In my last few posts I have mentioned that my productivity and motivation has been going downhill, it started when I decided (was too hungover to work) to give myself a couple of days off – after all I had such a good previous month I deserved some time to spend with family, friends etc etc.

I was checking my stats every day either on my phone or using my computer, I often left it on all day to respond to any chats, emails and check stats every so often throughout the day. This “couple” of days off soon turned into a week and I still didn’t have any motivation to do any work, although I saw a decrease in my performance I kept coming across the same problem. It was the fact that when I was talking about my business to my friends/family (who none are affiliate marketers) they were still amazed at the amount of profit I classed as bad for a day. This got me into the wrong mindset thinking that the wage I was making is still pretty damn good, instead of pushing myself to work I was becoming content still earning that kind of money and spending the time with my mates.

Over the last few days I’ve been speaking to my other affiliate marketer friends and that’s just made me realise I’ve been slacking. At one point I was on track (slightly behind) with a close friend of mine and now that my earnings have dropped below the $10,000k revenue mark his have shot up to over $30,000/day! I’m not saying that if I carried on working through the 2-3 week spell of laziness I would be doing those figures but I can be sure I would have got new things launched and been able to keep my performance up if not increase it.

Morale of the story is to stay connected to other affiliates, seeing their success does rub off on you and get you in the mood to crank out campaign after campaign.

Just as I got my motivation in place as you will know my hosting decided to suspend a prosper202 script forcing me to spend the time to get a dedicated server, get prosper back up and running and I’m just about to get back on track (after the weekend )