365 Days of Good Reading - Day 11 - Just What Are My Goals Anyway

Almost two years ago I decided that blogging was going to be my new career when I retired.  I set off to enter the wonderland of the world wide web with grandiose plans for creating an online persona and was certain that supplementing my retirement income would be a breeze.  I set myself a budget for tools and training and set off on this new adventure of blogging for fun and profit.

I discovered a two critical lessons about making money online.  

1. Everybody and their brother claim to have the easiest, faster and surest method.
2. Nothing is ever as easy, fast or sure as they say it is.

The truth of the matter is that internet marketing is a very time consuming industry and if you are not extremely careful, it can also be a very costly one.  It is very common for people new to the business to spend thousands of dollars on software and/or programs that promise to take you step by step through the process of developing a lucrative online marketing business.

Most fail, not because the products they buy are worthless but because they fail to stick with any program long enough to get results.  They jump from one promising program to another without ever finishing one.  Then they wonder why they aren't financial successes, and often blame the program or teacher.

I speak of this from experience.  In the last two years I have bought dozens of programs and started even more free plans.  To date, I have not finished one completely.  

So that is my number one goal: to finish one program all the way through and complete each task assigned in that program.  

The program I have singled out to be my first successfully completed project is Ed Dale's Challenge 2010.  

It is significant that I have chosen this program because Ed's 30 Day Challenge was one of the first programs I started this endeavor with, only that time I did not stick with it, I moved on to something else and left my first efforts floundering.

My second goal to write an article or review someone else's daily.  I am doing this on two fronts:  first I am writing about the Challenge lessons themselves during the weeks they are active, and second I am writing this particular post with the resolve to post a new article everyday for a year, each hopefully an improvement over the last.  This is Day 11 of that resolution.

My third goal to is work on internet social communication with other bloggers.  You can track my progress with this task on the Baja Style Challenge Facebook Page or the Blogging for Fun and Profit Facebook Group.

If you see me falling behind, please jump in and nudge me back to activity. 

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