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

Okay.

You are going to stick your toe into the water.  Where do you start?

First, you should get a general idea of what is out there in the internet marketing jungle.

There is an amazing amount of FREE online marketing information on the internet. This is a good place to start.

You should use the free information for two purposes:

1. As a way of grasping the breadth, depth and width of different types of markets on the internet.
2. To learn how different “gurus” teach.  See who speaks in a way that you understand.  See who uses aids (such as whiteboards, powerpoints, flow charts, diagrams, etc.) that are effective for you in learning. Almost everyone uses audios, videos, and PDFs; determine for your learning style who uses them effectively.  Do you want a step by step process map or do you want to learn a general concept and then be able to get under the hood to tinker?

Some of the information you will find is crap, posted in an attempt to separate you from your money.

Some of the free internet marketing information is great though.

It was Eben Pagan who coined the term “moving the free line”.  In general, it means that many of the best teachers of internet marketing give away many of their best ideas.

What these teachers sell, for the most part, is a more in-depth coverage of these ideas, information about related knowledge that is crucial to maximizing your utilization of the free information, and coaching/consulting for growing your business into the revenue monster you want it to be.

Since you can acquire so much information for free, is is really worth the money to pay for the add-on service?

That depends.

Do you want to take a few years learning how to utilize the free information?

Or do you want to be “up and running” in a few weeks or months?

One last thing before I “wrap” for today:  don’t get caught up in trying to constantly look at all of the free online marketing stuff there is out there.  There is simply too much for anyone to read and watch.

After you have a good idea of the lay of the land, pick you niche and dive in.

If there is one common trait I can note in the lives of all successful persons in this world, it is that they are persons of action.  They form a plan, act, learn, and re-act.

So… form a good idea of what is out there, pick a niche, pick someone from whom you think you can learn, invest in their program(s), learn, and act on the learning.

Then wait for results, analyze the results, supplement your learning as necessary, and adjust your attempts.  This works in internet markets just as it works in… well, pretty much all areas of life.  If you want to be a success… take that first step NOW!

Proper use of this feedback loop is what you will use to become successful.

As a place to start learning, I suggest Jeff Johnson’s youtube channel.  He has dozens of great internet marketing videos there.

http://www.youtube.com/jeffjohnsonvideos

To your success!

Tom