Bankruptcy to Millionaire

This is you in your comfort zone. You like it in there. In fact you’d never leave if you weren’t forced to.

I mean, hell, it’s comfortable. Why on earth would you leave what’s comfortable?

But here’s the sad fact. If you never FORCE YOURSELF to leave your comfort zone. You are destined for mediocrity.

You know the feeling of that comfort zone. When you go and eat the same types of food everyday. You talk to the same people. You go to the same places. You read the same authors, the same blogs. You vacation at the same places. You wear your hair the same way. You wear your favorite jeans or your favorite tie as often as you can. You order the same drink. You watch the same TV shows. You work the same job. You say the same jokes.

Most people, interestingly, are creatures of habit–by default. This is how most are programmed. We find something that works for us. Then they stick with that. Why change?

“I know I like these things.” “I know I’m good at this.” “I know this tastes good.”

It’s just so much easier to go with something we already know works. We’re comfortable
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I mentioned yesterday that I was going to issue another challenge. I am going to hold off on my cash prize challenge to my readers for just a little while. I’ll explain why in just a second.

My true dream is to build an online empire by making money online. I want to create websites, and resources that people can find true value in. The other thing that I’ve learned/(am learning) is that making money online isn’t easy OR automatic. It takes work, effort, time, and ambition.

I am 100% will to put in EVERYTHING it takes to get to where I need to be. And I’ve been weighing my options, on the best path to get to where I need to be. And after looking at my current stats I haven’t been putting enough time and effort into tracking my numbers. I have also realized my income is RIDICULOUSLY lower than it should be. I happen to have a talent (which I will share with you all very soon) that can decrease the hours I work by over 75% and increase my monthly income by 30%.

It is my own stupidity that has kept me from reaching my potential with this talent. Because it takes (a little) work to get to where I need to be. But I know it can be done in less than two weeks–with a little thought and planning. But always told myself that I don’t “deserve” it because there are many out there better than me at this. And that this talent isn’t my true PASSION.

But here’s the problem with my thinking! I have literally be losing TIME AND MONEY to do what I truly love. If I had put in the two weeks to get where i need to be a year ago. I would have had THOUSANDS of more hours to put into what I truly love. Where would I be then? Millions? Maybe…

So here is my personal challenge to myself:

Put in the time, and do WHATEVER it takes to increase my performance time from 1 day to 4 days a week.

That’s it. If I can share my talent with others 4 days a week, I will be making more than I am at my “full time job” working only 8 hours a week. Why the hell didn’t I do this sooner?

What is my talent? What do I mean by performance? I will share all of this with you tomorrow.

This is the first Guest Post on B2M by freelance writer Sean Gittrich. I chose this as the first post, because this describes me just 4 months ago…

Here’s the deal: nearly every broke person in the world has the same lame attitude. “Woe is me! I’m broke and it’s out of my control. I would be making all the money I could ever want if it just weren’t for my extreme toenail fungus disease.” … To weird and gross? Who cares, it could be any other number of uncontrollable outside forces that keep you from making the money you think you truly desire.

Because making excuses… that’s easy. Things that are outside of your control are–just that–outside of your control. You can’t possibly expect yourself to really go for it when you know you have to be up early tomorrow morning for work. Or you couldn’t possibly put pen to paper to begin to realizing your dreams, when that new prime-time show CSI: I’ve Seen This Before is on in 5 minutes.

This is why you’re broke. This is why 80% of America is just “getting by”. Too many people are saying “I want to be my own boss”, “I have the entrepreneurial spirit”, “I’m going to be rich someday”, “If I could just get my idea of the ground, I could quit my day job”, “I’m sick of being broke, I know there are other ways to make more money”. Bull! You’re lying to yourself. Because you’re not DOING anything about it. You’re just talking to yourself. And as soon as your realize that you’re just making excuses and that YOU are the only one in control of your life, that is the moment you can stop making excuses and start taking action.

All it takes is for YOU to DECIDE. Decide you are not going to put it off another second. Decide you are no longer going let outside forces dictate your dreams. Decide the only way to realize your dreams is to begin taking action immediately. Decide TODAY—right now is the time for change.

As soon as you finish reading this article. THE SECOND YOU FINISH. Begin taking action. Make your first step. Don’t wait even five minutes. Or until you get off work. Stop making excuses!

Don’t know where to start? Then your first step should be to read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Read it before? GOOD! Read it AGAIN (repetition breeds skill)! Your first step should be to read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Read it before? GOOD! Read it AGAIN (repetition breeds skill)! Don’t have a copy? Search for “Think and Grow Rich ebook”. You’ll find plenty available for free as a download.

Begin by writing down your ideas and thoughts. Start a blog. Write in a journal. Don’t let your thoughts flush down the proverbial thought toilet of life. Remember them, write them, and begin to take action. As soon as you begin to take action you’ll begin to flourish. Study. Read. Act. And NEVER STOP.

I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to find my passion. If there is one rule that I know is that you must LOVE what you do to become ultra successful at it.

I want to become a millionaire. And I only have 43 more months to do it. I think I need to find my passion.

First of all I know I love talking about money. I just find the subject of it fascinating. How people make it. How people lose it. I love hearing of peoples great success stories. I love thinking “entrepreneur”. Take an idea… any idea. How can you make money with it? I’ve been thinking that way since I was 7.

I can burp (loudly) on command. Can I make money doing that?

But even though I liked to “think” this way. I was a thinker. A talker. Not a doer. I never stopped talking about it long enough to just DO IT!

So then I second guess myself. Do I have “it”. I sit on my duff a lot, and do a whole lot of nuthin’ FAR too often! Because if my passion is just thinking business. I’m flat SCREWED, because I’ll be flat BROKE.

But finally; it’s starting to *click*. I think I am about to harness “it”. To focus “it” into a whirlwind of action and success. I can feel “it” brushing the tips of my fingers just ahead of me, and if I can just grab ‘hold and pull it close. I feel an explosion of success is inevitable.

I’m realizing. I absolutely, positively love to write. I thoroughly enjoy putting my thoughts and my words in black and white. I am also realizing how to monetize those words. Maybe this blog. Maybe a product. Maybe copy. But through practice and ambition. I believe that I will be able to find how to use my words to mine the cash into my pocket.

I have at least 3 business ideas in my head RIGHT NOW. I feel inspired. I feel action oriented. I feel RICH.

I am going to write these things down on paper RIGHT NOW. And develop a plan of action to get each one done in succession. And I am going to COMPLETE the project, and pull the trigger (quite unlike what I have done in the past. Where I started and gave up before I ever even gave some ideas a shot…).

I am going to COMMIT to a very modest goal. I am going to make it public, and I am going to do everything in my power to achieve it.

I commit to earing just $250 in profit in the Dog Care niche by the end of January.

Yes. I have had this *GREAT* idea for about 2 months. I have put a ton of it together, I just haven’t taken the final step and went live. Then begin to tweak and change to make it profitable. I am going to take this idea–that I absolutely POSITIVELY know will be a success–and full commit to it. I am going to turn a profit from it, because I know exactly what and how it is to be done. I just have to take the step necessary for doing it.

Now lets get to it! Lets start taking some action!

Well it’s Monday! And it’s going to be an incredible week. And I’ve been thinking about tons of things to write about… most of which I will get to this week. But I wanted to do a brain dump today. I’ve had so many thing rushing around inside my head.

Here are todays Random Thoughts:

I’m reading a ton more on the internet. I spend most of my time with my laptop on my lap during all my free moments “trolling” the blog-o-sphere. I’m reading tons of neat thoughts and ideas.

My favorite blog this week is by far Nate Whitehill’s. I love his blog for a number of reasons:

1. He’s successful
2. He’s my generation. I forget that there are achievers in my age group. I’ve known so many “talkers” and so few doers. It reminds me I need to keep surrounding myself with successful people. (Which reminds me I need to set up that meeting with Spliced Media, guys if you read this, I’ll be in touch.)
3. His writing and his thoughts are fantastic. And reminded me that I need to concentrate on providing value, and NOT trying to monetize right away. Which explains why I took down all the ads. Those can wait.

My blog is slowing gaining some momentum. But I’ve learned when I don’t post everyday, I lose a TON of that momentum. I missed two days last week, and I my visitors dropped from apx. 100 unique visitors a day, to about only 25 a day. YIKES! Time to remember not to miss a day!However, I’m slowing gaining fans on Technorati and other social networking sites (if you like what you see. Please let me know! And add me to your friends list on any social networking sites). I even have 4 feed subscribers!!! :LOL:

My (albeit) meaningless Alexa Rank is just below the 1mil mark. Up from the 2mil mark it was before. By the end of my first three months blogging I hope to be in the top 100,000.

As mentioned before, I’ve taken down all the ads, and am more concentrating on building a readership. It is not worth trying to monetize for the 6 cents a day I was making! After 3 months I’ll consider placing ads, or maybe trying some affiliate deal. ONLY after I’ve gained the faith and trust of my readers.

I am slowly trying to make this blog “my own”. I’ve added my own header “logo”. I don’t LOVE this theme. I’d like to find a design I really like (and/or hire someone to design one to my needs). I’ve never used a WP blog before, so changing and updating things is a slow process for me. But I’m figuring it out.

I need to more clearly define what I’m blogging on. I need to do a ton more thinking of my “purpose”. I’m thinking I’m going to define it with “Personal Development, Entrepreneur Thinking, and Personal Success”. These are where my passions are, and I think that’s what I’ll try to stick to. So my readers know what to expect.

I need to be more honest and upfront with my readers. I was just reading, that presenting your flaws, make you that much more credible. I know this deep down. But sometimes I have problems admitting my “flaws” on a daily basis. I am going to concentrate on being more open and honest on a daily basis.

That’s about it for today! I have some fun stuff to talk about tomorrow! So I’ll see you then.