How to Slay the Dragon

There is a dragon, you know. It's the dragon of self-doubt.
Somewhere in your brain is a little dragon with a BIG voice
that keeps telling you, "You can't build a business online!
What makes you think you can be rich? Who in the world do
you think you are, anyway - a guru?"

And, to make matters worse, there's your spouse, loved ones,
significant other, and friends agreeing with this dragon.
And then there's you, not making any money, or making less
than you spent or getting scammed in yet one more program
that promised you the end of the rainbow pot of gold.

So, what's a person to do? To begin with, you have to work
to slay that dragon. The human brain is a magnificent thing.
It will work to find whatever is necessary to fulfill
whatever destiny you program into it. If you are programming
self-doubt, it will work to make that self-doubt a reality.
If you don't believe you can be successful, it will make you
do things to make that a reality.

Most of the time, it's not the programs that don't work.
It's not the advertising that doesn't work. It's the non-
belief you have that makes it not work!

Think about this: When you were 5 and started pre-school,
you were "gung-ho" about school. You couldn't wait to make
friends, get good grades, learn. Right? By the time you got
to the 7th or 8th grade, you got dissillusioned and your
grades began to fall. Even if your grades didn't fall, most
everyone will admit they didn't do as well in school as they
were capable of doing. But if you had been mature enough to
set your goals and work to make it happen, do you think you
could have done better?

This is the same principle. You are what you think you are.
If you believe you can be successful, then you will go about
doing the things that are necessary to make it so. You will
work to find what you need to know to make it so. Let's face
it, if you don't believe in yourself or your product, how in
the world do you think you will be able to convince anyone
else? If you think you will fail, then you WILL fail! Anyone
who plays an instrument can tell you there are times they
are playing a piece and it's going really well and they
think, "Wow, I haven't made a mistake yet!" And what's the
next thing that happens? Boom! There's that mistake. Why?
Because they didn't really believe they could play that
piece all the way through perfectly, so they "made" that
mistake happen without even realizing it!

Many of you won't even believe what I'm writing to you here,
and that's too bad, actually, because it can serve you well
and get you started in the right direction. Believe me, I've
been there, done that, and I learned this lesson - so can
you! It's never too late, you know!