I got an email today that read:

“I’ve been meaning to get on the ball with affiliate sales for the holidays this year and I have had plans laid out to start this and that and none of it gets finished. I work as a small business consultant and have several clients at a time, it really is like working 3-4 jobs at once and I just have to make the time to work on my internet business. I’m curious though, could you clue us in to what a typical day for Tiffany Dow looks like? Kind of a play by play of what you do on most work days?”

Oh that may not be a good idea and here’s why. In the beginning, I was a do it myselfer. I wrote everything myself. I tried handling technical tasks myself. I only had 1 brain and 2 hands, and that doesn’t take you very far. So it was longer and harder to get up and running. So if you’re in that spot and see my spot now, you might get discouraged if you forget that I was once where you are now – so if you read further, keep that in mind – promise me.

Now that I AM up and running, life’s a whole lot easier – and much of that is because I have a list now. Let’s take Monday as an example. I woke up and did NOT feel like working. Still, I wanted it to be a very profitable day – so what did I do?

I emailed my list saying, “I hate Mondays and I bet you do too – so it’s buy 1 get 1 free day at the PLR Mini Mart.” They could buy any amount and get the same or lesser amount free. I made a little under $1,000 Monday. Thanks, list!

Some days I feel more motivated and productive than others, so not all days are the same. But here’s what a typical work day looks like for Tiffany Dow:

I wake up and while my kids are getting ready for school, I spend 1 hour answering emails and checking stats everywhere (Squidoo, Amazon, HostGator etc). I also balance my checkbook for my business and personal accounts each morning.

After carpool, I either nap for 3 hours or, if I’m on a non-nightowl schedule, I work (like today). It depends on what I need to get done. Today after breakfast, I built 3 lenses and sold them – it’s 10 AM and I’ve made $327 this morning so far.

Right now I’m about to work on some list emails I had started but not finished (probably take me 30 minutes for that). Then I’ll finish some PLR packs I had rusting away and never completed (spend maybe 1 hour on that). I hope to work on my info products I have today too – I’m chipping away at that outline little by little.

In between all of this, I hate to admit it, but I head to MindJolt to play video games. I like Word Drop the best. If I want to outsource some articles for traffic, I do it. If I need graphics, I don’t struggle to learn how to do it, I outsource it.

I’ll take breaks during the day – to eat or watch one of my Tivo’s shows. I quit when I feel like quitting. That might mean 11 AM or it might mean 9 PM. Just whatever suits my energy level and mindset.

So there are no hard and fast rules to live by with schedules. It’s one of the biggest perks of working at home for yourself. No lunch hour, no start and quitting time. No tasks I MUST do – if I feel like building lenses, I do that. If I feel like helping out in the Warrior Forum, I do that.

Now let me show you what a typical day was like for Tiffany Dow, the ghostwriter:

Wake up at 6 AM, check emails from clients and work for 1 hour. Come home from carpool and work from 8 AM to 8 PM on other people’s stuff. Why so nose to the grindstone?

Because there was ZERO residual income for me. I worked, earned, spent, and had to work more to spend more for bills, food, or whatever. If I quit working, I had NO money coming in.

As I showed you on my blog during those 30 days I took off, I’ve created a nice little residual income stream that made me $200 a day on average without me doing ANY work.

You can do this too. Here’s my PayPal income for this week, starting with Sunday:

Tuesday – $470
Monday – $944
Sunday – $112

$1526 for 3 days – not bad, right? And if you count today, it makes $1853 – and this doesn’t include my ClickBank or Amazon earnings or AdSense, etc. Just direct PayPal payments.

To the person who wrote me that email – I was in your shoes once, too. Make SURE you take the time to put yourself as a client FIRST and get your business going. Once you have it set up, you’ll have my kind of day – not the kind where you feel exhausted working for other people.

Tiff

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