Business Discipline
One of the issues with being an Internet Entrepreneur is that you can be very lonely at times.
I remember this when I was running my Internet Businesses some years back.
I was just sitting at home in front of my computer most of the time.
Checking my orders, my statistics, buying stuff and surfing aimlessly to fill up the time (I thought I was being “productive”).
Creating a new product, once in a while.
Copywriting for clients, once in a while.
I wasn’t married then, nor was I going out with anybody (I was in between relationships at that time).
All my friends and ex-colleagues were busy at work.
They could see me once in a while but that would be, well, once in a while.
Sure, I’ve got friends from all over the world who I communicate with online.
But, you know, it’s still the computer in front of me all the time.
Then there’s the TV - but isn’t that a monitor as well?
While it was fun to be in a position where you don’t have to worry about your finances - I realized that we all need more than just financial stability to stay healthy.
And sane.
I was becoming very lazy, eating the wrong food, and sleeping marathon hours.
Well and good, if you’re doing it for a few days.
Not so good, if you’re doing it for months on end.
I realized I needed to do something drastic.
And so I started my smash-hit, “Earn US Dollars In Your Pajamas” Boot Camp, in 2002.
I toured my country with it.
It focused on making money via the Internet, as you laze around in your Pajamas at home.
Just like me.
It wasn’t my first Boot Camp that I’ve conducted, for sure. I actually did the first one sometime in 1999.
Way before most people.
But that was on a small scale, with just about 22 people.
I did it on a big scale in 2002, and I planned it to be such.
Boy, was it ever the right decision.
I’ve personally trained hundreds of like-minded Entrepreneurs, and spoken to tens of thousands of people about E-Commerce and Internet Marketing subjects since then.
I got married.
My son then arrived (he’s quite a charmer).
I also started and am running an expanding company with some of the best talents ever found anywhere on this planet.
All of us stick to a 9am - 5.30pm routine, Monday to Friday.
What? What about the Pajamas lifestyle?
It’s still on - if I want it.
When you have the option of a Pajamas lifestyle - you determine when you wish to be lazy, and when you wish to be productive.
Unfortunately, the laziness momentum can overwhelm any productive thoughts in my case - so I needed to arrest this.
I’ve had a full 2 weeks of doing absolutely nothing some years ago as my Internet Businesses were in full swing.
But it was a full 2 weeks of emptiness and boredom.
I felt that way on the 3rd day itself, but I reminded myself that this was what I was supposed to be enjoying.
And so it lasted 14 days before I had enough of it.
Because my Boot Camps gave me lots of opportunities to interact with like-minded people, I held more of them.
And from the Boot Camps I realized there were other areas I could help make my participant’s Internet Business lives more complete - and so SOLOBIS was born.
SOLOBIS is a full-time commitment and I’ve been “working” at it since 2003.
And soon you’ll see one of the simplest ideas we’ve come up with that is in my mind, very, very powerful, in the right hands.
Your hands, of course.
But what’s even more important to me (and I stress, to me and me alone), is the interaction I get from running a company to achieve a certain objective.
It isn’t “work”.
It’s a whole lot of fun.
The subject-matter, the ideas, the discussions, the planning, the execution.
Everything.
And when you are “working” with a team full of energetic, forward-thinking and like-minded people who can all self-manage themselves, the sky’s truly the limit.
But most important of all, everybody becomes more disciplined than ever.
Whereas before I could put things off just because I felt like it, I can’t do that now because others are waiting for my input/effort/ideas/etc.
(Actually I can, but I’m not going to miss out on the fun.)
With discipline in the right environment, will come lots of other successes faster than you can ever imagine.
I said to one of my Apprentices that while he’s making lots of money on his own right now via the Internet (and he’s only 20 years old!), he could multiply that even more with a more disciplined approach to his businesses combined with an understanding and implementation of some of the more powerful business and marketing concepts he’ll be discovering in the course of his journey with the Team.
While he could take things easy at 20 and create new products as and when he feels like it, I asked him - why do it at this age?
Are you going to spend the next 50 - 60 years of your life playing computer games, travelling the world, go to parties, etc?
I know it sounds exactly like what you would want, but believe me - you’ll get sick of it very quickly.
Why not make full use of your time to benefit your fellow human beings with more of your creations and efforts as much as you can, which you may not ever want to stop because it’s so much fun if done the right way?
Of course, you’ll be smart enough to create a Recurring or Residual Income for yourself even as you’re doing this so that even if you decide to stop for a few years or forever - you can…
With the Internet, potent business concepts and A TEAM of people with the same objectives, this CAN be done.
This includes the full-time SOLOBIS Team Members themselves as I work with them to create for all of us a Recurring and Residual Income - by doing the same thing for our clients!
But if you don’t have the discipline in building your business, you can’t go very far with it - no matter how talented you may be.
If you don’t wish to elevate your business to a higher level than the one you’re at - you’ll be stuck at where you are.
I’m constantly challenging myself to go further, and reach further - even though I’ve gone further than most people have.
Life then becomes more challenging, meaningful and more fun.
For me.
What about you?
Sen Ze
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