Engineering The Perfect Business

  I did something today that I don’t normally do.

Just a couple months back I started creating a business audit every single month, and today I sat down and really looked at all of my business audits for the past couple months.

 And you know what I did, I eliminated a lot of places where I was spending so much money on.  Now you might be sitting back and saying why would I even do that?

I did something rather unusual today. I took the day completely off from business..and not the kind of “off” where you step away from the computer and are still thinking of a killer strategy to drive traffic to your website.

I took the day off, well, after a couple emails….. and headed Downtown. I sat at a coffee shop watching the world outside as I sipped my coffee. I watched people run to catch the trains..busy on their cell phones without a time to breathe..

Here’s something that I learned about life and business today..

Sometimes things will just go wrong and everything will fall apart, it’s inevitable even if you believe you’ve got everything in place. What a positive note, eh?

I got up this morning to change my squeeze page, well I did that and when I went to put it in with my tracker, guess what?

My english somehow got translated into Hebrew! Yep, that’s right and I spent an hour trying to figure out what the H*** was going on..

The point of this is not to say well, this personality types are better with success so..tough luck..But, just to make you think about your own personality and if there’s any conflict between what you naturally function well with and what you are trying to do.

I took the Gregorc style delineator test a couple weeks ago and found it pretty interesting. There are a million others out there but the reason Im taking about this one is..it’s the first that’s managed to get my attention. Can you guess by now..what my personality type is?

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So I found this little test from the BBC website yesterday and I don’t think I’m a perfectionist at all. I know of people who line up the edge of the ruler for 5 minutes before drawing a line and I’m more freestyle so I definitely am not a perfectionist.

So, i took this test
www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/perfectionism/

And..Let’s just say I think their test isn’t very accurate. C’mon, I’m not THAT much a perfectionist..

But who knows you may finally find a reason as to why

. you haven’t created your own product yet

In life, here’s my philosophy..

Breakthrough happens when you keep trying, when you keep pushing..when you keep trying different combinations..

Very much like how the first lightbulb was made. To a lot of people, the idea is the breakthrough and then they stop….that’s it…We all have great ideas but often breakthroughs happen when people run with the ideas, work on it (give speeches and inspire others), come up with new experiments and devices…that is breakthrough..

The Keywords

1. Choose something well targeted, (long tail) for example, if you had an affiliate site for apple iphone, it’s probably not a good idea to go for iphone because your chances of being seen in that crowd is almost non existent unless you want to spend thousands of dollars and many years.

Instead you can use services like tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/index.php (free) or www.nichebot.com (paid) to find the highly targeted words. The free tool isn’t as detailed and since overture keyword suggestion has been shut, wordtracker free is the only free source of Keyword info currently.

Scenario: I’m going to make the smallest, best remote control ever! And, I’ll do it all myself so when I’m done..the world is going to look at me and go “WOW! What a genius! did it all himself (or herself)”

Problem: It’s boring being alone..You’re going to be excited about your ideas for 5 days then you’ll get lonely working on it alone. (Ok, there are exceptions when you reach a different level of passion for it but when you do..you also realize the importance of having other brains around you..that can help you) And the song by Akon - Mr. Lonely will start becoming the theme song for a long time.

I had a realization last night (Uh oh, I hear ya!)..I was thinking of all of my online projects, the different ways I have tried to make money, the ideas I have had and so on. And, the biggest disconnect there is, is between ideas and execution. (I hope you can relate),

I usually have world changing ideas and they never get executed. It’s so easy to get an inspired idea and so darn hard to get the inspiration to do the work! (Can we say Friction?)