Here’s the second part of the article:

2. Work With Your Personality, Not Against It.

By the time you’re ready to embark on an Internet business, it’s likely that you have enough life experience to understand your own work patterns. It is essential that you create whatever conditions you need to work efficiently.

Once you have chosen the type of business that seems right for you (for example: creating niche products, or building content sites that will bring in money from AdSense and affiliate sales) your first step should be to create a checklist of necessary tasks. What is the very first thing you need to do? What is the second? What is the third? Write them all down.

Decide on which tasks you will handle yourself, and which tasks you will hand over to others. Arrange these tasks in two separate lists. (If you have no money to outsource anything yet, then you’ll still have one big list.)

If you are outsourcing certain tasks, find the professional who will be handling them and get things underway before you begin on your own list. This will give you a mental boost, because things are already happening! (Note that some outsourced tasks may have to wait until you have completed a step on your own list.)

Look At Your Work Patterns

Look back at your past experiences with approaching projects or new tasks, and decide which of the two following work patterns sounds most like you:

- you work best with a ‘to do’ list that challenges you, ticking off each task as it is completed.

- you become overwhelmed if you have too much on your list; you work best if you have just one task in front of you at a time.

Far too many new internet marketers panic at the sight of a seemingly interminable list of tasks. At the end of a day, if they’ve checked only three boxes out of twenty-seven, they panic. It all seems too much - and paralysis can set in. That, in turn, leads to disillusionment and another failed business.

Anticipate Your Reaction

If you know that this will be your reaction, then put your list away. Instead, write out the very first task on a piece of paper, and put THAT in front of you. That’s all you have to accomplish - that one task.

Be careful that you don’t look upon a whole complex project ‘one task’. For example: don’t write down ‘build a website’ as Item 1 on your To-Do List! Break large tasks down into smaller jobs, and focus on that. If your first task in building a website is to download the necessary software and install it on your computer, write that down as one thing on your to-do list.

Work your way through one task at a time, and give yourself credit for what you have accomplished. One final tip: pretend that you are hiring yourself, and treat yourself kindly - like a new employee that has to learn the ropes. As a boss, you wouldn’t unfairly overload a ‘newbie’ starting out in the business - so don’t do it to yourself!

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Hang around any internet forum for a while, and you’re sure to
read a post from some exhausted, disillusioned ‘apprentice’
internet marketer who is ready to give up.

It’s not only internet forums that carry sad tales of endless hours
spent trying to ‘break in’. You’ll often see stories like this in
testimonials for a system that has finally worked: relieved buyers
tell of their rocky journey before finding the solution that did it
for them.

If you’re one of those who are dealing with a fed-up spouse who
is urging you to find a ‘real job’, or credit cards that have reached
the red zone after huge sums spent on the next sure thing, you
may well be getting close to burnout.

What do you do? Keep trying - or give up? And if you do keep
trying, how can you know what will work best for you? What is
the best use of the hours you have available to you, without your
health suffering?

Here’s a tip to help you find your way Continue reading Your Internet Business - Achieving Success while Avoiding Burnout - Part 1

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Tim Ferriss’ book, The 4-Hour Workweek, is one of those rare, paradigm-shifting works that will truly change the way we think about work, retirement, time, life, and following our muses. I know it sounds hypey, but after reading this book you will have a different conception of what your life can be like.

This isn’t just some futurist philosophy about what could be. Tim is rewriting the rules of how we thought life should be, and has opened up possibilities that most people only dream about. He has a brought those dreams into reality. And the vehicle? Creative use of technology and outsourcing!

This is not “The Secret”(of which I am a fan). This is a step-by-step blueprint of how one could achieve financial independence, delegating and systematizing your personal and professional life, and living however, and wherever you choose.

The book is filled with the resources, methodologies (even scripts on what to say to your boss to wean them on the idea of telecommuting). All you serial entrepreneurs can skip that section!

Tim has brought outsourcing to the mainstream by personalizing it and revealing the tools, services, and methodologies that individuals can use to create the life of their dreams. This was not possible even 15 years ago. Thanks to the Internet, it is well within the reach of the “average Joe.” A true modern miracle.

Tim Ferriss is the poster boy for outsourcing. BUY THIS BOOK NOW! The 4-Hour Work Week. Not even an affiliate link-just a proponent!

I will be dedicating several posts to discussing many of the strategies and resources he cites in his book. This should be fun! Stay tuned…

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