Information overload for budding online entrepreneurs was always bad but lately it’s gotten worse. I know the reason, too. It’s the recession. Successful marketers – everyone took a hit. But it also opened the doors for a new desperate group of individuals who had been laid off, etc., who needed to buy products to find a way to make money at home.

Now there’s nothing wrong with teaching people this – I encourage people to learn it myself – because it helps take the edge off when you work for yourself and have a nice residual income going (like I showed you on my 30 day off journey) and don’t have to rely on a boss to keep you on staff.

But here’s what’s happening:

Your email inbox is probably flooded with offers for “recession proof” business opportunities. If you’re desperate, it makes you feel more panicked – like you need every single one of those guides so you don’t drown, when that’s actually what’s happening to you all along.

I was emailing back and forth with one woman about her situation and what I discovered is that we spend a lot of time talking about plans for her. What she needs to do. What she’s going to do. What will be done in the future. It sounded like she was depressed. She had so much to do that she didn’t know how to get going. I told her to give her mind and body some time to rest and get ready to gear up for some WORK.

Here’s some more of what I told her:

“Re: emails – why not unsubscribe from everyone? Just SEEING it can get depressing, seriously. It makes you feel like everyone’s hustling and you’re a snail – even if you’re not. There’s NO need to be subscribed. If you want, bookmark their blogs and check in on YOUR timeline to see what’s going on. Trust me, you have enough info to succeed. You know what it reminds me of? When Lucy and Ethel are working in the candy line and the candy keeps coming faster and faster and faster – they can’t handle it.”

(She was also feeling overwhelmed because she’d signed up to PayDotCom and saw a ton of OTOs and felt panicked that she didn’t take them). So I said:

“I never do the OTOs myself. I figure I’ll use the product first and if I really need it, I’ll get it later and Filsaime hits hard with emails (and phone calls UGH). But I put up with it to use PDC.

Now I want to put my hands on your shoulders (virtually of course) and shake something into you. You think too much.

Yes I said it. LOL

You’re too contemplative – trying to make sure you’re doing the right thing and not doing the wrong thing and making sure you have the RIGHT knowledge. If I were you, I wouldn’t attend one more teleseminar, webinar, book signing or anything until I got ass in gear and got a WHOLE checklist of tasks done.

Make a task list. Spend up to 1 week on it. Tasks that you need to do to make money – ie:

1.) Get new price structure in place
2.) Get 14 blog posts queued up to my blog
3.) Create a Squidoo lens for your product – whatever
4.) Write 5 articles for EzineArticles.com

Get the task list FIRST. Then take a day off to do NOTHING. Not even think.

Then work on task 1. Task 2 Task 3 etc.

Your REWARD for getting so much productivity done is to be able to attend a webinar or whatever you want (buy a product etc) to take you to the NEXT level.

You’ll feel MUCH better about everything once you’re VERY productive and seeing results.

Just tackle this thing as if it was a fulltime job. Would your boss let you surf around looking for stuff to buy/think about/play with? No. He’d want concrete results – “What did you do today?”

You’re your own boss – make yourself answer to her.
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