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Yes, I Fell For It
January 14, 2005
So, yesterday I scooted right over to Jack Canfield's Success Principles site after receiving an email newsletter telling me about the 44 bonuses being offered for buying Jack's book through Amazon. Jack's trying to drive the rank of his book up Amazon's best seller list.
In my defense, I am a self-help book junkie and have never been known to resist any book promising to improve my life, achieve my dreams or help my baby sleep through the night.
But to be honest, the 44 bonuses definitely drew me to the site. And the Amazon.ca link right there clinched the sale for me. You mean I could actually buy it through Amazon.ca and not have to fret about currency differences or pay an exorbitant shipping rate?
Plus Publisher's Weekly gave it a good review.
After I bought the book, I spent quite some time going through the bonuses and downloading the ones I wanted. I was also well aware that for some of them I was landing myself onto yet another email list from which I'd eventually unsubscribe, whenever I got another urge to exercise my mouse-unsubscribe-link trigger finger. But somehow, I felt richer just having all those new ebooks on my hard drive.
Mind you, I knew, without even thinking about it and yes, all the while I was downloading, that it would be a very long time before I cracked any of them open on my Adobe Reader. (Well, okay, except for Deepak Chopra's ebook).
And while I was at Amazon.ca, I figured I might as well buy another book and take advantage of the free shipping offer. I decided to buy the Now Habit, by Neil Fiore, which conveniently showed up on my monitor right after I added the Success Principles to my shopping cart.
I had never heard of the book before yesterday but the reviews were great, and I really think this is the book I've been waiting for all my adult life. So you see, there was a reason after all why I felt the impulse to check out the Success Principles site.
I'm kind of embarassed to admit I'm looking forward to getting the Now Habit much more than I'm anticipating the arrival of Success Principles.
I just realized - I'm the kind of person Internet marketers love.
- BJ
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I skipped The Success Principles and went straight for The Now Habit. Like you, I'm really looking forward to getting it. Thanks for leading me to it!
Posted by: Gail | Jan 16, 2005 11:34:57 AM
Well? The book - The Now Habit? How was it? You can't just sit there and say it may be *THE* book you've been waiting for and then not tell us how you got on with it. So? Are you now mega-efficient; procrastinator no more? Hmm?
Posted by: TC | Jun 2, 2005 6:18:03 PM
LOL - you caught me. Well, I'm not a mega-procrastinator anymore, but it's more because of Getting Things Done by David Allen then because of the Now Habit (which was a good read, though.)
Posted by: BJ | Jun 2, 2005 7:35:54 PM
Well that's good. I too went ahead - not in small part because of your comment - and bought "The Now Habit". And, incidentally, I've been through GTD twice.
And, I have to say, I'm *so* disappointed with "The Now Habit". I don't think I'm understating it to say that it offered absolutely nothing to me. Like you, I found GTD more useful. But it too is too weak a medicine for someone so pathological a procrastinator as me.
The only upside is, I've now concluded that there is *no* book that can help me. The sheer horror of being on my own with this problem has scared me so much, I've got up off my lazy posterior, and Just Started Getting On With It. :-)
Posted by: TC | Jun 7, 2005 5:57:49 PM
:) Just Started Getting On With It sounds good to me. But Getting Things Done has actually been helping me. I didn't do the big "collect" thing - not enough time - but I've been trying to do a bit each day. The two-minute rule has been a miracle-worker for me, though.
Posted by: BJ | Jun 7, 2005 7:00:43 PM
