It is often the way that when things aren’t going the way we planned, we tend to use our minds in very negative ways.  We let our minds focus on the the things we don’t want to happen. It sapps our energy, our motivation and our confidence in ourselves.

I know this because earlier this year I feared somethings happening in my life, and through that fear I focused on what may happen, and guess what? They did!

Rather than focusing on how I could change those fears into positives I was like a rabbit in the headlights of a car. Instead of turning my mind to finding a solution to my problems, I was parallised into in-action.

It wasn’t until after those fears came true that I sought to make things better, rather than focusing on the problem, I now focus on solutions to the problem, and this huge shift in my mindset has started to make things much better for me.

The very simple method, outlined below, which takes just a few minutes each day, has changed me so much that I now have the motivation, confidence and energy to find solutions to my daily problems. It has helped make me more productive than I have ever been.

I’d lke to thank my good friend Mike for showing me such a simple method that I now use every morning when I get up and helps me be a better more successful person that I ever was before.

Here’s the simple method:

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Although some would argue that this is a complex question requiring a complex answer based on the individual, but I think it boils down to the way we look at ourselves and the way we see ourselves.

The way we see ourselves is through the actions that we make everyday, the way we handle our relationships with other people, the way we do our work, and the way we measure our own personal successes.

But, a large proportion of our societies have very negative self images but this need not be the case. All you need to do to improve the way you see yourself and the way others see you is get a little better each day.

In the short video below, Brian Tracy a very successful marketer explains seven simple steps that he used to improve himself and achieve his success – watch it now, and then take action on this simple formula, to start getting the success that you want.

If you read through some internet marketing forums you’ll see lots of posts by people who have tried to make money on the Internet and have either failed but are still looking for that golden secret or just quit. The statisics that are bandied around say that 95% of people who try Internet Marketing fail to make any money at all.

So the question is why do so many people fail?

Whilst we are growing up we are programmed by our parents, our circumstances and those around us to behave in certain ways. These surroundings teach us to work hard at school to get good grades so that when we eventually leave school we can get a good job that will pay us a monthly check, and allow us to have a reasonably comfortable life.

Depending on the circumstances of our childhood, this subconscious programming puts limitations on us, that for most people virtually force them to toe-the-line, get a job and be thankful for it. It also puts a limitation on how much we are comfortable with earning. It can make us fearful of earning more money and because of that fearful feeling, it can make us hesitant of taking the actions required to earn more money.

In his book “I can make you rich”, Paul McKenna, a leading British Hypnotherapist, describes exactly this attitude towards money that the vast majority of people have. He calls it a “Wealth Thermostat”, and for the majority of people it is programmed by the way they were brought up at a pretty low level.

So how do you change your “Wealth Thermostat”, well for obvious reasons I’m not going to go into how Mr McKenna desribes it in his book, you’ll have to go and buy it, but what I will say is that I have been in the situation where my “Wealth Thermostat” was set very low, and because of it I did fear earning more money and because of that fear was paralysed by inaction.

I spent alot of maney learning about Internet Marketing, SEO, building websites, getting traffic and all that stuff, but rarely took any action on what I had learned. As a result my online income was virtually nothing. It was a few months ago that, when talking with a friend, that I realised that something was holding me back, it wasn’t my knowledge, it wasn’t my abilities, it was my mind; I was holding myself back. I was to blame for my inaction and I was to blame for not making money on the Internet.

Once I had realised this, I went out of my way to find out why. Then one day I was browsing through a bookstore and came across Mr McKennas’ book. I bought it and read it and it was brought home to me that my limitation was me, not the ebooks taht I had bought and not acted upon, not the forums posts I had dismissed as bad advice, it was my own mindset.

And that, in my opinion, is why so many people come into Internet Marketing and fail or just quit after a short time of trying.

If you are in the situation of not succeeding at Internet Marketing, don’t blame others, don’t even blame yourself, change you attitude and change your mindset and you will successed.

“I can make you RICH” By Paul McKeena is published by Bantam Press and available at www.rbooks.co.uk.