Hey, my name is Gavin Mountford & you may already know me from my other websites and blogs which I'll introduce you to in a few minutes….
Like most Home Based Business owners I came onto the Internet to build my business the easy way.
I'd first got involved in Network Marketing with Amway back in 2000/2001 and had a little bit of success offline, but I hated the pestering and prospecting my friends, family and strangers. I just didn't come natural to me. I wasn't enjoying it, I struggled and eventually my network folded and I quit the industry. I got out, and was fed up of it and went back to work for somebody else, just because it was easier…
I didn't have to think as much and get out of my comfort zone.
Then about 5 years ago I got the network marketing bug again. I wanted to build and grow a team. I was ready, excited. I got my vision, my dreams and I joined another company which we were all very excited about.
Then I started looking for ways to build that business online and I came across Magnetic Sponsoring from Mike Dillard and bought it straight away because it told me how easy it was going to be to build a network marketing business online.
All I had to do was set up a blog, set up a capture page, which I had no ideas how to do and place a few articles, press releases and adverts. The leads would flock in and ask if they could join my business. Fantastic I thought. Easy money. I'm going to be able to show all my friends I can do it and prove them wrong.
So over the next 6 months I bought more and more courses and started to put it the strategies into action to build my network marketing business. I was so excited about this new way to build my business that I couldn't sleep at night.
But do you know what. After 6 months of doing this, alongside my day job nothing was happening and I didn't know why. All these people seemed to be having success online but I wasn't. What was wrong with me?
All of a sudden I started getting sidetracked. Losing my focus, looking around for another business. Another way to generate traffic because I thought it was the business that was wrong.
I felt I'd been lied to…
They told me the Internet was going to be an easy way to build my business, and it's absolute rubbish. Yes it's easy once you've spent a lot of time of trial and error and worked very hard, but it's not easy.
One of the reasons I struggled so much in the early days is that the Internet is designed to grab your attention. People, guru's, trainers know how to pull you away from what you are currently focused on and get you to buy their stuff, join their business, spend your money with them…
They're masters at it!
They promise you the world, and they deliver great content but I was sure it was just designed to keep us spinning around like a hamster in a cage on it's little yellow wheel.
The hamster doesn't know any better and I didn't know any better either…
I was at their peril. When they said jump. I say how high? When they said buy, I said how much. When they said join my business. I said ok, where do I sign.
It didn't matter that I was losing my direction, losing focus and cheating on my dream, I was spending money I couldn't afford. I just wanted the newest, business, course, traffic generation method. I was going to get it at any price.
I was just all over the place. I had no discipline and working from home for me way a nightmare. I loved it, but my life and business all merged into one. It became the grey zone. When I was supposed to be working I was on Skype, Instant Messenger, checking my emails, browsing Google for more books and courses to confuse me even more. I think the reason this happened was because I actually didn't know what to do to build my business.
I bought courses which I hadn't finished, I was half way through and I was onto the next thing to buy. I half read books, watched a few minutes of video's, snacked on blog posts and my attention span was rubbish. I was trying to juggle different traffic generation methods. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, my blog, mailing list. Then I had to learn about my company, speak to people on the phone, reply to emails, Instant messages, Facebook and Twitter messages.
How frustrated was I?
At the end of the day, I felt stressed, overwhelmed and that I hadn't acheived anything meaningful.
I was spending all that time away from my family and I'd pretty much wasted the time I had to build my business because there were some fundamental things wrong with me. I didn't want to admit it at the time.
I had to do something about it if I was ever going to build my business on the Internet. I had to master a few skills…
Productivity and time management.
I had to learn how other people were making it work.
So I switched my focus again. But this time it was deliberate. I was going to get good at this. I was going to put a lot of time and effort into learning this.
I bought books, courses, attended seminars, had coaching and gradually I started to get things under control. I studied the masters such as Tony Robbins, Eben Pagan, Peter Drucker, Stephen Covey, David Allen, Brian Tracy and many more. I think I must have read well over100 books and courses on the subject.
I was implementing the ideas into my life and business. I was finally taking control and fighting back against all those gurus who were trying to get me to buy their courses all the time which I bought and did nothing with because I didn't know how to fit them into my business.
I was taking responsibility for my life and business. No one was going to get me off track.
Over the next couple of years I fine tuned my skills. I got my emails under control, had an empty inbox. I had my vision, mission, areas of focus, areas of responsibility, my goals, projects and actions which I did on a daily basis, my habits, routines, batches.
My life was in cruise control…
It's amazing what a sense of relief it is when you've got a focus and direction and you are seeing success.
I'm able to spend more time with my family, separate work from play, and enjoy my life and work. I'm really looking forward to spending more time with our baby because I've mastered the skills of self management and productivity.
I started teaching these skills to my downline, I became more in demand as a coach to help people take control of their lives using the systems, ideas, and the methods that I've learned and refined over the last 3 years.
That's what I want to do for you…
If you are feeling overwhelmed, stressed, you lack direction, you find it hard to focus or get work done, that's what my goal is. To teach you how to get sense of control and relief, which I've managed to attain through trial, error, suffering and spending a lot of money.
So my recommendation for you right now, if you are in this situation is to subscribe to this Blogs RSS feed either by email or Feed Reader and come back on a regular basis to learn. Interact with me, drop me a comment to let me know how you're feeling and the PROGRESS you're making.
Just remember this…
"Eventually all the pieces will fall into place… until then laugh at the confusion, live for the moment, and just know everything happens for a reason."
Because your time is precious, so guard it with your life…
Your Friend & Time Saver,
P.S. I know I promised to tell you more about me & my other sites. If you'd like to learn more, please visit my biography page.
