278: Make More Money PLUS Get Your Life Back... Using WordPress & WP Import?

Published: March 30, 2017, 1 p.m.

Everyone is guilty of this at one time or another, even me sometimes...\n\n \tGetting too carried away and biting off more than you can chew...\n \tFilling up the "to-do list" (yuck) with way too much "stuff"\n \tThen, it's a huge distraction and that big long list becomes a thing you're scared to look at, or maybe even you feel bad when you do...\n\nI can also relate to my mindset ten years ago when even five minutes of money-making activities per day seemed like "too much work" for me...\n\nSend a quick email in the morning? I can't do that every day...\nPeople tell me to blog or post a daily video? How will I have time for anything else?\n"Forget about a daily podcast..."\nI expected myself to post once a day for maybe 4-5 days and then quit!\nSound familiar? Of course it does... don't pretend it doesn't!\n\nSo what changed? This...\nInsight #1: Exterminate "Not-Invented-Here" Syndrome and Used the Right Tools\nDon't invent from scratch if you can help it.\n\nIn this day and age, you don't need to know HTML, CSS, how to edit graphics and upload files. Just use WordPress, grab whatever beautiful theme you want to use for your design (most look like you paid thousands of dollars), and you can grab whatever plugins you want to add pop-ups, social share links, and so on.\n\nJust grab what gets it done now instead of delaying yourself months or even years for no reason...\nInsight #2: Stop Switching Gears and "Chunk" Instead\nSpeaking of WordPress, use its scheduling feature. Scheduling is one of the few hidden "Easter eggs" hidden in WordPress and I'm constantly amazed at how few people know that this is a thing...\n\nHere's how it works: let's say you create a WordPress blog and you decide that once per day, you want to post a new video reviewing the latest iPhone or Android app...\n\nThat's a huge time commitment. Literally every day, you're going to have to login and research that latest app. There's no guarantee that you'll find something good. Maybe you won't be motivated that day. Maybe you'll have something better to do or a huge emergency will come up and stop you...\n\nAnd then... you might miss a day, two days, a week, and then think to yourself... it's been three months since I posted a video about the latest app. It wasn't a priority then, so why should it be a priority now?\n\nPosting one or two videos didn't seem to get me much traction, and maybe if I'd posted 50 to 100 videos I'd see real results, but who has that sort of patience?\nSolution: Schedule several posts every time. With WordPress, you can add a new "post" (journal entry) and Publish it, or set it to go live instantly. Or, you can change the date to go live tomorrow, in a week, or two weeks.\nWordPress has built-in drip content (just set the date and time of your posts into the future) without any special plugins.\nJust imagine, on a Monday, grabbing five YouTube videos from various sources reviewing the latest apps (with your link at the bottom) and you'll set those posts to go live on Tuesday morning, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.\n\nOr, how about this: on April 1st, schedule two weekly posts in advance. That means that on April 1st, you just scheduled posts on your blog for April 1st and April 8th...\n\nThen, on April 8th, you already had that day scheduled. You schedule your two videos to go live on April 15th and April 22nd...\n\nKeep this up for 10 weeks (three to five minutes per day) and by June 3rd, you're already scheduled ahead to mid-August. And by August, you're scheduled ahead until the following year.\nJust by posting more than what you need, the website (WordPress) will work on autopilot for you, even after you've put it out of your mind. Constantly switching gears and putting out fires is a MASSIVE time waster. Avoid it by chunking up your tasks and scheduling things out on autopilot for many weeks to come.\nInsight #3: Imagine a Clear CONCRETE Vision of What the Future LOOKS Like\nIt sounds super hokey, but most self-help (Napoleon Hill type of stuff) revolves around you usin...