Sometimes I Feel Like I am Sprinting in Quicksand

Hey Everyone. Have you ever had the experience where you have so much to do or have so much that you want to accomplish that you cannot make tangible progress on anything you are working on? This is where I am at right now and it sucks!

I have so many things that interest me that I am either currently pursuing or want to pursue: writing a book, publishing my own info products, offline consulting, creating membership sites, building 100s of autoblogs, being a professional singer in a foreign country, building a public speaking career, weight training to obtain the body of my dreams, dating/love life, time with friends, obtaining business credit, starting a travel company, outsourcing my business, obtaining my Tefl Certification, having an online store, modeling, writing more blog posts, starting a new risque’ blog, planning my next international trip, monetizing my blog and very specific HUGE monetary goals…

I think you get the picture. Right now, I literally feel as if I am sprinting in quicksand and the quicksand is pressing in on my chest and suffocating me! This feeling really sucks! Multitasking does not work!!! Combine all this with the fact that I suffer from S.O.S. (shiny object syndrome) and you can see why I’m feeling this way.

I know I need to prioritize and work on one project at a time, but that is easier said than done when I have the spector of making money to fuel my travel passion/obsession, eating and paying rent on an apartment in Austin that I’m never in. I’ve made the decision to hit a very large income target quickly and while my
current endeavors financially support me now, I’m ready to live a life that is truly “out of this world” and I want to do it now! Patience is not a strong suit, lol. There are shortcuts I could take in hitting my financial goal, but I’m choosing not to pursue them for personal reasons. Gotta do this on my own.

After talking to very insightful friends this weekend, I have narrowed my focus down to 3 things that I am passionate about and will get the most financial bang for my time invested quickly. I’m close to removing one of those items as I am still feeling that sinking quicksand feeling as I am typing this post.

Anyway, I just had to vent and get this off my chest. No pun intended, lol. I actually do feel a little better. Thanks for listening.

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PUBLIC SPEAKING CAREER IN MY FUTURE?

Just thought I would write a quick post to put a new idea/life plan for my life out into the Universe with the instruction for it to actually Manifest. Twice within the past 36 hours, 2 people whose opinions I think very highly of, both told me that I should make a career out of Public Speaking. Both of them mentioned that I should
speak to Women. I have heard this many times from other people in the past 2 years. It is actually a dream of mine to become a highly paid public/motivational speaker, but at the same time, the thought of it scares the hell out of me.

For years, I have proclaimed to anyone that would listen that I have a fear of public speaking. Through the major corporations I have been blessed enough to work for (Disney, Gateway, Activision), I have taken many high dollar public speaking trainings. I also had an entire semester of Public Speaking 101 while
I was a student at The University of Kansas. I think I managed to get a B- in that class. It has been my experience that when I had to do prepared, written speeches, I would be gripped with the most gut-wrenching, debilitating fear. When I got up to deliver my speeches, my body and voice would be trembling so badly that I could barely get the words out. I would start sweating and could not make eye contact with the audience. It has always been such a horrible experience for me. I now know that this reaction is not a fear of speaking, but it is actually my fear of being judged. I find myself worrying about my hair or my weight or my outfit and the possibility that the audience will think I am “ugly”. Crazy I know!!

On the very Psycho flip side though, there have been many occasions where I have been at seminars with several hundred/thousand people and an opportunity to take the mike or go on stage and speak impromptu to the crowd presented itself and I have rocked it! In fact, I very deliberately seat myself at the end of an aisle, at the front of the seminar room just so I can guarantee myself a chance to get up in front of the crowd and be heard and seen. What the hell is that about?? I love being the center of attention in those situations where I can speak off the cuff and not have to prepare a talk. How is it possible to have a very strong desire to speak in front of large groups of people, either in person or via some sort of digital media, while fearing it at the same time?? I know I have a gift and I am in some way destined to share it.

What do I do with this? How can I fulfill what I do believe is part of my destiny to become a motivational speaker and find my platform? Hmmmmmm… Perhaps since this revelation is now “out there”, something totally amazing will Manifest

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HOW I MAKE MONEY ONLINE – THE JOY OF MAKING MONEY WHILE I SLEEP!

Hello Everyone! Summer is finally here and you all know what that means…Sheila Brown aka The Onyxtraveler is traveling again. Whoo Hoo! My summer travel season officially started on May 15th, 2010 when I left my home in Austin, Texas and headed West to Los Angeles for a month of fun. Actually, my motivation for coming to LA was to clean out my storage unit I obtained to hold my remaining possessions. These are my collections that I said I would never get rid of. Well, guess what, after a year of not thinking about any of those items, it’s time to purge. I’ve spent the past 4 weeks selling a good portion of my collectibles and also giving away a huge portion. I’ve so enjoyed myself here in Sunny Southern California, that I’ve decided to spend another 6 weeks here and leave the first week of August to head to Glacier Park, Montana for a few weeks of fun. Actually, I’ve decided to travel for the next 12 months straight. I’ve used my time here in LA to plan out my travels thru May 2011!!

This leads me to the purpose of writing this post. The one question that people ask me all the time (and if they don’t ask, they definitely want to) is “How in the world do you make money to travel & have your fun life if you don’t have a job????” I am a very private person, so I NEVER EVER EVER answer this question directly until now. The truth is, I do internet marketing. I use MANY different strategies to make money online, but I will only reveal one in this post. One very successful strategy that I employ is the creation of blogs that run “automatically” in many different niches. I discovered this strategy and most importantly, discovered my teacher, Mike Johnson, in February of 2010. I loved the idea of basically having hundreds of ATM’s aka websites out there making me money 24/7 once I set them up correctly. Trust me when I tell you that there is no better feeling in the world than to make money while you sleep!! As I was psycho busy traveling for my then client, I was only able to set up a handful of blogs, but they are a VERY profitable handful (I’ve chosen my niches very well). I’ve since gotten back to my original goal of setting up a very large number of them every quarter. Think about it, if you have one site out there that is generating $10 – $100 a day (and this is VERY attainable), imagine if you multiplied that by 100 sites, 200 sites!! Crazy right!! Imagine what it would feel like to make $3,000 a month on autopilot? Mike is now up in the $30k – $40k per month range after doing this for 18 months. That is of course, not to say you will have the same results, because you have to actually do the WORK to actually make money. Novel concept, I know.

I am sharing this information with you because my brilliant teacher, Mike Johnson, has re-opened access to the course that I purchased back in February that taught me, step-by-step, this profitable strategy. The version that I learned was his Auto Blog Blueprint 1.0 course. He closed access to the course back in early April for 2 reasons: 1. he wants to limit access to the information to be able to work directly with his students and 2. he decided to release a 2.0 version with even more POWERFUL, money making AutoBlog strategies. After waiting with baited breath for 2 months, I was given early access to version 2.0 and OMG…IT IS KILLER!! So much so, that one of the main motivators for me suddenly deciding to stay put in LA for an additional 6 weeks is so that I can use this time to implement his new, super tactics and reach my goal of having xxx # of sites up and running and financing my 12 months of travel! Man, this version was worth the wait and then some!!

Since you all follow my travels and I do keep getting the question, I decided to become an affiliate for Mike’s course and share this information with you. He launched Auto Blog Blueprint 2.0 today and is limiting access to only 1,200 new people. This is not a scarcity tactic. He is serious and he will shut it down once he reaches that number. He added 400 members last night in a pre-launch event, so space is limited. Currently, the price for Auto Blog Blueprint 2.0 is $97.00, but because I am one of his early users, I have been given a $20.00 discount coupon for you to use, so the cost will only be $77.00. He launched at 6:00pm CST tonight and the coupon is limited to the first 300 that purchase and will not be valid if that number has been reached. As of June 29th, 2010, it will be $147.00. This content in invaluable no matter what price you get in at, but why wait?? BUY IT NOW!! If you ever wanted to know how to make money online, this is THE course to get. I have never promoted an Internet Marketing course because so many of them are pie-in-the-sky B.S. I am sharing this one with you because I do use it and am making money with it. This is one of the main platforms in which I am building out in my total Internet Marketing strategy.

If you are interested in purchasing this course, and if you are smart, YOU WILL DO IT NOW, then CLICK THIS LINK NOW to purchase & input COUPON CODE: 947DE9483F or CLICK ON THE PICTURE BELOW. As I mentioned, I am an affiliate for this product and by purchasing thru MY LINK, I will be compensated. Your time really is limited, so do not miss out!

I want to hear about your successes when you implement what you learn. Make sure you Facebook me and keep me posted on your progress. I’ll be sharing mine once I start hitting some major financial milestones with this strategy at the end of 90 days! Go out there and PROSPER everyone!! Stop WISHING you could have the life of your dreams and now, actually do something to ACHIEVE IT!! I HAVE!! XOXO

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