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Here’s a big factor that no one can quantify. When it comes to a successful teaching website, who can make money at it? And how long does that take?

Herds of analysts have scaled these cliffs

There is no shortage of attempts to figure this out. Really. It’s an important piece of the puzzle. It’s hard to market a program when you can’t quantify the results. But the reason it is impossible to put numbers to this is the same reason it is so powerful, so juicy, and so exciting.

But we do know what, how, who, and why. Right?

It’s not that we don’t know what works. It’s not even that we don’t know why it works. We do. We know people have needs and we know some of them can be met through various online offerings. We know why people look for stuff and we know how they arrive. We know a heck of a lot about why they leave, too. So what is it that we don’t know?

Can you predict when a bud will open?

What we don’t know, we can’t know. And that is this: Our readers have no way of knowing exactly where they are in their own personal development.

When people start learning about online income, specifically these bright and shiny newer models of online teaching, they must engage both an internal and an external process.

How about a spreadsheet for a sail.

The basics of this kind of work are easy to understand. (Thank goodness, finally, there’s something we can actually talk about.) You have to figure out what you want to communicate, who you are communicating it to, and how to connect to them. That’s it.

I call it the Three Seas: Community, Conversation, Connectivity.

The simplicity ends there. But if you understand the Three Seas, at least you have crossed the threshold. You’re on the other side, starting to make all the necessary mental connections. You’re in the boat and you’ve got oars.

The water’s fine. Deep, but fine.

And now you’re in that vast area of potential, the ocean of human possibility, what online analysts would love to be able to get onto a spreadsheet. You’re going to ply that ocean in your little binary boat, asking your own fine self pointed questions like “What do I really want? What do I really love? What do I really know?” It’s a continuum, a life process.

Just connect the dots.

Where you are in that continuum is what dictates your timeline with online success.

How connected are you to your heart? How much do you know about your message? How deep is your love?

How bad do you want it?

With every cell in my body

I made it through those hoops because I never even considered taking no for an answer. I want to travel freely, to connect with people, to share what I learn, to enjoy economic freedom. I could see these gifts within the worlds of online teaching. Once I understood that, I never looked back.

The journey itself? So worth it. So totally worth it. It gets bigger and wilder every day, like some wacky fractal safari, oh, yeah.

The ghost within

Ready to connect to your own ghost? Try this. Get out your journal or whatever you use to communicate with yourself, and write for fifteen minutes about something you really want to do. Something outrageous or deep or almost unreachable. Tonight, when you get into bed, read what you wrote. Close your eyes and drift, and feel what it will feel like to actually be doing that very thing. No details about how you’re going to get there, just the feeling of it happening, and even a little further than that. Here’s the meat: See yourself after you’ve reached that pinnacle. What comes next?

Suzanna

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