Did you know that you can find the secret to success from a snowboarder ? It's true, SnowboardJohn has some excellent tips about changing the way you think about making money online. Most of his recommendations are about setting yourself apart from the usual online marketer with an attitude change and a few simple changes in your methods.

What was his first suggestion? Changing your focus. He talks about how he used to focus solely on making money when he first started out. As time passed and his income stayed level, he switched his focus to being a better entrepreneur. By focusing on making his own business better, and not on making more money, he was able to generate more income.

That sounds backwards to most people, doesn't it? We are taught to concentrate on making money and to tailor our businesses around making that happen. Snowboard John claims his approach works. He states that making money has happened as an "inevitable outcome" of concentrating on making his business the best.

His point is clear - by concentrating on offering a better service, a better product and being and all around better business person, the money will follow. And it does. He takes it one step further by telling you to actually plan to lose money in pursuit of becoming the best at what you do. He explains that doing that frees you to concentrate fully on your goal. By changing your mind set to one of skill improvement and product improvement and giving yourself financial room to not make money, you will automatically start to make money.

How that works is simple - when you assume you will loose money while you improve your skills, you take your focus off of money and put it back where it belongs - your product and service. That allow you the mental freedom to improve your product and service. The natural flow of things dictates that people will want to buy a better product and service, and your money will increase on its own as people flock to your better business.

Change of focus can help improve more than just your cash flow - it can help you ride out the bumps and hurdles of any business. Changing your focus can keep you from getting burnt out, or getting overwhelmed. It can help you create a new product or service to keep your business fresh. It can help you iron out challenges along the way. And through all of that, change of focus will keep helping you make money, without even trying.