If you read my previous post, you might remember that I had reached a point in my internet life where I was an addicted, compulsive buyer of internet marketing info products, stunned into confusion by information overload, dimly aware that my whole life would be in ruins if I did not do something about it. Perhaps you feel you might be on a similar path?

I would love to be able to say that with super-human strength of will I tore myself away from the computer and broke my “habit”. Well, I can say that, but it would be stretching the truth. The truth is that fate intervened and for a few weeks at the end of last year, I was too busy with other things to waste so much time reading emails from people who only wanted to sell me stuff. Being so busy with the rest of my life made it easier to take a complete computer break. Apart from quickly scanning my inbox once a day for personal messages, I stayed off the computer and the internet altogether. I went “cold turkey”!  

Well, guess what? The world did not end just because I did not read every IM email in my inbox.

I chose five marketers whose integrity and straightforward communication had impressed me over the months that I had been reading their stuff. I unsubscribed from all the rest and immediately gained about two hours a day that were now not being wasted reading sales letters! My next step would be to find a mentor.