Once your goals are defined you must design a plan to achieve them.

Plans are vehicle by which you achieve your goals.

Refer to your goals and plans frequently in order to :

* Ensure you are on track

* Ensure they are still valid

* Give your motivation a boost

* Schedule It And Do It Right ----------------------------

Next, create a schedule of activities, that you must achieve each day of each week.

My weekly schedule requires me to write an article each week, update site content, and do more work on creating my own products.

My daily schedule involves posting messages on public forums, responding to my e-mail in a structured manner, addressing any customer issues, building my Opt-In list and making time for my family.

I use Timesheets lite available from http://www.timesheetsmts.com/ to schedule my daily activity.

These daily and weekly tasks are all aligned and geared to helping me achieve my short-term goals. In turn my short term goals are geared to helping me achieve my medium term goals and so on.

By setting your schedules in a similar way, you develop discipline, you learn how to pace yourself and you allocate time to all activities that demand your attention, including most importantly your family.

Remember despite your improving self belief you must ask questions when you come up against obstacles. Asking for help early on avoids many lost hours in trial and error, resulting in less frustration.

* Support Networks -------------------

Working alone is lonely, and we all need support from people doing same things, people who understand issues and problems we are going through.

Public forums are a good source of information and answers to questions, but they offer little by way of personal, and immediate support.

Support in this context is better if it comes from a small private support group.

You can build your own support group either on or offline if you live in a place where there are many other netpreneurs. However for most of us this offline support route is difficult and unrealistic.

Hence at Simply easier we will soon be implementing a number of support cells where people will be able to use web cams, and msn to chat and form remote, but practical support networks.

For more details check into http://www.simplyeasier.com and look out for support program announcement.

------------------------------------------------------------ Conclusion

Burn out and disillusionment with online marketing, are an "occupational hazard" for many marketers. Getting back on right track requires that you :

* Go back to basics and answer Fundamental question

* Set detailed SMART short, medium long-term goals and plans

* Schedule your daily and weekly activities and align them to your goals

* Find and join, or create small support networks

Use these four steps and get back on right track today. ------------------------------------------------------------ Charles Kangethe of http://www.simplyeasier.com is a leading new wave Netpreneur and a published author from England. The "Simply Easier" brand name is your guarantee of high value, quality Marketing Products, Services and Resources. -----------------------------------------------------------

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