I refuse to do the one simple thing, but when I did, my revenue increased.
Some experts advised not to do this, but I did..
I will be losing my job.
In 6 weeks, the laboratory I am currently working will close its doors. It was becoming real this morning when expensive instruments (I’m a forensic chemist by the way), are hauled out from the building.
Maybe for auction, or maybe for storage, but the feeling of seeing the building getting empty is so surreal.
Knowing this would happen, I been upping my game to look for jobs. But the last couple of weeks, I wasn’t productive.
Then I remember an idea from my mentor.
Next week, I have three interviews lined up. How did I do it?
Where focus goes, energy flows...
In addition to my real job, I have my own online business (I’m an affiliate marketer).
Last year, my revenue to my business was $120,000. Minus the Facebook ads expenses and software used, I was left with not enough money to quit my job.
But with the prospect of losing my job, I had to dig deep for some skills to turn things around. Turn my business around and turn my job hunting around.
In one of the Inner Circle meetings, my business mentor was discussing how he built his affiliate business into what it is now.
I sat glued to the speaker waiting for golden nuggets. In the middle of his talk about goal setting and productivity, one person asked a very simple question:
How do you do it? I mean how do you set your goals and importantly achieve these goals?
His answer surprised me: Work on a list.
I paid $1k for these Inner Circle meetings, and what I got was this simple advice?
Work on a list
Although listing your goals is deceivingly simple, it worked liked gangbuster. At first, I even revolted against it, because some time management experts and gurus have recommended to not work on a list.
To them, listing your weekly goals is too simple.
Success leaves clues..
But every time my mentor shows up in his podcast or YouTube videos, or even just talking to us, he was holding a yellow legal pad.
There was one time, when I looked at his computer, I realized, his mouse pad was his yellow legal pad.
It made sense to me. If you see or read your goals every second of the day because the goals are in front of you all the time, you will work on your goals.
Success leaves clues.
So last week, I wrote my goals in the yellow pad and then next week, 3 interviews are in the lineup.
Last year, the best days when my affiliate marketing business was doing $500 to $1k days, my legal yellow pad was always in front of me.
Unfortunately, I forgot to do this simple thing again for the past months.
But now I’m back at it. Expect more to come.
