I consider myself an “Internet Marketer” – meaning, I make my living by selling products and services online.

Built into the typical Internet Marketer is a pretty hefty amount of ADD. You’re constantly being inundated with new products, new schemes, the latest and greatest “make a billion dollars in seconds” deal of the century… Then add to that you’re running your own business, and when you have a successful product, you want to do whatever you can to replicate that success.

So you create products, try other methods of driving people to your websites, you get into social networking, try your best not to spend time in Facebook Apps, and on and on. With all that hammering away at you every day, you can easily lose focus. I have in the past, and so have most of the people I know who don’t have a staff to handle things for them.

What I came to realize today, after researching what the most effective and profitable people in various online niches are doing, is that the lack of focus is what keeps you down. Now, I’ve always considered myself focused. I work more than 40 hours a week on my business, (often more than 60 or 80) and I thought that meant that I was a focused entrepreneur. But what I did during those hours was the problem. A lot of the time, I was spinning my wheels.

It’s time to focus, and focus on my passion.

Before now, I was focused on making money – lots of it. But that’s not my passion. I have a “meh” relationship with money, meaning it’s not something I feel is overly important. It’s nice to have, but as long as I have enough to live how I want to live and also tithe, I’m okay with that. I don’t need to be a millionaire.

My passion, however, is my faith. I want to do whatever God is leading me to do, and in a big way (like writing In Case of Armageddon, Break Glass), but in order to do that, I have to FOCUS on it. So I am.

No more social bookmarking, no more Internet Marketing traffic tricks, just good old focus, faith, and the real me. That’s what this blog is going to be about. If only one person reads it and gets something out of it, then I’ve still done my job.

It’s time to stop being polite, and start getting real.