I have no excuses…thankfully. There was a time many years ago that I was ok with telling myself (and others) who’s fault it was that things weren’t getting done or what/who got in my way that made things were go in a different direction that I had originally planned them to. Then I started working on ME.
I figured out that everything that happens in life (whether I like it or not), happens based on choices I’ve made in my past or choices I’m making in the present. It’s not because of a boss or a parent or something my friends or co-workers did or said or didn’t do or because the Universe got in my way and just made me unlucky…it’s on me…MY choices and MY decisions…100%.
So, here’s the deal. There’s a few things you have to know about me if you’re following along with me here, otherwise you might get frustrated along the way.
1. I get bored easily so I tend to multi-task and have a lot of different things going on at the same time. I’m guessing that’s why, as my mom used to tell me, I was one of those “Jack of all trades, master of none” kinda people. If I got bored with a job or wanted to do something different, I’d quit and go find something else to do. That’s also why I love having my own business. It gives me the freedom to do whatever I want with it on a regular basis. And if I don’t like how I’m doing it on any given day, I can fire myself and rehire myself the next day.
2. I spend a lot of time saying “we” and people get confused about who the other person/people are. Most of the time it’s just me. That’s something I’ve done since high school. Friends always asked who “we” was and it became a joke that I had a “mouse in my pocket”. Mom just figured it was the many “sides” of my personality and I wanted to make sure I included them in the conversation. 🙂
After I graduated, I became a single mom at the age of 20 and then it was “we” all the time because there’s never been a time since then that my son wasn’t with me. It’s become habit at this point I suppose, one that’s just not annoying enough to me to work on changing. So no, I’m not bi-polar, nor do I have a multiple-personality disorder that I’ve left undiagnosed. I do, however, have conversations with myself regularly…and seriously, are you really gonna sit there reading this and say that you don’t? (Then who was that you just heard in your head saying “No, I don’t!”) 😀
3. I’m a perfectionist. And that IS a habit I’ve spent years working on changing because it DOES annoy me and get in my way. I can’t remember when I figured it out, but I can remember when I started my first business that it would stop me from getting things done as fast as I could have and it slowed down my progress here and there. I’ve come a long way since 1999, but “she” does tend to show up on occasion and get in my way still. It just takes a lot less time now to figure out she’s around!
4. I’m stubborn. Now that’s a personality trait that works both for AND against what I’m doing so I don’t work on changing it. I just keep an eye on it in case I’ve gotta put it in check. It can get in my way if I don’t realize that I’m being stubborn about something that doesn’t make a difference. But it can be (and has been) a determining factor in reaching my goals and having the success I’ve had. That stubborn streak keeps me moving forward. I refuse to give up when I’m working on accomplishing something that someone else has already done (if someone else did it, then so can I). And I don’t like being told I can’t do something or can’t accomplish something. The stubborn streak keeps me going even if just to prove that I CAN!
So, why did I feel the sudden urge to share all this with you? Because then you’ll understand now and in the future, why I do (or don’t do) some of the things I’ve done or will be doing. Ok, now I’ve confused ME.
Anyway…for the past month or so, I’ve spent most of my free time doing keyword research to figure out how to set up an Adsense website using Adsense 100k. In the process, I’ve let my BTF sites simply sit untouched. And as much as I’d like to tell you it’s because I have this strategy of letting my websites age and build traffic and a lot of other really cool marketing stuff, but that’s just not the case. I left it sit because I got bored.
When I put up that first test site, my son and I had quickly picked a topic and went for it. I didn’t go after something that I was passionate about. It was a topic that “worked” and our goal was simply to see if BTF would do what it said it would. And it did…we got ranked for our main keyword quickly and got our site to page 1 of Google really fast.
The good news? The site, after no additional articles, posts, or backlinking strategies, still sits at position 11 for 3 of the keywords. Not page 1 for Google, but I know it won’t take a lot of additional work to get it back up there.
The better news? It got me really excited about the fact that we CAN get a website to the front page of Google is less than 25 years!
So, I bought some PLR that’s on topic for the site and eventually I’ll get around to altering the articles and schedule them to post to the site. I’m guessing sometime within the next month.
Why aren’t I doing it right now? Because I don’t want to…and yes, I tend to do more of what I want and less of what I “have” to nowadays because my mom isn’t around to ground me for it. 🙂
Right now, my free time has been spent doing keyword research for an Adsense 100k site that I want to get set up. It’s been mind-boggling how many directions keywords can take you in. I’ve found a ton of great keywords that I’d like to build future sites around!
But it’s not the keyword research that’s the difference between SETTING a site up and HAVING a site up. Little Miss Perfectionist stopped by for a visit (as she usually does when I’m doing something new and unfamiliar). Thankfully, there was a conversation that someone in the Adsense 100k forum was having that struck a nerve and I recognized her in the conversation. So, she’s been booted once again and we’re back on track.
I’ll be back later to let you know what’s going on with that.
Until then, think about it and let me know what personality traits do YOU have that assist you or get in YOUR way? We are who we are. The best thing we can do at this point is figure out who that is so that we can work with the strengths and find ways to work around the weaknesses. 🙂