August 1, 2007
"Activity Without Accomplishment"
Today I am watching one of my favorite basketball movies of all time. As I am watching this movie there was a part of the movie where I got a huge "AH-HA" moment.
The movie I was watching was Glory Road. This is a movie about coach Don Haskins of Western Texas University. Coach Haskins was the first to start 5 African Amerian players in a collegiate game.
The quote used as the title of this post was from that movie.
During the recruiting stages, Coach Haskins is on the court and the player is doing all this fancy dribbling and head-fakes. Basically he is show-boating!! He hasn't gone anywhere with all of this "extra" stuff that he is doing. At that point, Coach Haskins tells him "all that stuff your doing is activity without accomplishment".
Man what a profound statement!
It hit home for me in my internet marketing business.
The lesson I got from those 3 little words set me on fire. It made me realize that part of the reason I wasn't as successful as I really want to be on the internet is because of "activity without accomplishment.
Here are some great examples of what I am guilty of:
- Putting up a website but not promoting it
- Writing articles, but never submitting them to article directories
- Not outsourcing certain tasks that are redundant or repetitive
- Letting my PLR products sit on my hard-drive not doing anything.
- and on and on….
Let's discuss a couple of these points.
Putting up a website and not promoting it
This is a huge one. I have got a lot of pages that have never been promoted. I took the time to create these pages but yet I never let the world know they existed. They just sit on the server taking up space, yet they aren't doing anything for me. It could be the same for you with maybe some adsense packages you have purchased. You might have a bunch of sites that you bought with the intentions of uploading and promoting them but you have yet to do it for whatever reason.
You did the work of buying them (activity) but you haven't yet uploaded and promoted them (without accomplishment).
Writing Articles But Not Submitting Them
So I am going through my computer today looking at the files and folders to try to get some more organization. Low and behold, I find an entire folder full of articles that I had written 6 months ago. Some of them were written even further back. None of them had been submitted to the article directories. The bad part about this is I just got my hands on some new PLR articles on the same subject that I wrote these articles on. Again for me, I wrote the articles (activity) but never submitted them to the article directories (without accomplishment).
Maybe in your case, you have done some keyword research (activity) to determine what you should optimize your site for, but you have yet to actually optimize your site (without accomplishment).
My point by writing this article is not to make you feel bad about the things you haven't done. I really just wanted to light a fire under rear-end to stop doing tasks and never finishing them. We are all guilty of "activity without accomplishment". In layman's terms, this simply means doing a job half-a**ed! You start but you never finish. Look carefully at the tasks you are doing right now! See if there are any that you haven't finished and tie up those loose ends. The feeling of accomplishment you get when you finish is worth it.
To get past this in the future, you should find a way to set deadlines or reminders to complete your tasks. The way I am doing it is in Microsoft Outlook there is a task section where I can input my task and a tentative deadline. This is working wonders so far. I will let you know how it is working out later on down the line for me.
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Don't be guilty of "activity without accomplishment"!
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