Costa how do you fillet a gold fish? A good question. Why would you fillet a gold fish, would be a better one. However, your answer to the original question says a lot about how you approach life.

That is the exact question that was put to me by a friend and mentor. Before I get into the answer let me go back a bit and tell you how the question came about.

As some of you may know, I have struggled to keep my family feed and housed for many years. Then a few years back I bumped into an old school friend, and to cut a long story short, he had a successful online business and I asked how could I get into online marketing. He asked me to think about what, I thought, was the most important thing to be successful online. He also asked me to think about what questions he would ask me the next time we met.

I went home and thought long and hard about what he had said.
To be a success online I thought the usual things: work hard, acquire knowledge, re-invest in my business, network, and so on. As far as the questions I thought he would ask me, I just got a pen and wrote out a load of questions. Eventually, I refined the list to just these questions:

Costa how much money do you have?
Do you have a computer Costa?
Costa, what experience do you have?
How much do you know about internet marketing?

That, at the end of the day, was all the important questions I could think of. For the next two days I worried about what he would think of my efforts. I had conversations in my head about what he would say and how I would answer.

“Costa you’re too old to do this” No I am not
“Your computer is ancient.” em, well, yes it is
“Costa you will need a $1000 to start” Guess what? I don’t have a 1000 cents.

When it came to the meeting he only had one question.

“How do you fillet a gold fish?

Find out next time why he asked it.

All The best
Costa