As last week drew to a close and my stress levels increased.  I realised I’d made the classic Internet Marketers mistake (again!) and was trying to focus in too many directions.

One of the reasons for joining Ed Dale’s mentoring programme was so I would have a structure to work within that might contain my tendency to jump from one thing to the other.  Alas, in the short-term, this has not been the case.  I’m still tempted by “shiny new” and, as a result, I find myself in a position of  having to make some decisions about what to drop and what to keep.

There’s a fine balance to be drawn between focussing on a single thing (e.g. this website) and bringing other things into the mix to add a bit of variety which helps me stay interested and motivated.  However, I need to work at something long enough to create a system around it, so I can outsource it.  I’ve reached that point with the link building for this site so I’m ready to add something else into the mix.

Since I’ve never outsourced work full-time before, this process in itself has to be learned and is, therefore, a project in it’s own right.

So, currently I have this website and setting up an outsourcing project to focus on.

But . . . I’ve also been tempted by other stuff since I started the mentoring, some of which I’ve not mentioned before.  These include – list control, the free “Take Over Page One” video course, John Reese’s Outsourcing videos, Crowd Mountain and the addition of Ed’s teaching on buying and selling websites.  Oh yeah. And then there’s the stuff in 30 Day Challenge+ which is included in the mentoring package.  So, with all these things swimming round in my head, you can see why my mind is beginning to get more than a little muddled.

There’s simply not enough time for me to do all those things – soooooo – how do I sort out the mess and narrow down my focus again?

Well, as I said – this website and setting up an internet marketing outsourcing project are in. This website is the current focus for my mentoring and I definitely need to outsource stuff if I want to create a business that I really enjoy.  There is only one more John Reese outsourcing video so I’ll watch that later once my CFT is completed and then I can delete that from my list.

The 30 Day Challenge+ I can follow as and when I need it.  I have created an index of what is available so I can check there when I have questions or am starting a new process.

List control, which has been on the back burner, will have to be dropped.  I don’t have enough traffic to be building a list a this point and it just takes focus from what I need to be doing right now.

The “Take Over Page One” video course will be moved to the back burner.  I will look at that once I’m actually in the position of making a video.  Seems pretty obvious when you write it down, but it’s so easy to get sucked in and distracted when you have emails tempting you and what you’re currently doing is more than a little tedious!

What else . . .

Crowd Mountain.  Hmmmm.  Bit tricky this one.

My main motivation for signing up was to have an opportunity to try out the CM tools.  However, the sales message was misleading.  In the guarantee Michelle McPherson stated that, amongst other things, we would have 30 days to try out the tools.  Once inside, this is not the case.  Three weeks in and only one tool is available.  We won’t have full access until week 6 apparently, so I’m not going to be able to test them out until after the guarantee has passed.  That said, I like Michelle’s approach, so I’m willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and pay the money so I can try out the tools.

That results is a bit of a dilemma though.  I’m tempted to follow the Crowd Mountain process as well as wait for the tools, which ties in quite nicely with what I’m doing since it has bits in common with the 30 Day Challenge.  But there simply aren’t enough hours in a day.  I think I’m just going to have to try and fit this is once my critical focus time blocks are completed.

Once I’ve got some outsourcing sorted I’ll be able to spend more time in Crowd Mountain and, possibly, apply the strategy to my old sites.

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