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Although he gets a bit of flak from some quarters, I find Tony Robbins very helpful. One particular concept of his that helped me a lot to increase my income and turn my potential into reality is his his view that there are 2 types of people. There are the "Aspiring" people--those that are motivated to do something because they see opportunity and potential. On the other hand, there's the "Moving away from" people--people who do things because they HAVE TO (ie., forced into it by circumstance). I have to say I've been in both camps before. Back in 2000, I had established a set of filter pages that farm traffic from 2 main sources. I was in my "aspiring" mode-I set up the pages because I saw the potential judging from test traffic. It paid off. Good for 3 years' worth of steady traffic and monthly rising income. 2003--the traffic died. I was then in my "Moving away from" mode and I was scrambling to find traffic replacements.
The lesson I take from all this is that we have to be BOTH--do things that you aspire to but do them EARLIER before you are FORCED to. It sucks to be put in a situation where you are scrambling. So plan ahead. Always have a back up. I've always used mainstream as a backup to adult. Now dating income is a backup to my mainstream revenue streams. Outsourcing is now a backup to my mainstream media projects.
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