Failure vs Success

[Brian Turner]

Domainer Rick Swartz makes an interesting post: Failure or Success is up to you

Imagine you are 5 years old and you are on a 20 hour trip to Disneyland. It is 11 hours into the trip. Instead of focusing on the reward for putting up with the 20 hour trip, you feel dejected. You are tired and cranky and you want to turn back before you get your reward.

That is a TRICK played by your mind and it is YOUR JOB to outsmart your mind. Outsmart the feeling that can only sink you. Now imagine the same scenario after 18 hours. All pain no gain if you quit and turn around. The result, 36 hours of driving with no results to show for your time.

But guess what?? 98% of all people do exactly that when it comes to business goals. They quit just before they realize their goal. Instead of the great feeling you get after a great success, they get nothing but a sick feeling every time they look back.

I've been surfing around a lot of forums recently filled with people who think making money online is as simple as buying a lottery ticket, and make as much effort with it - they join "Easy Wealth" schemes which themselves are at best no better than lotteries - and at worst, a plain scam.

Making money takes hard work and effort - my youngest brother is currently struggling to work on his first ecommerce site, and though he's knackered and finding it tough, he's slogging on. Because of that, I think he'll make it (and with a little help from his big brother, too ).