A Passion For Success

Dream of the ideal job for a minute. You wake up in the
morning about 8.30am or whatever time you choose and do a
one-minute commute down the stairs to your cosy home office
at the other end of your house. Still in your pyjamas, you
begin the day’s work with a nice cup of coffee with your
favourite CD playing in the background. After a couple of
hours work you decide to take a break to watch your favourite
program on TV, spend some time with your family and get
something to eat.

After having a shower you go back to work for another couple
of hours. Later on you look out through the window and see a
beautiful sunny day and before long your kids come calling to
ask you to take them to the beach. So you decide to stop
work for the day, because you would rather be in the sun, and
rush off to get your swim suit, towel etc, jump into the car
along with your spouse and kids and head for the local beach.
It is a weekday and most people are at work so you pick the best
spot on the beach and enjoy the sights and sounds of nature,
without the usual traffic of people walking around and all over
you.

After a couple of hours and a nice tan you head back home. When
you get to your PC you notice there is a new email message in
your in box with the subject “Congratulations, You Have Just
Earned a Commission”. That’s right, you were making money while
Soaking in the sun on the beach because you automated your
marketing tools.

OK. Time to wake up. This dream may seem unrealistic but there
are many people in the Internet Marketing industry living such
dream lives. That is the beauty of an internet based business.
You can make money 24/7 even while you are asleep or on holiday,
also because of the global accessibility of the internet you can
work from anywhere you choose even on a cruise ship in
the Caribbean. However there are also many others who have
failed to achieve this dream because they failed to turn their
desires into burning passions that drive them to success.

Many of us need to be stimulated into action by something or an
event in our lives. It may be we hate or lost our jobs or we
feel unappreciated and poorly paid. In my case, after the birth
of my son I felt obligated to improve my life and become
financially independent because I was spending more time with
my colleagues than I did with my son, and by the time I got back
home he was asleep. Most 9-5 workers spend about 10 hours a
day travelling and working at the office and most will do so
until they retire at the age of 65 with little to show for it.
I dreaded this thought so much, it inspired me turn my desire for
financial independence into a burning passion.

To succeed in internet marketing, or any other business
for that matter, we must first turn our desires into passions
that push us onto success and helps us persevere when things
are difficult. Many people fail in business simply because they
failed to persevere during the hard times. On the other hand
rich and successful folks believe firmly in the sayings “There
is only one way to fail and that is to quit” and “quitters never
win, winners never quit”. They write down their goals and read
them aloud daily until their dream becomes a strong desire,
and then the desire becomes a burning passion backed up by an
unshakeable faith, so strong they can visualise their success
long before they have achieved it and even before they have a
plan for achieving it. They truly believe they will succeed
and this is exactly what spurs them on to persevere until they
strike gold.

Practice writing down your dreams and aspirations in the form of
a mission statement and recite it aloud day and night until your
desires becomes a burning passion. The human mind has a
tendency to believe the things it hears over and over again
irrespective of how difficult or incredible it may sound. By
reading aloud your desires and goals daily you will eventually
convince yourself that you can and will achieve your dreams and
there would be a burning passion within you that will not rest
until you do so.

You will be amazed how your brain will come up with lots of
intelligent ideas and plans for attaining your goals and your
faith will become so strong that you will persevere no matter how
difficult it may seem. Your mission statement should be clear and
state exactly what you want to achieve, what date you want to
achieve it by and the exact amount of money you want to be
earning by that date. Avoid wishful words like “want” in your
mission statement and use definite words like “will” instead.
For example “I will achieve financial independence by
20 November 2005 and I will earn $5000 per month as an affiliate
for ABC Corporation.”

It may take a few days or weeks to get used to reading your
mission statement aloud, and you family may think you are crazy,
but soon you will have turned your desires into a burning passion
for success, the kind seen in millionaires. And remember, when
bright new ideas and plans start to flood your thoughts write
them down and follow them through with the passion burning
deep within you. This is the formula for success that so many have
used to make fortunes. You too can do the same.