If I Had To Start Over. . .

[Lynn Terry]

I recommend everyone read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, and learn about the "burning desire" and how to create it.

It's a free download from this site.

[StephenT]

I recommend everyone read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, and learn about the "burning desire" and how to create it.

It's a free download from this site.

It's my favorite book, Lynn!

[Lynn Terry]

RT @OmarMReyes: even if there were a blueprint, some people would still not follow it - they would still lack the motivation to succeed.

Motivation is not some magical, elusive, mysterious... IT.

It's the definition of "wanting it bad enough".

[StephenT]

And I agree with that tweet.

It doesn't mean that they couldn't, but there is somethingin them that won't let them.

My own grandson was told by his immediate family that he was stupid. practically from the time he was born. He finally dropped out of school as junior in high school. He just couldn't pay attention. When he dropped out and went to get his GED, they tested him to see what his abilities were. They found he was very bright, brilliant and that's why he couldn't pay attention, he was bored, but he had always been told he was stupid.

He work nothing jobs making no money and barely gets by. He could be just about anything, but"he's stupid."

I understand that not everyone will be a success. I also understand that it is rare that a person couldn't be much more whether in Im or something else, if they believed in themselves and worked for it.

Thanks for the wonderful discussion! I have loved it!

[BobTheTeacher]

First, thanks calling me Doctor, although I didn't go to that level of grad school

Although we're talking about IT now, I'll answer the initial question of "if i had to start over..." Lynn mentioned it somewhere in there that Nicole's question works on the supposition that we lose everything but our experience and what we know. Our skills developed are still there. That's pretty important.

Also remember in the interview with Nicole, my first product was created 6 months after I started in IM, but 2 years after I started trying to make significant money, and 7 years after I started my initial web design business (which never had more than 2 clients at a time, by the way, and included my parents who fired me... different story for another day).

We do speak in terms of blueprints in the sense of laying out the steps that worked for us, and that have worked for some of those that follow.

Lynn brings up the parable of the talents, and I think that this part of the discussion has gone overlooked. Not every one SHOULD be trying to make money with internet marketing because they COULD be doing something else that would take less time to monetize and they'd have more fun in the process. Most people who buy my programs that don't succeed are trying too hard at doing everything but what they are already good at. Mainly, they don't value the skills they have, and think that they don't have marketable knowledge.

That's where the big problem is in my mind: trying to learn business development while seeking out some foreign skill to learn and monetize. This was in the interview as well - how much easier it would have been for me to make info products around education, learning, etc. (Maybe that's why I love DiscoverFreemind so much as a product

Anyway, there are a few pennies of my own thrown in to the mix.

Bob Jenkins, MLA not PhD

[StephenT]

First, thanks calling me Doctor, although I didn't go to that level of grad school

Bob Jenkins, MLA not PhD

Sorry about that Bob, A slip of the keyboard I guess! Maybe I was giving you a promotion!

I went back and fixed it!

[ScottTousignant]

Rich, I for one am grateful that Lynn said what she did. That's exactly the type of response that I would have given.

It's kind of like my personal training clients telling me they have bad genetics and will never ever be able to get in shape. That's a bunch of crap because genetics only play a very small role (less than 18% of your results). With a willingness to do what it takes... actually doing what it takes, and making modifications as you go along the journey, even the least genetically gifted person can still achieve success.

I totally 100% agree with Lynn. Saying that you need to have IT opens the doors for excuses and causes people to give up. What if Thomas Edison listened to people who told him he didn't have IT and should give up when he was on his 999th attempt at creating the lightbulb. "Yep, maybe their right... I just don't have IT"

Sure there will be people who don't ever achieve their goals... but it certainly isn't because the don't have IT. It's because they gave up for whatever reason... and maybe they had a good reason to give up. But it has nothing to do with the thing that not one single person can define "IT"

Obviously Lynn isn't just saying that all you have to do is want it bad enough. Did you not read what she said? She put in a great deal of action toward achieving success and she earned the success.

You will not succeed if you don't want it bad enough. That is a mindset that you must have. If you don't want it bad enough it becomes all to easy to allow the smallest of obstacles and challenges to hold you back.

You need to do more than just want it bad enough, but if that willingness to do whatever it takes is not there, you will have a tough time achieving your goals unless you are setting some real lofty ones.

It actually doesn't flatter me to hear people say that I became successful because I have "IT". Sheesh... what a way to put down my efforts and hard work... almost making it sound like it's easier for me to succeed. As Lynn said pfft.

Back to my fitness example... It pisses me off when someone looks at my abs and says that I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Holy crap does that piss me off. I earned those abs. And I can get fat just as easily as almost anyone else... and in fact I have and I think I set the land record speed for putting on 45 pounds of fat.

I do believe that anyone... yes... absolutely anyone can succeed in business. It may be their first business, or maybe their second. I had a failed business before I became successful with this one.

I recommend watching the cartoon movie "Robots". It's probably one of the most inspirational movies that I've ever watched. There's some very powerful messages in there that I'm sure will hit home with many of you.

Take the night off. Go rent it and enjoy.

You have IT... whatever the hell IT is.

My reality is different from yours Rich. It's one where someone has a dream to go to the moon and I say... if you want it bad enough and are willing to do what it takes to find a way to make that a reality for us to see... Go For IT!

The reality is... anyone can succeed and has it within them to do so. I guess you could say it comes down to choice and some people simple choose to no longer pursue their dreams. But it doesn't mean that they don't have it within them to achieve it.

I believe that anyone can succeed if they follow the "What I would do if I had to start over with just $100" They won't make millions, but it may just be the thing that ignites the flame inside that burns to the tune of "I really can do this"

[BobTheTeacher]

No worries Steve! I actually found it funny, and now my post doesn't make sense.

[Lynn Terry]

An interesting and obvious trend in this thread...

Those who have reached some level of success - believe you can do it too.

I can't speak for everyone, but JMO was nobody special. He was a hustler hiding out in a cabin in the woods, doing odd jobs most of his life. Until he became the Jason Moffatt we all know and love today.

I think everyone has a little IT inside of them.

Looking forward to your report, Jason!

[StephenT]

I actually found it funny, and now my post doesn't make sense.

I went back and explained it. I don't want you losing street cred over my screw ups!!