The Forgotten Monk

I read a post from John Chow’s website. He received an email asking about when a blogger should call it quits. John Chows answer as well as many other comments were if you’re no longer having fun then quit.

The answer though sound, I can’t help but feel there might be better advice. I wonder what the ultimate mentor would say. Where is the forgotten monk that can offer real help?

John Chows site is great, actually it’s better than great. He offers great advice and rakes in a heck of a lot of money. I’m following his book. Because who wouldn’t?

So what do you do when you don’t know how to get to where you want to be? For me it’s all about observation. Being an avid reader and a keen searcher of forgotten monks you should learn from the advice of someone successful, observe them and learn the things they don’t know to tell you. Sometimes there are things they do that make them successful that they don’t know to tell you about. Oftentimes these can be critical things.

John Chow’s blog is very successful. He freely gives his great advice to how to monetize. Now I haven’t been able to read his entire site. But, I can tell you one thing I noticed that doesn’t seem to get enough press on his site. It’s the fact that John seems to set very specific measurable goal on a periodic basis. Whether it is to become a SEO Expert or to beat Shoemoney’s RSS Reader Number he always seems to have a measurable goal. If you are not accomplishing your goal whatever that goal is, then you have to do something different and if you run out of options and you still aren’t accomplishing your goal then quit.

What do you guys think?

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