The Right Mindset

The Right Mindset is essential to business success. Too often people get frustrated and want to avoid the key steps required for success.

“Just show me how to make money online! That’s all I want; nothing complicated just how to make money online.”

It sounds simple doesn’t it! There are dozens of promoters and product sellers out there that will tell that it is simple. Somebody just has to show you the simple method and you can go away and make money without any effort.

It doesn’t work like that.

To make money online successfully as a business, your activities must be treated as a business.

“But I’m not thinking of it as a business just a simple method of getting some money.”

Well, it doesn’t work like that unless you are extremely lucky.

So, go and play then. You don’t need to listen to others.

To have a successful business you need to think in terms of strategies, business plans, your areas of expertise, the niches you want to go into. But the key strategy that you need to adopt when you are starting out in business is to have the right mindset.

Any “guru”, any business promoter, anyone helping you to start your business will at some point, if they’re serious, bring to your attention the fact that you need to have the right mindset. The right mindset goes hand in hand with success. Get this wrong and it doesn’t matter what plans and strategies you put in place; there’s a substantial chance you will fail.

So, what do we mean by the right mindset?

Well for a start we need to identify the barriers that we have to face.  These may be financial, they may be physical, they may be any number of things. We may not have business experience! We don’t know how a business runs! There are lots of things we may not know; so, let’s start with the basics.

How about identifying the barriers we have in our heads! Our psychological barriers if you like.

Not only do we have to identify our own personal barriers but we must be prepared to meet the barriers that our competitors, our customers, our family even and friends, may throw up.

“You will never achieve that.” “You’ll never achieve anything, just keep to your day job. It’s simple! You go into work, you get paid, go home at night and enjoy yourself. Forget all that nonsense.”

But if you want that little bit extra, that sense of achievement, that feeling that there’s something better and bigger that you can achieve, then you need to be very seriously thinking of the mental barriers or the factors that can limit what you can and will achieve. These are the limiting factors that will get in your way.

Now you may start off thinking this is easy. This is just something I can do; anybody could do it. But then as you start on your journey you might find things confusing, overwhelming.

The complexity hits here and your mind begins to get filled with all sorts of confusing thoughts and ideas to the point where you start to think, “Can I really do this? Am I pushing things too far?  This is where you need to have that solid attitude in your mind that you know exactly what to do; that you expect setbacks and you can cope with them.

And you can only do that by preparing your attitudes and mind to these problems in advance.

So, what we need to do is programme our mind so that we accept the possibility and probability that there will be problems and that we can cope with them.