The decision has been made. Your tired of hearing about how much money everyone is making online, and you have decided that you want your own piece of the pie. You through your hat in to the entrepreneurial ring and decide to go for it.

You create your first website and hangout your digital open for business sign. Hell you even start to get a little traffic. But no sales yet.  Weeks go buy and the cash isn’t flowing the way it seems to be for everyone but you. The shadow of doubt begins to set in. You wonder why people are buying your competitors product/service and not yours.

Here’s What Most People Do

I view business like building a house. It takes planning, both long term and short term. Although I am not an expert at building a house, it does make for a great metaphor.

Can you build a house without creating a foundation?

Yep, you bet you can!

Will your house last long?

Uhhh, no! It’s going to tumble over eventually.

 The Business Mindset 

I use to be one of those people who jumped from one business idea to another. In fact there was a time when I was trying to run several different businesses at one time (MLM businesses). I made a little money, but I never seemed to do as well as others. I justified this by saying they were just lucky. Or they must have had money to start with.

After more failures than I care to count, I figured it out. I had what is known as the “Get Rich Quick Mindset.” I have never known anyone to be successful with this type of mindset. Once I understood this, (I mean truly understood) my success started to grow and grow.

3 Spheres of Success

There are three spheres of success:

1. Inspiration
2. Innovation and
3. Motivation

Inspiration

This is the stage where you first come up with an idea. The good thing about inspiration is that it can strike at anytime. While taking a shower, watching television, even while driving down the street. Every human being on earth at one time or another has inspiration. However it is here at the first sphere were things die for the masses. This also leads us to our third sphere.

 Innovation 

Innovation is the second sphere and the realm that very few actually get to. Innovation is when you actually act upon your inspiration. Its when you take your idea to the next level. An idea is useless until you take massive action.

As soon as I get an idea, I either record it on my iPhone, mind map it out on my iPad or the whiteboard in my office. If you want you can use a free online service called bubbl.us.

You can use it for free and save ‘X’ number of sheets. They also offer various paid services that only cost a few bucks a month.

Once you have had your idea, and you have created a blueprint. Its time to put everything together and make it a reality, its time for sphere three…

Motivation

Motivation is the glue that keeps everything together. Its the fire that keeps pushing your forward on daily basis. Motivation is what keeps you going even when everything seems to be going wrong.

My motivation is the feeling I get knowing that I have made a difference. I love it every time I receive an email or a phone call from someone on my list who has had a breakthrough.

There is nothing on earth like being able to do what you love and to actually be able to get paid for doing it. This is the feeling that I hope to share with each and every individual on my list.

Practice Makes Perfect

I think it was Tony Robbins who said that repetition is the mother of all skill. As far as I know there is no such thing as the perfect plan. You make a plan. Execute the plan. Then make adjustments according to the results. Keep adjusting, and tracking your results. You will notice that things will keep improving, and you will reach your ultimate goal, whatever that may be for you.

 Master Your Craft

Although I outsource many of my daily task, I first had to understand them. There are many pieces to running any successful business. I am constantly learning and improving my strategies.

If you were to go and watch some of my old YouTube videos you will see where I recommended one thing then several months later it would appear that I have contradicted myself. That is far from the case. The market changes, what worked today, may not work tomorrow, and I only know that because I am constantly studying, testing and tracking my results.

It is important that you understand, having a successful business is more than just studying marketing, or copywriting etc. Read material like, “Think and Grow Rich”, “The World’s Greatest Salesmen”, or “The Alchemist” just to name a few.

I will conclude this post on this note.

You should spend more time working on your business and not in your business.