I was supposed to go dancing last night with some friends but I realized what I really wanted to do was stay home and get a few things done but mostly I wanted to relax.
Have a quiet night with myself.
Soak in the hot tub. Make a roaring fire in the fireplace. Do a little work related to my websites and also this blog.
I’ve been going and going this past week. I’m exhausted.
Work has been busy this week: I did a teleclass on Tuesday night and had a lot of coaching clients needing to set up emergency sessions and then we are heading into the busy holiday time with my other business so I was busy with that too this week.
Even though I stayed home on Wednesday and Thursday nights I felt like I needed one more night to just cozy up at home since the rest of this weekend is filled with social stuff.
So I sat by the fire and began to work on my website revisions when my brain started thinking about how I want to get more affiliates to sell my products.
One of the facets for me to create ‘an unleashed life’ is to develop and have passive income streams.
I love making money while I sleep.
I love designing one product or recording one teleclass and having it sell again and again, simply by listing my products on my website or having my affiliates list my products on their websites.
It’s so fun.
Besides my products being listed on my website there are a few websites that also sell my products online from their websites (they are my affiliates).
Frugal Mom and Home Business Center are two of my affiliates. They get a commission whenever the link(s) they have on their site bring a sale to my site.
Being partnered in this way is fun and easy for both of us.
Last night I started thinking about the affiliates I have already and how I’m wanting to create more passive income. More affiliates means passive income. And that’s a good thing.
I love this part of my brain that generates new ideas and is looking for more creative ways to make money but…
The energy behind wanting to find more affiliates felt more than a little frenetic.
Especially when what I really wanted to do was some light work but mostly relax. That’s why I’d stayed home instead of going dancing.
My frenetic energy wanted nothing to do with relaxing.
It never wants to relax.
It wants to create more, more, more.
I’ve mostly learned to ride this energy as I would a wild horse.
However…I’m still learning when to jump off when I’m in danger of taking on too much.
I don’t want to tie up the wild horse–it definitely needs to run free because it is a wild beast that can and does take me to new, exciting and sometimes lucrative destinations.
I just need to know when to get on and when to get off.
I’m still learning that part.
Anyway, my friend, Mr. Frenetic Energy, took me to ClickBank because they have lots of affiliates there who are looking for reputable products to link from their sites.
I began to read ClickBank’s FAQ page to figure out what exactly I needed to do to list my products on their site for affiliates to view and it was so much.
I needed to create a pitch page and a thank you page and then have it routed to blah blah blah.
I could feel my energy getting revved up and intense and rationalizing that this project wouldn’t take that long.
And then the sane part of me (thankfully) stepped in and with soft wisdom said:
Honey, forget it.
Don’t forget it forever.
Just forget it right now.
You have WAY too much going on to take on a big project like this which involves so much energy.
Getting my products listed on ClickBank is definitely something that I am going to put some energy into when I’ve tackled my already hefty to do list.
But I’m going to forget it for now.
I simply can’t take on another project right at this moment.
Initially it feels really great when I add one more iron to the fire: there’s this rush of adrenaline and excitement about starting something new.
But when I’m maxed out on projects (as I am now) then my other projects suffer and don’t get the attention they deserve. Lately I’ve been crossing one thing off on my to do list and then promptly adding another item.
So I haven’t been giving myself a full break in between projects but rather piling them up.
I was really proud of myself for noticing that by taking on this project I would be maxing out what I am capable of focusing on right now.
This project of listing my products with ClickBank seems so juicy and rewarding (on a lot of different levels including financial) and I want to do it NOW.
But I just can’t.
I could literally have 20 million irons in the fire because there are so many fun ideas that are percolating in my brain but I would end up looking like this:
(not pretty)
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