{"id":406,"date":"2010-02-08T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsmsblog.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2010-02-08T16:28:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:28:52","slug":"get-your-act-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnthornhill.com\/blog\/get-your-act-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Act Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting here this afternoon watching the first snowfall of the winter, trying to figure out what I should get into next.  I could work on the iPhone application that I&#8217;m developing, or convert my mystery novel for Amazon Kindle, or go shovel the walk (nah!). Not quite time to feed the dogs or get the horses in from the field . . . I did promise my wife that I&#8217;d vacuum the living room.  Maybe I should take a nap, conserve my energy before I start working . . . No. What I really should do is write my guest post for John Thornhill&#8217;s blog!<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it amazing how we can find so many other activities to occupy our time, activities that will not help us to start, or to improve our online business?  We have to give ourselves a swift kick sometimes. Why is that?  Surely we want to succeed at Internet marketing, but too many times we think the latest shiny product from our favorite marketing guru is going to magically set us on that road to financial freedom. Maybe if we just put off that hard work for now and wait for the next shiny toy . . .<\/p>\n<p>Nope! That approach is not going to work. The only approach that will make a difference in what you are doing now and what you will be doing a year from now is good old hard work.  Start your online business, and then work at it every day, and you&#8217;ll see progress.<\/p>\n<p>We all encounter these same hurdles when we start out.  I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/thornhill.dncbank.hop.clickbank.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Starting a Practical Online Business<\/a> to help you make the right choices when you start out and to help you avoid problems now and in the future . . .<\/p>\n<p>What you have just read I wrote six days ago.  Yup.  I let other things get in the way again &#8212; one of our horses had a hoof abscess, one of our dogs got sick, I had a medical procedure, I was watching reruns of &#8220;Boston Legal&#8221;  &#8212; the list of excuses goes on and on, but in reality, I had plenty of time to write this post if I&#8217;d just sat down and done it.<\/p>\n<p>We are our own worst enemies when it comes to getting our businesses up and running and then improving on them.  No one is holding us back &#8212; that is, no one but ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>So finally start your online business, or if you already have one, write that blog entry, go find some good eBooks and reports to send to your list, finish the website you started to promote that ClickBank product, write a few more pages in your next eBook.  Get your act together!<\/p>\n<p>This is a guest post written by Dan Ferry, for more tips from Dan check out <a href=\"http:\/\/thornhill.dncbank.hop.clickbank.net\/\">Starting a Practical Online Business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting here this afternoon watching the first snowfall of the winter, trying to figure out what I should get into next. 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