| Starting an internet business begins with the correct | | | | spending the next 30 years of your life pushing paper |
| mindset... | | | | sends shivers down your spine. |
| Compared to a physical 'bricks and mortar' business, | | | | 2. You love your family because they are always |
| an online business is SUPER fast and SUPER cheap. | | | | there for you. |
| This of course is an absolute dream come true! But | | | | Which one here are you more likely to be motivated |
| the faster they rise, the faster they can... any | | | | towards? |
| guesses?... Fall. Online business is definitely not an | | | | Another example: |
| exception. | | | | 1. You love the dream lifestyle you're working towards. |
| Dubai may be able to build the world's highest | | | | 2. You are afraid that your family may disagree with |
| skyscraper at the rate it takes England to build a row | | | | your intentions. |
| of toilets for the 2012 Olympics, but if they were to | | | | Which one here are you more likely to be motivated |
| build on sand it would be destined to fail. | | | | towards? |
| If you're in the early days of building an online business | | | | Are you motivated more towards fear or towards |
| or perhaps have aspirations to build one, let me be bold | | | | love? It's one or the other, and if you want to succeed |
| and hazard a prediction about you... | | | | you need to be on the crest of one of these emotional |
| You're someone who checks email more than 3 times | | | | waves. |
| a day. You're someone who diverts themselves to the | | | | Here's a way of understanding it... |
| occasional YouTube video when the impulse presents | | | | Imagine that you have control over 10% of your mind - |
| itself. You're someone who can't resist getting up for a | | | | this is your decision making/willpower. |
| tea or coffee when the craving kicks in. | | | | Now imagine that the other 90% of your mind is out of |
| Am I describing you here? | | | | your control. This is the realm of your emotions -- love |
| Well I actually hope I'm not, because that would mean | | | | and fear. |
| you have the discipline and determination to get things | | | | So do you want to work WITH that 90% of your mind |
| done. | | | | that's out of your conscious control, or AGAINST it? |
| But if you are, don't sweat it. This is how 99% of us | | | | "Did you know that the absolute worst 'bad job' to |
| are.... | | | | have is one that is tolerable, because those are the |
| In fact, I'd hazard a guess that most people are | | | | jobs you drown in for 40 years of your life." |
| actually worse than this! | | | | Closing up here, you need to put your internet business |
| I was an email junky and had 'YouTube A.D.H.D'. This is | | | | in a position where it is the only option you have. If you |
| how I was 12 months ago. But then something | | | | give yourself a way out, you won't make it. |
| changed - priorities. | | | | How do I know this? The massive influence our |
| My day job became so irritating that when the idea of | | | | emotions have over us is undeniable. We are |
| a nice hot tea found its way into my mind during a hot | | | | emotional creatures -- it's a matter of fact. |
| session on the keyboard, the very thought of going | | | | - Identify the fear of what NOT succeeding in your |
| back to my 9 to 5 motivated me to carry on tapping | | | | internet business would bring. That fear has got to be |
| those keys! | | | | an absolute nightmare to you. |
| "You've got to have a greater motivation to succeed | | | | - Identify the love you have for the vision you're trying |
| than that of the motivation to become distracted." | | | | to achieve. That dream has got to be a drug to you. |
| There are two emotions that will cause you to take | | | | If this article hasn't resonated with you don't let it |
| action -- either in the right direction or the wrong | | | | discourage you, because anyone can succeed if they |
| direction. | | | | take the right steps with the right mindset. It's just |
| - Love | | | | learning how to moderate fear and how to develop |
| - Fear | | | | the right habits. |
| Now love and fear are the two most powerful | | | | By looking ahead in your personal life and your |
| emotions that we humans experience. Each one is 10 | | | | business life, you can't help but improve in both of |
| times more likely to make us TAKE ACTION than with | | | | these areas because vision brings you persistence. |
| our willpower alone. | | | | If you struggle with vision, try this: |
| Simply saying, "I want to 'fill in the blank'" will not get you | | | | - Become aware of yourself when you are living in the |
| results. You want to be going with the flow of your | | | | past or the present, particularly when you're talking |
| emotions, not against. Otherwise you will always lose | | | | about your online business. |
| out to your emotions -- period. | | | | In future articles I'll also be sharing with you simple |
| In order to make them work for you, you've got to | | | | exercises that nurture long term thinking in both your |
| leverage them. | | | | personal and business life. |
| Let's have an example here: | | | | To your success... |
| 1. You fear your 9 to 5 job because the idea of | | | | |