The sales letter drops through your mailbox or the e-mail lands on your computer. It promises great wealth for the minimum of effort in an amazingly short time. So who do you think these letters are aimed at?

1. People who wish for some extra money

2. People who are basically lazy and do not want to work very hard

3. Impatient people who want results NOW!

Now take a look at any reasonably successful person you know. They did not just wish for extra cash, they actively pursued it. They may make their working life easier by delegating and out sourcing but in no way are they lazy. They don't work hard they work smart. Finally all successful people know that overnight success can take many years to achieve and they are prepared to work for the long term.

The stupid thing about many of these business opportunity offers is that somewhere in there is a basically good idea. A plan that could help build a profitable and lasting business. But what is not realistic is the picture that the writer paints of the time scale and how to achieve this goal.

You are not going to generate thousands of dollars working for half an hour a day. You are not going to get money coming in faster than you can count it from day one. Even as you send the money or credit card details you know in your heart of hearts it is not going to happen. But somewhere in the back of your mind you are just hoping that this time it might.

When the plan or e-book arrives you read it and most times that is it. You leave it at that and do nothing else. Or perhaps you have a half hearted attempt to make it work and then give up after a few setbacks within the first couple of weeks. Doers any of this sound familiar to you?

Now if you are going to make any business work there is one quality you will need and this is where fooling yourself comes in. Are you a quitter? No don't tell me I don't want to know, tell yourself. Do you have the determination to see something through once you have started? In other words do you have staying power?

The good news is that if you honestly say to yourself that you do have the staying power then there is no reason why you should not make a success of any workable business opportunity that you become involved in. On the other hand if you know that you are the sort of person who is going to give up at first setback, don't waste your money. Quitters don't win so why bother to enter the race.

But come on, quitters can become stayers if they put their minds too it. If you want success badly enough then you can achieve it. If you think that you might quit before you reach your goal here is a suggestion.Just make yourself a sign and pin it above your desk or workspace.

“Whatever happens, whatever setbacks I encounter-I will not Quit”

Look at it often and in time it will become a fact.

That way you will become a stayer and a winner instead of a drop out and a quitter.