I don't like being tagged and don't take the time to participate in useless banter or meaningless memes. However, I'm proud to have been tagged by <a target="_new" href="http://www.buniek.com/destination-success/success-habits.html">Teli Adlam</a>, blogger extraordinaire over at Destination Success to participate in a meme that's circulating the blogosphere. It was originally started by Aaron Potts and named <a target="_new" href="http://www.todayisthatday.com/blog/simply-successful-secrets/">Simply Successful Secrets</a>. We are basically asked to list the top 5-10 things that we do on a daily basis to become or remain successful at what we do - basically create a list of our personal ?success habits.? <strong>If you track the meme back through <a target="_new" href="http://www.buniek.com/destination-success/success-habits.html">Teli's blog</a> you can gain tons of insight from some VERy smart people and also discover some very insightful Internet marketing blogs on the way.</strong>
1. <strong>GRATITUDE</strong>
I'm not nearly as good at giving thanks for all I have as I'd like to be, but I try. Gratitude is at the top of the to-do list in my head and I have so much to be thankful for. I truly believe that what comes around goes around and by giving thanks for what we have, we can attract more of the same.
<strong>TIP:</strong> Since I'm busy and sometimes forget to give thanks as often as I should, I came up with a new system you may find helpful too. I bought a new watch. Paid more than I normally would. It's my gratitude watch. I vowed when I bought it that every time I looked at my watch it would trigger a reminder in my brain to give thanks. It's working!
2. <strong>PAY IT FORWARD</strong>
I believe in karma and I know for a fact that the more we give, the more we receive. One of the ways I "pay it forward" is to give free advice every day in my forum and sometimes other forums as well. I give free advice and tips to affiliates to help them achieve success. I help them with problems and answer questions til my carpal screams. I also freely give advice to merchants not only in the forum but via free telephone consults that I offer. Today I spent over an hour with a guy that wanted to start an affiliate program. I have nothing to sell him, no service to offer him, I just gave him TONS of valuable free advice. I do this numerous times per week. How can I afford to give away all the free consulting? I know it comes back around. Maybe not through that person directly, but it does come back around.
3. <strong>ORGANIZATION</strong>
Even though I'm pretty high tech in most respects, I stay organized primarily through the use of a large day timer. Yep a hard copy, paper day timer. Every day I write my to-do list and every day I try to check off each item as I complete it. Low tech, but works for me!
4. <strong>ONLY BLOG about...</strong>
I seriously scour the Internet and my feed reader every day trying to find the best news and info I can that I think affiliates, merchants and other reader of my blog would be interested in.
I only blog about things I think are truly helpful to the industry or would be of interest to my readers - even if it's humor. I spend WAY more time researching and blogging than I should and <em>sometimes sincerely question if it's worth it</em>. But I do it anyway, partly because I enjoy helping people and largely because, right or wrong, I'm just addicted.
Hate to say it but those are the only things I can think of that I consistently do every day that help my success. I'm sure there are more, but to be honest for the most part I feel like I'm just shooting from the hip. I have no grand master plan even though I encourage affiliates, my family and everyone else to set goals. If someone needs help I help them. If something needs to be done I try to do it.
GRATITUDE, again... I sure am lucky to be where I'm at and have all I have, considering the fact that I have no goals and sometimes have no clue how I got here. ;-)
OK time to pass the baton and tag some SMART people you can REALLY learn something from! I hate tagging almost as much as I hate being tagged, so I'll just do a couple.
<strong><a target="_new" href="http://www.affiliatetip.com">Shawn Collins</a>
<a target="_new" href="http://partnercentric.com/blog/">Linda Woods</a>
<a target="_new" href="http://www.bumpzee.com/users/view/jangro/">Scott Jangro</a>
<a target="_new" href="http://costpernews.com/">Sam Harrelson</a></strong>
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Memes and tagging are a blog thing, but I wanted to come and
share this here at the forum too.
Each of you, regardless of your level of success have tips
you can share that could help inspire others!
WHAT ARE YOUR SUCCESS HABITS???
We'd all love to learn from each of you.
1. <strong>GRATITUDE</strong>
I'm not nearly as good at giving thanks for all I have as I'd like to be, but I try. Gratitude is at the top of the to-do list in my head and I have so much to be thankful for. I truly believe that what comes around goes around and by giving thanks for what we have, we can attract more of the same.
<strong>TIP:</strong> Since I'm busy and sometimes forget to give thanks as often as I should, I came up with a new system you may find helpful too. I bought a new watch. Paid more than I normally would. It's my gratitude watch. I vowed when I bought it that every time I looked at my watch it would trigger a reminder in my brain to give thanks. It's working!
2. <strong>PAY IT FORWARD</strong>
I believe in karma and I know for a fact that the more we give, the more we receive. One of the ways I "pay it forward" is to give free advice every day in my forum and sometimes other forums as well. I give free advice and tips to affiliates to help them achieve success. I help them with problems and answer questions til my carpal screams. I also freely give advice to merchants not only in the forum but via free telephone consults that I offer. Today I spent over an hour with a guy that wanted to start an affiliate program. I have nothing to sell him, no service to offer him, I just gave him TONS of valuable free advice. I do this numerous times per week. How can I afford to give away all the free consulting? I know it comes back around. Maybe not through that person directly, but it does come back around.
3. <strong>ORGANIZATION</strong>
Even though I'm pretty high tech in most respects, I stay organized primarily through the use of a large day timer. Yep a hard copy, paper day timer. Every day I write my to-do list and every day I try to check off each item as I complete it. Low tech, but works for me!
4. <strong>ONLY BLOG about...</strong>
I seriously scour the Internet and my feed reader every day trying to find the best news and info I can that I think affiliates, merchants and other reader of my blog would be interested in.
I only blog about things I think are truly helpful to the industry or would be of interest to my readers - even if it's humor. I spend WAY more time researching and blogging than I should and <em>sometimes sincerely question if it's worth it</em>. But I do it anyway, partly because I enjoy helping people and largely because, right or wrong, I'm just addicted.
Hate to say it but those are the only things I can think of that I consistently do every day that help my success. I'm sure there are more, but to be honest for the most part I feel like I'm just shooting from the hip. I have no grand master plan even though I encourage affiliates, my family and everyone else to set goals. If someone needs help I help them. If something needs to be done I try to do it.
GRATITUDE, again... I sure am lucky to be where I'm at and have all I have, considering the fact that I have no goals and sometimes have no clue how I got here. ;-)
OK time to pass the baton and tag some SMART people you can REALLY learn something from! I hate tagging almost as much as I hate being tagged, so I'll just do a couple.
<strong><a target="_new" href="http://www.affiliatetip.com">Shawn Collins</a>
<a target="_new" href="http://partnercentric.com/blog/">Linda Woods</a>
<a target="_new" href="http://www.bumpzee.com/users/view/jangro/">Scott Jangro</a>
<a target="_new" href="http://costpernews.com/">Sam Harrelson</a></strong>
==================================================
Memes and tagging are a blog thing, but I wanted to come and
share this here at the forum too.
Each of you, regardless of your level of success have tips
you can share that could help inspire others!
WHAT ARE YOUR SUCCESS HABITS???
We'd all love to learn from each of you.