If you are reading this, then you are probably reading other articles on home-based business, network marketing, social media marketing, etc. There is a lot to learn if you are to succeed. In fact, the learning never stops. Learning is essential to growth, and growth is the only sure sign of life.
You have probably also read books like The Power of Positive Thinking, Think and Grow Rich and others. If you haven't read those books – and many others that I will not name right here – you should. The distilled essence of their message is that your choices and actions got you where you are today, your attitude is the sole determinant of your success, and that you are at all times in total control of your attitude.
Sound strange? Believe it. I know there are times when it seems like everything is going wrong and none of it is your fault. That may in some sense be true, but if you let events determine your attitude and shape your outlook, then you will always have a victim mentality. You will, in fact, be a victim of your own negative attitude, rather than those external circumstances.
One fundamental piece of advice offered by all the motivators is that you must make it a daily practice to feed yourself positive ideas, images, words, music, whatever lifts you up, makes you smile and believe that you can take on whatever the day has in store for you. Zig Ziglar put it this way: “People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing – that's why we recommend it daily.”
The bad news is that you will experience adversity of one kind or another. That is the way of things; adversity comes to everyone at some point. Those who have embraced the practices of self-mastery will rise above the inevitable set-backs and continue on to success. You can be one of them. Whatever you convince yourself will happen is the thing that will happen.
There is one more important item. You are not alone in this world (you probably noticed). Others have the same ups and downs that you have, and would benefit from encouragement the same as you would. Please note that it matters little whether or not you have any standing with the person in question; each of us has the remarkable power to lift the spirits of another with no more than a kind word or sincere compliment, which costs us nothing.
Which brings up my final point: the importance of a team. This is also a key element mentioned time and time again by the success gurus. Your team is all those people who are part of your success, whether as a mentor, a colleague or a cheerleader. If you are just starting out, you need to find those people. There are links on this page to a 3-day video training in “The Secrets Behind Social Media” which will also put you in touch with an energetic team of Internet marketers you can join to experience piece of the success picture.
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