I think this year I am going to go a different route as far as new years resolutions go. One of the people I follow in the marketing and business niches (Chris Brogan) has a great little thing about picking 3 words for the year that, as he says ,will help you define your goals and experiences for the coming year. You can read more about this @ http://www.chrisbrogan.com/3words2012/

So with that in mind here are my three words . . . → Read More: 3 words and 1 New year]]> 2012–time flies doesn’t it?

I think this year I am going to go a different route as far as new years resolutions go. One of the people I follow in the marketing and business niches (Chris Brogan) has a great little thing about picking 3 words for the year that, as he says ,will help you define your goals and experiences for the coming year. You can read more about this @ http://www.chrisbrogan.com/3words2012/

So with that in mind here are my three words for 2012:

Finish– Plenty of projects started in 2011, but not many finished. I will use this word to remind be to see things through to the end in the new year. Owning your own company brings about many opportunities and directions you can go in, but it also means that you have to be disciplined enough to finish whatever direction you choose to go. By remembering the word Finish, no matter what direction I choose I will know that I need to see it through to the end.

Network– Get and stay in touch with people that have genuine like minded goals, interest, and can help further personal and professional goals. Build genuine friendships, partnerships, and have the ability to help others to reach their goals. Make sure to connect with friends that I haven’t talked to as much as I should be.

Structure– Free time, no idea what that is! At least I shouldn’t have any idea with my company, my job, my classes, and general life. Yet I can easily waste a day or two a week without accomplishing anything. I know that I should take time to relax and enjoy what I have in life, but there needs to b a time and place for everything so I can reach other goals I have. I need to structure my time, my business, my homework, and everything else to make sure I am working toward accomplishing my goals for the year. I will need this Structure to help me with my other two words, Finish and Network.

So now that I have my three words I can use them to come up with the day-to-day things I need to do to make them happen. 3 little words but huge possibilities. If you were to use this 3 word methods, what would your 3 words be?

I dream about having a lifestyle that allows me to spend quality time with my family while allowing me to work on things I deem exciting. Unfortunately all the dreaming in . . . → Read More: Taking Positive Action.]]> The item that is listed next for me to complete is creating Pillar Articles. For me to complete this task I need to create post on this blog that I feel gives other people something they can use. I hope this post of taking positive action becomes one of those post….

I dream about having a lifestyle that allows me to spend quality time with my family while allowing me to work on things I deem exciting. Unfortunately all the dreaming in the world is not going to make it become a reality. For my dreams to come true I need to take action. Not any action will do, I need to take positive action.

By positive action I mean doing the actions it takes to reach my goal. In an earlier post I described how I was going to reach $50,000 a year with this site. In this article I used a process of listing the things I need to do to make that goal become a reality. The next step for me was to complete Pillar Articles for my site, yet I have not completed this action.

Now don’t get me wrong I have been working on the site and working on making money but these actions have not gotten me one step closer to my goal. The real next positive action I needed to take was to create these Pillar Articles, yet these are the actions I took instead:

Signed up for The Shoemoney System and proceeded to read and watch the videos available.

Re-read John Chows post about ClickBank then stated looking into how I could use this info to my advantage.

Started researching how to get a new logo for the PaulG2.com blog.

All of these actions will help me sooner or later but the one action that would make a positive impact on my site right now was not completed. I have not been procrastinating when it came to not writing the Pillar Articles, but I have been taking actions that have not been moving me in a positive direction toward my goal.

So how do you make sure you are taking positive action?  The first thing you must realize is that

Procrastination does not exist- you are always acting

- Mark Joyner

Once you understand the concept of your always acting you then need to determine if you are taking positive action as opposed to actions that take you away from your goal. To determine what type of action you are taking always ask yourself these two questions:

1. Are the actions I am taking right now in this

moment bringing me closer to or further away

from my desired targets?

2. Are the actions I am taking right now in this

moment increasing or decreasing my power (time, energy, money)?
- Mark Joyner

If you can answer question #1 with a yes while answering question #2  with increasing then you know you are taking positive action. If the action you want to take does not match up with those answers then you know you are not taking positive actions towards your goals but are just taking action.

So get with the program and if you want to make sure you are achieving the goals you set for yourself make sure you are taking positive action. Ask yourself those two questions when deciding on your next task to complete. Stop whining and blaming others and start taking positive action today to reach your goals.

When asked the question about how I plan to make money I let people know there are numerous ways to make money online, even more if you’re creative. When people press a little harder about specifics, I usually mention . . . → Read More: So tell me again, how do you plan on making money online?]]> I really haven’t started marketing PaulG2.com yet because I want to build up the post count a little bit with some good content. With that being said, I keep getting asked about the site and more importantly how I intend to make money.

When asked the question about how I plan to make money I let people know there are numerous ways to make money online, even more if you’re creative. When people press a little harder about specifics, I usually mention affiliate marketing.

Now if  you’re reading this site to gain tips about making money online than I’m sure you have already heard about affiliate marketing, but you would be surprised about how many people actually have no idea what you’re talking about. Since there are a lot of people that are reading PaulG2.com with no knowledge of affiliate marketing, I thought I would give a quick explanation of what affiliate marketing is and how you can use it to make some cold hard cash while working online at home.

Affiliate Marketing is when a company compensates you (the affiliate) for each visitor and customer sent their way due to your marketing. For an example, my post titled Assassins Creed 2 has an affiliate offer within the post.

Once a person clicks on the picture of the game, they are moved to amazon.com via my affiliate link.

Look in the address bar and you will see paulg2 in there, that’s my link. In later posts, we’ll get into making this appear less like an offer by cloaking the affiliate link but for this post, we’ll leave it out in the open.

If a purchase is made then I am compensated per the affiliate terms and agreement between amazon.com and myself.

If you want to read more about affiliate marketing then go here to the wikipedia page. If you want to learn more about how to make money with affiliate marketing, or at least see how I intend to make money online then keep coming back to PaulG2.com

You should also check out my other post: Why I’m excited about affiliate marketing and why you should be too!