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Positive Mental Attitude - Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude

On of many sayings that comes to mind when Dealing with Positive Mental Attitude. When you have dreams and aspirations, it is better to have a great positive mental attitude, you will get further if you have one than if you engage in thought that is non-motivating. Can you imagine how far the NASA program would have gotten if all the engineers though of was that the rockets would never get much off the ground and the ship would come crashing down to earth?

Not very far.

Rather than think of all the reasons why you will fail at Internet Marketing (and there are a lot of reasons out there if you choose to listen to them), look and listen to all the reasons why you will succeed. Live on a steady diet of praise and possibility and you will be more nourished than if you attempt to live on a diet of scorn and failure. Personally, I would rather have praise then to be ridiculed and belittled. So I haven’t achieved a Bill Gates-type fortune yet, but I revel in the small accomplishments that I have achieved: I jumped for joy the first time that I have 50 hits in one day on my website. I did a jig when I finished my ebook, Never Surrender!! (about getting out of credit card debt). I will have tremendous joy when I write my second book, which will be finished by the end of summer.

You see, the little joy and praise that I get for my “small” victories ensure that I will continue to succeed and strive for even bigger gains in life. You can celebrate the great things (be they small things) in your own personal journey toward Internet Success.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: finincial independence, internet marketing, making money on the internet, success

How Can You Have A Positive Mental Attitude On A Monday?

THAT is an excellent question! It is a question that you probably ask every Monday. In the traditional work week, one would work eight hours each day Monday through Friday. Of course, time now are not what we would call traditional. There are so many variations of the forty-hour week now: Some people work four 10 hour shifts with three days off, some people work 3 twelve hour days with four days off, some work a blend of that with 3 ten hour days, 1 six hour day, and a short 4 hour day. Whatever your work week is and whenever it begins, the first day of that work week is usually the toughest to keep a positive mental attitude on.

It is a challenge.

But, it is one that can be met and easily surpassed if you have the habit of a positive mental attitude. It was mentioned a few posts ago that you can choose to look on the bright side of life if you please. I am not advocating a PollyAnna-type of approach to where everything is bright and shiny and happy, because it is not. Train yourself to find the good things that are happening instead of focusing on the bad things. Your mind is a wonderful tool that has the ability to draw you toward that which you think about. If you have a sniffle and you focus on how poor your are going to feel, you will start to feel worse. If, on the other hand, you focus on how good the other parts of you feels, your sniffle will diminish in importance.

It works this way with Internet Marketing as well. If you focus on how little money you have and how little money your website is generating, despite how well-planned and well-designed it may be, you will continue to get little trickles of traffic to your website and pennies in your pocket.

Focus on how well you are doing! See what changes make more traffic come your way! Be flexible enough to make and accept changes as they assist you in your goal to become financially independent (or you may have a smaller goal of making an extra $100 a month, but you don’t have to limit yourself to just that).

What you think about, you bring about. For example, I have been thinking about writing an ebook on how to eliminate credit card debt fot the last few months, and because that was a dominating thought in my head, it finally came into being (you can get your own copy here). It works the same way with any goal you may have, it all begins with a positive mental attitude.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: goals, positive mental attitude

Internet Marketing Success - What is YOUR Goal?

Goals are one of the things that a lot of people have a lot of problem with. Having clear, written goals, it a key to success, not just in Internet Marketing, but in any aspect of your life that you would like. What are goals, you may ask? Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich said that a “goal is a dream with a deadline” There is a difference between dreaming about something and having a goal. To me, a dream has implications of fuzziness and a feeling.

Let me explain:

Let us say that you have an idea for a book that you have spent a lot of though on. When you dream about it, it is just wishful dream-filled thinking. You picture in your mind sitting down at the keyboard of your computer and typing away. You picture having people around the world link up through their computers to download your book and the smiles on their faces when the download is successful. Is there any action involved in this? Is there any definite time-lines that you have and are meeting along the way? NO!! It is only a dream.

When you make your dream a goal, a mental transformation is made in which you now have a deadline or timeframe in which to get there. You write down your goal and break it up into easy-to-take steps. You spend one hour each day dedicated to reaching this goal. Your first goal is to have ten chapters for your book. You spend isolated, dedicated time each day to get that outline done. Then you have a goal of having three or four points covered in each chapter. An hour (at least) each day is spent on this. Your book slowly takes shape.

Which one gets you closer, a dream or a goal. The goal, of course. Such it is with life.

Stop dreaming and devote the time to convert your dreams into goals. You can do it!

(by the way, I just finished an ebook about credit card debt elimination called  Never Surrender!!)

Tags: goals

Internet Marketing Success - Key Words Are, Well, Key

When it comes to having success in the Internet Marketing realm of the world, you have to have good headlines. I still receive a newspaper to my home every day, it has been something that has always been there, even when I was growing up. What stories did I look at? The ones with the interesting and compelling headlines. If it was just a generic, bland headline, I moved on. With people having less and less free time and wanting instant gratification, they won’t even give your website the time of day. When you “ping” you blog or an article on your website, it is so very important to have keywords in the title so that 1) the spiders that search the Internet and rank you page in their search engines will find your site/post much more quickly and 2) when people put in keywords into a search box (like Google) your site has a better chance of showing in the search results.

How do you choose your keywords?

The best free source is just to go to Google and type in the words that would fit the subject that you are writing about. Just one word is not good enough.  If you had a blog about German Shepherd breeding habits, you wouldn’t get any hits by titling your post “Dogs”. Be as specific as you possibly can be. Try “Breeding Habits of Female German Shepherds”. There will be fewer (today = 56,100 results as opposed to dogs = 169,000,000 hits). You want to be in a smaller field to increase your chances of being found.

Face it, traffic is essential to your success. Structure you titles to include keywords that will drive traffic to you.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, making money on the internet

Positive Mental Attitude - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

As a holder of a degree in music, I love songs! Not any one particular genre, but songs in general. When I think of positive mental attitude I think of the Monty Python song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.Whatever you focus on, you tend to gravitate toward. If all you ever think about is how you are poor and you don’t have enough money, guess what? … You will be poor and not have enough money. If, instead, you focus on the things that you have going your way and how successful those are, you will be harvesting feelings of empowerment and success.

It is up to you!

Instead of focusing on the $1,000 that you don’t have, focus on the $100 that you do. It is much like the parable of the three servents of a master who were entrusted with the master’s money while he was away. Two of the servants used the money to make more money for the master and they were rewarded with more responsibility and praise. But one who simply looked on the negative side and didn’t want to lose what was given him hid the money and had only that money to return to his master. His indecisiveness and laziness and fear caused him to lose what was to be his reward.

What reward are YOU missing because of your fear and laziness? You know that you will get out of something what you put into it and that you should not fear.  In fact, I recall reading a Zig Ziglar book, See You At The Top that stated the fear stand for False Expectations Appearing Real. Be fearless and you will improve your chance for success.

Have a GREAT day!

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Internet Marketing - You Have to be Flexible

An story keeps running through my head as I think about what was posted yesterday about the need to be flexible. There is a lot more to say than the few words that were typed out yesterday. The story goes about the great mighty oak tree that had lived for over 100 years. Strong and proud, it had weathered some years of drought, some years of excessive rain, even a small wildfire. One day a strand of prairie grass was near the oak tree and the oak tree was in his usual bragging mood admiring his reflection in a small nearby pond. “I am mighty and powerful and you, little sprout, will never be as grand as I am.”  Suddenly, the skies darkened and the winds began to blow. The might oak stood his ground and almost laughed at the growing wind. “I am mighty and powerful, this wind is nothing to me”, he boasted. The storm worsened and it grew dark. The next morning the mighty oak had been toppled because as the wind gained strength the tree had not had any flexibility and the wind finally won. The strand of prairie grass, however, was still standing as it was before. The winds at time had the grass laying flat against the ground, but because of its flexibility, it was able to survive.

You have to be flexible to survive in Internet Marketing also. Don’t be so rigid that you will not be able to see what works and what doesn’t and change accordingly. Have a plan, of course, but also be willing to change your plans as necessary. Don’t believe because what has always worked wil work for you in the future because, if there is any one constant in the world, it is change. Things will change. Be flexible to adapt to the changes so that you can be more successful.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: change, flexibility, goals, internet marketing, success

Internet Marketing - You Have to be Able To Be Flexible

When your quest of becoming a successful Internet Marketer is set, you have a single-mindedness of purpose (as discussed yesterday) and your a determined to make a go of it. In your mind you envision the success that you will have, the things that you will do, and the path that you will take to get there. That’s GREAT!! But…what if something happens that is not in line with your goal? Do you give up? Do you quit? Do you drown your sorrows in drink and never recover?

NO!!!

You become flexible. If you were planning to drive from your home to a city 30 miles away, would you turn around, go home, park your car, and give up because there was a red light at the first traffic signal that you came upon? I doubt that (or you would never have left your home). You simply adjust a bit and continue on your journey, being flexible and able to adapt to the changes that may occur along the way.

Such it is with Internet Marketing. There are millions of ideas and plans out there to help you succeed. Not all of them will work for you. Some plans call for you to produce your own e-books for success. You may not have the desire to spend the energy required to write a book. You move to something else. You find a plan that calls for you to outsource work and make money as a contractor. Maybe that isn’t your cup of tea, so to speak.  The thing is, there is some way, some method, some program out there in which you believe with every fiber of your being that you will be successful at doing and, in the process, make some decent money at.

But you have to be flexible to try the things that don’t work until you find the things that do!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: flexibility, goals, internet marketing, making money on the internet

Internet Marketing - Single-Mindedness of Purpose

Another key in successful Internet Marketing is having a single-mindedness of purpose. Huh? You have to know where you are going and keep your focus on the end result, not being too easily distracted by the noise on the side attempting to keep you from reaching the goal. You will remember that yesterday we talked about deciding and how making a decision is to cut off all possibility of anything that is not your decision and your subconscious will kick in to assist you.

When you become distracted, it is harder to succeed in your dreams. Distraction is a great way to keep a small child from crying. How many times have you seen a parent with a small child who is antsy in the store hand them their keys to keep them entertained. You know that when you decide to make a go of Internet Market and making money on the Internet that there are bound to be distractions and things that “come up” that are demanding your energy.

I am single-minded when I drive. I have a thirty to forty-five minute commute to my work each day (no matter which job I am working at) and my goal is to get from one place to the other. I tend not to look at the scenery or notice the detail of the cars that are driving and staying in their lanes. I have often driven by my wife who was headed the other direct, but never really noticed here because I was on the mission to get to where I was going.

The same applies to having success in the realm of Internet Marketing and making money on the Internet. When you choose to take this path, you will become consumed and sometimes overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information out there. You just have to stay focused and quickly scan the information for tidbits, clues, and hints that will help you to succeed.

You can and will succeed, especially when you put your mind to the goal.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: goals, internet marketing, making money on the internet

Internet Marketing - One (of many) Key To Marketing Success

I enjoy reading other ideas about Internet Marketing and how the one in any particular article are the ONLY ones that work. Unfortunately, there is more than one way to skin a cat. You can take many paths along your road to online success and I am just presenting another one. This particular key could be considered as the only one that you would need, but perhaps it is a starting point instead. It is at the use of this key, doors will open up to you that you never before though possible (hence, the word key). It isn’t fancy, it isn’t new, but it is powerful in and of itself. What is that key?

DECIDE

Decide literally means to cut off. When you decide to do something, you subconsciously make the choice to go toward reaching the goal. Your body responds by putting all effort into that. Internet Marketing success is the same way. You must decide to make it successful. Don’t use weak language and say “I guess I will do a good job at making money on the Internet”. Does that sound convincing? If you saw that somebody else had said that, do you think in six months you would see their name on a lot of articles about Internet Success? No. What about if you instead said “I will definitely make $100,000 on the Internet by December 31, 2009″ Apply the same scrutiny. Will they be successful? Probably, but you know that whoever says that will be a lot closer to being successful than somebody who “guesses” they will be successful.

Decide! Do Something! Make a move toward your own success!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: goals, internet marketing, making money on the internet, success

Internet Marketing: Trial and Error (Or, Trial and Success)

When it comes to Internet Marketing and drawing people to your website, you have to provide unique content and give the (potential) customer what her or she wants. Most people go to the Internet to get information. It used to be that we would wait hours, days, even weeks for information. We had to use the encyclopedia or even go to the library for information.

The Internet has changed that tremendously.

Now, for example, if I want to recall precisely something, I merely open up an Internet browser,go to Google and type in as much as I can. Google even givesassistance as you are typing. But I can usually find the answer in a matter of moments instead of longer than that. What was new ten minutes ago, may be old news to somebody searing on the Internet for something.

Make your website to be attractive and try different things. Try placing a video on you website and see what kind of traffic you get on the website. If it doesn’t work out, move on  to the next idea. Pay close attention to other sites and see what it is about them that attracts you and makes you want to click on something to get more information. Make a folder that you can put those ideas into. Make another one that houses ones that are not as successful. After  a while, you will have the fuel for the Internet vehicle you want to have.

Keep working at it and may you have success. Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, making money on the internet, web traffic