It's because I WORK HARD, not because I am SMART.

It's rainy and gloomy outside here in old San Antone. I was trying
to motivate myself to work on a new product today and I caught
myself in a negative downward spiral and I ran across this post.

I sat down to think about this, so after pulling myself out of it; I
decided to share it with you here. I hope it helps!

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they
are. - Malcolm Forbes

I myself spend too much time with this one. Why so focused on the
past? Why so focused on the "I'm nots?" Quite simply, when you are
looking backwards, you can't see where you are going. When you are
contemplating and focused on how things 'aren't' you can't
contemplate and focus on how things could be -beyond "wishing"- and
you definitely aren't coming up with a plan to make things better.
It's a deadly trance that must be broken.


Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. - Tim Notke

Ah, so maybe I recognize some talent within myself? Like many, back
in high school I tried to skate by on sheer talent and got left in
the dust by people with less talent who were more devoted, diligent
and willing to take risks. Talent, when it first becomes apparent,
appears to be a rare quality to be envious of. However, the longer
one looks for talent, the more obvious it is that it is a fairly
common commodity...a commodity that is usually undeveloped because
it is a trait that cannot function on it's own very well, nor for
very long. It requires it's partner- hard work -to truly become
valuable and repeatedly usable at one's will.


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

Laziness is the byproduct of fear. When you're afraid your efforts
won't succeed, there becomes no point to even trying. OR...you try a
little and then give up. But what if you looked at things another
way? What if...action simply revealed the next steps? What if
failure uncovered a secret that caused success? What if...even if
they failed...your action set -carried out as vehemently and
unwavering as possible- put in place a chain of events (often
referred to as good luck) that made success and wealth inevitable?

If you could only see the other side of your actions...what if:
standing in the light of your excitingly successful and abundant
world you could look back...back in time...back through the long
tunnel into the suffocating darkness from whence you came...and you
knew...you finally recognized that all of your groping in that
darkness wasn't in vain?

How happy would you be on the other side, days, weeks, months and
yes, maybe even years from now? How overjoyed and relieved would you
be at having had the tenacity...and I daresay in conflict with the
OP's title...SMARTS...to take the steps...to get in the ring with an
unknown opponent and slug it out to an unknown end?

"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of
victory." -General George S. Patton

That is the feeling you'll have when you finally get off your duff
and make something happen.

I'm off to create my next product now...!

To your success,

Carl Davison

It's because they hear all the huge promises of really big money. Actually, I tried everything in the beginning, listening to everyone and failing at most everything until one guy gave me a lead that changed the way I thought and what I did, etc. It's been all uphill since then and none of it has come from reading IM ebooks ... mostly capitalizing on my particular skill set rather than looking for the easy money promised by so many.

It's got to be confusing to a lot who don't find their own way and think that if "everyone" else is making it big, they will too if they just hang in there.

A lot of people don't realize that there isn't any "big secret" method out there or any guaranteed blueprint to success and that a little thinking outside the box goes a long way.

Or unless you spend time doing some research, formulating a plan comprised of proven strategies and tactics laid down by countless other people that have done it all before and sticking to it.

The major "barrier to entry" that "newbies" encounter is *not* doing the above.

Tom

That's a really good point. I'm betting that's where all the hang ups come when people are working hard but aren't seeing the kind of results they want. You definitely want to build on your prior hard work - that's a very good point.

That is true - but how many newbies out there will be able to recognize a proven plan? Sure they might work on it for a month or two, but how many will actually follow through?