Comparing Yourself To Others – A No-No!

Set the bar too high, and you’ll fail. Set the bar realistically, and you’ll succeed. But how do you do that? When you create your own set of expectations, you’re really creating personal boundaries that will eventually define your success.

Remember: Measure success by YOUR definition, not someone else’s!

To make money in the field of Internet Marketing, you must set boundaries for your expectations. Below are several suggestions.

– Don’t expect to get rich quick! You’re being tricked if you believe that you can get rich quick with any online scheme for success. Marketers may claim they have the ultimate solution to IM success. Still, if they were so successful, you can bet it took them many months or years of trial and error [and investing in how-to products that didn’t work] before they turned enough consistent sales into a full-time income that could be trusted.

– Be prepared to spend time learning about the Internet Marketing business. Whenever you enter into a new field, you need to allocate your non-working hours to reading, researching, and educating yourself before you take the first step in setting up your own online business. Do it wrong, and you’ll quit before you ever get started.

– Allocate a specific amount of money to learning. Your bank account and your credit card will be safe when you budget a specific amount of money for learning your new skills about Internet Marketing. When you have a budget, you won’t go into debt by buying every new offer that promises instant success.

– For now, don’t share your plans for Internet Marketing success with anyone! It’s not that you’re sneaky about all this; it’s because you don’t need outside influences distracting you, pressuring you for an update, or providing doubts and negative input. Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

– Create a plan to follow through with your actions. When you create an Internet Marketing business, it takes perseverance, dedication, action, and determination to finish the race. Tell yourself that you won’t stop your momentum until you’ve accomplished your goals and earn a steady monthly income. IM is like anything else in life. When you want it bad enough, you’ll do whatever it takes to get it.

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The 15 Minute Rule

                                             

The 15-minute rule has been known to change peoples’ lives. It’s a simple concept, but it quickly becomes part of the IM mindset for success.

Here it is:

If you can’t overcome, solve, or resolve a challenge, an obstacle, a confrontation, or a technical glitch within 15 minutes, this is what you do. Step away from the problem and either ask for help or come back to it later.

This rule works for anyone, regardless of your area of expertise or social human status. Don’t write off the simplicity of this rule. It works!
There are unlimited examples that could be mentioned, but here’s a true-life scenario that demonstrates what happens when you don’t put the 15-minute rule to use.

Russ wasn’t a techno genius by even his own definition, but after he had paid someone to create his Internet marketing sales page before his product launch, he decided he wanted to change some of the information. He made several revisions to the content, added new content, and tried to add a photo for impact. Then following an online tutorial, he saved his changes and opened his browser expecting to see phenomenal results.

Instead of viewing an updated sales page, the header was missing, the fonts were three times bigger than previous, and the content was skewed to the right side of the page instead of being centered. So, Russ re-opened the sales page and fiddled with it some more. He repeated this process for more than two hours, and each new version was more messed up than the previous attempts to restore everything to its original state.

Now Russ was extremely frustrated and he didn’t know what to do. He had planned to launch his new product the next day, and now he didn’t even have a website that worked. His site designer lived on the other side of the world and it was hopeless for him to get the designer to help at that time of day.

If Russ would have applied the 15-minute rule, life might have looked a little more positive to him.

As he later discovered, the web designer had made a back-up file of the site and had stored it on Russ’s server. When Russ did get in contact with the designer, the original site was deployed and everything was back to normal.

That’s when Russ decided that he would either learn how to make website changes without creating havoc to his site, or he would pay someone a monthly website maintenance fee to make the changes for him. Problem solved.

The advantage of applying the 15-minute rule to every aspect of your life means that you’ll become less frustrated, you’ll be more productive, and you’ll learn how to reach out for help, when maybe before you were too proud or stubborn.

Why struggle? It just leads to more stress.

Don’t ever spend more than 15 minutes struggling with something. Stop. Walk away. Get help.

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What Does Motivation Actually Mean?

 

The first step to self-motivation is to get out of your own way. Fear, procrastination, worry, and low self-esteem are deal-breakers for getting the motivation you need for achieving success.

While some people may argue that we’re all too crazy busy these days to constantly walk around with a calm spirit and a peaceful attitude in our hearts, there’s only one solution for getting motivated.

You have to WANT to get motivated. No other human being can make you or cause you to become motivated.

Yes, there are motivational tapes, motivational books, and even motivational coaches that you can hire to get you motivated enough to push forward. But unless you mentally and physically position yourself for achievement and success, you’ll think that it doesn’t matter.

Here’s a quick exercise to try when you want to build up your motivation.

For the next 30 minutes, think only about positive thoughts. When negative thoughts arise, think the opposite. Next, focus on whatever words come out of your mouth. Are they positive words? The mouth speaks what’s in the heart. What’s in your heart today? Speak it and think about it, and it will be so.

If you want success, tell yourself that you’re already successful. If you want success, speak as if you ALREADY have it. But you have to believe it!

Just like the opposite of telling lies, when you speak truth and success into your life, you’ll begin to believe it. Then you’ll begin to act like it already exists. Then you’ll achieve it.

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