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What do you do when your business hits a brick wall? You go and spend a night in a year. Of course.
Hello, YouTube and a very special hello to all my subscribers, my name’s Phil. And welcome to my channel. This is where I document my journey building an online income. And as the keen eye w out there will notice I’m not in my normal boring room with the boring white back. You’ve actually joined me on what is my honeymoon.
So this is my first trip. My wife and I have been together since we got married last year. So technically the honeymoon. So we’ve come to a little island which is just off the coast of China. It’s part of Taiwan. It’s called Matsu. And you can actually see in the background, this big statue. This is the goddess mad.
And that’s where the islands around here are named after her.
So I’m very under-prepared for today’s video. I wanted to shoot something before we actually left. But I got in a bit of a rush over the weekend. We went on a normal run on Sunday and immediately we took a ferry. An overnight ferry got here early this morning. And we’d been riding around all day, got a bit of sun tan on a scooter.
And I just wanted to slip this video in before I missed my slot today. What I wanted to talk about today were really two things that I had read. And two, another thing I’d been talking about. The first thing was, I got a comment on one of my videos from a guy who apparently had joined Project 24, which is the cool set up by Income School.
And he was basically saying it’s some sort of a get rich, quick scheme. It’s a bit of a scam. And the fact that there, these people that, they’ve been working on their websites for a year and they’re happy to get a hundred dollars. And I can understand how he feels because it’s tough when you have, you’ve put all this work into building up your business and you are 12 months down the line and you still can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, but that’s the thing.
It takes a lot of work and it doesn’t happen overnight. And I’m definitely in that boat. And as you will see in next week’s video even my traffic. Is reduced. And this month compared to the month before, which is the first time that’s happened in about six months. And when you’re still in that stage of building up your business, of course, it’s still, when that happens to you, it’s not great.
But the other thing is I had a conversation with my colleague, Michael and Michael and I, we have a YouTube channel together called the iOS grind and we’re actually. We’re putting in a lot of effort into this YouTube channel. And we are only at about 200 subs, but that’s pretty good after about two months.
And we’ve got about 50 videos up already. We spend at least one day a week filming and I do a lot of editing and it’s a lot of work that goes into it. But we were talking about it. Most people at that stage would give up, but he said, we are 10. And, we are not gonna give up and definitely we’re not.
But it got me to thinking, is this such a thing as tenacity and still not making it? I think so. So this is why I’m really glad that my wife suggested that we take this trip finally, that we get away from life in Tae and just, come somewhere new, somewhere a bit weird. We’re gonna sleep in one of these Ys.
and it’s just given me a bit of time to, to think, to get away from the computer screen, because I know there are a few things with my business that I’m doing wrong. The first thing I’m doing wrong is I’ve just taken on too much. Although I’m being tenacious, I’m working hard every single day in my business to build an online income, despite that I could be using my time better because at the moment I’m in between so many little things.
That I don’t think I’m gonna really see one take off as soon as it would, if I was just spending time on one thing. So for me, that’s one thing I need to regroup. Think about where I’m gonna put my energies in the future. And the other thing is when you’ve got your nose to the grindstone and you are working every single day, it’s really easy not to actually look at what’s happening, especially in your stats.
I am quite lucky. Because for you guys every month I do go through my stats and I do look at what’s happening. Sometimes I pick up messages a little bit earlier, but even then I’m not perfect. I’m I wouldn’t say I’m an expert at reading Google analytics, but you gotta take some time to, to sit back and really look at what are you doing, and what are you doing wrong in your business? I know that right now is not a great time for taking a trip away, but if you can just take a weekend, go to a, B and B with your wife on your own with some friends and just clear your mind, you might find that when you get back, you’ve got for one thing, new vigor, you’re more determined to go and do those things that you’ve been putting off.
For me, it’s a YouTube for my first website. And the other thing is you may have some inspiration to actually. Change the direction of your business. And this is what I’m hoping for after this weekend. Okay. So thank you for joining me on my honeymoon and I will see you guys next time where I will be going into detail about all my websites.
And I will tell you what’s been happening and to be honest, oh, I dunno. It’s good or bad at the moment, but I’ll share it with you next time.