Eric

Fear can do many things. One thing it’s

good at is making you think about where you’d rather like to be over

where you’re at right now. This can be great for business because

it’s showing you that you’re uncomfortable with where you are and

that you want to make a change to get somewhere else.

Question is, where else is it leading

your blog or business to exactly?

The Pit

Fear can easily lead you to disaster and drive you right down into the

pit. You’ll be afraid to take any chances or challenges that are put

in front of you and ultimately will lack improvement on all levels.

Don’t let this happen because in my opinion this is one of the

reasons so many business fail early on. Take a chance because without

doing so you’ll just end up falling down and never getting back up.

Above Land

Taking a few chances here and there are good because you might mess up a

lot. Learn from those mistakes and keep at it. Doing so will keep you

above land and able to see what’s coming next (or not) and even if

you don’t see what’s next, you’ll be stronger than before and ready

for the next take on things. Keep in mind that you’ve got to keep

going because consitency and learning and not giving up is allowing

you to keep this position active so that you’re not falling too far.

You don’t want to just be at this point forever though…

The Sky

You want to be here, in the sky, always rising above the competition by

doing things no one else is doing. Having enough fear will keep you

going to the point that you’ll learn so much and keep seeing where

success lies that you’ll be able to rise and keep rising and learn

the ins and outs of what makes your business rock solid.

Having

enough fear in business can literally make you or break you, and your

business.

What is fear doing to your business?
Thanks!

Eric

Eric Heavilin is the author of BluePop13.com where he writes about various topics including Blogging and how to improve your blog and your business with your blog. He enjoys Music, Writing, Blogging, Movies, Entertainment in general, helping people succeed and more. If you want to know more about Eric I encourage you to visit his site. You can also follow Eric on Twitter.

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So, why is time an important asset to any blogger exactly? Simple. Time is what makes or breaks a blogger, as I said above.

Let me explain what I mean and why I feel this way.

When I first started blogging I found it was something fun to do and a great way to meet new people and build great relationships. I soon discovered Yaro’s blog and Darren Rowse and David Risley and realised that there’s money that can be made here. I just had no clue how to make money.

I then found that providing valueable products to people whom time has allowed a relationship to grow upon is what works. It took me months to figure this out and it’s not the time that matters but what you learn and who you become in that time.

Time is something none of us ever have enough of but can do great things with if we start doing and quit making excuses about.

I personally am working hard to make my time count as a blogger with the more I learn and am able to provide to others who are working towards similar goals as I am. Every blogger has a chance to be great if they put in the right effort with the time they are given.

So… what asset has time’s valuable importance provided you to accomplish?

Eric Heavilin is the author of BluePop13.com where he writes about various topics including Blogging and how to improve your blog and your business with your blog. He enjoys Music, Writing, Blogging, Movies, Entertainment in general, helping people succeed and more. If you want to know more about Eric I encourage you to visit his site. You can also follow Eric on Twitter.

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Ideas are where it really does begin but then we must learn to take real action on those ideas and create a plan and keep at it in order to make them reality. I personally want to be a full time blogger and will some day, just not yet, as I’m building up my blog to allow me to do so.

My idea is a lot like others however I’m working hard behind the scenes (I know, some people still pump out amazing content while doing other stuff though I’ve been extremely busy, no excuse) to make an amazing blog that truly helps people get much further than they already are.

A Few Years

A few years ago my site was just a static website and more of a personal site with no real intention. For too many years I had absolutely no plan for it and that’s exactly what it did for me, nothing.

Over those years I did a lot of thinking and started getting creative with what I wanted to do for others and actually got started on all my ideas. That wasn’t good either.

Too Much At Once

I realized fast that starting on each idea I had was not something very good to do. Having a plan and going at it step-by-step is where it’s at. That’s because you’re not too overwhelmed and can then focus on what matters most: getting done what needs done right now.

Everything starts as an idea and it doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad because you’ll find that out along the way. What DOES matter is how you react to those ideas and what results you get from taking action on your plan with them.

So make sure you’re focusing on your plan of action and getting done what needs done right now and keep going as you progress.

Don’t just go crazy and take on too much at once because that’s the fastest way NOT to get your ideas out there in the action.

All that being said, what ideas have you for your site and what are you doing about making them become a reality?

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Eric Heavilin is the author of BluePop13.com where he writes about various topics including Blogging and how to improve your blog and your business with your blog. He enjoys Music, Writing, Blogging, Movies, Entertainment in general, helping people succeed and more. If you want to know more about Eric I encourage you to visit his site. You can also follow Eric on Twitter.

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As I was thinking of what to write for James’s blog this week I considered some ideas I’d been playing around with for a while now. One was the fact that I’m now looking more seriously at turning my blog into a business
generating me a full time income to live off of. But why? Is it because I want to be a full time blogger? Yes. It’s also because I want to help people understand the important of having a blog added onto their business
considering what advantages come along with it.

Where is your mindset?

Are you just thinking about the income? That’s not going to take you too far. Are you wondering how in the world you’re going to get your blog out from under where the rest of the world is at? That’s also not going to do
much good by itself. What you need to understand and wrap your mind around is the fact that any blogger can make money online. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not making money yet myself. AND, I never said you were going to make it possible to make a full time living online. I just simply said you can make money online.

Make sure your mindset is in the right place because that’s really where it all starts.

Care Enough

You need to care enough to do the right things to make your blog work foryou. It’s not just going to magically start making you money. You absolutely have to put the work and the hours in if you want it to work the way it should. This isn’t about a hobby, it’s certainly about creating a business that will make your time well worth your efforts.

Care enough to go above and beyond what others are doing and become amazing at creating a kick-ass blog that takes your readers by storm.

Keep it simple

I like the idea of keeping it simple because that’s where the real power is at. Make sure you know exactly what you’re about and exactly where you’re going. Go on, make some mistakes, because you can always correct
them later. Just make sure you have a clear mind set from the get to and keep it sweet and to the point so as to know what’s really going on before getting started.

So are you ready to take this to a business level or are you not quite there yet?

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Eric Heavilin is the author of BluePop13.com where he writes about various topics including Blogging and how to improve your blog and your business with your blog. He enjoys Music, Writing, Blogging, Movies, Entertainment in general, helping people succeed and more. If you want to know more about Eric I encourage you to visit his site. You can also follow Eric on Twitter.

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You want people to know what you stand for and know what you’re about right? I’m the same way. But what about the fear of giving it all away for free or giving it all right away? I’m with you there too but there’s a solution to that that I want to cover with you today.

Focus and planning ahead is a great way to make sure you’re always giving your readers more of what you have to offer without giving it all to them in one shot. Why do this? Because it makes them want more. They expect more but will wait just a while for it knowing that you have great things to offer.

We don’t have all the time in the world which is why planning ahead and knowing where we’re going is so important. Customers and readers look for what’s next and if they get a lot right now, at least make sure you have a lot more ready to go for later on.

Example: You are planning on releasing an ebook that you’re going to sell. Great! Before releasing it however, give yourself a time frame to get so much of whatever your next project is going to be, completed. If you don’t have another project, that’s fine but make sure you at least have the idea in your head and you’re actually acting on it before releasing much more.

I will be doing this because I find it a bit easier to do than just throwing something together that I hope people will like.

There’s also the case where your release something and have something else lined up soon because you are sure that your customers are going to love what you just offered. The results don’t go as you saw so you get down and wonder if you should be releasing your next project at all.

This can be solved by a simple technique of listening to what your readers want and really communicating with them so that you are aware of what they can use before actually releasing your first product, or second one on the way.

Above all, make sure you’re listening to your readers concerns and giving them a lot, but not all, right away.

What does everyone think?

Eric Heavilin is the author of BluePop13.com where he writes about various topics including Blogging and how to improve your blog and your business with your blog. He enjoys Music, Writing, Blogging, Movies, Entertainment in general, helping people succeed and more. If you want to know more about Eric I encourage you to visit his site. You can also follow Eric on Twitter.

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Just today I was spending some time with my daughter and holding her close to my chest. She started crying and bobbing her head back and fourth and I knew that meant she was hungry. But it got more intense. In fact, I had to hold her closer to me and more gently because she was so hungry and was tired of waiting for her mom to make her bottle.

I told you that little story to tell you this.

A blog is awesome to have these days as is more powerful than ever, only if used correctly. Building a blog and a business behind it isn’t an easy task. James has done it and has shown that you really can make it happen if you truly want it. He wasn’t just hungry, he was starving!

The Right Time

This is one that you probably already know but I’m going to say it anyway because it’s probably so important that it’s the reason why a lot of people just don’t make it. There literally is no right time and never will be, ever. In fact, if there ever was an actual right time, it’s now. Today. Hell, yesterday for some of us. That’s all because you have to want it and go after it and get it done now. Putting things off isn’t going to get you any further today than it did yesterday, period.

So… When is the right time for you?

Who

Do you want to be the next problogger out there in the blogosphere or do you just want to be you? OK, let me rephrase that just a bit. Do you want to go pro or do you want to just stay where you are. Who do you want to become and how hard are you willing to work for it? You can get it. You can. If you’re willing to simply do whatever it takes to make it happen. Again, just look at James. I always keep mentioning him simply because I’ve been following him so closely and have seen what the man can do.

Broke V. Money

What I don’t understand here is how some people who blog say they want to make money but yet are not sure if they want to promote something or sell something of their own. Um, how are you expecting to make a living or even just some money then? It’s not bad to sell things with your blog, in fact, it’s good. It’s about providing value. So if you’re not providing some kind of value then absolutely should you not sell something. Just create a product that will make the lives of others better and market it with your blog and learn as you go.

I’m no expert at this and not claiming to be and am currently not, yes you read that right, I’m not selling anything from my blog just yet. But in the end, it comes down to the fact that just writing articles 3 to 5 times a week on your site isn’t going to cut it if you want to make money.

Speed And Concentration

In James’s 20/7 Rule (yes I bought it, of course!) he talks a bit about how he does things to speed up the process and keep concentrated on the task at hand. I won’t go into much detail of the book but will recommend you buy it. It’s worth it, trust me.

You have to figure out how to make the most important things with your site fast and keep on them all the time. I’m not talking about doing a thousand things more than you did today but at least doing a bit more today than you did yesterday and repeat the process. Over time, it all adds up.

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Speed is important in all this and unless you’re concentrating, you’re going to slide around and slow down and then you’re going to be right back where you started.

So… Are you hungry or are you starving for something more from your blog?

Eric Heavilin is the author of BluePop13.com where he writes about various topics including Blogging and how to improve your blog and your business with your blog. He enjoys Music, Writing, Blogging, Movies, Entertainment in general, helping people succeed and more. If you want to know more about Eric I encourage you to visit his site. You can also follow Eric on Twitter.

Eric Heavilin is the author of BluePop13.com where he writes about various topics including Blogging and how to improve your blog and your business with your blog. He enjoys Music, Writing, Blogging, Movies, Entertainment in general, helping people succeed and more. If you want to know more about Eric I encourage you to visit his site. You can also follow Eric on Twitter.

We all have fears of some kind. Some are greater than others but ultimately they’re still there. I personally fear spiders as you might know from my Goals4Individuals site. I wrote one massive article there and some of it talks about only fearing fear itself. However, what if fear is a good thing for us all that we’re actually over looking?

Stop And Think

I should really take my own advice here and maybe I just will because if we let fear make us stop and think, we’re actually doing ourselves a great favor. What the heck am I talking about here? When you really sit down and think about what fears you have you can get to know yourself better and realise where you need to work on some things if you even want to get passed them. We shouldn’t let fear stop us and yet so many of us do. It’s something I believe we all deal with at some point in time.

Action Plan

Creating an action plan for what you literally want to do to get past those fears you have in some way that allows you to still be comfortable is good. Once you’re comfortable just a bit with where you are you can work on getting a bit more uncomfortable and eventually you’ll have ridden the fear off just a bit if not a lot! You just have to have something set out that you know you want to do and are willing to do.

That last part is important. If you want to do something, that’s great. However, it’s what you’re willing to do that will get you the farthest. Think about that, really!

Let Go, Move On

In order to rid yourself of things that make you fearful and create chains in your life you need to learn to let go of the fear once you’ve conqured it and learn to move on so you can conqur something else and keep doing so as you live life. This will create something inside you that makes you always want to keep moving on and letting go of negative things in your life by learning and doing new things and will definitely open your eyes to things. You will also understand that you’re only afraid because of what you’re really unaware of, or, fear itself.

That’s just it, and once you read this I would like you to honestly answer this question in the comments below… It’s what you’re actually unaware of in life that you’re afraid of. Not what you’re aware of. Some things may keep you from moving on that you ARE aware of but it’s what you’re NOT doing or Unaware of that’s keeping you from actually going forward.

Brighter New Life

We’re all in search of this on any level. More money. More friends. More free time. A better blog. Making money from our blog. Okay! Use all of these things I’ve talked about here and you’ll have that greater and brighter new life right there in front of you. You can’t see that happening and your’e actually taking action? That’s why it’s called time. Things take time and once you understand that and keep going and never give up, things will never look dark again.

Take what you may have learned here and apply it in your new life and I honestly would love to know what you are doing and where you’re going.

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Please comment below.

Thanks!

Eric Heavilin is the author of BluePop13.com where he writes about various topics including Blogging and how to improve your blog and your business with your blog. He enjoys Music, Writing, Blogging, Movies, Entertainment in general, helping people succeed and more. If you want to know more about Eric I encourage you to visit his site. You can also follow Eric on Twitter.

For the past couple of weeks I have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to put together a team of 7 writers who will have a specific day to write content on this site, why? To add more value to this site, TheInfoPreneur.net is a site that provides Infomation.

I’m really proud of the team and their hard work to get to this stage of revealing the team. The team can be seen here on the T.I.P  Team page, each person has a specific day Monday-Sunday once a week every week in which their post/article will be published on this site..

Monday

Karen writes at A Meaningful Existence, a blog devoted to helping others put meaning into their existence through practical personal development strategies. You can subscribe to her RSS Feed and also find her on Twitter at @kruby.

Tuesday

Mo is a software developer, late twenties. Lives in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, with his wife and young daughter. Writer of the blog Mo “Mad Dog” Stoneskin, a wacky take on the world with a focus on observational humour, people-watching and literary quality. He loves nothing more than to sit in a pub with a pen and paper, sipping a strong dark beer and capturing life’s humour, richness and colour.

Wednesday

Matthew Needham is the principal consultant and director of The Big Red Tomato Company as well as the author of his blog. Matthew is a graduate in Accounting and Finance and a qualified accountant. Having worked for prestigious companies like Rolls Royce and BT, Matthew is more than qualified to talk about quality and business. You can follow him on Twitter.

Thursday

Phil has had many other businesses including Coaching, Marketing and PR, Graphic and Website Design, and Online Learning. His current venture is Phil Johnson Business Services, providing low-cost essential services to the newly self-employed and small and medium enterprises. Aside from this Phil runs Major-Business.net, a free source of quality help, advice, tips and tricks on many business and personal development subjects, catch Phil on Twitter

Friday

Kiesha is the author of We Blog Better and Christian Blog: Highly Favored. She’s a technical Writer, former writing instructor, and blogging consultant for small business owners. If you’d like to know more, read her extended bio. Connect with her on Twitter, Google and subscribe to her feed for blogging tips & tricks.

Saturday

Eric Heavilin is the author of BluePop13.com where he writes about various topics including Blogging and how to improve your blog and your business with your blog. He enjoys Music, Writing, Blogging, Movies, Entertainment in general, helping people succeed and more. If you want to know more about Eric I encourage you to visit his site. You can also follow Eric on Twitter.

Sunday

Mars Dorian is a child of the internet and in mad love with creative branding. If you want to create a kick-ass brand, make your blog stand out and simply rock the online galaxy with your essence, go check out his website marsdorian.com and grab his RSS feed today !

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This is a guest post from Eric, I’ll let him do the introductions;

Hey, I’m Eric Heavilin from BluePop13.com. There I write about my life experiences and mix a bit of success and some blogging ventures into the stories. Catch me on Twitter and follow me if you like @bluepop13. I haven’t guest posted on here for a while so I thought it was about time to again so here goes… Enjoy!

Nothing Is Perfect So Quit Trying… Huh?

This isn’t EXACLTY as it sounds but the title still catches your eye which is exactly what I wanted it to do. Our lives are never going to be perfect and it just hit me as I was approving a comment on my blog from Christine Livingston on my post about if you want success then you need a goal.

I wrote that post because I realised, at least for me, that in order to have success you need to have a goal and actually accomplish that goal. You need to achieve it no matter what. This goes right along with my quote: Success is simple. Success is doing whatever it takes to reach/achieve your goals. Nothing else really matters because it isn’t success. Of course, it is also the ride to getting there that teaches you something but ultimiately getting there means a hell of a lot for when you look back.

• The World Is Round

Life isn’t ever going to be perfect or exactly the way you would like it to be. Why? I have no idea but all I know is that the world isn’t perfect. So how are we all happy and why can we really BE happy if things aren’t ever going to be perfect and we already know this?

Improvement exists… And we’re only human. That’s exactly why. We’re always working harder to make our better selves exist and it’s because we want better and the best for ourselves even though the world is never going to be the best it could possibly be.

Gravity exists and it’s a good thing because the world is round and therefore we’re always up AND down when you look at it that way.

• We’re Human

I really feel this should be said in this section of my post: NEVER just quit trying for something you really feel you should have but understand that you should only quit when you feel things have to be perfect and you can make everything the best. It’s never going to happen, I don’t think. It can always be better, always. That’s exactly why better exists, because of best. We’re always going to make some kind of mistake and be learning from that so understand that you can ALWAYS do better and nothing is EVER going to be perfect and that’s exactly why.

Allow improvement.

• Colors Are Real

I often wonder why colors are what they are. Let me explain. Why is red, red? Why is blue, blue? What makes those colors what color they are? Seriously. I wonder this sometimes and just think, who said pink is pink and not brown and why is it pink and why the name and all sorts of crazy things. We may never know this but it’s fun to think about and understand that colors just are and they are amazing. No I’m not crazy but I think it’s fun to think about this stuff. Again, think about how colors effect you each day and understand that even they aren’t pefect but it doesn’t matter because they’re just plain cool!

• Do Numbers Mean Anything?

This is a bit of a teaser really. Money matters as it helps us live our lives each day. Its’ numbers but it’s also not. How do numbers effect your life? Have you ever counted how many times you use numbers in a day? I bet you’d be surprised, even if you’re not working for some reason. Numbers mean everything and nothing at the same time, in my opinion. You use numbers to get through your day but at the end of the day, what really matters ISN’T the numbers.

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• Want It, Need It, Do Something About It

Above all, you have to do this. Want something in your life and then realise you want it badly enough that you feel as though you need it. Then, just do something about it. Sounds simple but far from it. Just make sure you learn as you go and remember to quit thinking it has to all be perfect because the world is never going to be perfect and you CAN’T be perfect simply because there is always going to be better, so THEN keep trying.

So, what does everyone think and feel here? What are you NOT quitting doing or have you already QUIT doing because you realise it’s just not going to be perfect?