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I was reading a series of posts at TylerCruz.com titled 40-Hour Week Challenge. In the initial post Tyler states:

It’s a well known fact that I’m lazy. I find it hard not to be, though. As much as I love doing this for a living, it’s hard to force yourself to work longer hours than you need to. I normally work an average of 2-3 hours per day, but I decided to try something new.

I’m challenging myself to work 40 hours within 1-week.

I started reading Tyler’s blog because I stumbled accross one of his forums, which then pointed me to the rest of his sites. He has some successful sites. He makes more money than I do. I wanted to have the lifestyle of Tyler Cruz. However, after reading this series, I don’t think I could handle his lifestyle.

I have a full-time job and a family (wife and two daughters). I am used to working many, many hours per week. If I only had to work 40 hours per week, I would be very happy. To add to that, I don’t think I will ever totally retire, I would get too board.

Tyler’s post has really motivated me again. I now consider myself to have a great advantage, I am used to working. New websites are being created every second, but they’re not all being worked on. Every second that I spend planning, dreaming, and typing puts me ahead of someone else.

How do I know all this work is worth it? My household income is going up. We (wife and I) have decided that she will be running our ecommerce site full-time and not returning to work. She will now be pulling an income from our ecommerce site. We are living the “internet income” dream, we have eliminated her regular full-time job.

My Point…

Work hard…my successful sites have developed in the niche of gymnastics. My wife was a full-time gymnastics coach/manager for over 10 years, I still am a coach. My sites have not developed by chance over a few days or months. My successful sites have all taken 2-3 years to develope. I never gave up during the rough times. I fine tuned and tweeked things until they worked. I took planned risks, some of them worked and some did not.

My first ecommerce website is my only ecommerce site. It did $50K in sales last year and is on schedule to do over $60K this year. It will achieve its goals because of hard work and dedication, not luck. My first forum was a gymnastics forum. It failed because I didn’t put any time into it. I brought back that same forum under a different name and it is now successful. First try with one site, second try with the other. Wow…maybe I do have a clue or maybe it’s just about hard work and determination.

Does this mean I don’t enjoy sitting on the beach with a beer, of course not.

Back to Work,

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