Harry Harris Blog

***Important Update***

[Taking note of fellow students comments (see below and feel free to comment too) and reviewing a couple of things, I have decided to rephrase the 4 Hours part of the Power of 4 Square and revisit some goals and adjust their term (short to medium to long etc) as noted by Garry [and by extension JT] Alex said if you have one major business goal you have a 95% chance of success, if you have two it drops to 70% and more than that and it drops to less than 50%…I want 100% success so I will take this advice and use it – just shows it’s never too late to readjust your thinking…and now please read the post…..:-]

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How Many Letters in KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)?

The school I went to tells me it’s 4….

As discussed in a previous post speaking about  goals for 2009 (the year to shine!) I wanted to find something that made it easy to manage what I was doing [and why I was doing it] and  not to be distracted by things that will not get me to where I want to be….make sense?

So I was thinking about many of the things that my mentor Alex Jeffreys discussed as early on as Module #1 of our coaching program….and that is Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) – know and focus on the things that make the money and the [by now] infamous phrase: This is business!

So looking at where I am starting from and where I want to be I decided to start with the end in mind and reverse engineer my year……

Where Am I Now?

As many of you will know I live and work in Ireland – I have a [wonderful and young] family and a full time job.  Therefore my time is somewhat limited – not an excuse – just a fact that I have to manoeuvre and manage around.  You no doubt can relate to this if you are in the same situation.

However, in thinking about this [time-limit thing] I could use it to my advantage…..

Knowing that I only have X amount of hours – then I have to be sure that this time is spent productively – no flaffing about etc.  It will force me to utilize the 20/80 rule [again as discussed by Alex as well as Tim Ferriss of the Four Hour Work Week - excellent book, get a copy!] and see where the best use of time and resources should be directed.

This may [and probably will] involve investing [that is paying hard earned cash for] in time saving programs that I will report on later

Interestingly, in relative terms, I get a lot of refferal traffic from Twitter with an average 2 page visit spending 3 minutes on this blog.  this is amazing too as I don’t pimp Twitter at all [that is to say not every tweet has "visit my site" etc]

I am a relative newbie to the internet marketing game,  I like it [some play golf I like to learn how to get financial freedom] and I learn fast – but it has been hit and miss and is by no means a business in it’s own right [yet!]…which brings me to my next point…..

Where Do I Want to Be? [Desired Outcome]

2009: time to shine! The mantra of Alex Jeffreys students.

So where do I want to be in Dec 2009 – well if it involves a beach and a hammock I will be very glad!   – but you see for Alex [and hence for me] that is not specific enough! In fact I have to be specific about 4 goal areas which can be summed up in the acronym P.I.B.E

• Personal
• Income
• Business
• Entrepreneurial

So let’s take the first one…

Personal Goals [Overview - more specifics later]

• Get Fit [I think this is important on a lot of levels]
• Disneyland Paris with family
• New Zealand 2010
• Vegas with 500
• Meet Alex Jeffreys and buy him a drink or two to thank him for his inspiring coaching course…[Alex - I am comin' to Cardiff mate!]
• Afford Mass Control Program and Seminar [I know that's business too but hey!]

Income Goals [Overview - more specifics later]

• 3 Niches at $50 a day each [edit: longer term goal after I master 1 niche and grow my list]
• Minimum profit of $50K by end of 2009
  

Business [Overview - more specifics later]

• List Building [par excellence] 7500 by year end!
• Keep a Success Journal [just do it!]
• Update Blog look and Seo effectivness
• Office space [at home]
• Focus on Giveaways [create killer content]
• Twitter [build followers to 2000 by end of March]
• Oil Rigging
• Podcasting [iTunes]
  
• Build a leverage  system in line with the Power of 4 [Outsourcing, paid solutions]
• My own product ready by September [Free eCourse, list promotion and future coaching program [not the internet niche]
• JV partners  – Fortunate 500
• Book [ordinary - as in off the shelf type!again longer term but here for prosterity]
• Public Speaker for Events [If I get myself sorted I might get to do this in Vegas, hey Alex?]
• Continue to support and promote the Profit Pulling Project and my fellow students

Entrepreneurial [Overview]

• Master Video [production, scripting, camtasia etc]
• SEO
• Public Speaking
• Increase business acumen
• Learn how to run a coaching course

So……

What is the Power of 4?

Well as shown and illustrated above you can see that I have broken my development with the Alex Jeffreys Coaching Program into 4 areas [it makes it easier for me, and feel free to use it if it makes sense to you!]

They are:

4 [as many]Hours [as I possibly can]

Like many and [even maybe you I am building an online business while working full time as well as having a lovely young family that requires a lot of time.  So [borrowing and inspired by Tim Ferriss] I have landed on the number of 4 hours a week.

A little disclaimer here:

These are what I do hands on with my business which will be things that I do not want to outsource and that I feel personal about [or things that I have to do like videos and podcasting and tweeting etc].

I would also be doing oil rigging personally and commenting and connecting with people on a personal level whereever possible.

In terms of Article Writing [I might write a few seed articles just to make sure that it has my personality - but spinning etc will be done elsewhere] as well as Techie Stuff etc I will outsource these functions [as it is still cheaper to get others to do most of it and would look better than what I could do too!]

Time spent listening to modules, or training etc are not counted because I will substitute that with watching rubbish on TV [that makes me nada!]

4 Traffic

I want to do 4 things a week that will have a positive impact on Traffic Generation to m site/ squeeze page.

As discussed above I will be focusing on media and social networking as well as Giveaways Sites to grow my list, so this section will involve moving that forward in a concrete way. As seen in my Traffic Generation Mind Map – there are a lot of things that can be done, but I want to focus my attention on what will get most people to my site and onto my list!

4 Goals

4 tangible actions a week that move me towards my P.I.B.E  goals desired outcomes.  These will work in harmony with the 1 year, 90 day, 30 day, 1 week, 1 day breakdown that Alex Jeffreys recommends.

This exercise will run in sync with the other three squares in the diagram; i.e. actions to generate traffic will naturally move me towards achieving my Business goals of building the list to 7500 for example – I see this as the policeman of the 4 – keep me from being a busy fool!

4 Posts

Value, Value, Value is the [other] mantra of the students and I will endevour to add to my readerships’ experience by providing 4 post a week [google likes this too - frequency is good], recounting the highs and lows as well as informative, useful information that the reader can take away and use….[oh and a bit of fun as well!]

These will also include multi-media [video and audio, lots of it!] as well as stuff from and directions to other peoples blogs, videos, reports – where it is appropriate and adds real value – no rehashed cacca here!

Oh, and I want each post to have a picture, because I like it when other blogs have pictures on their posts.

Final thoughts…….

I will play with this one, but I would like it if I could have a specific day for specific tasks – like Friday is video and I do all my videos on Friday….we’ll see how it works out!

Key here for me [and for you my friend] is FOCUS – and not tangents!!

My man Gary “GazzaMan” Simpson [http://motivationselfesteem.com/talk/] has a great time management book that I will be using to help me to do this….

Just to say thanks to all my fellow students [you know who you are] for your continued inspiration and support.  As Lennon said: “and we all shine on….like the moon and the stars and the sun….on and on and on and on….” – may this be your year to shine!

And a special thanks to Alex Jeffreys for making this a chance to look my wife in the eye and say:

“Hey! This ‘Internet Thing’  just might work…in fact for the first time ever deep down inside I KNOW it will”….and  she believed me!

See you on the beach!

Harry