Written By Jeff Schuman © ... remember watching an NBA ... Game on t.v ... The Miami Heat were playing the New Orleans ... was all over them yet whe Written By Jeff Schuman © 2004http://www.Team-Schuman.comI remember watching an NBA Basketball Game on t.v onenight. The Miami Heat were playing the New Orleans Hornets.Miami was all over them yet when you looked at the scoreNew Orleans kept pulling ahead.Bill Walton made the comment "Don't mistake activity forachievement." I'll always remember that. Just because Miamiwas playing hard didn't mean they were playing smart.This can apply to our everyday lives and more directly toour internet marketing careers. As we all work hard to makemoney online and make money at home you should ask yourselfthis question everyday, "Is what I'm doing right now goingto help me make move my business forward?"I am as guilty of this as anyone. I check my email over andover clicking on the send/recieve button looking for newmessages that say something like "Congratulations You HaveMade Another Sale."It is so easy to constantly log into a program and check mystats over and over. What's the point? If they do change itisn't enough to even merit the time it takes to do it overand over.How about this one. Reading posts in forums until your eyesare blurry. That's o.k if you are involved and making someposts as well. You might as well get your link out thereand posting is a great way to learn something as well as dothat. But you have to post once in awhile too.Here's the key to getting yourself past the activity modeand into the achievement mode.Write down 5 specific things you want to accomplisheveryday to help you make money on the internet. Here is anexample of this.1. Make 5 new posts in forums 2. Trade links with 5 quality websites 3. Submit my article to 5 article websites 4. Place my ad in 5 free classified sites 5. Call 5 of my home business prospectsNow what is the key to these 5 things on my list? Well forstarters they are written down. Next it is an advertisingand marketing driven list.If you aren't spending 80-90% of your time on advertisingand marketing your home business then you have no right tocomplain when you aren't making any money. It is thatsimple.You have to write down action items for the day and themajority of those action items have to be doing somethingto advertise and market your business.Every one of us has different amounts of time we can spendeveryday working to make money online. It isn't how muchtime you spend, but how you spend it that will determineyour long term success."Don't Mistake Activity For Achievement." Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com