Making Money Versus Building Wealth

In the last few weeks, I have started to conect the dots between building my business, the power of the Internet and investing in my future. In between creating the Upside Down Property Manual, the Teen Money Manuals and the writing and integration of new practical help sections to my online Home Information Publishing Business, I have been working on my mindset.

With every new project I undertake, I am absolutely fascinated by what unfolds as a direct result of a certain course of action. For example, I have been listening to Tony Robbins for the first time and suddenly I find myself creating a new vision board four times larger than the last.

By researching the Upside Down Property Developing Manual I have found invaluable sources for property investments that I never knew existed, and through evolving my own online business into more of an online business training centre for Home Information Publishing I have come across a MLM Business Opportunity that fits it like a glove.

Now all of this not only shows me that my knowledge and understanding of Internet Marketing is growing, and that I am more confident about being able to produce great results with the new skills I have developed, but more importantly I can SEE the difference between the mindset that simply wants to make money and the mindset that is more focused on creating and building wealth.

This in essence is the work of The Law of Attraction of course:-

1. You become what you think about.

2. If you move towards your goal, and take action, then you will be met with opportunity.

What next? I am re-working my Master Planner for the next 6 – 12 months to re-focus and record my new pathways to my destination. Goals are set in concrete, paths are made in sand.

Why Do People Think They Can Simply Buy Experience?

Achieving an accolade, an award, a certificate of merit can take years of studying, testing, researching and perfecting until the day dawns on your final test and you will either succeed with glory or be marked down as a failure. It can have a dramatic effect on what you do in years to come, you will either think of yourself as an achiever or you will hang on to the thought that you were not good enough, and perhaps think of yourself as mediocre or a failure.

Some people go through life with those thoughts and those test results repeating themselves over and over again. Those same thoughts then materialise in the house they think they should live in, the car they think they should drive, the money they think they can earn and it becomes a paradigm that can hold you back for years. Conquering your mindset and investing in your own education is part of the journey that eludes most people.

Other people think and believe that they can achieve anything they set out to have, they believe in setting big goals, living life to the full and having time and money freedom in which to enjoy the beauty of life.

I am reflecting on this because I wonder why people think they can simply BUY experience. Why do so many people buy Business Opportunities that will for the most part provide you with a growing residual income if you just follow the plan and put it into action, but for some reason, perhaps out of sheer desperation or instant gratification, they buy it, skim read it, test it once if ever then add it to the shelf in the study next to the others and start looking for another one.

The reason these opportunities exist, is usually because someone has invested a lot of their time learning to become an expert, they have studied and learned, applied and succeeded and want to share with others how they can do it too. From my research to date, I can see there are many ways in which to create passive income, but I need to select ones that “fit” me.

I have come to realise WHY the answers simply can never be in a book, take words of wisdom, another key to unlock another piece of the puzzle from them certainly, but you will never find everything you need to truly succeed without experiencing the journey yourself.

Before Starting An Online Business Read This

If you are serious about building an online business you need to understand there is a lot of “stuff” you NEED to know and learn and at the same time there are A MILLION DISTRACTIONS EVERY SINGLE DAY trying to divert your attention.

I thought I would add this section while I can still relate to all those frustrations everyone experiences when they begin life on the Internet.

1. You are going to need to learn how to build a basic website. Yes you can outsource everything, but if you are serious about learning Internet Marketing and building multiple streams of income NOT taking the time and effort to learn it is like moving to a foreign country where everyone else speaks a different language.

2. Get familiar with the terminology Internet Marketers use every day. When you are first starting out there will be a lot of very unfamiliar terms, such as Domain Names, Hosting, FTP, Servers, ASP, PHP and many more. Remember you are smack bang in the middle of the technical “guys and gals” who talk websites, software and web talk and the consumer who doesn’t know about these terms, nor do they need to know. I always think I am the absolute WORST dinner guest when my head is full of learning “new computer talk” as it is SO unfamiliar when you start out it is likely to dominate most thoughts you have.

3. Learn that you are going to make mistakes, and that every hurdle in front of you can be jumped over once you have found the right way to do it. I have not found one story of an online marketer that starts with <em>”One day I decided to start my online business, I found it really easy at first and within a month I had made my first million.”</em>

There are many, many more stories that read something like this, <em>” I struggled to make ends meet at first, I mean I even sold my car just to pay the bills, I bought every product, read every ebook I could get my hands and still nothing seemed to be going right. Then suddenly after my first couple of years I got my first real break and now I earn in one month what I used to earn in a year.”</em>

4. Do NOT give up the day job! The number one problem with life online is that the learning curve is SO steep at first that you will not, unless you are extremely lucky earn enough money to pay your bills for at least 6-12 months. In fact if you have had NO previous BUSINESS experience it may take you much longer than that. Yes there are exceptions to the rule, but that is all they are … exceptions.

5. Accept right up front that at first you NEED to make LOTS of mistakes and that EVERYTHING YOU DO WRONG is not because you are failing, it is because you are testing and measuring, then testing and measuring some more. You will NEVER get anywhere online if you give up at the first hurdle, or if you keep flitting like a butterfly from Amazing Get Rich Scheme to Amazing Get Rich Scheme. Take your time, allow at least 6 months to learn the very basics, build a solid foundation from which to grow ,,, then create MASSIVE ACTION and results will follow.