Chapter One: The New Mindset of Internet Marketing
Have you been watching other people make money on the Internet, and you’re ready to make the Internet work for you? Once you finish learning the Multiple Streams of Income System, you’ll be amazed at just how easy it is – and how profitable, too!
For a long time common wisdom said that to make money online you had to get good at one thing – find a niche market or specialty to capitalize on and spend all of your time working on it.
Of course you can take this approach. You can become a player in a niche market and capitalize on one particular talent or specialty. There are some marketers right now making money this way – but it’s the profits they’re missing out on that make it a poor business decision.
Why stop with one stream of income when you can have 10-50 or more tributaries of cash flowing into your bank account?
The new trend in making money on the Internet is to split your profit potential. This is known as creating multiple income streams, and it’s a choice that mean the difference between a comfortable bottom line and one that makes you fall over in shock.
Everything you’re about to learn, I’ve tried, tested, and am currently earning money with. None of it is complicated, outdated, or expensive to start. In fact, I turned my own operation into a multi-million dollar empire with just $50 and an Internet connection!
Your Road to Easy Riches
You’re probably thinking this all seems like a lot of work to set up and maintain. It doesn’t take as much effort as you might think – almost everything you’ll learn here today is based on an automated system.
That means you set it up, set it loose, and check in from time to time to tweak a few things here or there. Sure, signing up for programs, getting content on your blog or website, and basically doing the “grunt work” to get the ball rolling takes a few hours over a few days, but your returns over a matter of months for not much effort makes it all worth it.
You’re probably itching to get started, but before we do let’s take a look at a few of your multiple income stream possibilities. Maybe you’ve done some marketing or product placement and sales in the “real world,” but Internet marketing is a whole new ball game.
Getting used to the way information flows online can be a challenge. Luckily, there are several options for marketing on the ‘net so as you learn the systems, if you find you prefer one way over another, you can pick and choose – or tweak a system so that it fits in with the goals you set to achieve.
I’m going to start out with systems that are easy to set up, simple to automate, and allow you start earning money quickly and around the clock. Remember, the Internet is open 24/7, 3654 days a year, so your online sales tools need to be in proper working form.
What Do I Sell and Where Do I Sell It?
If you can think of something you’re good at, know a lot about, or just enjoy, you’re on your way to creating your niche. Now all you have to do is find a place to let the world know about it.
What do I mean by place? We’ll get into more detail later, but for now think of a place online as a website, a web log (blog), a content page, a review site or other place you can go to show off your knowledge – and rake in the profits.
You want to position yourself as an expert because you’re trying to build a niche market. You want to advertise your specialty and toot your own horn. That makes other people spread the word about you, too.
The nice thing about most of your niche options is that you don’t have to be a web coding genius to do any of them. Sure, learning a little code won’t hurt your chance of success, but you can get started without it.
If you can do an Internet search and type an informative paragraph or two of text, you’ll do fine putting your niche content together. Many of the other ways to make money online use the talents of others to put the Internet to work for you. That’s great for the average ‘net marketer!
You’re someone who is probably always busy anyway. You work hard at your job, trying to make ends meet, and you see this as the perfect way to cut back your hours and work less or maybe quit working outside of the home altogether.
That means options that just require you to sign up, add a button to your website or spread the word by using the websites of others are a great time saver for you! I’m going to show you how to take advantage of this.
Do you have a product to sell online, or an idea for one? Excellent! I’ll go over direct product sales later in the guide. You’ve never heard of direct product sales? Don’t worry, it’s new to a lot of people. You’ve seen direct product sales online if you’ve ever surfed the Internet.
Trust me, you’re more familiar with them than you think.
What about affiliate marketing? We’ll talk about both sides of affiliate marketing. You can work both sides at once and double your profits – or focus on one aspect of affiliate marketing (as an affiliate or the program owner) and add the other part later. Both options are pretty easy if you know what tools to use online.
To run an affiliate program, you need a product you can sell. Then you need a place to sell it online, and a way to pay the people who sign up to sell it for you. To become an affiliate yourself, you’ll sell another person’s product.
The same places online that can help you become an affiliated seller also have a flip side. They also help people find products to represent. The income potential with affiliate marketing on both sides varies.
Some product sellers give a generous percentage to their affiliates. Some affiliates don’t have the web traffic to generate the large sales number you want. Finding a balance is key to being successful on either end of the affiliate scale.
I’ll cover how to run an affiliate program, how to be an affiliate yourself and how to enhance both later on in The Multiple Streams of Income System.
Profiting Through Participation
Are there other ways to make money with less effort? Sure there are. I’ll go over those, too. Not only can you make money with little effort, but the road to easy profits is paved with perks.
You can take advantage of programs that pay when you give your opinion, take surveys and click on links. Taking surveys and giving your opinions is a great way to turn idle Internet surfing time into cash. There are some pitfalls you have to keep an eye out for, but I’ll go over those with you too.
Of course, taking surveys and giving your opinions can quickly become time consuming. But if you’re with the right survey and opinion companies, it’s worth it and I’ll show you how to choose a survey company.
What did I mean by clicks? There are a lot of companies out there selling ad space online. They offer you, the Internet surfer, the chance to click on ads for rewards. Some rewards are cool stuff, since click sites are the best way to get promotional items, but some rewards are cold, hard cash.
If you can sign up with a major click site that offers both you’ll get the most return for your time. Sure, clicking links isn’t difficult, but just like participating in the surveys and opinions sites it can be time consuming. The key is to figure out the sites that won’t waste your time by making it impossible to earn cash or cool stuff.
I’ll spend some time teaching you about click sites, survey sites and opinions sites and I’ll go over some of the companies that have the best reputations for being reliable, not spamming you and for delivering the goods.
Making Money with Money
A new trend in Internet income streaming is to invest in online monetary systems. I’ll teach you about this, but it’s not for the faint of heart. Still, the profits to be made are incredible since some people are too timid to go for it.
If you want to invest real money in online currency you have be that rare combination of cautious and a risk taker. You have to be cautious enough and alert enough to spot a scam. You also have to be enough of a risk taker to invest your money online.
I’ll cover a few basic places to invest your money online, and go over some common scams to avoid. With a little planning, investing only what you could afford to lose, and keeping your eyes open, you’ll be just fine.
The Big Question: How Do I Drive Traffic to My Money System?
You’re probably wondering how on Earth you’ll let people know about your income streams, your websites, your affiliate programs and everything else. There’s nothing to worry about at all.
I’m going to show some Internet marketing strategies that can turn your ideas into real money. Will you become a millionaire company like I did super quick? Anything is possible. If you’re motivated, you can see your income grow by leaps and bounds as time goes on.
Do people become wealthy in weeks or months doing this? Some do. I know I did. I invested a lot of time and effort into setting up my Internet marketing streams – but you’re getting a shortcut to the systems while I had to do some trial and error testing.
Do I see you retiring on these plans? I see you retiring in a better way than you could have imagined. If you follow the system step-by-step, you could definitely be retiring soon.
Right now the state on e-commerce is on the cusp of growing at a phenomenal rate. That means those who have their online systems in place before the surge are going to reap the rewards of grabbing most of the profits that are up for grabs – and we’re talking trillions of dollars!
The Internet is still in its infancy. More people are logging online everyday – looking to buy – and seeking information. You can take advantage of this massive gush of traffic and watch the money funnel directly into your accounts while you’re busy enjoying life as it was meant to be lived.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Setting a smart goal for yourself
If you’ve been lurking around on the Internet for Ways To Make Money Online, one thing you’ll be seeing a lot of lately is developing the right mindset. Before you even set up a single system, if you’re filled with “what ifs” and negative, self-defeating thoughts, your business won’t go anywhere.
The successful Internet Marketers are those who are determined and focused. So before you even put your toe into the pool of profits, you have to set some goals and change the way you think. My Smart Goal Setting formula will help you…
Why is this such an important first step in your success? It’s an area seasoned ‘net marketers are scrambling to learn because they know that sometimes, the single thing that’s holding you back can be the attitude with which you approach your online efforts and the specific goals you set in place.
For a long time, people didn’t know what made a guru a guru and why some people who tried for months (or even years) weren’t seeing a fair share of the profits. What emerged was that there’s a different mindset between the gurus and everybody else.
I’m going to show you how to think big, seize the opportunities that you deserve, and turn your wishes and dreams into true realities that you can take to the bank!
The Power of Positive Thinking
Right now, there are hundreds of Internet marketing hopefuls who are saying no to their own success. Believe it or not, your mindset is crucial to the way you perform and the way your business efforts succeed or fail.
There’s a right and wrong way to think, talk, and believe. Simply changing your vocabulary can often mean the difference between seeing a 2% change in your profit margin (up or down) and amazing growth that you never dreamed possible.
I have a chart that I refer to on a regular basis. It’s there to remind me not to let negative thinking creep into my thought process and slow down my success. I’ll let you copy it for your own efforts:
Instead of using words like:
· Maybe,Try,Hope,Wish,If,Help,Need,Can’t,Tomorrow,Want to,Going to,Well….ummmm…,Work
I think
· Can’t afford
· Problem
· But
· Probably
· Have to
I use these words and phrases instead:
· Done
· Finished
· Completed
· I will
· I am
· When
· Assist
· Deserve
· Accomplish
· Today
· Now
· Goodbye, next
· Moving forward
· Create
· Definite
· Committed
· Opportunity
· However, although
· I know, I will
· I choose to
At first, it felt awkward having to forcibly change the way I thought and talked. But I knew that like most people, I had been ingrained to complain and prepare myself for the worst.
Now my subconscious mind – which accounts for about 95% of all of our actions – guides my success without me having to try so hard. I use positive affirmations (verbal or mental accounting of everything that is going good) every day to reinforce my success – and since my income has reached multi-million dollar levels, it’s easy to continue my role.
You may not have it as good as I do right now, so how do you use positive affirmations when you’ve had a rotten day (or year) and feel like Murphy’s Law was written about your life in particular?
I don’t care how small of a good thing it is – take some time (a couple of minutes) at the beginning or end of each day to focus on it. Forget about what went wrong. If you got your first sale, acknowledge it and set a goal for how many sales you’re going to make the next day.
There are an awful lot of people in this industry moaning and groaning about why they can’t make money, why everyone else is, and why they’re failing. If you’re thinking this way then I have the answer for you – it’s YOU!
You are the only thing preventing your success. If you say, “I can’t do this,” then your prediction will come true. You can do it. You will do it. Believe in yourself. People who are failures aren’t true failures – there’s no such thing. They only failed before they allowed themselves to succeed.
Many successful businesspeople have had their ups and downs. Look at Donald Trump – he filed bankruptcy before he built his empire! You may launch a product and realize it flopped because you had your niche slightly off target.
Does that mean you quit and go back to the 9-5 grind, slaving away in a 6 x 6 foot cubicle? Sure, if that’s all you think of yourself. But you can get over the speed bumps and obstacles that try to slow down your success.
And once you hit it – once you see the profit machine start churning – you’ll realize that anything you dream is POSSIBLE. You’ll finally “get it” and be one of the few who continue their success, instead of one of the many who give up.
Setting Goals the SMART Way
The first thing I want you to do is forecast your future. Forget about the negative stuff – you won’t get anywhere harping on doom and gloom. What I want to know is this:
* Where do you see yourself in the next 30 days?
* How about the next 3 months?
* Half a year from now?
* A year from today?
* Five years?
* Ten years?
You’ll notice there’s a healthy mix of short and long-term goal setting that’s necessary for you to begin mapping out a blueprint for your success. When you write them down, use the present tense.
“I am proud that I’m earning six figures and ecstatic that I’m living with my beautiful family in Hawaii…”
Don’t write, “I should be” or “I will…” You want to be living in the moment and seeing it come to fruition. Using future tense is wishful thinking. Using present tense is taking advantage of positive affirmations. Believe it and it will happen.
Use emotions in your goal setting. In the above statement, I didn’t just write, “Earning 6 figures and live in Hawaii,” I wrote the feelings I’ll have when I achieve those goals.
When you use the SMART system, it makes it easy to determine what path you need to take to success. It helps you get everything you want out of life – and then some! Let’s look at what the SMART system is all about:
Specific goals are crucial to helping to reach milestones that are important in all areas of your life. If you’re vague and just say, “I will make more money,” then you might have it come true – to the tune of $1 more this year than you made last year.
You want to put something solid into the equation. Set a date and an amount. “I make $7,000 in September.” But don’t stop there. What will that money do for you? “I make $40,000 in the next 90 days and put down a deposit on a new home.”
It’s better to know how the money is going to help you when planning your goals – even if it’s just to splurge – because it helps you visualize what’s about to happen in your life – and it keeps you motivated and enthused about your daily efforts.
Measurable goals are important because they keep you accountable for your own success. This is a huge pitfall for many Internet marketers. They fly by the seat of their pants and start and stop so many projects that they never realize their full potential.
Measurable goals help you stay on track. They let you evaluate your performance and tweak areas that need your immediate attention. If you’ve spent six weeks on a system that isn’t working, it lets you know so that you don’t waste another six weeks not earning profits!
When you set measurable goals, you can check on them as you’re working. For instance, don’t just say, “I want to be out of debt.” Your specific, measurable goal of “I want to earn $50,000 in the next four months” will let you measure if and when you reach the goal, and also allow you to pay off your debts in the process.
It also turns a negative into a positive. When you’re focused on “being out of debt,” you constantly have to think about the burden of it. When you write about the specific amount of money you’re earning, it’s a positive reflection of your efforts.
It’s also wise to set measurable goals that help you reach your big goals. For instance, if losing weight – 25 pounds to be Specific – were your goal, then you could write measurable goals such as, “spend an hour a day on the treadmill.”
Each day, or at the end of every week, you could measure your results – you either did or didn’t do the work to get you to where you want to be. Then you have a chance to continue working toward your goals or change it if necessary.
Attainable goals are vital to your continued success. If you write down that you’ll make $1 million with your first product launch, you may be setting yourself up for failure.
Your goals should be attainable. That’s not to say you won’t make $1 million with your product launch – it’s been known to happen – but be reasonable with what you can likely achieve.
For example, if you’re only able to dedicate an hour a night to Internet Marketing right now, then a million dollars isn’t reasonable (unless you have a highly unique and in demand idea).
Take into consideration the outside factors that can contribute to your plans – and make sure you leave room for unexpected circumstances. What if you have a family emergency or a financial setback?
You want to reach the goals you set. It’s not bad to dream big, but you have to continue climbing the rungs of success one step at a time instead of trying to leap from the bottom of the ladder to the top in a single bound.
When your goals seem insurmountable, it causes you to get bogged down in negative thoughts and eventually give up on them altogether. This is a common occurrence with ‘net marketers who didn’t take time to consider their mindset.
Relevant goals mean they relate to what you’re passionate about. If you’re not emotionally connected to your goal, you won’t work hard to make it happen. Some people set goals that are so broad and general that it doesn’t help them actually achieve anything.
If you say, “I want a happy life,” that isn’t relevant enough to explain that you want “A seven-figure income this year.” Happiness is different for everybody. Some people making $30,000 a year are extremely content.
Timed goals help you reach a date of completion. If you don’t give yourself a deadline for tasks or goals, then chances are you’ll get infected by the plague of procrastination and never realize your true potential for success.
If you aren’t sure how long it’ll take, make an educated guess. You can always revise your goals – they’re a living, evolving document of how you want your life to unfold.
The only thing you shouldn’t do is keep changing your completion dates because you “just haven’t gotten around to it.” This is unfair to you – you’re sabotaging your own path to success.
You have to remind yourself that your goals are in place. It’s important to have a tangible reminder – write them on a sticky note and put it right on your computer, or carry your goals in your wallet written on the back of your business card.
When you’re able to look at them without having to try to recall from memory what you wanted to do, you’ll be able to take actions that correspond to your individual success.
You’ll instantly be able to see when and if you do something that isn’t aligned with one of your goals. If you eat a Death by Chocolate dessert at a restaurant, then you know that didn’t help your goal of losing 10 pounds in the next 30 days.
Or, in regards to money, if you quit your day job intent on making a go of Internet Marketing, but you sit around all day watching soap operas or surfing sport sites on the ‘net, then you’ll know that you haven’t spent your time toward reaching the goals that you hoped to achieve.
Most people don’t set goals. Do you see them – commuting to work day in, day out – like robots on autopilot? They just do what needs to be done and cross their fingers that it’ll all work out the way they wanted it to – never once considering they have to take the reigns and make things happen for them!
Successful Internet Marketers know that in order to succeed, you have to be focused, driven, and enthusiastic about the endless opportunities and possibilities that are coming their way.
Get emotional about your pending success!
Hype yourself up and drool over the fact that there is no glass ceiling to online profits! When you do this, taking action won’t be a chore – it’ll be an outlet for your enthusiasm and drive.
The successful Internet Marketers are those who are determined and focused. So before you even put your toe into the pool of profits, you have to set some goals and change the way you think. My Smart Goal Setting formula will help you…
Why is this such an important first step in your success? It’s an area seasoned ‘net marketers are scrambling to learn because they know that sometimes, the single thing that’s holding you back can be the attitude with which you approach your online efforts and the specific goals you set in place.
For a long time, people didn’t know what made a guru a guru and why some people who tried for months (or even years) weren’t seeing a fair share of the profits. What emerged was that there’s a different mindset between the gurus and everybody else.
I’m going to show you how to think big, seize the opportunities that you deserve, and turn your wishes and dreams into true realities that you can take to the bank!
The Power of Positive Thinking
Right now, there are hundreds of Internet marketing hopefuls who are saying no to their own success. Believe it or not, your mindset is crucial to the way you perform and the way your business efforts succeed or fail.
There’s a right and wrong way to think, talk, and believe. Simply changing your vocabulary can often mean the difference between seeing a 2% change in your profit margin (up or down) and amazing growth that you never dreamed possible.
I have a chart that I refer to on a regular basis. It’s there to remind me not to let negative thinking creep into my thought process and slow down my success. I’ll let you copy it for your own efforts:
Instead of using words like:
· Maybe,Try,Hope,Wish,If,Help,Need,Can’t,Tomorrow,Want to,Going to,Well….ummmm…,Work
I think
· Can’t afford
· Problem
· But
· Probably
· Have to
I use these words and phrases instead:
· Done
· Finished
· Completed
· I will
· I am
· When
· Assist
· Deserve
· Accomplish
· Today
· Now
· Goodbye, next
· Moving forward
· Create
· Definite
· Committed
· Opportunity
· However, although
· I know, I will
· I choose to
At first, it felt awkward having to forcibly change the way I thought and talked. But I knew that like most people, I had been ingrained to complain and prepare myself for the worst.
Now my subconscious mind – which accounts for about 95% of all of our actions – guides my success without me having to try so hard. I use positive affirmations (verbal or mental accounting of everything that is going good) every day to reinforce my success – and since my income has reached multi-million dollar levels, it’s easy to continue my role.
You may not have it as good as I do right now, so how do you use positive affirmations when you’ve had a rotten day (or year) and feel like Murphy’s Law was written about your life in particular?
I don’t care how small of a good thing it is – take some time (a couple of minutes) at the beginning or end of each day to focus on it. Forget about what went wrong. If you got your first sale, acknowledge it and set a goal for how many sales you’re going to make the next day.
There are an awful lot of people in this industry moaning and groaning about why they can’t make money, why everyone else is, and why they’re failing. If you’re thinking this way then I have the answer for you – it’s YOU!
You are the only thing preventing your success. If you say, “I can’t do this,” then your prediction will come true. You can do it. You will do it. Believe in yourself. People who are failures aren’t true failures – there’s no such thing. They only failed before they allowed themselves to succeed.
Many successful businesspeople have had their ups and downs. Look at Donald Trump – he filed bankruptcy before he built his empire! You may launch a product and realize it flopped because you had your niche slightly off target.
Does that mean you quit and go back to the 9-5 grind, slaving away in a 6 x 6 foot cubicle? Sure, if that’s all you think of yourself. But you can get over the speed bumps and obstacles that try to slow down your success.
And once you hit it – once you see the profit machine start churning – you’ll realize that anything you dream is POSSIBLE. You’ll finally “get it” and be one of the few who continue their success, instead of one of the many who give up.
Setting Goals the SMART Way
The first thing I want you to do is forecast your future. Forget about the negative stuff – you won’t get anywhere harping on doom and gloom. What I want to know is this:
* Where do you see yourself in the next 30 days?
* How about the next 3 months?
* Half a year from now?
* A year from today?
* Five years?
* Ten years?
You’ll notice there’s a healthy mix of short and long-term goal setting that’s necessary for you to begin mapping out a blueprint for your success. When you write them down, use the present tense.
“I am proud that I’m earning six figures and ecstatic that I’m living with my beautiful family in Hawaii…”
Don’t write, “I should be” or “I will…” You want to be living in the moment and seeing it come to fruition. Using future tense is wishful thinking. Using present tense is taking advantage of positive affirmations. Believe it and it will happen.
Use emotions in your goal setting. In the above statement, I didn’t just write, “Earning 6 figures and live in Hawaii,” I wrote the feelings I’ll have when I achieve those goals.
When you use the SMART system, it makes it easy to determine what path you need to take to success. It helps you get everything you want out of life – and then some! Let’s look at what the SMART system is all about:
Specific goals are crucial to helping to reach milestones that are important in all areas of your life. If you’re vague and just say, “I will make more money,” then you might have it come true – to the tune of $1 more this year than you made last year.
You want to put something solid into the equation. Set a date and an amount. “I make $7,000 in September.” But don’t stop there. What will that money do for you? “I make $40,000 in the next 90 days and put down a deposit on a new home.”
It’s better to know how the money is going to help you when planning your goals – even if it’s just to splurge – because it helps you visualize what’s about to happen in your life – and it keeps you motivated and enthused about your daily efforts.
Measurable goals are important because they keep you accountable for your own success. This is a huge pitfall for many Internet marketers. They fly by the seat of their pants and start and stop so many projects that they never realize their full potential.
Measurable goals help you stay on track. They let you evaluate your performance and tweak areas that need your immediate attention. If you’ve spent six weeks on a system that isn’t working, it lets you know so that you don’t waste another six weeks not earning profits!
When you set measurable goals, you can check on them as you’re working. For instance, don’t just say, “I want to be out of debt.” Your specific, measurable goal of “I want to earn $50,000 in the next four months” will let you measure if and when you reach the goal, and also allow you to pay off your debts in the process.
It also turns a negative into a positive. When you’re focused on “being out of debt,” you constantly have to think about the burden of it. When you write about the specific amount of money you’re earning, it’s a positive reflection of your efforts.
It’s also wise to set measurable goals that help you reach your big goals. For instance, if losing weight – 25 pounds to be Specific – were your goal, then you could write measurable goals such as, “spend an hour a day on the treadmill.”
Each day, or at the end of every week, you could measure your results – you either did or didn’t do the work to get you to where you want to be. Then you have a chance to continue working toward your goals or change it if necessary.
Attainable goals are vital to your continued success. If you write down that you’ll make $1 million with your first product launch, you may be setting yourself up for failure.
Your goals should be attainable. That’s not to say you won’t make $1 million with your product launch – it’s been known to happen – but be reasonable with what you can likely achieve.
For example, if you’re only able to dedicate an hour a night to Internet Marketing right now, then a million dollars isn’t reasonable (unless you have a highly unique and in demand idea).
Take into consideration the outside factors that can contribute to your plans – and make sure you leave room for unexpected circumstances. What if you have a family emergency or a financial setback?
You want to reach the goals you set. It’s not bad to dream big, but you have to continue climbing the rungs of success one step at a time instead of trying to leap from the bottom of the ladder to the top in a single bound.
When your goals seem insurmountable, it causes you to get bogged down in negative thoughts and eventually give up on them altogether. This is a common occurrence with ‘net marketers who didn’t take time to consider their mindset.
Relevant goals mean they relate to what you’re passionate about. If you’re not emotionally connected to your goal, you won’t work hard to make it happen. Some people set goals that are so broad and general that it doesn’t help them actually achieve anything.
If you say, “I want a happy life,” that isn’t relevant enough to explain that you want “A seven-figure income this year.” Happiness is different for everybody. Some people making $30,000 a year are extremely content.
Timed goals help you reach a date of completion. If you don’t give yourself a deadline for tasks or goals, then chances are you’ll get infected by the plague of procrastination and never realize your true potential for success.
If you aren’t sure how long it’ll take, make an educated guess. You can always revise your goals – they’re a living, evolving document of how you want your life to unfold.
The only thing you shouldn’t do is keep changing your completion dates because you “just haven’t gotten around to it.” This is unfair to you – you’re sabotaging your own path to success.
You have to remind yourself that your goals are in place. It’s important to have a tangible reminder – write them on a sticky note and put it right on your computer, or carry your goals in your wallet written on the back of your business card.
When you’re able to look at them without having to try to recall from memory what you wanted to do, you’ll be able to take actions that correspond to your individual success.
You’ll instantly be able to see when and if you do something that isn’t aligned with one of your goals. If you eat a Death by Chocolate dessert at a restaurant, then you know that didn’t help your goal of losing 10 pounds in the next 30 days.
Or, in regards to money, if you quit your day job intent on making a go of Internet Marketing, but you sit around all day watching soap operas or surfing sport sites on the ‘net, then you’ll know that you haven’t spent your time toward reaching the goals that you hoped to achieve.
Most people don’t set goals. Do you see them – commuting to work day in, day out – like robots on autopilot? They just do what needs to be done and cross their fingers that it’ll all work out the way they wanted it to – never once considering they have to take the reigns and make things happen for them!
Successful Internet Marketers know that in order to succeed, you have to be focused, driven, and enthusiastic about the endless opportunities and possibilities that are coming their way.
Get emotional about your pending success!
Hype yourself up and drool over the fact that there is no glass ceiling to online profits! When you do this, taking action won’t be a chore – it’ll be an outlet for your enthusiasm and drive.
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