Success Starts Within

The way you think of yourself is critical to whether or not you will succeed. This applies to life in general, including starting an online business. You can have a burning desire to succeed, specific goals and a well-mapped out plan for how you want to develop your business, you can acquire all the relevant technical knowledge you require, and be confident that you can make it all work, but without a positive self-image your plans are doomed.

Even the best laid plans cannot hold up to a core belief that our identity is linked to failure. In the case of internet marketing, especially if we have fallen victim to the "shiny object syndrome", we may have started and stopped countless programs or systems, never bringing any of them to successful completion. We may have internalized some negative emotion as a result, subconsciously feeling that the next program we undertake is likely to fail as well.

Unless we can get congruence between our subconscious and our actions, we are dead in the water. The internalized belief that our identity is linked to failure will trump all else. You must try not to engage in this negative self-chatter; you must learn to focus on success.

Imagine yourself having already achieved success, and what your life is like. Think of this as taking place in the present moment. How do you feel? What are you doing with your time? What clothes are you wearing? What kind of car are you driving? What is your house like?

Visualize what you have become in as much detail as you can and with as much feeling as possible. Your subconscious responds most readily to images, and giving it images to work with is the fastest way to instill a more positive identity, and a core belief that you are destined for success.