"A Different Date!"

Hello  

Just a couple of weekends ago I surprised myself and hopefully some others when I spoke for 75 minutes; at high speed; at a conference on the scintillating cash-generating subject of:

“How to Create Informational Products”

Now...

As always, for such sharings, I spent a lot of time getting my thoughts and ideas and methods into some seemingness of order and deciding the final content of my session.

And it was...

During this ‘get-it-all-together’ stage – I realised I’d made a mistake – a serious mistake – one costing me a garden bin of money!

You see...

As part of my presentation/demonstration naturally I was going to discuss my monthly audio newsletter: The Achievers Edge

And as I thought...

How I’d explain the income potential of a newsletter or any other continuity programme – a light bulb suddenly struck me and I realised I’d probably thrown away a fortune.

In fact...

I dug out my calculator and tapped away furiously and furious to see how much it was.

It was: £1,397,520

Yes! One point three millions of pounds – and another ninety seven thousand and another five hundred and twenty.

It’s not often...

I call myself names – and when I do I’m careful to disassociate in the language patterns I use (more about this another time) but - you can imagine just how miffed I was.

Let me explain...

Here goes:

If I’d started The Achievers Edge just 5 years earlier than I did (I started it in 1998) I would have received the extra £1.397520M!

BUT I DIDN’T START IT THEN!!

And I wondered in my annoyance...

What else I hadn’t started – and more importantly – what else I could start NOW rather than wait 5 more years

After all...

In 5 years time – I’ll be 5 years older and why do I need to wait to start anything which might be started – IMMEDIATELY!!

And so...

My questions to you are these:

“Is there anything you've been putting off which needs starting now?”

“Is there a product or a service you’ve always said you’d provide – and you still haven’t got round to doing it yet?

“Is there a book you always said you write – but the first chapter’s first page is still staring at you with empty eyes?”

And if...

You answered “Yes, Peter” to these or any variations of them – then will you now do something rather than wait?

You will?
 

Oh goody goody gum drops

You see...

This ‘put-off’ stuff is oft created by thinking the actions will be hard.

Yet regularly...

A boiled carrot, a ten-foot putt, a whispered ‘I love you’ are seldom as hard as we think they’ll be

Go on then...

Peter Thomson

Editor and “I’m Not Waiting Another 5 Years” Publisher

tgiMondays
 

PS: Feedback and comments to: peter@tgimondays.com