By: Robert Smith
www.ksinclair.com
One of the biggest causes of
failure in home-based business is to believe that success will be
automatic or easy, or that ALL you have to do is follow someone's
Step-By-Step online marketing plan.
Good business opportunities are
everywhere; people willing and able to take advantage of them and make
them work are rare. Most people fail simply because they don't want
success enough to do whatever it takes.
Let me begin by telling you where I
am coming from.
Thought is creative. If something
is true in the real world, it had to be true and conceived in mind
first.
Second, I believe we reap what we
sow. Whatever our deepest heartfelt desire is, we will attract into
our life.
"Every Seed Gives Birth to Fruit of
Its Own Kind."
This is a principal in nature. No
matter how we regard it, it remains a fact.
Furthermore, we exist in a world of
effects where we are the first cause or FIRST THOUGHT. In order to
change our objective reality, we only need to change our attitude. In
fact, our attitude is one of the few things we really CAN change.
It follows that "if
you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same
results." To change the result, we have to first change our attitudes
and expectations by doing more than JUST following the online
marketing plan. In addition, we have to care enough to create the
reality we desire.
To illustrate my point, I want so
share an email I received some time ago.
QUESTION:
"Hello there,
I have been taken by SO many of
these programs. NONE have worked for me. How can I be sure that what
you are telling me is true? I REALLY NEED something to work. Does the
advertising that you say is free really work?
Can I get by with doing only that?
I can't even afford the $20 enrollment right now, so if I buy that, I
can't do much with advertising. Please be honest with me. Does it
work?
Thank you so much for your time.
Name withheld"
Here is My Response
I don't want to sound unkind, but I
wish you would re-read your own message. It's YOUR attitude that is
dooming you to failure.
No, I don't think this business
opportunity is right for you, at least not as long as you feel the way
you do. No business can fail unless you allow it to fail.
My father used to tell me that, "A
Person Who Won't Be Beat - Can't Be Beat."
No business plan has any chance of
working unless you decide to make it work. Your attitude, at first
glance, is that of someone daring a home business to work for you.
Success does not happen to you, at least for most of us. You build
success by building one success on top of another.
If It Feels Like Work, You Are
Doing Something Wrong!
Would you give up so easily if you
invested your life savings, mortgaged your house, and invested your
kids' college funds in your business?
How much return on your investment
can you expect for a twenty-dollar investment depends on you. Success
doesn't happen overnight, it's a process. To be successful, you have
to do is invest yourself AND money in the process.
Are you willing to invest enough
time and effort to create your success? I often work 100-hour weeks
because it's what I really enjoy doing, especially the learning and
growing part of it. I earn my income in many ways.
Its Not Just About The Money
I worked full-time for almost two
years before I made a dime. I "was taken" many times, but I learned
something each time. These are some lessons you can learn from an
online marketing plan. I lived off my savings because I understood that
if I kept investing my time and energy long enough to grow my
business, eventually I would succeed. I stroked my faith with desire.
After over 72 months, working more
than full time in my own Internet-based business things are going
pretty well. I earn a better-than-average income. I can live anywhere
I choose. I can choose my own hours. In short, I have more security
because I am in control of my life.
It Doesn't Come Cheap.
Was it easy? NO, when you go into
business for yourself, you are making a break from the security you
thought you had. However, in truth, there is no such thing as
security.
I worked in the printing trade for
30 years; I started out at $3.00 an hour in 1965. In 1995, I was
earning well over a hundred thousand dollars a year when I left the
trade.
I thought I was secure, being at
the top of my trade, but just the opposite was true. The higher you
get, the farther you fall. I was never more insecure as I was at the
top.
I worked for a pre-press shop
(color separation photography). In 15 years my employer had never had
a layoff. Microsoft and Boeing were our largest customers. I had just
bought a new home. I thought I was about as secure as it was possible
to be.
One day, all of the work from
Microsoft just stopped coming in. Nobody in our company saw it coming.
In six weeks, we went from a tight team of 38 people to twelve.
At the time, I lived in Seattle,
Washington. I had watched the trends for five years as computers did
more and more of the work. It reached a point where even people with
years of experience and advanced computer skills were being laid off.
In 1995 in Seattle, 400 of 600 qualified journey-level lithographers
were out of work. Kids right out of college were getting the new jobs
as they became available. They were fresh meat, and would work for
half of what we had earned.
I do have a reason for telling you
all this. The same scenario is happening everywhere, in every line of
business, all over the world. The only real security is within.
I watched my life savings dwindle
down to nothing. I persisted when that ran out. Almost everyone I knew
was telling me how foolish I was to start over at age 45. The way I
figured it, I could have lost everything either way. The only thing I
could lose was the fear of failing.
Why do you think that only five
percent of the population works independently? It's because everyone
else is looking for something or someone OUTSIDE of himself or herself
to tell him or her what to do.
It's VERY difficult to earn an
income, even full-time with a good online marketing plan, on the Internet. If it were easy, anyone could
do it.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
