Ah, the new year. Always the time when entrepreneurs review where they’ve been and where they want to go. And you know, that’s great! Every business needs to review their goals frequently. Last week, I received a friendly email from a blog reader, asking my opinion about Jimmy D. Brown’s 6 Figure Income coaching program which I took around the middle of 2006.
He’s not the first to ask. I jumped on last year after a glowing recommendation from Alice Seba. Yes, it’s partly because of her recommendation but mostly because I felt I don’t need another Internet Marketing course and what I needed most is a plan to effectively put to use what I learned and continue to learn in the future.
People say – put what you learn into action. It sounds so easy. But if you’ve been in Internet Marketing for any amount of time you’ll know it can sometimes get crazy. Everything is important. Building a list is important. Creating your own info product is important. SEO is important. Adding content is importing. Writing articles is important. Adsense is important and the list seems never to end. Every time you turn around it’s like everything has to be done today or we’ll be ‘losing out big time’. So what do
you do first? What do you concentrate on first, next and so on?
Jimmy’s coaching helped me understand and truly prioritize. Honestly, prioritize doesn’t adequately explain the system. It’s simple yet so profound. I am of course bound by the rules when I signed up and can’t say too much about the program.
Since I applied just one part of his system which is a planner. I’ve been consistently churning out my own original content. I now have so many articles to publish my assistant works hard to keep up with the submissions and I’m not stopping. I’ve also been getting those reports out to affiliates more regularly than I ever had and now when I sit down to review my week, every work hour is truly maximized. It didn’t occur to me how much the system has affected my work day until last month.
For some reason – don’t ask – I quit using Jimmy’s system and I tried something new. My productivity fell through the floor and I worked much much harder. It’s only one week now I’m back into Jimmy’s system and guess what? I achieved more this week than all of December. And, what’s more interesting, every day, I had more extra hours free.
One thing I must say though, when Jimmy says work three hours a day, he’s not kidding. I’m a work-a-holic and try to pack in more hours than that. But when you do that, the system will ‘fail’ on you. After December, that point came clearly to me too. I feel there is a reason to limit the number of hours we work. Not because we’re lazy or unmotivated but without rest, your mind cannot be at it’s peak performance for tomorrow and it just spoils everything for the week. Hard lesson for a work-a-holic and I’m not
completely cured. But I struggle to keep my hours down and reasonable so I will always have a sharp mind tomorrow.
The bottom line, has it been worth it? Yes! Yes! Yes!