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Seeing failure in a different way

March 17, 2010 by Lynn   Comments (2)

Most successful internet marketers will admit to the fact it took time and effort to get where they are today, and that they had plenty of failed marketing attempts along the way. The chances are it will happen to you too. But you don’t have to view unsuccessful attempts to make money online as failures; you can choose to look at them in a different light.

There are a great many ways of making money online, and each one comes with its own learning curve. Some marketing techniques will suit you more than others, but you may have to try a few until you discover which. Does that mean you have failed if you move on and leave some methods behind? I don’t believe so.

Think of these early attempts at internet marketing as a stepping stone to future success, rather than failures. A method didn’t work for you, but you weren’t to know that until you tried. The fact that you have tried and moved on – but only if you have genuinely tried, not made a half-hearted attempt - shows tenacity and a willingness to keep learning.

While you’re going through this process you will be learning so much. From technicalities like setting up websites, to marketing techniques such as traffic generation - it will all end up in your head. One day, it will dawn on you that you’re no longer a newbie struggling with the basics, but someone who has a great deal of knowledge about online business. And your past efforts will have led to today's success.

Affiliate Power

March 17, 2010 by GT   Comments (7)

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Hello, My Telekinetic Marketing Friends!

I've been promising to start this Affiliate Marketing blog for several weeks — I guess I'd better just do it, right?

The intended purpose is to focus on and highlight the process and benefits of home-based Affiliate Marketing on the Internet.

The title of this blog is "Affiliate Power" which reflects the name of the new website I launched a few weeks ago, Affiliate Power Central (APC). 

APC is the product of an affiliate program called My Affiliate Power Site (MAPS). Interested parties can find more information about that on the APC site. And I will likely write something more about it in a future post.

The MAPS sites are built on a WordPress platform, which means they are easily customizable. I have made a few changes to my site, but I've been too busy to do anything significant as yet. It will come, in time.

My plan for the APC site is to gradually add info and resources of interest to Internet and Affiliate Marketers.

My plan for this TM blog thread is to introduce my interest and activity in Affiliate Marketing and to offer tips and insight into the process of Affiliate Marketing.

The bottom line for me and for you is to learn and practise the best ways to earn home business income with affiliate products, services and programs. More to come here in following days. Smile

Indiana's interesting thoughts

March 9, 2010 by Robert Velare (Indiana)   Comments (2)

Sally do rockhounds know about this UN trip....Look at the red zones

no more rockhounding if this medieval land grab takes place...Agenda 21eh!

Indy

This is the new updated version

THE AGENDA 21  MAP.

Simulated Reserve and Corridor System to Protect Biodiversity.

As Mandated by the Convention on Biological Diversity, The Wildlands Project, UN and US Man and the Biosphere Program and Various UN, US Heritage Programs and NAFTA.

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RED Core Reserves and Corridors - Little to no human use.
YELLOW Buffer Zones - Highly Regulated Use.
TURQUOSE Normal Use Zones of Cooperation.
ORANGE Border 21/La Paz Sidebar Agreement of NAFTA. 124 mile wide International Zone of Cooperation.
PINK Indian Reservations.
GRAY Military Reservations.
BLACK DOTS Cities over 10,000 people.
Some major highways and Interstate rivers are also shown.

Taken from the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Article ??,* United Nations Global Diversity Assessment Section 1? to ??. US Man and the Biosphere Strategic Plan. UN, US Heritage Corridor Program. "The Wildlands Project," Wild Earth 1992. Also see Science "The High Cost of Biodiversity," 25 June 1993 pp ?? to ?? and the boarder v21 sidebar of NAFTA. The very high percentage of buffer zone in the West is due to the very high percentage of Federal land.

http://98.131.164.239/images/AGENDA-21-BMP.GIF

 

 

Well now...Could be?...A second trainwreck of the present financial global system.

is straight ahead, happening;

QUOTE.

“Look at those initial claims,” said Diane Garnick, a New York-based investment strategist at Invesco Ltd., which manages $400 billion. “Unemployed people don’t spend money. That means the growth we’ve seen is not sustainable until people get jobs. Also, there are lots of uncertainties on a global basis. That’s certainly negative news for the market. I wouldn’t be surprised if we started to see dramatic increases in volatility again.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a946mjtMdz48&pos=1

 

The phrase in bold above...When translated from High finance speak means "Trainwreck"

Watch the markets...Mmmmm...Indy

 

Well the EEC did not bail out Greece...Looks like Greece won't play the money lenders game...

Which is (Do what we say or no money)...So this will not generate confidence...I expect the money to keep leaving Greece...Of course the EEC will bail them out if they go bust...No choice...If Greece was still running on its own currency they would not have a problem...Just devalue thats all...However...Mmmmm...Indy

 

I always like to pass on what I consider to be solid info...So

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An Insider’s View of the Real Estate Train Wreck
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An Insider’s View of the Real Estate Train Wreck
Feb 10th, 2010 | By David Galland | Category: Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies
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The first time I spoke with real estate entrepreneur Andy Miller was in late 2007, when I asked him to serve on the faculty of a Casey Research Summit. As John Mauldin, a former faculty member himself, knows, we’re very selective with our speakers. And there was no one in the nation I wanted more than Andy to address the critical topic of real estate.

My interest in Andy was due to the fact that he has been singularly successful in pretty much all aspects of the real estate market, including financing and developing large projects — such as shopping centers, apartment communities, office buildings, and warehouses — from one end of the country to the other. His expertise has also allowed him to build an impressive business providing assistance to large financial institutions that need help in dealing with problem commercial real estate loans. As you might suspect, business is booming.

Back in 2007, however, what most intrigued me about Andy was that he had been almost alone among his peer group in foreseeing the coming end of the real estate bubble, and in liquidating essentially all of his considerable portfolio of projects near the top. There are people that think they know what’s going on, and those who actually know — Andy very much belongs in the latter category.

In fact, he initially refused to speak at our event, only agreeing very reluctantly after I had hounded him for several months. The reason for his refusal, I later found out, was that he had spoken at several industry events before the real estate collapse and had been all but booed off the stage for his dire outlook.

The happy ending of this story is that Andy’s speech at our Summit was a rousing success, and he enjoyed it so much that he has now spoken at several, and has kindly agreed to sit for periodic interviews to keep our readers up to date on the latest developments in this critical sector. So far, Andy’s real estate forecasts continue to come true.

As you’ll read in the following excerpt from my latest interview with Andy, who now spends considerable time each day helping the nation’s biggest banks cope with growing stacks of problem loans, he remains deeply concerned about the outlook for real estate.

David Galland

No one has been more right on the housing market in recent years. So, what’s coming next? Some of the housing numbers in the last few months look a little less ugly. Could housing be getting ready to get well?

MILLER: I don’t think so.

For all intents and purposes, the United States home mortgage market has been nationalized without anybody noticing. Last September, reportedly over 95% of all new loans for single-family homes in the U.S. were made with federal assistance, either through Fannie Mae and the implied guarantee, or Freddie Mac, or through the FHA.

If it’s true that most of the financing in the single-family home market is being facilitated by government guarantees, that should make everybody very, very concerned. If government support goes away, and it will go away, where will that leave the home market? It leaves you with a catastrophe, because private lenders for single-family homes are nervous. Lenders that are still lending are reverting to 75% to 80% loan to value. But that doesn’t help a homeowner whose property is worth less than the mortgage. So when the supply of government-facilitated loans dries up, it’s going to put the home market in a very, very bad place.

Why am I so certain that the federal government will have to cut back on its lending? Because most of the financing is done via the bond market, through Ginnie Mae or other government agencies. And the numbers are so big that eventually the bond market is going to gag on the government-sponsored paper.

The public doesn’t have any idea of the scale of the guarantees the government is taking on through Fannie, Freddie, and FHA. It’s huge. If people understood what the federal government has done and subjected the taxpayers to, there would be a public outrage. But you can’t get people to focus on it, and it’s very esoteric, it’s very hard to understand. But it’s not something the bond market won’t notice. The government can’t keep doing what it has been doing to support mortgage lending without pushing interest rates way up.

Refinancings of single-family homes are very interest-rate sensitive. Consumers have their backs against the wall. They have too much debt. Refinancing their maturing mortgages or their adjustable-rate mortgages is very problematic if rates go up, but that’s exactly where they’re headed. So anyone who’s comforted by current statistics on single-family homes should look beyond the data and into the dynamics of the market. What they’ll find is very alarming.

On that topic, recent data I saw was that something like 24% of the loans FHA backed in 2007 are now in default, and for those generated in 2008, 20% are in default, and the FHA is out of money.

MILLER: Fannie Mae had a $19 billion loss for the third quarter of 2009, and they are now drawing on their facility with the U.S. Treasury. We have all forgotten that Fannie and Freddie are still being operated under a federal conservatorship. On Christmas Eve, the agency announced that they were going to remove all the caps on the agencies.

So what about commercial real estate?

MILLER: When I saw what was happening in the housing market, I liquidated all my multifamily apartments, shopping centers, and office buildings. I liquidated all my loan portfolios, and I’m happy I did.

Then it occurred to me in 2005 and 2006 that the commercial world had to follow suit. Why? Because it’s a normal progression. Obviously, when single-family homes decline in value, multifamily apartments decline in value. And when consumers hit the wall with spending and debt, that’s going to have an impact on retailers that pay for commercial space.

Furthermore, the financing for retail properties had gotten ludicrous. The conduits were making loans that they advertised as 80% of property value when they originated them, but in reality the loan-to-value ratios were well over 100%. And I say that to you with absolute, categorical certainty, because I was a seller and nobody knew the value of the properties that I was selling better than I did. I had operated some of them for 20 years, so I knew exactly what they were bringing in. I knew what the operating expenses were, and I knew what the cap rates were. And, you know, the underwriting on the loan side and the purchasing side of these assets was completely insane. It was ludicrous. It did not reflect at all what the conduits thought they were doing. They were valuing the properties way too aggressively.

I became very bearish about the commercial business starting in late ‘05. In fact, I think I was in Argentina with Doug Casey, sitting on a veranda at one of the estancias, and he and I were lamenting what was going on in the real estate business, and I said there was going to be a huge adjustment in the commercial market.

Beyond the obvious, that the real estate market has taken pretty significant hits and some banks have been dragged under by their bad loans, what has really changed in real estate since the crash?

MILLER: I think the first thing that changed was that people learned that prices don’t go up forever. Lenders also saw that underwriting guidelines for commercial real estate loans, especially in the securitization markets, were erroneous. They realized that some of their properties had been financed too aggressively, but still, I don’t think even at the fall of Lehman, anybody was predicting a wholesale collapse in commercial real estate.

But they did see they should be more circumspect with loan underwritings. In fact, after the fall of Lehman, they completely stopped lending. I think they realized we had been living in fantasy land for 10 years. And that was the first change — a mental adjustment from Alice in Wonderland to reality.

Today it’s clear that commercial properties are not performing and that values have gone down, although I’ve got to tell you, the denial is still widespread, particularly in the United States and on the part of lenders sitting on and servicing all these real estate portfolios. People still do not understand how grave this is.

Right now there are an awful lot of banks that do an awful lot of commercial real estate lending, and for about a year now you’ve been telling me that you saw the first and second quarter of 2010 as being particularly risky for commercial real estate. Why this year, and what do you see happening with these loans and the banks holding them?

MILLER: It’s an educated guess, and it hasn’t changed. I still think that it’s second quarter 2010.

The current volume of defaults is already alarming. And the volume of commercial real estate defaults is growing every month. That can only keep going for so long, and then you hit a breaking point, which I believe will come sometime in 2010. When you hit that breaking point, unless there’s some alternative in place, it’s going to be a very hideous picture for the bond market and the banking system.

The reason I say second quarter 2010 is a guess is that the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC can influence how fast the crisis unfolds. I think they can have an impact on the severity of the crisis as well – not making it less severe but making it more severe. I will get to that in a minute. But they can influence the speed with which it all unfolds, and I’ll give you an example.

In November, the FDIC circulated new guidelines for bank regulators to streamline and standardize the way banks are examined. One standout feature is that as long as a bank has evaluated the borrower and the asset behind a loan, if they are convinced the borrower can repay the loan, even if they go into a workout with the borrower, the bank does not have to reserve for the loan. The bank doesn’t have to take any hit against its capital, so if the collateral all of a sudden sinks to 50% of the loan balance, the bank still does not have to take any sort of write-down. That obviously allows banks to just sit on weak assets instead of liquidating them or trying to raise more capital.

That’s very significant. It means the FDIC and the Treasury Department have decided that rather than see 1,000 or 2,000 banks go under and then create another RTC to sift through all the bad assets, they’ll let the banking system warehouse the bad assets. Their plan is to leave the assets in place, and then, when the market changes, let the banks deal with them. Now, that’s horribly destructive.

Just to be clear on this, let’s say I own an apartment building and I’ve been making my payments, but I’m having trouble and the value of the property has fallen by half. I go to the bank and say, “Look, I’ve got a problem,” and the bank says, “Okay, let’s work something out, and instead of you paying $10,000 a month, you pay us $5,000 a month and we’ll shake hands and smile.” Then, even though the property’s value has dropped, as long as we keep smiling and I’m still making payments, then the bank won’t have to reserve anything against the risk that I’ll give the building back and it will be worth a whole lot less than the mortgage.

MILLER: I think what you just described is accurate. And it’s exactly a Japanese-style solution. This is what Japan did in ‘89 and ‘90 because they didn’t want their banking system to implode, so they made it easier for their banks to sit on bad assets without owning up to the losses.

And what’s the result? Well, it leaves the status quo in place. The real problem with this is twofold. One is that it prolongs the problem – if a bank is allowed to sit on bad assets for three to five years, it’s not going to sell them.

Why is that bad? Well, the money tied up in the loans the bank is sitting on is idle. It is not being used for anything productive.

Wouldn’t banks know that ultimately the piper must be paid, and so they’d be trying to build cash — trying to build capital to deal with the problem when it comes home to roost?

MILLER: The more intelligent banks are doing exactly that, hoping they can weather the storm by building enough reserves, so when they do ultimately have to take the loss, it’s digestible. But in commercial real estate generally, the longer you delay realizing a loss, the more severe it’s going to be. I can tell you that because I’m out there servicing real estate all day long. Not facing the problems, and not writing down the values, and not allowing purchasers to come in and take these assets at discounted prices — all the foot-dragging allows the fundamental problem to get worse.

In the apartment business, people are under water, particularly if they got their loan through a conduit. When maintenance is required, a borrower with a property worth less than the loan is very reluctant to reach into his pocket. If you have a $10 million loan on a property now worth $5 million, you’re clearly not making any cash flow. So what do you do when you need new roofs? Are you going to dig into your pocket and spend $600,000 on roofing? Not likely. Why would you do that?

Or a borrower who is sitting on a suburban office property — he’s got two years left on the loan. He knows he has a loan-to-value problem. Well, a new tenant wants to lease from him, but it would cost $30 a square foot to put the tenant in. Is the borrower going to put the tenant in? I don’t think so. So the problems get bigger.

Why would the owner bother going through a workout with the bank if he knows he’s so deep underwater he’s below snorkel depth?

MILLER: It’s always in your interest to delay an inevitable default. For example, the minute you give the property back to the bank, you trigger a huge taxable gain. All of a sudden the forgiveness of debt on your loan becomes taxable income to you. Another reason is that many of these loans are either full recourse or part recourse. If you’re a borrower who’s guaranteed a loan, why would you want to hasten the call on your guarantee? You want to delay as long as possible because there’s always a little hope that values will turn around. So there is no reason to hurry into a default. None.

So that’s from the borrower’s standpoint. But wouldn’t the banks want to clear these loans off their balance sheets?

MILLER: No. The banks have a lot of incentive to delay the realization of the problem because if they liquidate the asset and the loss is realized, then they have to reserve the loss against their capital immediately. If they keep extending the loan under the rules present today, then they can delay a write-down and hope for better days. Remember, you suffer if the bank succumbs and turns around and liquidates that asset, then you really do have to take a write-down because then your capital is gone.

So here we are, we’ve got the federal government again, through its agencies and the FDIC, ready to support the commercial real estate market. They’ve taken one step, in allowing banks to use a very loose standard for loss reserves. What else can they do?

MILLER: Well, obviously nobody knows, but I can guess at what’s coming by extrapolating from what the federal government has already done. I believe that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve now see that commercial real estate is a huge problem.

I think they’re going to contrive something to help assist commercial real estate so that it doesn’t hurt the banks that lent on commercial real estate. It’ll resemble what they did with housing.

They created a nearly perfect political formula in dealing with housing, and they are going to follow that formula. The entire U.S. residential mortgage market has in effect been nationalized, but there wasn’t any act of Congress, no screaming and shouting, no headlines in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times about “Should we nationalize the home loan market in America.” No. It happened right under our noses and with no hue and cry. That’s a template for what they could do with the commercial loan market.

And how can they do that? By using federal guarantees much in the way they used federal guarantees for the FHA. FHA issues Ginnie Mae securities, which are sold to the public. Those proceeds are used to make the loans.

But it won’t really be a solution. In fact, it will make the problems much more intense.

Don’t these properties have to be allowed to go to their intrinsic value before the market can start working again?

MILLER: Yes. Of course, very few people agree with that, because if you let it all go today, there would be enormous losses and a tremendous amount of pain. We’re going to have some really terrible, terrible years ahead of us because letting it all go is the only way to be done with the problem.

Do you think the U.S. will come out of this crisis? I mean, do you think the country, the institutions, the government, or the banking sector are going to look anything like they do today when this thing is over?

MILLER: I know this is going to make you laugh, but I’m actually an optimist about this. I’m not optimistic about the short run, and I’m not optimistic about the severity of the problem, but I’m totally optimistic as it relates to the United States of America.

This is a very resilient place. We have very resilient people. There is nothing like the American spirit. There is nothing like American ingenuity anywhere on Planet Earth, and while I certainly believe that we are headed for a catastrophe and a crisis, I also believe that ultimately we are going to come out better.

Regards,
David Galland
The Casey Report

Writing For Dollars

February 26, 2010 by GT   Comments (10)

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I've been intending to start a new blog focusing on my writing history, so here it is. I don't know how often I'll post here - it will depend on how busy I get with other activities.

... But, when the mood hits ...

I have no great story to tell, not like some writers. But maybe the odd aspiring writer might find some inspiration here.

I've been interested in writing since my teen years, although I never started developing my writing skills with any degree of seriousness until about 12 or so years ago.

At that time, about this time of the year in 1998, I discovered that a Toastmasters International public speaking club had just started up in our little town. I knew what Toastmasters was and what value it had to offer, so I attended a meeting and joined.

The club focuses on three primary areas of development: speaking, listening and leadership. Every club has a different "personality" and may place different degrees of emphasis on each of those areas.

Anyway, I joined to get training and practice in basic public speaking. I quickly learned about the emphasis on leadership training, and just as quickly got talked into becoming the club's Vice President of Public Relations! Little did I know that was to be the catalyst to launch my writing career.

I decided that one good way to fulfill my duty as VP PR would be to get articles about Toastmasters published in our local weekly newspaper. So. I approached the editor with the idea of writing a series of 10 weekly articles on Toastmasters and public speaking.

The editor tentatively agreed, not knowing if I had any writing talent or if I could deliver on my promise of 10 articles.

What a thrill it was to see my first article printed in the newspaper! Thanks to Toastmasters, I was beginning to fulfill one of my lifelong dreams: to see my writing in print!

Later, I realized that the dream had not been properly defined and I found that I had to clarify certain points of the dream. But in the beginning, I was just so excited to be published!

That was the beginning of my writing career. More about that to follow in future blog posts. Smile

What's the Difference Between...

February 25, 2010 by ShaneRQR   Comments (1)

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What's the difference between:

  • A detailed blog post that anyone can read for free, whenever they want,
  • a free report/ebook that is offered as an incentive for signing up to someone's list and
  • a paid report/ebook for around 10 bucks?

Hint: It's not the content.

 

The Difference that Makes the Difference

The difference between those three options is marketing.

Each is a digital piece of information and the information could be similar or identical. I've seen blog posts with more valuable information than most ebooks contain. There's no real correlation between the value of the information and it's price.

The difference is simply that something you have to pay for is being marketed differently than something free or almost free (sign-up).

 

Language

Ok, so far it's been a bit captain obvious in here, so let me take this two steps further.

The language used to promote the information can drastically change, depending on whether it's free or not. A subject that might be treated rationally and casually in a free blog post, will often suddenly be elevated to an amazing, secretive, powerful thing with the capacity to change people's lives in a heartbeat.

In other words, stuff gets hyped up to generate sales.

Interestingly, some bloggers use the hypey language in almost all of their posts as well.

 

Perceived Value

This is the big one. The thing is that the price tag attached to an object goes a long way in influencing how valuable we perceive that object to be.

It may be a bit of a cliché, but modern art does present some interesting examples of this. Not to say that all modern art is just rubbish that "anyone could do", but at the very least, we need to acknowlegde that many of the consumers of art cannot really tell the difference between rubbish that no-one in particular created and some "real" work of art.

If the random looking jumble of objects has a flashy name and ridiculous price-tag attached, people will see art. If it has neither, they will see litter.

Another famous example comes from the wine-world, where we know that most people will believe (and feel) that a wine coming from a bottle with an expensive price is better than wine from a cheap bottle, even if the contents are identical.

 

What's the Point?

What does this mean for us marketers?

I don't know, but I know that for me, it means being more confident in my own work.

I specialize in video production and video marketing. Because of this, I buy practically every product on this subject that I can find. Want to stay in the know about what the competition is up to, after all.

I've noticed that many people sell video marketing reports in great numbers, even if the reports are of very low quality. I've even seen something sold as a product in one forum that was practically a carbon-copy of an extensive post in another forum.

Slap a price tag on it, hype it up and you're good to go.

I'm not suggesting anyone should do this, but it goes to some way illustrating percieved value.

 

Be Nice, Charge

Finally, you have to keep the commitment bias in mind. You may be doing your readers a real favour by making them jump through some hoops to get at your content (paying, signing up, ...). Because of the shift in perceived value and because of the commitment that comes with this, it's more likely that people will take action on something they had to pay for than on something that's free. Even if the free things is (objectively) superior.

P.S.: I'm very tired. I hope this makes sense.

I just joined today

February 25, 2010 by Dorim   Comments (0)

15:52:28  Today is my first day here and I have been exploring all the available features. Laughing I need a new picture of me to upload to my profile.

Springtime in the UK delayed - its official

February 23, 2010 by Kevin Birch   Comments (0)

Just heard the UK news and apparently we have just had the coldest winter for 30 years - huh!

The bulletin went on to say that spring is going to be delayed for up to 4 weeks . . .but when it arrives out gardens are going to be a riot of color.

I really can't wait for a bit of warmer weather Cool

But hey, being in the UK we'll probably get rain - and lots of it too.

How To Buy Rapid Action Profits (an instructional video)

February 19, 2010 by ECS Dave   Comments (0)

After many intense production sessions, and more than a couple of editing ones, the BRAND NEW (awesome, if I say so myself) Rapid Action Profits script VIDEO has been released for public viewing. This video is first in a series of instructional videos (that for the most part, if not all, will be FREE to view) on many HOW TO aspects of the Rapid Action Profits script, created by Sid Hale. Be sure to bookmark this link: http://RAPSimple.com/go/video to check for the latest video(s).

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What if You Knew You Couldn't Fail?

February 16, 2010 by ShaneRQR   Comments (7)

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"What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?"

This is a question I first encountered years ago in some book about coaching. I've since come across it many times and while I always realized that it was somehow a powerful question, I never really got it.

But just now I remembered it once again and something new occured to me. I think this question applies to my situation very clearly because I am:

A) always caught up in a dozen different projects and always want to do everything at once and
B) a cautious type and will not make great commitments (financially or otherwise) unless I'm sure about something.

Case in point: I have several ideas for products I want to create (info-products as well as software). I am not really moving forward on any of those plans because of the investment of time and money they inevitably require (especially the software).

And that's somehow unfortunate. Clearly, if I knew I couldn't fail, I'd just invest the few thousand bucks necessary for the coding and get to work.

Also, if I knew I couldn't fail, I'd outsource a lot more work, so that I could get more sites up and running more quickly than I can on my own.

But what should one take from this?

If you knew you couldn't fail, clearly, you'd act differently, but does that mean it's a good idea to throw caution to the wind?

On the other hand, why do you doubt your success? There's no magic or secret to success, it's all in what you do and how you do it.

I still don't know what to do, to be honest, but I think I need to take a look at my priorities.

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