Is a Thief Inside Your Head Stealing Your Money?

I have another niche market I participate in and hope to sell products in. This niche market involves a sizable learning curve. I see people come and go in it all the time.

And from my own experiences and those I observe, there is ONE THING that keeps people from making progress. And that thing is self doubt.

1. You may doubt you have the ability to succeed in this business

You know, we all have self doubts. In learning the new skills I’m tell you about, I know I personally have had self doubt.“Is this something I can do? Is this a skill I can master? Am I TOO OLD?”

Yet,the conclusion I come back to over and over is that success in ANY endeavor is the result of behaviors. Change the behaviors and get the result.

Wherever you are, I’ve been there. I know what it is to doubt yourself or your ability. To not be sure if you have what it takes. To try and have your successes far outweighed by things that didn’t work.

It’s easy to get discouraged. To stop. To quit. To think thatthis is the end of the road for you. In this new arena and skill set area I’m working in, I’ve experienced all those feelings and emotions and more.

2. You may doubt your progress

It’s so easy to look at a few successes against more failures and think,“I’m not making progress.” I think this is the hardest thing. You have to tie a knot on your mental rope and hang on. Because the truth is, things almost always don’t work before they DO work.

You have to really tune up your focus on any successes you DO have. And notice the small successes. So maybe you don’t have a ton of sales yet. But you DO have people subscribing. Or you DO have some sales coming in regularly. Or you DO have your blog up and you ARE getting visitors now from Google.

You have to exaggerate mentally the successes you DO have because those are what show you that you ARE making progress and ARE on the right track.

3. Others will rain on your parade

So you finally get to the point where things ARE starting to work. All of a sudden in a forum or someplace, someone RAINS on your parade.They criticize your model, your idea or your efforts.

Maybe they tell you you are pipe dreaming. Or chasing rainbows. And you let it get to you mentally, spiritually or psychically.

I don’t know why this happens. Some people just aren’t very tuned in. You have to believe in yourself and what you’re doing more than anyone else. I don’t know why it’s that way. But it is.

4. You may have a set back

Man, this one is a challenge. You’re going along. You’re making progress. You’ve got some traffic. You’re getting subscribers. Sales are coming in.

Then you have a set back. Something happens in your life, your family, or some area that holds you back or slows you down.

For me last year it was a quadruple hernia. Not exactly what I had in mind for my year. But you move forward. That’s all you can do.

5. You may think or feel that finally you’ve reached a point where “it isn’t working.”

Anytime you’re acquiring a complex set of skills, that can happen. It’s a signal to do some things different. To up your Game. To tweak what you’re doing and how.

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How I Started My Business At Home From Scratch Out of A 600 Square Foot Apartment With a 386 computer and a dot matrix printer… then grew it into a 6 figure auto-piloted income, discovered the Internet lifestyle is true — and traveled the world.

If you’re reading this article, you’re probably not a customer of mine yet.

My customers who have bought in the past 6 months and are.

So you wanna start from scratch and stick some dough in your bank account.

Hey, I don’t blame ya. You got bills to pay, a retirement to worry about. A mortgage payment. A car payment.

Whew! That doesn’t even include kids, gas and clothes. No wonder you wanna bring in some dough part time and possibly even full time on the Net.

I started in this business way way way back on AOL and Compuserve. I’d run a little freebie classified ad offering a report.

People would email me and I’d hand email them back. things weren’t very automated back then and they’ve thankfully come a very long ways.

But get this: I use the SAME formula today as I did back then and you can too.

I started out of a tiny 600 square foot apartment, where I barely had any room for books or courses. I had a little white wooden press board desk my friend Kelli gave me.

I had a 386 computer I bought from the Dax mail order catalog not to mention the dotmatrix computer. I must say I’m VERY happy to have a faster computer today.

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Remember, if you have taken the time to build a subscriber list, then one of the easiest ways to truly find out what it is your customers want, is to simply do a survey. I mean think about it for a minute. You ask and you get answers and you simply provide what it is they asking for.  There is nothing really tricky about it and it can provide you with a wealth of information and also provide you with some awesome ideas for a series of products that you can create.

There are many survey techniques. And they aren’t always 100% accurate. But over the years, surveys have served me well and helped me do a better job of providing people with solutions they want to pay for and are willing to do so.

You ALWAYS have a subset of customers who just don’t want to pay for anything. I understand that. I’d like to be able to walk into a high end department store and not have to get out my wallet and just take stuff off the shelves.

Or I’d like to drive a Ferrari for $50.

But there’s a law of the Universe about exchange. And the Universe is built around that Law.

Fortunately, when you do your surveys, you’ll find an entire set of customers who DO value and appreciate what you, say or offer.

They have money and are willing to spend it if you offer good value to them. Surveys help you find these people and serve them.

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