9 ‘Inner Secrets’ of Personal Success
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007I thought I’d add a series of posts about what I consider to be some of the most important aspects of my success online…
Many of you know my story…
In only a few short months I’ve achieved the ultimate Internet “fantasy” of making a lot of money from a simple (almost primitive) web site that runs itself virtually on complete autopilot. Starting from scratch I banked over $51,351.94 my first 6 ½ months online, just working part-time out of the corner of my living room.
Now today at age 33, I’ve gone on to earn over 7-figures each year.
How did I go from a standing start to banking mega profits?
To do that, what I think you really need are these inner secrets to mega internet success. This has nothing to do with search engines, pay-per-clicks. It doesn’t have anything to do with any of the tactical stuff. It’s all a lot of stuff that goes on in your head. So let’s start…
Secret #1: Cheerful Expectancy
One of my biggest mentors is Earl Nightingale. He passed away several years ago but you need to get everything he recorded at Nightingale.com. He has a program called “Lead The Field” and “The Strangest Secret”. Just listen to that thing over and over again. He talks about cheerful expectancy.
There’s a big difference between having expectancy versus hoping or wishing something is going to occur. When you have that cheerful expectancy, you know it’s going to occur. And that doesn’t just come from being “Pollyannaish” or having rose-colored glasses. It comes from having knowledge. And you get that knowledge from studying in your field whatever it is. It could be Internet marketing or it could be neurology. That means reading, studying and buying everything and absolutely immersing yourself in it.
I learned from Earl Nightingale that if you want to be an expert, you spend an hour a day reading on whatever subject that you’re interested in, that you want to be an expert on.
So I said, “Well, what would happen if I read for three hours a day?”
I just started learning as much as I possibly could, and that knowledge gives you the confidence to know that you have that positive expectancy.
My friend Jim Edwards has a great illustration of the difference between simply ‘hoping’ and ‘expecting’. You can try this exercise yourself. Close your eyes and try to HOPE you’ll make a million dollars this year (or whatever number might get you excited). Just sit there and hope and hope and hope.
Now if you pay attention you’ll notice you’ll probably a little bit slumped over and if had to stake your life on it – there’s no way you’d bet you really would make that mil this year. Now try the same exercise but this time EXPECT to earn a million dollars. I mean really expect it.
Now look at the way you are sitting, breathing and feeling. I’d wager it’s a little different. Your expectations determine your results.
Next post…secret #2 (Setting your plan)
And I’ll announce the winners of the very coveted Internet Lifesytle caps 
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