This picture is from a nearby park I like to visit. I like to go there to get new perspective on life and business. It’s a beautiful place not to far from home so I can go there whenever I want.

Whether its a beautiful place like the Potomac River, or your backyard, you need to have a place you can go to let your mind go blank. When you work online it’s easy to get wrapped up in the hustle. If you’ve been working online for any amount of time you know what I mean. When I first started I was so excited that I’d stay up until 3am every night working my guts out, sleep for a few hours, get up and do it again. Sometimes that’s what it takes, but that kind of lifestyle isn’t sustainable.

Along the way you make a lot of mistakes and spend time on ideas that never make any money. It’s better to focus in on your high quality ideas and cut the losers loose.

This is not easy to do when you are trying to build multiple streams of revenue. Once you find something that works it’s easy to want to find other ways to replicate that revenue stream. The problem is, not all revenue streams or ideas can be duplicated.

Staying balance in your approach is the key to consistent profits. To stay focused remember these tips:

Focus

Before you run off trying trying to build up other revenue streams, make sure you have fully developed your best ideas. Your best fully developed idea might make twice as much as a few undeveloped ideas.

Sustainable

Are your ideas sustainable? Assuming you have goals and targets for your output, write down the amount of hours you need to put into each of those targets each week to hit your goals. For example let’s say your goal is to write 1000 Infobarrel articles this year. That is a good goal that will help you make around $1000 per month. But to write 1000 articles you need to write about 85 articles a month. If each article takes you one hour to write you need to ask yourself, do you have a spare 83 hours you can dedicate to Infobarrel this month? If not, you need to reset your expectations.

Rest

Remember that you need rest. Our bodies need downtime and if we push them to the max for months in a row they will eventually crash on us. Plan to take a break and reassess your progress and plan. They is no harm in changing your goals when you find out that one of your objectives isn’t going to be worthwhile.