Have you ever noticed how many people assume that because we are in the IM-niche, we should have trouble sleeping at night.

A couple weeks ago, a fellow was saying that he bought a new house in a new neighborhood that he is paying for with his Internet earnings. All of his neighbors assume he is a drug dealer, since he never leaves his house.

I get that too, but my neighbors say that "I make my wife support me, because I am too lazy to work."

Just this week, another person on the forum said that his family keeps asking when he is going to get a real job. LOL

On the other side of the coin:

Another poster asked if it was okay for him to lie in sales copy, because everyone else in this industry lies too.

Several posters claimed that article marketing is a scam or article marketing is dead, even ordinarily smart people. (You all know who I am talking about. )

Several people suggested that many marketers fill the Internet full of garbage, because they allow their greed for money to take priority over every other person on the Internet.

Another gentlemen argued with me about whether it was acceptable to copy-n-paste content written by someone else for inclusion in the forum, without giving due credit to the author, implying to some readers by absence of due credit that he authored the content.

Everyone in the IM-industry is dishonest, right?

Wrong.

When I sleep at night, I sleep well... Except for those damn bathroom runs in the middle of the night... LOL

When I sleep during the day, I sleep well then also... Except for the bathroom breaks...

That is the only thing I hate about aging, the need to run to the bathroom a couple times during my sleep, regardless of whether I am sleeping during the day or night.

I don't always sleep at night, but I always sleep well --as well as someone my age can be expected to sleep.

I tend to believe that the vast majority of people who work online are honest, fine, upstanding people.

But sometimes, we are all overcome with negative thinking...

We see so many newbies come into the forum, expecting that success is only one magic button away. Someone sold them the lie that they can get rich working online in their pajamas, working only an hour a day.

Yet, those of us who have made it know better.

Those of us who have made it have worked hard for years to make what we have today.

And we will continue to work hard into the future.

Sure, many of us guys still fantasize about making so much money online that we could retire to a beach in Mexico, with a 20-yo woman on each arm. But then we wake up to wives and kids and the our real goals and dreams.

We wake up to the realization that while two 20-yo women could be double the pleasure, we also realize that two women would also be double the irritation, and worse, double the nagging.

There really are two worlds in the IM community.

There is one side that thinks the answer to all wealth and success is one magic button away. They just have to figure out what the "secret" is that everyone else has used to "make it". They are busy trying to figure out how they can "take" their piece of the pie.

The other side knows that wealth and success is "earned". This group understands that all things are possible, if you are willing to work hard to "give" real value to others...

It really is that easy. On this planet, there are "givers" and "takers". If you want to be successful online, you must become a "giver" and quit being a "taker".

This is a simple enough concept right?

So let me ask you: "How Do YOU Sleep At Night?"