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I know what it’s like to feel like you’ve fallen off the track from making thousands of dollars a day to struggling to make enough to cover rent. It was bad for me, especially when it happened with Facebook. Lately my personal life has been all over the place, too. I wanted to take the time to write this post about how to get back on the tracks you were on before. This doesn’t have to be specific to affiliate marketing. You can take the basics and apply it to other aspects of your life. Yeah, I’m gonna go Buddha on you!

Take time to reassess your goals. I keep my goals on a white board, so they are always there for me to look at it. This is a short list of long-term goals (retirement, buy a house, financial freedom, etc) and a longer list of short-term goals (daily – monthly goals). I’ll also throw in some things that I need to do before I die. This acts as my motivation and helps me focus on where I’d like to be headed. I also keep work tasks along side all of this.

Read motivational books. I can’t tell you how many times reading one of these books for an hour has put me in the mood to make some money. Some good recommendations I have are “Eat That Frog”, “The 4-Hour Work Week” and “Rich Dad, Poor Dad.” Even dating books like “The Game” have gotten me to want to get off my ass and work a little. These books are good during your break hour in the day, and it is more productive than playing Halo on your XBox.

Take a look at what you are good at and apply it. Specialization is how most businesses made their big climb to the top. For me and affiliate marketing, I knew I was good at demographic targeting with my Facebook skills. I used this to find other networks that allow me to target by demographics. This led me to a few other extended options like site targeting with PPV or Media Buying. And once you can master these, you can eventually move on to other more broad options. Master one thing, get to the top, make lots of money, and then work on opening up to other options.

Don’t forget the finer things in life. You will have to work hard to get back on track, 10, 12, even 16 hour days are common for me, but I never forget to appreciate everything else I have in my life. Friends and family, food and fun, and the ability to not really have to worry about having a budget. You can’t go out partying every night from 10 pm to – 2+ am, but no one says you can’t go out with your friends a couple times a week, visit your family for lunch, or take out your girl/boyfriend on date every once and a while. Making money is important… but having things to spend that money on though, is more important.

As for me, things are starting to run back to normalcy. I took off the whole week to reassess everything I have and look at my goals, go out and have fun with my friends I literally haven’t seen for months because I’ve been so busy, and spoiled myself with some shopping. Tomorrow is Monday, which means back to work, but I am ready and waiting for it. Hopefully the return of daily blog posts will return here as well. It is on my to-do list.