In another short but extremely important post for you today, I am going to discuss how to “get your mind right” to be a success.  Quite frankly, if you do not achieve the correct frame of mind before you start your efforts, you may as well just run a cash register at ChinaMart.

What do I mean by having your mind right?

Well, there are several parts to this.

You have to have confidence that your undertakings will “pan out”.

As mentioned previously, few successes are made without trial and error.

You must:

• have confidence in your ability to work through initial difficulties.
• persevere through the tough times.

One important and very difficult part of this is that you may have to disassociate yourself from friends or relatives who undercut your efforts.

If someone is constantly deriding your ideas or your ability to enact those plans, it may be necessary to “give them their walking papers”.  Certainly, you should discuss the situation first and try to help that person or persons to see how his or her negative attitude could be harming your chance to fulfill your dreams.  Hope that person will decide to be a part of the solution rather than remaining a part of the problem but let there be no mistake: you need to surround yourself with positive persons.  Constructive criticism is exactly that… constructive; if someone derides and ridicules you… kick them to the curb.

One last thing…

Begin a program of self-affirmations.  This will improve your self-confidence.

Improved self-confidence will surely help you to “hang in there” as you build your business but it is also going to help you become more successful immediately.

You must have confidence in yourself if anyone else is going to have confidence in you.   If someone is going to purchase anything from you, that person has to have confidence in your product by having confidence in you.

You know what your own vulnerable areas are.  Write your own affirmations based on what you know your vulnerabilities are.  Your subconscious mind has far greater ramifications upon your life than you may realize.  Negative things said to us in childhood and over the courses of our lives can cause us to have a lack of confidence in our abilities to succeed.  By using self-affirmations, you can begin to reverse any negative internal talk you may have and may begin to build confidence in yourself.  It helps me.  I believe it can help you.

These statements may seem simplistic but I believe they can be effective.  Such things should be repeated to yourself each morning and each night.  Most importantly, repeat your affirmations to yourself when you start to have negative thoughts about yourself; use them as a pattern interrupt to break any pattern of negative thinking and self-doubt that you have have.

I am a confident man.

I have a competent plan.

I will persevere through tough times and turn them into wonderful times.

I will learn from experience and apply that learning to build a better tomorrow.

I will be a better man today than I was yesterday.  I will be better still tomorrow.

I am smart.

I am confident.

I have a great destiny.

I am worthy of success.

I am worthy of love.

Hmm… I fell better just having typed those things.

Repeat your self-affirmations.

Be your self-affirmations.

To your success…

Tom

Who am I?  and why should you care what I have to write about anything?

Because I am… (select as many as you like):

A.)  more outrageous than Frank

B.) wrestle in a higher weight class than Russell

C.) am more intellectual than Eben

D.) have recently been in the position of a newcomer to internet marketing and better understand the questions a newcomer has than would one of the immortals in the field.

Earlier this year, I finally had all I could stand of working in the corporate world.  I quit when my employer kept reneging on promises made to me while simultaneously demanding more and more of my time.

Over the past few weeks and months, I have spent a great deal of time and money researching the internet marketing game and trying to plot a path through which I could earn a good living while also telling the bad bosses of the evil corporate world that I was their monkey no more.

Now, before I go any further in that vein, I do want to take you further back into “who I am”.

I grew up in an area of what many refer to as “flyover country”… southern Indiana.

I received a scholarship to Indiana University.  I originally planned to study astrophysics.  However, I was talked into thinking that a business degree would be more marketable.  I received my Bachelors in Business Administration degree from I.U. in… let’s just say several years ago.

I always thought having a degree from what is usually considered to be one of the top ten business schools would be an assurance of success in the corporate business world.

How wrong I was.

Who you know…

Who you are related to…

How your looks rate…

How Tall you are…

Whether you play golf…

Sycophantism…

Luck…

All of these mattered more than my “excellent” degree.

Luck matters more than a degree.

The diploma may as well have been used for toilet paper.

All I wanted was to be hired and to advance in my career based on how well I could do the job under consideration.

So now it is a few (ok… many) years later.  I am determined to become an internet entrepreneur (an “interpreneur” as I have coined it elsewhere).

One other note about me:

Despite my early desires to be an astrophysicist, I was also an accomplished poet and guitar player.  I wrote one long 50 page poem called “Convergent Universe” that mirrors the universe in its structure.  In a way it is a non-mathematical statement of the unified field of the universe.  You can find it on one of my other web sites. www.hopeforman.com

Thanks for listening… to your success!

Tom