{"id":117,"date":"2017-03-29T21:16:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T21:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2020-12-02T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T09:29:06","slug":"why-my-yamaha-r1-is-like-an-internet-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/why-my-yamaha-r1-is-like-an-internet-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Why My Yamaha R1 is like an Internet Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>Hey there, my second post since I decided to restart my journey on starting an Internet Business.\r\n\r\nAnd you are probably thinking why I titled this about a motorbike….\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nWell this is why….\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nDamn, I decided to take my motorbike out yesterday\u2026..\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nYou see my big bike…the Yamaha R1 which I love to bits and I spent quite a bit of money fixing it up caused me some trouble yesterday.\r\n\r\nTo be honest it pissed me off a lot.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nAfter fixing it up it was running like a baby…better than ever since I bought it from a friend a few years ago.\r\n\r\nSo…Yesterday I decided to take it out and go see my friends in town.\r\n\r\nYeah…I admit…Wanted to show it off a bit….but\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nA couple of km down the road it started coughing and spluttering and eventually cut out.\r\n\r\nMan…was I pissed off. To cut a long story short I had to get it back home and take my wife\u2019s scooter into town to meet my friends.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nSo why is this like an Internet Business you may ask ?\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nWell…..\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nWhen I eventually got into town to meet my friends (a lot later than we had agreed to meet up) and I explained to then what happened…\r\n\r\nOne of them who understands more about big bikes than I do, explained to me that big performance bikes like mine need to be run regularly.\r\n\r\nLeaving them sitting at the back of your house (like I had done for 4 weeks) causes the fuel to get sticky and everything seizes up.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nI had been away and neglected it so it gotten to the point it didn’t run properly anymore.\r\n\r\nHe told me that I need to take it out and run it at least once a week for an hour or so to keep it running smoothly.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nI still haven’t managed to start it properly but it also got me thinking …..\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s exactly the same as running and Internet Business….If you leave it standing for 3 – 4 weeks it starts to have problems and will eventually stop working.\r\n\r\nTo put it in 1 word it is CONSISTENCY.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\"Persistence\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nAnd I realized tonight that , that is exactly what I have been lacking in all my Internet Marketing efforts.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nI have started many projects but never stuck with the long enough.\r\n\r\nI have made some money but never stuck with it.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking now….What has happened with your coaching with Andy, Donal ???\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nWell, I had my first call with Andy last week and we chatted for 2 hours about many things.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nThis is what we agreed (And I knew this already but never did it). He told me to make a free offer and set up and a squeeze page (landing page).\r\n\r\nI realized this is something I had already done but never followed through on (PERSISTENCE).\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nThe gold nugget from our conversation was this…..\r\n\r\nMake it a course and not a simple PDF because nobody cares about a PDF anymore.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nSo I am now working on a free course and a course that adds real value to my customers.\r\n\r\nWatch this space and I will let you know as soon as the course is available.\r\n\r\nBear in mind also that you are effectively watching a live case study as it happens, so you will see if it works or not and what I do with whatever happens (Feeling scared now).\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nAnother thing I spoke about a lot with Andy was Mindset and Time Management and that is something I am working on a lot myself at the moment.\r\n\r\nI will talk about this a lot more in a future post, but here is one thing I know for sure and have learnt over the years and that is…..\r\n\r\nMINDSET IS 80% of the key to success in starting your own Internet business.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nMINDSET, FOCUS (I will deal with in another post) and PERSISTENCE which I mentioned already and will also talk about in a later post.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nWhy do I know these things you may ask?…. I will tell you why …Because I have lacked all of them, but am getting better and some of them I am still working on.\r\n\r\nI look forward to telling you how I have improved each of them and am still working on all of them.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nLet me leave you with a question….\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nHave you already bought courses and know what you should be doing but haven’t done it?\r\n\r\nHave you started doing it but got distracted on the way ?\r\n\r\nAre you still trying to figure out what you should really be doing?\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nIf so, then yes, I have been there too for many years.\r\n\r\nHell, if I implemented half of what I know I should have a 6 figure business already but I was all over the place and confused.\r\n\r\nBut now finally I have a plan and working towards that plan.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nAnother HUGE part of getting to where you want to be is being made ACCOUNTABLE and that is another thing I will address in an up and coming post.\r\n\r\nWe all think we can make ourselves ACCOUNTABLE to ourselves, I did too… but we can make excuses to ourselves and agree with those excuses and let ourselves off when it suits us.\r\n\r\nI am working on something (Free) for people who REALLY want accountability and will let you know as soon as it is in place.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nPeace, Love and Success,\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nDonal\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey there, my second post since I decided to restart my journey on starting an Internet Business. And you are probably thinking why I titled this about a motorbike…. \u00a0 Well this is why…. \u00a0 Damn, I decided to take my motorbike out yesterday\u2026.. \u00a0 You see my big bike…the Yamaha R1 which I love …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donalerdpohl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}