Something I noticed myself doing a lot of last year and then picked up on, I’ve noticed many other startup affiliates falling in to the same pit. What I’m talking about is spending hours and hours on affiliate forums, ‘super affiliate’ blogs and so on – reading about how to make thousands but not actually doing anything.

I couldn’t agree more that reading about others success is an inspiration and a great motivator, but there comes a time when it starts negatively affecting your own work.

If you find yourself falling in to this trap, what I do now is set my favorite blogs in my RSS reader, read new articles in the morning and any that contain useful information I can use in my work, read it and try and immediately put it in to action. If you don’t have much time, bookmark it for later. Put your own work first, rather than reading about others.