We’ve made it through February. Time to check up on those New Year’s Resolutions you reluctantly made. Most people have long ago lost that piece of paper.
I go to a fitness club. I have for over 20 years. So I know this little graph to the right to be absolutely true.
I curse [...]
Filed under: Goal Setting, Persistence, attitude, personal development, personal growth, successful home business on March 8th, 2010 | No Comments »
“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.” – Thomas Edison.
I find this to be a beautiful description of home business ownership. The “one problem” we face as home business owners is how to reach the point where our business is [...]
Filed under: Persistence, successful home business on July 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
I love the Napolean Hill quote, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Sounds easy. Yet one of the biggest reasons people can’t change their lives is simply that they don’t believe they can.
I got an email from an internet marketer the other day promoting a training for people [...]
Filed under: Make Money Online, Persistence, attitude, mindset, personal development, personal growth, successful home business on July 15th, 2009 | No Comments »
Changing your mindset from scarcity and difficulty to abundance and good fortune isn’t that easy. After all, you grew up with this mindset. It’s been taught and reinforced to you for 20, 30, 40 years and more. Not that anyone’s set out to bring you a negative mindset. To most people, it’s just the reality [...]
Filed under: Persistence, attitude, self improvement on May 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
I am in the business of helping others with their personal growth. I write and talk about having a positive mental attitude under even the worst of circumstances. About taking action when you feel like sitting on the couch.
Yet every now and then, I feel negative or depressed about my life. Or I check my [...]
Filed under: Persistence, personal development, personal growth, self improvement on May 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
I’m been thinking a lot about persistence lately. It’s become clear to me since beginning my career as an online marketer that the one thing that separates the few who succeed from the many who don’t is simple persistence.
However, as I said a few days ago, just as crucial as the act of persistence itself [...]
Filed under: Persistence, personal development, personal growth, successful home business on April 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
Last time we talked about how persistence can be fatal to your home business success if it is random rather than guided. And, for most people with a new online business, persistence is fatally random, if you are persistent at all.
It is hard to empathize with the masses who play around with making money online. [...]
Filed under: Make Money Online, Persistence, personal development, personal growth, successful home business on March 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
You’ve probably heard the saying “the only way to fail is to quit.” We encourage persistence in people from the day they are born. We prop our babies up and reach out for them as they try to take that first step towards us. We repeat this exercise over and over again until they finally [...]
Filed under: Make Money Online, Persistence, personal development, personal growth, successful home business on March 27th, 2009 | No Comments »