What do you think about thinking things over before doing them?

July 27, 2005

LOL I was just talking with a friend of mine about this on Tuesday night.

He was telling me how he needed to get his website set up and he just didn't

know all the stuff yet about what hosts are good and which ones suck and he

didn't want to screw things up.

Hosting is relatively easy to change.

I told him I didn't know the stuff he wanted to know, but my host sucks and I

don't even have any autoresponder email accounts with my host and a few other

" gripes " I have with my host, even though it is " cheap " .

But if I hadn't DONE something with what I knew and what money I had to get

started up (I started with a $4.95 domain name and a SUPER-CHEAP web hosting

account), I STILL wouldn't have made a damn cent.

I've been buying gas and dinner (and paying for dr. appt's, cell phone bill,

etc) with money I got from my website. I'd have been screwed, blued, and

tattooed without it.

My ad copy sucked when I set the page up. Maybe it still sucks, but it's better

than it was.

My website host sucks.

Sometimes paypal is down for maintainence and the " buy now " button doesn't work

while they are doing whatever it is that they with their site while they're

down.

But I make more than I would have if I were thinking about all the things I need

to think about to make sure I have top-notch hosting and round-the-clock,

uninterrupted checkout for my site (I'd have paid a fortune to start up a credit

card merchant account, and clickbank takes more fees than paypal does, and

paypal works MOST of the time, AND I get the money right away, so it's " close

enough to perfect " for me.)

The audio on the CD's I made sucks and I have to re-do them, but I still got two

books. And when I went to listen to the audios I recorded, I learned a LOT that

I didn't know until I DID something. I'm still getting orders for both of the

books, even though I can't sell the CD's yet.

I got a couple of other projects I've been " thinking about " that are still in

stacks of notes and printouts and I'm still " thinking about " the stuff I need to

think about to get them done. Haven't made a damn cent off of those projects,

although the research did help me with the other two I am making money off of.

You HAVE to think, you have to program at level for success, and you have to use

your mind. You also got to take action.

But what do you " think about thinking " creates a non-stop " thinking loop " that

never EXITS to the action stage.

It's like Doc said a few seminars ago, " Even Dumbfucks who take action get stuff

done because they learn from what they did and they get better at it. "

So you plan your course of action, you do your research, and then you DO

something with it. Battle plans seldom make it through the first day of combat,

anyways, so you DO something, adjust, and DO something again to make sure you go

TOWARD what you want to achieve.

Golly, gee, Sam, thanks for the cool question!

Jim

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