Steve Oliphant’s Musings

I recently read an article entitled Why we don’t always learn from our mistakes that shows that the more we repeat a mistake the more we are likely to repeat it in the future.

This applies directly to internet marketing and growing your own business. We spend lots of time doing things that won’t help us move forward towards our goals, or that even hurt us in moving towards our goals.

These are mistakes. And unless we STOP doing them, we are simply re-enforcing them and are more likely to repeat them.

Common mistakes include:

Watching TV

Checking email every 10 minutes

Buying the latest get-rich-quick program before the time is up

Buying into the hype of easy money on the net. (It is easy, just not the way they want you to think)

Starting some guru’s program, and not finishing. (I believe this is the worst one. Almost any method for being succesful will work if followed through to completion)

Believing that because you failed at something, you are a failure. Most succesful people will have failed more times than you. The trick is to learn from your failure, not repeat the mistakes that caused it, and try again.

Doing things the easy way instead of the right way. The old adage of “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right” is true.

On the other hand, another common mistake is not releasing a product or marketing campain or web site until it is perfect - and then never arriving at that point of perfection. Michael Masterson has a great book entitled Ready Fire Aim on how has created and expanded many multi-million dollar businesses. The main message is in the title.

But probably the most common mistake of all, and this includes most of the above, is simply NOT DOING. In order to make something happen, you have to DO. Set aside time, right now, and DO.

James Brausch is giving away two books I want

I hope I get them

One is Richard Bach’s “One“. I have read “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by him and really enjoyed it.

The other one; More Words that Sell will help improve my copywriting. (Something always worth working on.)

James Braush is creating a book from content on his blog.

I am excited about this!

If you read his blog (or the book) you will understand why.

He takes his readers step-by-step and teaches them exactly what to do and how to do it to become one of the 2% who are making incredible amounts of money on the internet.

The information presented here is priceless. He teaches how to (easily) create your own products, how to make websites to sell them, how to drive traffic to your websites, and how to automate the whole process so that you can continue to make money even in your sleep.

James also teaches how to change your life so that you can become successful at anything. This is much more than a “How to make money on the internet” blog, it is a “How to become Free” blog! He writes on time management, self improvement, relationships, and much more.

You can receive a complete education on business, especially internet business, just by reading his blog.

I very much appreciate it James, I can sincerely say “Thank you!” for making this information available.

-Steve Oliphant