Thanks to online pioneers like Armand Morin, Russell Brunson, Marlon Sanders, and Jim Edwards; the trail for succeeding on Web 2.0 is being blazed at lightning speed. You don't need to reinvent the wheel but you do need to get behind that wheel and put your foot on the gas to overcome procrastination! If you're a card-carrying member of the Procrastination Nation, then turn in your resignation today!



About 90-some percent of the wealth in this country is controlled by 2% of our population. Why is that? Is it because wealthy people are sitting around watching Jeopardy? Nope. Successful people take action, they never give up, and they do what it takes to get what they want. Procrastination is a death sentence for great ideas and great people.

So what do you do? If you want to build a successful online business you can go to big seminar after big seminar, you can buy books, and listen to CD's but ultimately you must weed through the fluff to find the best sources of accurate, up-to-date information before you start an Internet business.

The old business school would say that if you can't focus you can't succeed. But that's no longer true in the Internet world. So here's a little carrot to dangle in front of you while you contemplate whether or not you should get off of your butt and do something. The secret is to find a business that runs itself. Affiliate programs online are a good example.

You can set up a website, get people to visit it and promote other people's products (for a nice commission) without a whole lot of effort. Now if you COULD focus, you could open 100 websites and make a few hundred bucks a month on each of them. Let's see, 300 bucks times100 websites, oh, that's a measly $30,000 a month!

I've been in the marketing business for many years and it blows my mind how many goofy, silly, and downright stupid products out there sell like crazy! The point is; you won't know the temperature until you put your toe in the water. Let the marketplace be the judge because there is a market for just about everything! If you want to start your own business and be your own boss, why not begin today?

Here are five ways you can begin to overcome the inertia holding you to that comfy old Lazy Boy.

1. Clarify Your Vision. Create a mental picture of what you want to have, do, or be in your life. Watch the movie, The Secret. Learn how to form a vision or a dream board to help keep your dream tangible and in front of you round the clock.

2. Set an Intention. Set an intention to be living the lifestyle and enjoying the freedom of working from home. Of course this requires effort and maybe even a little sweat but setting an intention of where you want your life to be is a very powerful way to open the doors of opportunity.

3. Think it Through. Write the major steps you might need to take in order to launch your new business. Keep this plan very simple at this stage and answer these questions. What are the top three things I need to know to start my own business? What are the main resources I need in order to begin? What new book, online class, or big seminar can I use to help me answer these questions?

4. Take Action. Identify your next step. Just the next step. Not all of them! One of the things that holds many people back from enjoying working for themselves is that they see so many steps that need to be done they get scared and do nothing. The next step is simply the next, most important, most meaningful step. Simply take one single step toward your goal every day and you'll be so much further ahead than most people!

5. Leverage Your Resources. Don't do it alone! Find ways to learn from other people's mistakes and experiences. This is not the time to re-invent the wheel. Go to seminars, take classes, read books, and network like crazy! And? don't think you must be this creative genius with the one-of-a-kind idea to succeed. You don't need break-through products to get rich online.

What are you willing to do to beat the death sentence of procrastination? If you could motivate yourself long enough to try a few of these things, there's a chance that you could cancel your Procrastination Nation membership today and actually start living the life you deserve! Give it a shot! The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Take that step right now and see what happens!

Copyright (c) 2007 Steve Dahl