What’s Your Number?

When reading The Iceberg Effect by Dean Holland, one of the things that Dean asks us to do is to figure out “What’s your number?”. When you become part of the Internet Profits Affiliate System and start using the Beginners Advantage (more about that in a near future blog), you will find out that this number is not only important – it’s vital.

I’m sure many questions are going around in your head about what number I’m talking about; well, it’s the amount of money that you’d want to be making every month that will either help you pay off your bills, retire, travel – live the life you want to.

So here’s my question to you: “what’s your number?”

Because, it’s one thing to “want” to succeed in an online business but when you put a number, a figure on that “want”, you’ve just made it a lot clearer in your mind!

We all know that clarity of action will not only bring you closer to your goal but make the steps to get there easier to understand, put into action and, well, easier to get the financial reward you’re looking for.

So many times we know or anticipate what the end result will be. Unfortunately, most of the times, we forget about the steps or hoops we need to go through from here to there, during the time we get to that end result.

The other aspect that having that number clear in your mind is that it also gives you the chance to realize one big thing: “how probable is it to get to that number in a given time?”. There’s a difference in wanting to make $1 million dollars in a year (very unlikely) and saying that you want to be making $3,000.00 per month by the end of the year (achievable – with effort).

From my experience, and Dean’s confirmation, it seems that everybody wants to be making $10,000.00 per month! Seems like a nice round number; makes it even easier to calculate for 1 year: $120,000.00 — The problem with that number is that not only is it quite high and, let’s face it, daunting to reach – if for some reason you aren’t seeing any results, that amount seems so far out in the field that you definitely need binoculars to see it and then what happens? Yup, you quit!

My Number? Thanks for asking

By this point, you’re probably asking: “great to read Marc, but what’s your number?” Well, my number is $3,596.95 per month. With that amount, I know that I can clear my debts within 3 years – and yes; that’s not taking into consideration that this amount can grow quite rapidly once I get the hang of making an income online.

See how that differs? A much smaller amount. Easier to attain. Harder to scare me if I’m not attaining it within the end of the year – which is my other goal. But I know that if I put the effort into it, there’s a higher probability that I will achieve it – heck, even surpass it.

For so many years, it was always so daunting to look at what I could be making and yet, it seemed as if I was hitting a brick wall one day or opportunity after another. The one big thing that I hadn’t taken into consideration though was that every time I was trying to make money online, even though I wasn’t successful, I was doing one big thing though: I was getting better or at minimum, more knowledgeable about how to make money online.

If only I had looked at finding a mentor – like Dean Holland and those at Internet Profits, ordering his free book (only pay for shipping and handling) sooner! But since I can’t change the past, let me change the future!

“You Are The Most Qualified To Help The Person You Used To Be” 

 Ed Mylett

The one thing I’m looking to do now is to make sure that I can share my blog, share my journey and more importantly: share how someone can avoid the pitfalls of paying for online “shinny objects” money making courses who are more interested in your money than helping you succeed.

Now, you might be asking yourself, with all that being said that’s all fine and dandy Marc, but what does a number have to do with my online internet success? My simple answer is this: everything.

Once you’ve put a number on what is needed to break the 9 to 5 mold of day to day work you’re in and replace that with being self-employed – or at minimum, find a way to pay off any debts you may have, you’ve started a journey that, with continued effort, will bring you to where you want to be: financially free.

It’s a scary thought though. There was a report I read that came out a few years ago. It talked about how lottery winners of large amounts, more than 90% of them had pretty much lost all their winnings within 5 years because they didn’t plan on HOW they were going to spend their money – or better yet, plan on HOW they would invest that money so that they could count on a recurring monthly disbursement.

There’s also an old saying that states: “it’s harder to keep money than to make it”. Let’s make sure together that we can not only find a way to make it; but also find a way to keep it and make it grow. We can definitely discuss that in future blogs.

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To your success…to our success!