Muzzle Your Mouse 2

Since I'm new to this format I see that my first post held only a headline. So let's try this again.

I know that you are excited about starting your own home business. You might be so excited, almost out of control excited, that you may want to muzzle your mouse for a while. We see phenomenal possibilities of untold wealth, more leisure time than you've ever had, exotic cars, mansions, and traveling to exotice places in the offerings that we see advertised and that come into our e-mail boxes.

Some of us are like little kids in a candy store. It's just impossible to chose one or two kinds of candy. We want it all, don't we? Heck, I be alot of you even lost sleep when you first saw the possibities of creating a huge downline ($$$) or of promoting the hottest product on the market to millions of people and you know, without a doubt, everyone buys it.

But hold on friends. You might be like me and you might just have to Muzzle Your Mouse.

Hi. My name is Terry Plank. I'm a newbie too and I want to share some of the mistakes I've made recently that I blame on this fantastic Candy Store of Opportunity we call the internet.

I had to retire early in September because of health reasons so I find that I have a lot of time on my hands. Since I can't play golf everyday and don't have the money to travel and I needed to find some way to make more money than what Social Security pays. What better way than my own home business using the internet. Right?

Unfortunately, when we got our first computer I got into the habit of clicking on everything and every offer that I saw. (Just an aside, here, let me tell you that my family didn't get our first color television until I was ten years old. So, I have a tendancy to go gaga over all of this new technology.) So I'm on the computer just having a grand old time with the mouse and really becoming infected by "The Candy Store Syndrome" I call it. My son calls me "Mr. Clicky" and he's had to bail me out a few times because of downloaded viruses and such.

Now, please understand, this isn't all my fault. Now that I'm looking for a home business another type of illness affected me that makes me buy almost everything that comes along. I call this one "The Newbie Virus". This virus makes every offering look like gold bullion coming to you by the truck load and the next thing you know you're clicking away, pulling out the credit card, and just going nuts with those dollar signs in your head.

I hope this isn't you. In our excitement to get a business going, find multiple streams of income opportunities, the best MLM ever invented, etc. we can get a bit carried away. We are going to need to muzzle the mouse, get control of ourself, get a plan and a direction that fits our personality and lifestyle and stick to it. Ignore all of the other offers coming in and just work what we can handle. When we have that figured out and working then maybe we can take on one or two other money making projects but not before.

If we are going to learn to control the mouse then maybe we also need to learn to hobble our credit cards. It's just too darn easy to grab the darn thing and start pressing buy now buttons. Oh, a piece of advice concerning credit cards. If you want to protect your identity it might be a good idea to get a free PayPal account. They will protect your card number from running amok over the ethernet and also track your purchases and your earnings.

Get educated! Find good training programs and dig in. Marketing on line is a whole different animal than what we've done in our day jobs. Even professional sales people will find this type of marketing and selling very different from what they've been trained to do. If you want to compete with all those who are already making a living on the internet than you will need to learn how to do that or you won't succeed.

I'm getting organized. I have a plan and a direction. I have two excellent training programs that I learn from every day and, most importantly, I am starting to implement what I've learned these past few months. And as I learn more and more I see more and more opportunities opening up. It really is very, very exciting.


Best of luck to those of you just entering the home business arena. Just remember that it takes a little self discipline to do this right.

Terry Plank
eagledoc2@gmail.com