How to change your thinking?

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I read in a post earlier and I must agree for me this is true for me anyway, the reason I haven't made money online is because I want to learn and not make money. I sat here thinking and something clicked in my head, I know a fair amount but I have never truly put all what I know into action. This is the point of this post, what will help me slowly change my mind from learning, to actually have that money craving mind set.
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  • Profile picture of the author jewin
    Butters,

    Make a vision board. Take the wallpaper of your PC and make a collage of photos of the things you will have or buy or experience when you start earning the money you want. Spend 15 minutes each day with your eyes closed, visualizing yourself with those things as if they exist right now.

    That should steer your subconscious in the right direction.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hanako
      Originally Posted by jewin View Post

      Butters,

      Make a vision board. Take the wallpaper of your PC and make a collage of photos of the things you will have or buy or experience when you start earning the money you want. Spend 15 minutes each day with your eyes closed, visualizing yourself with those things as if they exist right now.

      That should steer your subconscious in the right direction.
      Yep...this is actually quite effective... you attract what you want..
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      • Profile picture of the author Kevin Riley
        Make it a steadfast rule that every day you must advance another step forward. Be it creating the images for your e-book, writing a series of follow-up e-mails, tweaking a sales page, sending out a broadcast, shooting a video ... it must be part of growth for your business - and be a task that makes money for your business.
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  • If you want to learn you just have to start something what you believe could be a success. Look for a niche and a product and make a website. (there is plenty of info on this forum on how to select a niche and the right keywords) Once you have the website you have the problem how to get visitors. Search the forum and the internet for solutions and try them out. So you learn everything step by step. Your thinking will change in the process.
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  • Profile picture of the author graphicsgenie
    I'd personally jump all over this...

    Every Day Is Saturday Firesale (not affiliate link) his products are excellent and they do change your mindset, it's also a fantastic firesale

    Darren
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  • Profile picture of the author Adrianne_
    The best and easiest way that changed my mindset was when I purchased a dvd at barns and noble called "7 Keys to Success & Fulfilment". I downloaded it to my ipod and fall asleep listening to it every night. I cannot tell you how much the creative juices began to flow after the first time I listened to it.

    Where we are in life today, is the sum total of the thoughts we hold in our mind. We are creating all the time whether we are aware of it or not. Imaging what would happen if you deliberately controlled what you think about? If you think doubt and unbelief, then you will see very little success in what you do simply because your thoughts are connected to your emotions, your emotions are connected to your actions, and your actions will determine where you end up.

    Change your thoughts and you will change your life.
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  • Profile picture of the author moneyblogger1
    The key to changing your thoughts begins with programming. I listen to a "mental toughness" CD each day as well as I created my own programming CD's to listen to each day. Consider the following results formula:

    D=P=T=B=A=R

    D= Desire
    P= Programming
    T= Thoughts
    B= Beliefs
    A= Actions
    R= Results

    Each leads into the next. Since the starting point for any achievement is desire, you now need to move to the next step which is programming.

    Pick up some CD's and read some books to help change your thinking. You cannot earn a million dollars with a 50K mindset.

    Hope this helps,

    Brandon
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  • Profile picture of the author RentItNow
    I take heart in the fact that I KNOW I have learned the one skill that will get me to my goal of $1M in income and assets (IM). I have learned lots of skills that make me money but none would get me to that goal the way the IM knowledge will. So even if I was not making much yet, I am confident that learning was way more valuable than learning say drywalling or real estate.

    One problem I have had is in acknowledging my own worth. Once I sat myself down (I know, psych case!) and said if I am making others money, I BETTER GET PAID TO HELP!, it began to open the flood gates.

    The last thing I have done is to completely stop dealing with people or situations I know I will not DIRECTLY make money at. In other words, I have to make money now, not in three years. Boy did that really put things into perspective!

    I think the problem of learning before making money is the one thing that separates the successful from not...the successful just went out and did it.
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  • Profile picture of the author FreelanceSally
    I find that focusing on the things that I can't currently afford motivates me. I'm getting married later this year and I'd like to buy a Vera Wang gown.

    But, there's no way in hell I'm going to be able to plop down $4,000+ for a Vera Wang Dress.

    So, I printed out my dream dress and stuck it on my bulletin board in my office. When I feel like slacking off, Vera is right there motivating me to get my ass back to work. Also... seeing the skinny model in my dress has made me cut back on the sweets.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeannie Crabtree
    Butters, there is the knowing, and there is that which blocks the doing, the taking action.

    What happens is this:
    Thoughts ---> Feelings--> Action or INACTION

    Write down your thoughts. Exactly what you say to yourself.

    Now think about this - Did you know that you think in pictures?

    You are motivated by the things that you want to move away from that might cause emotions you don't want such as pain, grief, anger etc. Examples: Ill health, overweight, for many, what others might think.

    You are also motivated by the things you want to move towards. Emotions that would go with this are feeling happy, satisfied, loved, forgiven, respected, etc.

    Move away from or move towards. These two ways you are motivated are the key to help you get past the problem .

    Decide which type you are. Which are you most motivated by? Do you put moving away foremost in your mind or moving toward?

    Ready to Start? Think about what it would look like to make money. Think about all the ways you need money and *what you can do with money in your life, for yourself and others*.

    While doing that, do one of two things:

    If motivated by what you are moving away from:

    Paint the picture of what you are leaving behind. Accentuate the problems. Make them look really big and bad in your picture. Show your self what the big bad picture would be like a year from now or 5 years from now if you continued on the present course. Put a lot of feeling into this.

    In your picture/movie put sound, color, feelings, texture etc. Make it vivid

    If motivated by what you are moving towards:

    Paint a big bright picture of what it will look like and feel like when you are making money and what that allows you to do... Think about who you love, who loves you and what you want to do and could do when you have more money.

    In your picture/movie put sound, color, feelings, smells, texture etc. Make it vivid by engaging all senses.

    Maybe you are not sure where you fit in to this process. Then play both pictures for yourself. Really put some pictures in your head. Use plenty of color. Turn the sound up.

    Now which did you feel more motivated?

    Play this picture over and over again as you work on your mindset. You may also need to work on things like low self esteem, overcoming what someone or yourself has told you, helplessness or hopelessness or overwhelm. That is where writing down what you are saying to yourself comes in.

    Jeannie
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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    This is the best way to change your mind / perspective is to think about the following

    - why do you want to change your mind? what is your goal?

    - What is the Pot of Gold of achieving that goal?

    - what Pains will experience if you do not meet that Goal?

    Hope this helps
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris_Oakley
      Butters,

      What's missing is a plan. With a plan you can work backward from the end result you're looking for and figure out what steps need to happen in order to get there...

      Once you work that out - it's much easier to define what you need to be doing and what resources, tools, services you need to have in place in order to work your plan.

      This makes it far easier to stop the busy stuff of learning which in many cases is just fear of failure (note that I'm not saying this is the case for you!)

      I love to learn things too so I know exactly what you're talking about and have struggled with this one myself for years.

      As it's the time of year for setting goals, taking stock of where you're at and what you achieved (or didn't in the last year - Paul Myers, in his latest Talkbiz newsletter, kindly offered his amazing goal-setting guide once again to his subscribers...

      You can get it here http://www.talkbiz.com/goals09/index.php (not an affiliate link)

      It worked for me...hope you find it useful

      (and yes Paul - if you happen to read this - I'll be buying you that beer .
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      Chris Oakley

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  • Profile picture of the author Ronak Shah
    Hey Butters,

    I'll tell you something.

    I've been there where you are.

    The fact that you aren't willing to risk failure for success is evident from your post.

    If you can't fail, how can you ever succeed? Especially when you're not willing to accept failure, you won't be able to accept success as it is.

    When you fail, you learn from your mistakes. You correct your mistakes and you grow steadily. That's how everyone grows and succeeds.

    What you're doing is sitting idle thinking "how am I going to make money?"

    You're planning things for your self when you got to be doing things!

    TAKE ACTION! Risk everything you've and close your eyes. Once you TAKE ACTION, everything will fall in place.

    Since you already know everything, there is nothing absolutely that could stop you except you've any self-esteem issues which need to get dissolved.

    If you can't risk life, you really can't win it. Give away everything.

    When I was going the same phase as you, I decided to take action. When I really did TAKE ACTION, I ACHIEVED RESULTS I NEVER DREAMED OF. I'd never made a dime from affiliate marketing before I took action.

    Want to win over your life - TAKE ACTION!

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  • Profile picture of the author sgboston23
    Visualize what you want.
    Visualize what your day's activities would be if you could get rid of your fears and insecurities. Feel those emotions.

    Take on one small task per day in the direction you want to go.
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  • Profile picture of the author karlstedtmax
    The fastest way is of course acting in the way you want to think of yourself...

    For example, if you want to start thinking that you take care of your health, you will have to start do that regularly, every single day...

    Because everytime you do it, you will tell your subconscious mind that, "I am taking care of myself, thus I must be such a person!"...

    For more on this, google Self-Perception Theory, Commitment and Consistency and Cognitive Dissonance Theory, if you want more depth about the topic...

    Another very powerful way to change your thinking is to write essays about the new way you want to think...

    For example, if you want to be someone that thinks being healthy is important, you want to take out a piece of paper and a pen (this DOES NOT WORK DOING ON THE COMPUTER!!) and write about WHY one should care about health, HOW they do it, WHAT being healthy is all about, and WHAT WILL HAPPEN if they start becoming healthy...

    This technique above uses the Cognitive Dissonance Theory...

    I hope this helped, remember; the speed of implementation is what differs winners from losers!

    Best Regards,
    Max Karlstedt

    P.S. My greatest action-step for you would be to right now, take out a real piece of paper and real pen and start writing an essay WHY PEOPLE SHOULD IMPLEMENT IDEAS MORE OFTEN AND MUCH QUICKER WHEN THEY FIRST READ, HEARD OR SEEN IT.
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  • Profile picture of the author markand
    Dear butters!

    I feel it's little strange........

    Anyway,

    You say, "I haven't made money online is because I want to learn and not make money"

    Think, you want to learn make money online...ok!

    If you want to make money online and you want to learn it, there you've to practically implement some method, and at least you should earn single or penny to realize that does the mothod work or not.

    Apart form that,

    Never stop thinking and learning (but keep a limit), if you want to be a successful internet marketer

    Start something JUST NOW!

    I think you'll have a bright future, because you CAN THINK............

    Regards!

    Go Ahead........

    Markand
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