It is 10:37AM August 1st 2007. The rent is due today. We’ll be managing to pay it thankfully, along with the other bills; and hopefully this will be the last month where up until the day before the bills were due, there wasn’t enough money to cover them. July was one of my worst months yet. It was a lucky thing for me I made a few sales in June and May and had something left in my account to put towards the bills for August, otherwise the story would be going a little bit differently. I’m relieved that enough money was raised to pay the bills but I’m frustrated that I’m still having to struggle to raise enough money to pay my bills. I need to get more aggressive about the efforts I’m making where money is concerned. I need to reassess how I am spending those 16 hours per day I spend working on one project or another. I’m not so sure I’m making effective use of my time.

I have about 7 websites that could potentially be already bringing in from $500 - $2500 per month. Combined that’s from $3500 - $17,500 per month. Of course $3500 per month is more likely than $17,500 but the point is, the money is there to be made. Everything is already set in place; but because I can’t afford to hire help, I’m pretty much stuck.

To make money off the sites I need to market them; but marketing the sites will require a full-time effort; and if I’m focusing full time on marketing the sites, then I’m not focusing on maintaining them. All of the sites in question require continual updating. They depend on having fresh, regularly updating content. Updating the sites is a full-time job. Basically I’m faced with a situation where I need several clones of myself all working together to turn potential into actual profit otherwise I’ll end up having put in all the time and effort I’ve put in over the last year for absolutely nothing.

Lately I’ve been feeling defeated, questioning my judgment, doubting my capabilities, considering selling all my sites for $250 buck a piece and quitting on myself. But it would be unfortunate if I were to do that, because I would come away with less than $2000 for a year of work that could have earned me from $42,000 - $210,000. I just would like for that money to start coming in, but I know it won’t come in on its own. That’s just not the way it works. If you want it you have to go after it and you have to go after it with a determination to get it and a plan of how you’re going to go about getting it. Sitting back and waiting for something to happen, that’s what poor people do and that’s why they stay poor.

Poor people also stay poor because they have a self-defeating attitude. Instead of being motivated to fight for what they want, they complain that some force is against them ever getting anywhere in life; they sit back and curse their bad luck.

You want something in life, you have to be willing to do what it takes to get it. If you’re not willing to do what it takes, don’t complain that you don’t have what you want and will never get what you want. It’s in your hands one way or another to be or not to be.