Internet Marketing Overwhelm Is Kicked Into Touch

I looked at my inbox first thing and felt my energy drop as I was bombarded with the latest Internet Marketers plying their wares. As I’ve been feeling overwhelmed recently, I’ve not been opening these emails so they’re just sitting there, torturing me.

Here are just a few:

• Really cool opportunity (get in now)
• Life Changing (I Promise)
• Ready to TURBOCHARGE your web visitors and profits??
• Webinar That Will Change You (Seriously)
• I’ve got something BIG I WANT TO GIVE YOU

Why do I do this to myself? Why even read them?

I am haunted by a fear of missing something important – of missing the one big thing that’s going to make the difference. It seems to be part of my cells now, an almost instinctive response that makes it hard to let go. And yet, if I only stop to think about it this fear has no validity whatsoever because THERE IS NO ONE BIG THING.

I know from personal experience that there is always another “life changing” opportunity in internet marketing. Not to mention that, all the ones I’ve signed up for, in the past, never actually changed my life. But that’s all part of the internet marketing dream isn’t it? The magical promise that some product is going to be the big thing that changes everything. It’s the same erroneous mentality as winning the lottery. And we all know that the vast majority of the big “winners” can’t hold onto the money or end up miserable. But still we chase the dream.

Well not me. Not any more!

Behaving as though there is something important out there to miss is slowing me down, confusing me and is counter productive to my achieving what I’m really after. I have caused this internet marketing overwhelm so I can get out of it too. Here’s how:

1. take a deep breath.
2. unsubscribe from all “just in case I miss something” email lists – not just internet marketing but coaching as well.
3. unsubscribe from all teaching lists apart from Ed Dale’s.
4. cancel all teaching products apart from Ed Dale’s mentoring.
5. filter automated emails from my coach Elese Coit and from Michael Neill so they don’t hit my inbox. Read only when I need a bit of a motivational push.
6. DO NOT SIGN UP FOR ANYTHING NEW unless it forms an intrinsic part of my CURRENT (as in RIGHT NOW) web marketing strategy.
7. take a deep breath.

. . .  Done!

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