I have been full-time online for 8 years this January and I think it is about 1,000 times easier to make it these days than it was 8 years ago.

What you need to do is take responsibility for your life! “The power of an idea is in it’s implementation!”

Quit coming up with excuses and focus on ‘doing’ something to market your business every day.

Some people are good at research, some writing, some web-page development, some SEO, some marketing, etc, but no one is an expert in all of these areas, and today you have to be an expert in all of these areas to make it.

Sure, you can take the time, energy, effort and money to attempt to learn all of these things and apply them. But, in todays world, as fast as you learn one thing and attempt to apply it, then move onto the next aspect, eveything has changed and you have to start all over again.

Even if this weren’t true, why would you attempt to spend a great deal of time, energy, effort and money learning and attempting to do things that you don’t have the skills and talents to perform at the level that these things need to be preformed at to be successful?

In other words, doesn’t it make more sense to partner up with people who possess the skills and talents that you don’t possess? And it’s not just the talents one possess, but it’s also the particular station in life that someone else is at, that you are not at, that will take you years too get to. Does it make more sense to attempt to spend time and money building certain things when someone you could partner with already has those things developed and running? And again, people misunderstand this as well, as I never suggested that I, nor anyone else, would be just taking without contributing something in return.

Sure people can be selfish and self-centered and say, “I created mine, and I don’t give a damn about you, go out and create your own.” Aren’t they cutting their noses off to spite their own faces? Look at projects like traveling to Mars, the US knows that the best way to do this is via cooperation, not telling smaller, “less developed” countries they aren’t invited to participate and benefit in what we already have.

All I’m trying to say is, that in today’s world, it takes cooperation to be really successful, especially if you want to do it quicker, more efficiently, and more effectively. So why wouldn’t the gurus want to work with “less developed” individuals to make newer, bigger, and more meaningful projects a reality? The only reason is, they can’t see beyond the end of their noses. They only want to cooperate with their guru buddies. Why is that?

It just blows my mind that people can’t see this, aren’t concerned, and don’t expect more for their hard earned money. As long as the peddlers drop some crumbs the buying public is happy, even though those crumbs cost them dearly, and accomplish little in return.

So again, no one is asking for something for nothing. I’m asking why no guru, especially the guy who claims he’s the guru to the gurus, isn’t doing more to really work with their customers and help them to be successful in the areas where they could really be of help, not just peddling products and giving out crumbs of free information with no meaningful feeling behind it other than to sell you something?

Is everyone that brain dead that they feel that these gurus are really doing all that they could be doing for their customers? What if you bought knocked down furniture and it came with some of the parts missing, incomplete directions on how to put it together, no customer service help etc. Would you feel like you got your money’s worth?

Some of the people who commented got it when they said that they knew that none of the gurus would see the benefit in working with their clients, and therefore, we should cooperate with one another and beat them at their own game.

At the end of the year, out of the 40 students, some pass the exam with flying colors, most having average grades, while some failed.

This same scenario keep repeating itself, year after year.

For those who failed, was the teacher lousy? Were the teaching materials bad? Was the classroom environment not conducive? Was the subject too difficult? In actual facts, these are the reasons always given by these students every time. They blame everything else except themselves for the failure.

When you asked those students who passed with flying colors their secrets to success, the different is, they took 100% responsibility to their success. If the teacher did not teach well, they took extra time to consult other teachers. If the teaching materials were lousy, they went to library to get their own study materials. If the classroom environment was not conducive, they make sure they concentrate hard in class. If the subject too difficult, they spent more time to make sure they understand.

Same teacher, same subject, same classroom, same materials, different results.

The only different is, the students. Those who blames others, and those who blame themselves.

Food for thoughts..

Albert Lee

And yet, each of us has to play the cards we are dealt.

No doubt that some people win the lottery the day they are born, whether that is in money, brains, good looks, height, or whatever else amounts to an edge. Others seem to have just gotten to the right place at the right time.

Taking from the financial world of trading, the challenge is to find YOUR edge. It’s very tempting to say “if I only was on the trading floor”, “if I only had more money in my account”, etc. But name any situation and someone has figured out what they have that the other guy doesn’t, be it the ability to trade low volume issues that the big guys can’t or using systems that take a kind of analysis that the guys in the chaos of the floor don’t have time to do, or . . . .

If indeed you do have a great idea, then judging from my own knack for setting up roadblocks for myself and then explaining them with reasons that even I, (especially I?) , can’t see through, my guess is that a course in the secrets of getting your head and heart aligned with your purpose and then sticking with it would be better than one on internet marketing.

If you know of such a course, let me know. I’ll take it too.