In his book: “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, Daniel Pink narrows motivation down to 3 key elements: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
In his book: “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, Daniel Pink narrows motivation down to 3 key elements: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
Without a genuine interest in what we do, we will never be proud of it, we will never master it, and we will never feel purposed for it.
In short, if you are not interested, you are not motivated, and without motivation, you will not succeed.
Even if you are motivated to be successful at a task or job, what happens if you don’t have the skills to do that?
Well, with the help of an AI tutor and YouTube you can learn anything.
You don’t have to pay any money for training as long as you won’t need official qualifications for what you want to do.
Basically that means if you’re doing this for yourself you don’t need a university degree.
If you want to be paid by an employer, you will need the paperwork.
Let’s ignore that for now.
If you have no skills, yet, how long will it take to become proficient?
Not necessarily an expert, but good enough to produce good work.
The old saw is that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert, but we’re not talking about becoming an expert, we’re talking about becoming proficient.
That time has been quantified through testing and the answer is 20 hours.
If you then continue with deliberate practice you will get better and better until you reach expert proficiency.
I’m suggesting that with the help of an AI tool you can short-cut even the 20 hours.
It’s like having a personal mentor who is there at your beck and call 24/7 without fees.
The trap here is to determine what you want to do and then sticking with it until you’ve reached the proficiency you want.
Far too often we get caught up in some other path that looks interesting and abandon what we were doing.
Stick to one thing for 20 hours – that’s only 10 days at 2 hours a day, before you decide to wander off on a tangent.
Do you understand what this means?
In a single year you could become proficient in 3 languages, writing sales pages, writing computer programs in several languages, build a YouTube channel, build a successful membership, automate a Fiverr gig, learn to cook like a chef, plan a wedding, plan the honeymoon, learn to play the guitar or piano, etc.
You might not want to do all or any of those things, but whatever it is that you want to do you can now because you have access to that 24/7 mentor.
Of course, if you don’t know what you want to achieve, I can’t help you.
But AI might be able to.
Tell it that you don’t know.
Tell it to ask questions to help you decide.
You might have a revelation.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. If you want to do things that require a website, programming, testing apps, testing posts, etc. this will help with a platform.
A free, ad‑free web host gives you a real sandbox with real control, PHP/MySQL, email at your domain, and one‑click installers, so you can ship fast and learn faster.
A free, ad‑free web host gives you a real sandbox with real control, PHP/MySQL, email at your domain, and one‑click installers, so you can ship fast and learn faster.
Here are versatile, high‑impact uses that compound:
Lead capture: Spin up WordPress or Joomla with forms, route to an inbox @ your domain for credibility.
Landing pages: Test headlines, CTAs, and offers with clean pages (no forced ads) to measure true conversion.
Content hub: Publish blogs or guides to rank for long‑tail terms and validate topics before scaling.
Portfolio/CV: Own your brand with a custom domain and fast, reliable hosting for professional trust.
Micro‑SaaS demo: Prototype with PHP/MySQL, gather feedback, and iterate without platform limits.
Community/forum: Trial engagement using phpBB or MyBB to gauge audience appetite.
Documentation/knowledge base: Use MediaWiki for internal/external docs and SEO‑friendly help.
Product previews: Host pre‑launch pages and collect early interest with email opt‑ins.
A/B testing lab: Duplicate pages across subdomains to compare copy, pricing, or design.
Checkout tests: Pilot OpenCart flows to de‑risk your paid stack decisions.
Education sandbox: Practice DNS, FTP, databases, and .htaccess—skills that pay off later.
Press room: Keep announcements and assets in one credible, linkable place.
Event pages: Temporary sites for signups and info that you can archive cleanly.
Client demos: Share live proofs without revealing your premium infrastructure.
Newsletter archive: Host past issues for discoverability and authority.
Affiliate experiments: Build compliant pages with proper tracking and speed.
Localization pilots: Test language variants on subdomains before full rollout.
Because you control everything, you get portability, monetization freedom, and brand credibility from day one, exactly what closed website builders struggle to offer.
To build a temporary funnel where you can try stuff out.
But paying hosting fees for the privilege of running some tests that you ultimately want to trash is not so much fun.
Sure, a free web host will have some limitations, but that’s fine for testing.
Most of these sites will allow you to migrate to a paid service, or a different host, when you need more features, but it’s not based on time, so you could have a free site running for years.
Brief interlude: I’ve had a few people send me an email that says “Unsubscribe” – there’s a handy link at the end of every email that works just fine. Feel free to click it. Back to the main email.
There are hundreds of searches every day that most marketers ignore.
Some of these keywords get thousands or even tens of thousands of searches daily.
They are ignored because they are not ‘buyer intent’ keywords.
People searching for stuff they don’t have to pay for, game info, how to…, movie information, weather data, etc.
None of these people are looking to buy anything so how do you turn that into income?
By not selling them anything.
There are multiple places that will pay you for views.
Not clicks.
Not sales.
Just eyeballs on their stuff.
They don’t pay much, but most of this traffic can be siphoned off big high-traffic sites so the ROI is excellent.
I have to use a VPN to get the best results from this tool because all it’s data comes from Google and they give me Australian data which isn’t the target market for this activity.
One of the well known classic books is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
She began writing this as part of a competition when stuck indoors for a few weeks due to poor weather.
She was 18 at the time and hadn’t written anything before.
The critics hated it, but the public loved it.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was written in two and a half days, an excellent novel.
The fastest hit songs ever written were done in 10 minutes – Just Dance – Lady Gaga, Skyfall – Adele, Photograph – Ed Sheeran. In movies we have Rocky – 3 days, Breakfast club – 2 days, Scream – 4 days.
The message here is get out of your way and just write.
That doesn’t mean that these were the finished product, some of them were, but some needed a little polish afterwards.
Whatever you write in a hurry might also need a bit of polish, but if it’s just spelling and grammar that are needed for polish then Grammarly can sort that out for you.
