do the exercises, which muscles groups to engage throughout the movement and keeps an eye out to make sure I’m doing them correctly.

Again, it’s the same thing with making money online with a business like blogging.

Even if you know WHAT to do, but you’re not doing it CORRECTLY, you will still fail to produce the right results.

This is why it’s so important to have a blogging coach / mentor, who can not only teach you what are the right things that you must be doing every day, but also who can watch to make sure that you’re doing those things correctly.

Once again you could spend the next few years trying to do it with the “trial and error” method, and perhaps you MIGHT figure out how to do the right things correctly, but why waste that time?

And what if you never figure it out?

Why take that chance and waste that time?

It’s so much easier to just join my team with Empower Network and learn from the best of the best!

Now, let’s look at the next part of the formula.

#3 – Do the Right Things, Correctly, LONG ENOUGH

The next part of the formula states that it’s not good enough to just do the right things correctly…

… we must also do those things LONG ENOUGH to produce results.

Meaning, just because I do the right strength training exercises, and just because I do them correctly ONE TIME, doesn’t mean that I’m going to wake up the next morning having achieved my strength training goals.

In order to reach our goals we must be willing to persevere and do things LONG ENOUGH to produce the results we want.

Again, this is where having a coach / mentor can really pay off, because they can help us to stay the course, to maintain the right attitude and have the mental toughness to keep going especially when we feel like giving up.

Most people fail because they gave up just two feet away from gold, and usually because they didn’t BELIEVE that what they were doing is going to work anyways.

When you work with a coach / mentor, and you know that you’re doing the right things correctly, and they can keep your mindset focused on your goals, it’s so much easier to stick to things long enough to produce results because at least you know you’re doing the right things correctly!

If you’re not working with a coach, and you’re just trying to do the “trial and error” approach, it’s so hard to stick with things long term because you don’t know if you’re even doing the right things, let alone if you’re doing them correctly!

When it comes to building a successful blog, I’ve seen so many people give up on their blogging dreams after just a few weeks or months because they didn’t truly believe that what they were doing was going to produce results.

If you want to build a successful blog, don’t put yourself through that pain and torture.

Instead just join my team with Empower Network and learn what to do from a proven system that’s guaranteed to work!

Now, let’s look at the next part of the formula.

#4 – Do the Right Things, Correctly, Long Enough, CONSISTENTLY and you’ll achieve results.

The next part of the formula states that once again it’s not good enough to do the right things, correctly and for a long enough period of time — we must also do those things CONSISTENTLY!

For example, if I did my strength training program that my personal trainer put together for me, and I did it correctly, and I did that program for 5 years, but I only did strength training once a month or once every 3-4 months, that would STILL not produce the results I want.

In order to achieve the results I want, I also have to do my strength training CONSISTENTLY.

In other words I have to follow a schedule which will optimize the results I get from my program in the shortest period of time, while still allowing me to live my life and to have enough rest time in between for my body to recover.

This is the final piece in the formula.

If I DO the RIGHT things, CORRECTLY, LONG ENOUGH, CONSISTENTLY I will produce results.

If I DO the RIGHT strength training exercises, CORRECTLY with proper form / posture / and activating the right muscles, LONG ENOUGH for my body to transform, CONSISTENTLY enough based on a weekly schedule, I WILL produce results.

It’s virtually impossible NOT to produce results if I’m following this formula.

Again, it’s the same thing with Blogging and making money online.

If you DO the RIGHT things, CORRECTLY, LONG ENOUGH, CONSISTENTLY, you WILL produce results as a Blogger.

If you’d like to learn what those things are, and how to do them correctly and consistently, check out this video of a proven system that has already produced more than a dozen multi-millionaire bloggers.

I warn you though, their results are not typical.  They’ve achieved results that go far beyond what the average blogger achieves with their blog, but every single one of them has followed the simple formula I described in this blog post.

Check out the video here.

 

The Science of Getting Rich Summarized in 17 Key Points

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The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles is a masterpiece written over 100 years ago and continues to be one of the most influential books on the Law of Attraction ever written.

The book is a short read, and I recommend that everyone read the book cover-to-cover multiple times, but in this post I wanted to just very quickly summarize the main points in the book.

Key Point #1 – You Have the Right To Be Rich

Nobody can live a full, successful life, where they are free to explore, engage and express their full potential unless they are rich.

Although we are spiritual beings, as humans we live in a physical universe and in a time on earth where money allows us to buy things and use things to help us express our potential.

All men and women have the right to freedom and to have true freedom you must be financially free, which means you must be rich.

Key Point #2 – Getting Rich is a Science

There is a science to getting rich.

People don’t get and stay rich by luck, or chance, or because of their environment, or because of their intellect or hard work, even though it may seem that way sometimes when you’re looking from the outside in.

There is a science to the process of getting rich, and anyone who follows the recipe to becoming rich exactly as taught will become rich.

Key Point #3 – Opportunity Is Never Monopolized

Your opportunity to get rich is unlimited and never monopolized.

Even if the current method of getting rich is exhausted and monopolized, a new method of getting rich will be invented and come into existence for people who follow the science of getting rich.

Key Point #4 – Thought is Power

All wealth and riches originate from thought.

Thought is power.

When thought is impressed upon the “Formless Substance”, the thing that is impressed upon the “Formless Substance” through thought comes into existence.

A thought cannot be impressed upon “Formless Substance” without causing that thing which was impressed to come into existence.

Key Point #5 – The Universe Wants to Increase and Express Life

The Universe is IN YOU and FOR YOU at all times.

There’s no Deity out there who wants you to be poor.

All of your desires to be, do and have anything and everything in life are actually also the desires of the Universe, and the Universe is always friendly and cooperative with it’s own desires.

To align yourself with the co-operation of the Universe we must simply engage in thinking from a co-operative  point of view, instead of a competitive point of view.

Key Point #6 – How Riches Flow To You

Riches will most likely flow to you via “normal” means.

Meaning, a bag of money will most likely NOT materialize in front of you out of thin air.

Instead opportunities, situations, resources and people will flow into your life which you will take advantage of in a co-operative manner which will flow to you the riches you desire.

Key Point #7 – Practice Real Gratitude

To align yourself with the Universe and to effectively impress upon it the things that you desire, you must practice coming from a place of gratitude.

The vibration of gratitude is the closest thing to the vibration of creation, and when we practice gratitude, we are communicating with the Universe in the language that it understands.

Without gratitude you cannot impress your desire for riches on the Universe.

You cannot “trick” the Universe or “fake it till you make it” when it comes to gratitude.  You must actually BE grateful in order to engage this part of the formula.  Pretending to be grateful, when in fact you are not, won’t work.

Key Point #8 – Clarity Brings Power to Your Thinking

To manifest riches using the Law of Attraction, we must think in a certain way.

Thinking in this certain way involves getting crystal clear on exactly what we want.

The more clear and focused and connected we are with what we actually want, the faster we will manifest it in our lives.

Key Point #9 – Use Willpower on Yourself

You must learn to develop and use your willpower.

However, you must only use your willpower on yourself, not others.

To become rich you ONLY need to exercise your willpower on yourself.

Nobody else out there stop you from getting rich if you apply the power of your own willpower on yourself.

Key Point #10 – Focus Only on What You Want

You can’t impress an image of what you want onto the “Formless Substance” and cause the creation of that which you want by constantly thinking about and focusing on what you DON’T WANT.

Therefore, to get rich you must stop focusing on poverty, the causes of poverty, the study of poverty, or anything poverty related.

Stop thinking about and paying attention to things that are not related to you getting rich.  Doing so distracts your thinking and will prevent you from becoming rich.

Key Point #11 – Act in That Certain Way

Through our thoughts we create that which we desire, and through our actions we receive it into our lives.

We must take inspired action at all times, in alignment with our vision and our desires.

When we take action we must keep in our mind the end result that we are trying to achieve.

If your thoughts are not clear and not aligned with what you want, no amount of action can ever make up for that misalignment.

Key Point #12 – Act Efficiently

It is not important how many things you do or get done, but rather the efficiency of each action that you take.

One action, done efficiently, in that certain way, with your full attention and focus on manifesting that which you desire is infinitely more powerful than 1,000 actions taken without proper alignment and clarity on what you want.

Key Point #13 – The Right Business

With few exceptions you can get rich in any line of business.

If you look around, there are people in virtually all types of businesses making money, and there are also people struggling in those same lines types of business.

If you are in the wrong business, you can get into the right type of business if you get your thinking clear and focused.

Key Point #14 – Impress Increase

The key desire of the Universe is one of “increase” and “growth”.

To align yourself with the Universe, always form the impression of “increase” and “growth” in your visualizations.

This will put your in alignment with the Universe / Formless Substance.

Key Point #15 – Advancing

Your primary desire is one of advancement and growth in your life.

This desire is in alignment with the Universe as well.

Seek to grow and advance as a person and a spiritual being.

Key Point #16  – Don’t Get Distracted

One of the key pitfalls of the science of getting rich is getting distracted and de-focused.

To become rich we must stop trying to change the people around us, our bosses, our friends, our families, our governments and the world.

They cannot stop us from becoming rich if we follow the science of getting rich.

However, if we allow ourselves to get distracted with all the things that are not “right” with the world, we will simply manifest MORE of those things.

Key Point #17 – Study the Summary Word for Word

This is the summary of The Science of Getting Rich as written by Wallace D. Wattles.

The entire science of getting rich is summarized in these words.

“THERE is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.

A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; otherwise he cannot be in harmony with the Formless Intelligence, which is always creative and never competitive in spirit.

A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

Man may come into full harmony with the Formless Substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him. Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of Substance, so that man’s thoughts are received by the Formless. Man can remain upon the creative plane only by uniting himself with the Formless Intelligence through a deep and continuous feeling of gratitude.

Man must form a clear and definite mental image of the things he wishes to have, to do, or to become; and he must hold this mental image in his thoughts, while being deeply grateful to the Supreme that all his desires are granted to him. The man who wishes to get rich must spend his leisure hours in contemplating his Vision, and in earnest thanksgiving that the reality is being given to him. Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of frequent contemplation of the mental image, coupled with unwavering faith and devout gratitude. This is the process by which the impression is given to the Formless, and the creative forces set in motion.

The creative energy works through the established channels of natural growth, and of the industrial and social order. All that is included in his mental image will surely be brought to the man who follows the instructions given above, and whose faith does not waver. What he wants will come to him through the ways of established trade and commerce.

In order to receive his own when it shall come to him, man must be active; and this activity can only consist in more than filling his present place. He must keep in mind the Purpose to get rich through the realization of his mental image. And he must do, every day, all that can be done that day, taking care to do each act in a successful manner. He must give to every man a use value in excess of the cash value he receives, so that each transaction makes for more life; and he must so hold the Advancing Thought that the impression of increase will be communicated to all with whom he comes in contact.

The men and women who practice the foregoing instructions will certainly get rich; and the riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.

THE END”

How to Develop Your Willpower to Blog

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Yesterday I wrote a blog post where I shared the 5 simple rules I created for myself which have helped me to blog daily for over 6 months now.

Today I want to expand on this a little bit more and share another little secret strategy I’ve been using to develop my willpower to help me blog.

First of all, one of the most common mistakes that people make when it comes to willpower is that they don’t realize that willpower is a MENTAL MUSCLE, and as such it has to be treated like a muscle.

What happens when a person is hospitalized for a long period of time, such as if they go into a coma or are bedridden for a long period of time?

Their muscle waste away and they get weaker.

What happens when astronauts go out into space where they aren’t subject to the gravity field of earth as strongly as they are on earth?

Their muscles get weaker.

What happens when someone with weak muscles starts a strength training program with a personal trainer and sticks to it consistently for a long period of time?

They develop and grow their muscles and they get stronger.

Well, WILLPOWER works the same way.

So many people say “Oh I just don’t have the willpower to do that!” and they use that as an excuse not to do that thing, as if willpower was some kind of genetic thing you’re either born with or not.

Willpower is a mental muscle that you CAN develop if you choose to.

If someone says to me “I *want* to blog daily but I just don’t have the willpower” my first thought is “Of COURSE you don’t have the willpower to blog daily.  DUH!  If you did, you would be blogging daily!”

The question is not whether you have the willpower to blog daily or not, but rather “Are you willing to develop your willpower to the point where you are able to blog daily?”

If you are willing to develop your willpower I can help you do that by joining my Empower Network team now and getting mentored by me.

When I first started my fitness and diet plan about 10 weeks ago I didn’t have the willpower to workout 2-3 times per week.

If I had that willpower then I would already be working out!

Right?

So knowing that I didn’t have that willpower, and also knowing that I wanted to develop it, I started working with a personal trainer who has put together a whole exercise program for me and has been coming to my house every week to make sure I’m doing those workouts.

Because I was willing to make the decision to DEVELOP my strength training willpower by working with a trainer, I have now had 10 weeks of SOLID “willpower training” in the area of body fitness.

I’ve done more workouts both with my personal trainer and outside doing full body workouts by landscaping my yard in the last 10 weeks than probably in the last 4-5 years COMBINED!

If you want to build your willpower to blog on a regular basis or to start making money with an online business, you’ve got to start working with a coach / mentor who is going to HELP you develop the willpower that you need to develop.

What’s awesome about willpower too is that when you develop willpower in one area of your life, you actually start to have more willpower in ALL areas of your life.

For example, the willpower I developed over the last 6 months as a blogger, is helping me to develop my willpower to exercise on a regular basis.

Lately I’ve been doing some kind of full body workout – be it outside landscaping, or working out with my personal trainer – almost every single day!

In fact I’d have to check my calendar to see when was the last day that I didn’t get any exercise.

How did I go from living a sedentary lifestyle of always sitting in front of my computer for the last 4 years to now exercising almost every single day so quickly?

Well, I leveraged the willpower MENTAL MUSCLE I developed by blogging daily for the last 6 months and I combined it with a the right training and strategy from hiring a personal coach / mentor / trainer to help me!

If you want to develop your ability to blog and make money online, I recommend you do the same.

Click here to learn more about getting started with my team, and let me help you build your willpower as well!

 

5 Simple Rules Which Helped Me to Blog Daily for Over 6 Months And Still Going

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I originally started blogging way back in April of 2006.

I remember when I first started my Blog I wanted to build the habit of blogging daily.

I managed to put together a few streaks throughout the years where I blogged for 10 days straight, 20 days straight or even 30 days straight …

… however, I was never able to stick to blogging daily for more than a few months.

Why?

For some crazy reason, SOMETHING always came up!

Meaning, I would be blogging daily for a period of time, and then one day some weird thing would happen like some emergency or some kind of unexpected situation where I wouldn’t get home until 2am in the morning, or I would have to travel somewhere last minute and I would miss one day of blogging.

Once I missed on day of blogging, that was it – my streak was broken and it became WAY easier to not blog for two days in a row…

… and then three days…

… and then my daily blogging habit would pretty much disappear…

And then I would re-start again, and go through the same cycle until I would have that ONE DAY where I would miss one post, and then my streak and habit would be broken.

I did this for almost 9 years of my blogging career, never being able to establish a daily blogging habit.

However as of Dec 30, 2014, just a few days before New Years 2015 I started a new daily blogging habit and have now maintained it for over 6 months without missing a single day.

Here’s how I did it…

Rule #1 – No Blog Post, No Sleep.

I started off by setting a rule for myself.

I can write my blog post at any point in the day, or night.

Knowing my schedule, I knew it wouldn’t be realistic to try to set a specific time during the day when I had to write my post as that would never work for me.

Too many things change in my life, day-to-day, for me to stick to a specific timed schedule.

Instead, I just made the decisions to not allow myself to go to sleep until my blog post for the day is done.

For example, I’m writing this post at 12:34am.  I could be in bed sleeping right now, but I’m not allowed to go to sleep until my post is done.

If I write my blog post after midnight, I set my publish time back to before midnight the day before so that my blog post publish dates are always one day apart.

This way I don’t have two blog posts showing up for one date and zero posts on another date.

I also allow myself to write or create video blog post post on ANY TOPIC and it can be ANY LENGTH, so technically if I wanted to I could write a one sentence blog post and publish that and then I would be allowed to go to sleep. 🙂

By giving myself this option to write any blog post or even to just embed a video as my blog post for the day, it eliminates ALL excuses for not being able write a blog post.

Rule #2 – No “Making Up” Posts

Another thing that tripped me up before was the belief that I could “Make Up” blog posts if I skip them one day.

Meaning, I used to think that I could skip one blog post one day and think to myself “Oh, I’m really tired, I’ll just skip this one post today, but tomorrow I’ll write two blog posts.”

That NEVER works!  It’s not the same thing.

If you skip one blog post, you break your streak and that’s it.  It’s over. 🙂

So this time around I told myself that I’m not allowed to even entertain such thoughts.  I either write a post TODAY or I break my streak.  There’s no “Making Up” crap allowed in my plan.

Rule #3 – No Shiny Object Chasing Allowed

Another thing that tripped me up before was that I would be happily blogging on a daily basis and then I would watch a video, or take some course from some Internet Marketing guru and they would teach some kind of super amazing marketing strategy for making money online which was supposedly better than blogging.

I would then look at that strategy, think about it, and think to myself “Hmm…this DOES sound like it could be more effective than blogging.  Let me put my blogging on hold for a bit and let me test this system out for a few weeks, and see what happens.”

And you know what?  Whatever that new strategy was, I would try it out and it would usually produce some quick results short term but then within 30, 60 or 90 days it would fall apart and I would then have to go back to blogging and start my momentum from scratch.

So this time around, what I told myself is that I would Blog daily and if I encounter any marketing strategies or business systems that are supposedly better and more effective than Blogging, I am totally allowed to try those strategies out and test them – BUT I have to still blog daily anyways. 🙂

This way, if the strategy works great, then that’s awesome, but no matter what I still do my daily blogging.

And if the strategy is a flow, then I don’t have to start all over again as I was still blogging daily even while trying out those other strategies.

Rule #4 – Surround Myself With Blogger Energy

Yet another thing that tripped me up before was when I would blog on a consistent basis for a period of time and then I would start hanging out with people who are NOT into blogging and their opinions and energy would affect my thinking in such a way that I would lose my interest in Blogging.

So this time around, I joined Empower Network – which is a community of like-minded bloggers, and every single day I plug into training, hangouts, audios and facebook wall updates from people in Empower Network who are also blogging and making money as bloggers.

By plugging myself into this type of energy, I stay inspired to keep blogging on a daily basis.

Someone once told me that if you’re an eagle, but you surround yourself with turkeys and you hang out with turkeys, pretty soon you’ll start to believe you’re a turkey and they’ll eventually convince you that you can’t fly!

So instead of being an eagle, surrounded by turkeys, I put a lot of energy and time into making sure I surround myself with other eagles who are making money as bloggers. 🙂

Rule #5 – No Excuses

For over 8 years I kept making up excuses for not blogging daily.

I can tell you though that every single excuse that I had seemed like a 100% legitimate “reason” for me not being able to blog that day… NONE of them seemed like excuses.

This time around I just told myself “no excuses”… NONE!

Not even the ones that seem “legitimate”…

… and you know what… in the past 6 months I’ve had about 50 situations come up which I could have EASILY used as a “legitimate excuse” (there’s no such thing) for not blogging that day.

Life gets in the way.  Stuff comes up.

But I don’t allow myself any excuses…not even the so called “legitimate” ones. 🙂

What’s cool about this rule is that once you make the decision not to allow yourself to have any excuses, your mind stops making so many excuses because it knows it’s a futile process of making them up.

The interesting thing too is that I hear other people who want to blog daily making excuses every single day.

Something always comes up.

The only decision you have to make is whether you’re willing to blog daily DESPITE things coming up every day, or will you allow those things to stop you?

What’s REALLY funny to me now is that it’s so clear to me how all my past excuses were all just a bunch of BS.  None of them were “legitimate”.

I mean, in the past when I would skip a day from blogging, because supposedly I didn’t have time to write a blog post, I still somehow found time to respond to emails, and post things on facebook, but somehow I didn’t have time to blog? No, that makes no sense.

I see it all the time today as well.  People tell me they don’t have time to Blog, but throughout the day they post 15 facebook wall updates, and 5 new pictures onto Instagram. 🙂

Blogging daily is not for everyone…

… but if you DO want to build an online business and you want to use the daily blogging strategy that has worked for so many ultra-successful bloggers, you MUST DECIDE to not allow yourself to accept ANY excuse your mind throws at you, regardless how “legitimate” the excuse is.

Summary

This is it.

These 5 simple rules I created for myself have been my secret strategy for being able to blog every single day for over 6 months now.

I created them, and I stick with them, and so far it’s been working out great for me.

What about you?

Are you blogging daily?

Would you like to be?

Leave your answers in the comments below.

Blog Income Report – June 2015

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I’m a few days late, but here is yet another Blog Income Report – this time for the month of June 2015.

If you’d like to learn how I make money blogging, click here to learn more.

Blog Content Report – June 2015

Here is a recap of all the blog posts I wrote this month:

Again this month I’ve maintained my pace of writing one post per day for a total of 30 posts in the month of June.

Blog Traffic Report – June 2015

 

In the month of June I had a huge increase in my traffic as compared to previous months due to one of my blog posts going viral.

The traffic spike you see on June 9th skyrocketed my traffic for a few days as the post was shared around the Internet.

My other stats look low but they’re not.  They just look low as the graph’s scale changed with the traffic spike that shot my session numbers up to 2,000 visitors in one day.

 

As you can see in the number above I had over 200% more users in June as compared to May, primarily due to this traffic spike, but of course all my other blog posts also contributed to the number as well.

Here are my traffic stats for June 2015:

  • Total Users: 5,719
  • Total Sessions: 6,525
  • Total Pageviews: 8,278
  • Avg Session Duration: 42 seconds

Now let’s take a look at where my traffic has been coming from.

Blog Traffic Sources Report – June 2015

My blog traffic distribution changed this month with both Direct and Referral traffic going up significantly compared to the other channels.

  • Direct Traffic – 2,319 – 35.5%
  • Social Traffic – 1,325 sessions – 20.3%
  • Referral Traffic – 2,463 sessions – 37.7%
  • Organic Search Traffic – 425 sessions – 6.5%

And here is a 6 month chart of my monthly traffic since I’ve started using the Kalatu Blogging Platform:

Now for the fun part. 🙂

Blog Income Report – June 2015

Okay, so let’s get to the actual blog income report part of this post.

Before I start talking numbers though, just a quick income disclaimer.  My results are not typical, not guaranteed in any way, and you should check out my income disclaimer if that sort of thing floats your boat.

Okay, now that we got that out of the way, here are my stats:

Total Gross Income – $3,341.66

Total Expenses – $943.11

Net Income: $2,398.55

Alright, now that we’ve gotten the stats and numbers out of the way, let’s dive into what’s actually been happening in more detail.

Affiliate Income

Once again my affiliate income increased again this month jumping from $598 in May to $732 in June with the biggest portion of that coming from my income from Empower Network.

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, seeing this number going up is the most exciting part of my income for me because it represents my Empower Network’s team growth which is my main long term goal for this blog.

Don’t get me wrong, I love consulting income as well, which makes up the majority of my income, but 1-on-1 consulting work can never be as scalable as leveraged income from something like Empower Network.

I’m really excited to keep seeing growth in this are of my monthly income.

If you’d like to learn more about Empower Network and how I make money with it, click on this link here to learn more.

Mentoring / Consulting Income

Not much has changed with my consulting income this month.

I still haven’t decided whether or not I want to take on any more consulting clients in the future as I want to primarily focus my time and energy on growing my Empower Network team.

Expenses

My expenses this month did go up slightly with a few domain renewals I had to get done and some consulting services I invested in, but outside of that they’ve been pretty stable.

My Blogging Goals for June

Here were some of my main goals for June:

  • Complete another month of daily blogging – Check!
  • Keep my diet & fitness plan on track – Check!
  • Launch a new team membership site for my Empower Network Team – Check!
  • Continue to grow my Empower Network team – Check!
  • Take on at least 5 mentoring students within my Empower Network Team – Check!

Summary

To summarize, my blogging income continues to slowly grow at a steady pace and I’m really looking forward to seeing my Empower Network income starting to grow at a more exponential rate as I mentor and teach my team-mates how to make money with their blogs as well.

If you’d like to join my Empower Network team and get mentored by me on how to make money by blogging, click here to learn more.