The Start Of A Chronicle (I think that’s what to call it…)

For the longest time I’ve been one of the biggest advocates for consistently posting great content on your blog… I mean… that’s the one sure way to get your site on the map and to start to generate some traffic. But I haven’t’ been doing it… until now…

Here’s the deal…

Right now I’m in the middle of a ton of huge changes.

1. My wife and I are buying our first home right now (I own rental properties… but it’s never made sense to buy a house until now)
2. I officially am completely on my own now (as far as my work)… working fully for myself and no longer having to answer to anyone else… which is great… and I’ve seen two of my highest income months ever the last two months (October w/ just my online income I jumped over $12k for the month… we’ll see if I can keep it up
3. Moving to a new town where we know pretty much no one
4. I’m taking part ownership of an existing business with a very well known marketing and sales consultant… gonna be fun as heck

You’re probably asking where I’m going with all of this… aren’t you?

Well…

Right now is a time of huge change for me (good change)… and last week I decided that this is the perfect time to go ahead and change pretty much everything that I’ve been putting off or sucking at lately.

Moving Toward Change… and The Chronicle

Okay, like I said… since I’m already going through a bunch of changes… right now is the best time to integrate some other positive changes into my life… including:

• Consistently posting to this blog and my real estate blog at least 4-5 times a week… each (I’ll need help with this one)
• Really ingraining my morning ritual into my life.  Waking up early, working out, a bit of meditating, etc. Basically… getting my day going right rather than waking up at 9 am every morning and being tied down by my email all day (I started out trying to do a morning ritual a few months back… it didn’t stick… but I changed my ritual around a bit and it’s been sticking great so far!)
• Building a team of awesome people around me and my business(es).  A couple months back I hired my first Virtual Assistant… and still haven’t used her to her greatest potential.  I’m still doing a lot of things I shouldn’t be doing… so I’m going to work hard to systematize my biz and build a team of people around me so we can all prosper together

There are a few other small changes I’m going to make in the next couple months too… but the ones I mentioned are the most important.

So… what I’m going to do is set out to do each of these new changes every day for 30 full days… at the end of those 30 days they should be part of my life and become rituals that I’ll keep on doing.

But…

It’s important that I stick to it EVERYDAY for 30 days or I could fall off the wagon… and these changes are so important that I guess I’ll just have to kick myself in the @ss and make sure I go through with it.

The Start Of A Chronicle

I’m not sure if the word “chronicle” is the best word for it… but that’s what I’m going to use because it just sounds right.

Anyhow, the next 30 days is going to be crazy as heck for me… and I’m going to write in this blog everyday to show some accountability… and to show how I progress from where I am… to where I want to go… and we’ll see how that affects my income and the amount of extra “leisure time” I can create for me and my wife… because in the end… that’s what its all about… working less and doing what you want to do in life.

So, I’ll post updates daily… I can’t go back now because I’ve already written it down as part of my new “morning ritual” that I’ve been following everyday this entire week so far.

Who knows what the heck I’m going to write about… maybe things like:

• Things I find out about myself and little tricks to make creating rituals easier
• How my new rituals affect my income and “leisure time”
• Marketing or business building stuff I’m trying right now in my own biz… and how you can apply it to your own biz
• How daily posts affects my traffic and blog subscription stats versus posting once or twice a week
• Random things I just want to pass on

… who knows.

Anyhow, thats about it for today.

I just created a sense of accountability to YOU… if I hit a road block and don’t update… I hope that you’ll call my @ss on it and whip me into shape by posting a chiding remark or comment (or you can be nice too here on the blog.

I’ll Take It One Step Further

Hey… I’ll take it one step farther and create even more accountability for myself…

If I miss a single day of updating this blog between today (10/30) and 11/30… I’ll personally do something that I truly DON’T WANT TO DO… not sure what that is yet… but it’s gotta be good for it to stick.  This is a little experiment… lets see if it works.

And…

Hey… if you have an idea of what I will have to do if I don’t make a post everyday… post it in the comments section below. No matter how crazy it is… I’ll consider it and pick the best “motivation” by this next Monday.

It could be that I donate $5 for every comment I receive on ANY blog post between today and 11/30 to a charity of YOUR choice…

… or that I do something stupid or embaressing…

… whatever… but it’s gotta be good.

So, have an idea?… don’t be shy… this single “away from” motivation could mean the difference between me succeeding and failing… no pressure huh?