Step 10 & 11 Done

Well at last eBay decided to have a ½ price listing day. So I took the rest of my stuff that I had not had time to list into the office and sat entering everything today. As luck would have it my boss saw some items he wanted, even before I had finished listing everything I had successfully sold £8 worth of stuff.

This made me smile, so I have moved onto the steps with some bigger figures. My stake money now stands at £10.46 and that is after I have taken into account the listing fees. So now I hope that I will sell enough on eBay to get me up to the next step.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Step 9 Completed

The weekend was spent organising my house getting ready for the new arrival to our family as my wife is predicted to give birth on the 11^th August, so new space is needed in the house.

During the organisation I found an old jacket that I never use anymore and I decided to give it to the cloth bank as it is a perfectly good jacket. In on e of the pocket I found 97p change and decided I would add this to my stake money, so now I have completed step 9. I am looking forward to going on to the bigger steps.

If you want to earn more you must learn more

Step 8 Done

Well it looks like it has been quiet on this blog for some time, but I have been quietly beavering away at preparing my eBay list ready to upload it when they have a cheap listing day. I have spread the word and in the process I have been given a Cat transport box , a cat scratch pole, and an old violin. So although the pot has not increased my assets to be sold on eBay have been increasing.

So how have I completed step 8? Well as I was going through all the old laptop bags I have been given over the years I found a small bag with change in it. There was 20p in coppers, 2 * 5p, 2 * 10p and £1 coin. I added this £1.50 to my stake money of 80p and now I have the grand total of £2.30, so well on my way to complete step 9.

I am also looking into what business I can start on line when I make some more stake money, so a lot of reading about the subject of making money online is being done in preparation for the later steps as I want to be prepared to take action as soon as my eBay venture bears fruit.

You can't change the wind, you can however adjust your sails.

Step 6 & 7 done.

I love car parks. Went for a walk and just on the grass verge of the car park was a shiny new 50p. Nice! Added to my stake and completed Steps 6 and 7 in a single walk. I think I will have to go for a walk more often in the future. Have added more stuff ready for my eBay listing, just waiting for them to do a 5p listing day again now.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself

Step 5 Achieved

Another step closer! I went to get petrol for my car and at the pump I saw a 20p piece. Yeahh I thought, amazing how I can get exited about finding small change all of a sudden. Step 5 is done and I am on step 6, how cool is this.

I installed Turbo Lister on my laptop, so I can add all my old junk to it and wait for eBay to have a 5p listing day, then I will list all my junk for 5p each. I have also had another brain storm, I am asking all my friends and family if they have any junk they do not use and want to get rid of, then I will pick it up and list it on eBay as well. They get their junk removed for free and I get all this stuff to list on eBay. Let’s see how it goes.

If anyone wants to use Turbo Lister then you can get it for free from eBay; http://pages.ebay.co.uk/turbo_lister/

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Think Think Think !

I was thinking about what I could do to complete the next step last night, and I suddenly realised that all the old computer junk I have in lots of big boxes that I was getting ready to take to the tip and become landfill could possibly be sold on Ebay. So I got some of the items out of the box and will try to list them on Ebay and see if there is any interest in them and if I can make a few £ to take me closer to step 28.

This does flaunt rule 10, in so far as I am not using stake money and using “hidden” resources. My take on this is that I was going to throw all this stuff out, it is cluttering up my house and it was the fact that I have focused my mind on achieving my goal of reaching Step 28 that got me to take action and try to convert these items into more stake money, so I am happy to break this rule.

I am always amazed at how the mind works, as soon as you start thinking about something all kind of ideas start flooding in. It is like when you decide to buy a new car, you have hardly seen any of them on the road and as soon as you get your new car you keep seeing them everywhere.

Whatsoever the mind can conceive and believe ... it can achieve. -- Napoleon Hill

Step 1 , 2, 3, 4 Completed

WOW !!! The power of focusing your mind. After my 1^st post the sun was shining so I thought I would take a quick walk outside in the car park and see if I could find my 1p to get started straight away … and there in the gutter was a 10p piece.

So I have completed Step 1, 2, 3 and 4 all in less than 1 hour from a standing start.

Now onwards to Step 5 to make it 16p

What a cool game.