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NOTHING VENTURED, NOTHING GAINED
By Robert Smith <mailto:bob@smithfam.com>
I wanted to share what I consider to be one of the
biggest causes of failure in home-based business.
I need to start out by telling you where I'm coming from.
First of all, thought is creative. If something is true
in the real world, it had to be conceived in a 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.
Furthermore, we exist in a world of effects where we are
the cause or FIRST THOUGHT. In order to change out
objective reality, we only need to change our attitude. In
fact, our attitude is one of the few things we can change.
"If you keep doing the same things, you will keep
getting the same results." To change the result, we have to
first change our attitude or expectation. In addition, we
have to care about the result.
To illustrate my point, I want so share an email I
received this week.
> 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
MY RESPONSE
I don't want to be unkind, but I wish you would re-read
your message. It is 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 doesn't happen like that, at least for most of us.
Success is built from many smaller successes and failures
over one to five years of persistent effort.
IF IT FEELS LIKE WORK, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!
If you would adapt a "Franchise Mentality," you would
have a much better chance of success. Do you think you
would 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
twenty dollars depends on you. You will earn 100% of your
investment in your first sale, and you get another 100% with
every sale. Success doesn't happen overnight, it's a
process. To be successful, all you have to do is invest
yourself in the process.
BEING THE BEST IN THE BIZ! FRANCHISE MENTALITY!
Are you willing to invest enough time and effort to
create your success? I work 100-hour weeks because it's
what I really enjoy, learning and growing. I get paid in
many ways.
I worked full-time for almost two years before I made a
dime. I was "taken" many times, but I learned something
every time. I lived off my savings because I understood
that, if I kept investing my time and energy long enough to
grow my business, sooner or later I would succeed. I stoked
my faith with desire.
After over 36 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.
Was it easy? No, When you go into business for yourself,
you are making a break from the security you thought you
had. But, in truth, is there is no security. I worked in
the printing trade for 30 years, I started out at $3.00 an
hour in 1966. In 1996, I was earning well over 100K a year
when I left the trade.
I thought I was secure, being at the top of my trade, but
just the opposite is true. The higher you get, the longer
you fall. I was never more insecure. I worked for a
pre-press shop ( Color Separation photography). We had never
had a layoff. Microsoft and Boeing were our largest
customers. I had just bought a new home. I thought I was
pretty secure.
One day, all of the work from Microsoft just stopped
coming in. Nobody in our company saw it coming. We
gradually went from a really tight team of 38 people to 12
in less than a month.
At the time, I lived in Seattle Washington. I watched
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 laid off. In
1996 in Seattle, 400 of a total of 600 qualified
journey-level lithographers were out of work. Any jobs
that came up were taken by kids right out of college. They
would work for half of what we were making.
Why am I telling you all this? I do have a reason. It's
because it's happening everywhere in every line of business
all over the world. The only real security is within us.
I believed while 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
47. I could have lost everything.
Why do you think that only 5% of the population is
independent? It's because everyone else is looking for
something or someone OUTSIDE of themselves to tell them what
to do.
The Cookie-Cutter is one the best "SYSTEMS" that I have
seen. But no single "SYSTEM" can do the work for you.
Successful people actually make more mistakes. Yet they
do better in the long run because they learn from their
mistakes. It is VERY difficult to earn an income, even
full-time, on the Internet. If it was easy, everyone would
be doing it, right?
Best Wishes
Bob
-----------------===> About the Author <===-----------------
ROBERT SMITH helps thousands to successfully market their
Internet based home business. You'll find tons of free
marketing tools & resources on his Internet Marketing web
site at: <http://www.smithfam.com/>.
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email at. <mailto:bob@smithfam.com>
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