Do You Think That “Thinking” Is Working?

By Mikael | 458 views

Most entrepreneurs (both online and offline) are extremely innovative people and most have more ideas than they will ever be able to complete or even start. Does this sound familiar to you?

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you thought about things like:

• Writing different ebooks and sell them
• Adding opt-in forms
• Starting a new blog
• Creating mini niche websites and monetize them with Adsense
• Building review websites with affiliate links
• Creating strategic partnerships with other people in your niches
• Doing massive linkbuilding campaigns using social media, video, article marketing……
• Wanting to do guest posts on other sites for links and traffic

Obviously the list could go on and on because there is an unlimited amount of ideas that you could start, improve, test, outsource, write down, brainstorm…..

I think you get the idea, right?

Stop Thinking, Start Doing

Now there is nothing wrong with coming up with new ideas and concepts and without it there would be no innovation. But the reason I wanted to write this post is that I am sure some of you are just like me and that you also convince yourself of having worked a great deal on your online business because it FEELS like it.

I personally think about my online business 5-6 times an hour (18 hours a day) because I am constantly thinking of new things that I could do or old things that I should have done but didn’t get around to doing.

When I reach the weekend I feel like I have put in a great effort even though I might only have put in 3 hours of true work. The reason is that my brain thinks that because I have thought about my business 450 times from Monday to Friday, then I must have spent a lot of time on it.

What To Do About It

So should you stop thinking about your business? Absolutely not!

But you must be truthful to yourself when you look back at your work week and tell your brain that you actually worked less than 3 hours instead of the 450x 5 minutes that it thinks that you worked because you thought of it.

If you can learn how to do this you will be able to look back (and forward) and be realistic about what it takes to become successful. Most people can accept/understand that 3 hours of work might not lead to great results whereas 450x 5 minutes (37.5 hours) should definitely create results that were noticeable.

The optimal solution would naturally be to start working more on your business and to think less and I am sure that we’re all striving to do this, but becoming honest and truthful to yourself is a giant leap in the right direction and will give you a totally new clarity on your business’ coming path.

To Your Success,
Mikael

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