Key Difference Between People Who Are Making Money Online and People Who Aren't

There is one key difference between people who make money online and people who don't:

The people who actually make money online do not have a short-term mindset. There are many posts throughout the Warrior Forum, where people ask questions such as, "How quickly can I start making money with this?" and "If I put in a lot of effort immediately, how quickly can I start to see results?" Questions like this come from a "results-oriented" mindset, as opposed to a "process-oriented" mindset. This incorrect, "results-oriented" mindset is a result of marketing and the media, which constantly barrage us with images of "a new you", "instant riches", "results now", etc.

In real life, however, significant success in business does not come from short-term efforts. People who want to know how quickly they can make money in an online business are asking the wrong question. The right question that they should be asking is whether or not they are willing to commit the next 10-50 years of their life to building a real business that can generate significant wealth. Anything short of being willing to make a lifetime commitment to building a successful business is approaching things in an unrealistic manner. Chasing one business opportunity after another, and then giving up if it isn't making money after a couple of weeks or months is not what being in business is about. Most successful businesses do not turn a profit for their first two years, at the very least. It takes years and often decades to build a real, successful business.

This incorrect, short-term mindset is the equivalent of serial dieters who spend their entire lives going on crash diets for weeks at a time and then giving up after a couple of weeks of starving themselves. People who are in truly good shape have committed themselves to a lifetime and lifestyle of exercising regularly and eating healthy, not for a couple of weeks or months, but for the rest of their lives. Similarly, becoming a successful business owner requires making a lifetime commitment to building a successful business. Buying online business opportunities, reading online forums, spending the day on Facebook, YouTube, etc., is not making a commitment to being a successful business owner. Spending each and every day building a business is the only way to make this long term, lifetime commitment to building a successful business. There is no way around this inevitable truth.

There is no shortage of ways to make money online or offline for that matter. There is only a shortage of people with a long-term, process-oriented mindset, who are willing to commit their lives fully to the arduous, lifetime process of building a real business.