I have written an e-book – Winning the Internet Game, the 10 Critical Steps to Gaining Better Results Online. I wrote this book because of the alarming stats that over 90% of people trying to be successful online are failing and failing dismally, and the other 5-10% are doing extremely well. My website is committed to helping change those stats. How? By distilling what the “Haves’” are doing that the “Have Nots” are not doing and trying to explain these success ingredients in easy to understand and implement ways.
When you take into account that the phenomenon of the Internet Marketing “Guru” arose about 10 years ago and that since then they have been pumping out a massive amount of products, information and training on a weekly basis and making themselves extremely rich by doing so, why is it that just a few months ago two top tier marketers came out publicly to say that only FIVE PERCENT of Internet Marketers were enjoying real success. That is an open admission that most people who are forking out their money to the Gurus (and lesser gurus) and spending vast amounts of their personal time (often to the detriment of their family) have nothing real and tangible to show for it.
This is what I am trying to focus on and shed light on.
But here is another sobering truth delivered by the likes of Brian Tracy and Bob Proctor – No matter what industry or profession you focus on the stats are pretty much the same. The top 10% controls and dominates the pie and the top 1-5% operates at a level that is almost superhuman by comparison to what the majority are achieving.
Why?
Here is the answer that the top 10-% pay attention to and the rest skip over – THEY STUDY AND APPLY THE FUNDAMENTAL RULES AND LAWS OF SUCCESS. The other 90%, for whatever reason, seem to have a blind spot that stops them from gaining this awareness at a very deep level. So they either don’t gain the necessary awareness or, if they do, they only absorb it superficially. Whatever the case, they try to bypass the fundamental building blocks of success and try to go straight for success without paying the price to get there.
This is the key difference between the Strategic Entrepreneur and the Wannabe Entrepreneur who constantly falls victim to the shiny object syndrome – always chasing the latest tactic being flung out by some other person they think can offer them the quick path to success, rather than paying the price required to achieve real and enduring success. The real price is learning, understanding and applying the fundamental laws and rules of success. This requires patience, humility, dedication and persistence. It requires finding the right mentors and coaches who can reveal the right tracks to follow and identify the routes, gimmicks and shiny objects to ignore. It requires setting up blueprint and strategy for achieving the level of success you choose to aim for and then aligning all of your actions to that blueprint.
There is no other way.
There are no short cuts.
Sure, some will be able to do all this and pay the price faster than others. We are not all the same. Our first major task is to understand ourselves – our strengths and weaknesses – so that we can design our blueprint, strategy and actions taking this knowledge into account. Once we fully understand ourselves we are better placed to identify who we need to get on to our Team. Hardly anyone out there who has achieved a high level of success has done it all alone. No, they have all understood that they need to have a Team of the right people, with each team member working in an area that capitalizes on their major skill set and passion.
Mindset transformation, Team Building, Finding the right Mentors, designing the right Strategy – are all Critical Steps to Success and covered in my book. Our program Online Results Accelerator, is a 26 week program designed to help you implement these Steps.
Regarding MINDSET – keep in mind this famous quote from Albert Einstein “The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.” Really think about this and absorb its incredible impact. You are NEVER going be able to move yourself to a whole new level of success by continuing to think like you presently do. It is axiomatic that you must change your thinking. So the question you need to be doggedly asking yourself each day is HOW and to look for those who can help you upgrade your thinking to align it with achieving the goals you have set for yourself but which continue to elude you.
Once you embrace this philosophy there is literally no limit to where it might take you. This is the point where some of you will leap ahead of the rest and literally take quantum leaps towards your success. The changes to your life and lifestyle and circumstances will be radical. At the other side of the spectrum of possibilities some of you will find it very hard to “get it” and continue to plod on as before without seeing much change. Remember the other powerful saying that dovetails with what Einstein said “If you keep on doing what you are currently doing you will continue to get what you are currently getting.”
So the big question to pose for yourself here is TO CHANGE OR NOT TO CHANGE. The choice will always be yours and yours alone. Is what you are currently doing working for you or not? Are the actions you are taking every day accelerating you towards achievement of your goals or not? Or do you feel that you are standing still, just treading water? Think about it. Be honest about it. The worst thing you can do is run away from the truth and pretend that you are something you are not. If you do that you are playing a dangerous game of delusion that will rob you of time, money and opportunity.
There is always much to learn. Top performers are always trying to learn more. They see themselves as being students for life. They would not have it any other way. They know that as soon as they stop learning they have lost the plot and sooner or later they will start sliding backwards. To get to any new destination in life we must be playing in the game of life. To get somewhere in Internet Marketing we must learn to play the Internet Game and stay ahead of the curve.
What about ACTION?
Nothing happens without Action. You can think all you like, and spend all the time you like working on your mind and mindset but until you harness that thinking to taking Action nothing will come of it. But it is not just any Action that counts. It is taking the right actions more times than not. Remember this funny line from Jim Rohn about motivation – If you motivate an idiot all you get is a motivated idiot. Extrapolating from that line – If you are taking lots of action but the wrong action you will not end up with the results you want.
Right Action naturally follows Right Thinking.
So get the thinking sorted out first and then start taking the right actions.
When you find the right mentors to help you start thinking in the right way – as a strategic entrepreneur – you will start acquiring the following talents that will serve you well -
- Your personal peak performance by knowing who you are and what you are capable of. You will have a whole new level of self-believe that you can leverage every day.
- You will develop your own inbuilt global positioning system (GPS) that will help you work out more quickly in any situation or circumstance where you are now and what you need to do to get to the location you want to get to by selecting the right strategies, tactics and techniques and combining them in the best way to achieve your desired outcomes in the quickest possible way and with the least amount of effort and obstruction.
- An exponential mindset that will see you thinking and operating on a whole new level that will keep you in your best flow and resonance for success, wealth and happiness.
Your success will be the product of a number of things working together – your mindset, your philosophy, your knowledge, your inner beliefs and values and your daily actions.
I finish off by again reminding you of WHY those in the top 10% control the pie and those in the other 90% don’t. Those in the top 10% have taken the time to understand and master the success fundamentals that I have briefly discussed here and the rest have not.
There are different levels of awareness that will affect what choices you make each day.
If you don’t know what you don’t know, then you are very limited in the choices open to you to change your thinking and then your actions. But once you know what you did not know before then you are immediately in the driving seat of your life and it is then all about choice and action. This is where people will part company and some will take the route of change and others will choose to stay where they are. It is always up to you.
As Always, to Your ever improving Results,
Christopher Whitelaw
www.gainbetterresultsonline.com