My dream for a few years now has been to emigrate to Australia. I’ve been here twice so far and each time, for the first time on my holidays, I’ve been very sad to leave for home.
By the time I usually get to the end of a holiday I’m missing home and ready to go back. Not so for Australia.
So I set the goal, dreamed the dream, did the work and achieved what I’ve really wanted. But here are two thoughts on what happens when dreams come true.
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I tend to hire a lot of freelancers. When I find a good one I will often stick with them for a long time but of course they sometimes get too busy, take a holiday or move on. One recurring theme I find in new hires is that to start with they are super keen and really want to impress but as with many one-man-bands they spend a lot of effort getting clients but then struggle to deliver.
My thought for today is to think about what you promise to do and if you make a promise then do everything in your power to deliver on it.
As a business owner who outsources almost everything I have a somewhat unique perspective on what it takes to be the one who is chosen for a project.
Much of the time you only need be the least worst of the bunch. You simply need to be the one who bothers to reply, who responds to the initial bid details or even does what they said they were going to do in the first place.
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I do a lot of stuff on the internet. All day long in fact.
Sometimes I take a risk and order something or use a service and pay hoping that I will get something decent back. This week alone I had to let go one writer who started off well, promising the earth but as time went on he started to submit stuff late and of low quality.
Yesterday I used a cool site called Fiverr.com where for $5 you can get lots of cool stuff done for five bucks. One guy offered to draw a characture of you for $5 if you send a picture. The problem was the disconnect between the icon he uses which suggests he can draw and what he actually drew.
Image from his profile:
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If I had a dollar for every person I’ve met who wants to make money on the web. So what goes wrong?
Here is my take on the disconnect between wanting to have the income and doing nothing about it.
But then what? Maybe read a few e-books on internet marketing. Maybe visit a few websites giving advice. Maybe even sign up to some web guru mastermind groups teaching how to stamp on the search engines or gain thousands of views on YouTube. How about setting your business on auto-pilot so you can sit on the beach and sip cocktails.
This is where we can be hit by the paralysis by analysis issue where you know a bunch of stuff but don’t know how to put it into use. Then comes the opinion overload where one guy says that product X is the next big thing but the other guys says that is so yesterday. Confused! [click to continue…]