Have you ever wonder why you’re not as successful as you wish to be? How is it that a few people can achieve amazing results on the Internet while most people can barely pay for web hosting? It’s like there’s something standing in the way between you and your dream of financial freedom. Well, the truth of the matter is, there is something standing in your way and until you learn to deal with it, you’ll never reach your end goal.
The Biggest Problem Standing In Your Way Is..
You. When it all comes down to it, you are the only thing that is stopping you from achieving whatever it is your heart desires. Success is a attitude. It is not money, wealth or power. Take away the money of a successful person and he’ll have it all back and more in a few years. Give an unsuccessful person a million dollars (lottery winner) and chances are he’ll lose it all within a few years. The difference is their attitude.
The unsuccessful person blames his misfortune on outside factors - it’s the tax man’s fault, the economy is bad, prices are too high, my wife won’t let me, etc. He’ll blame everything else except the one thing that is truly keeping him down. The success person doesn’t blame outside factors for failing. He accept failure as a requirement for success and learns from it.
They say successful people think differently than unsuccessful people. That’s not entirely true. They don’t think differently, they think opposite. An unsuccessful person hates failure. A successful person welcomes failure. An unsuccessful person works hard for money. A successful person has money work hard for him. An unsuccessful person takes. A successful person gives. An unsuccessful person think a job is safe and investments are risky. A successful person thinks a job is risky and investments are safe. The list goes on, but the point is a successful person has an opposite attitude from an unsuccessful person.
If you want to be successful, the first thing you need to change is your attitude. If you have the attitude of an unsuccessful person, then no amount of reading, couching or training is going to make your successful. Once you change your attitude, things will open up for you.
You Are Where You Want To Be
Making money online really isn’t that hard. So why is it that only a small percentage of the Net make any money at it? Because everyone is where they want to be. If you’re not truly where you want to be, then you would be doing something to change it. I can give everyone the step-by-step on how to make money from blogging and most people wouldn’t do it. They wouldn’t do it because they are where they want to be.
Now, where you want to be isn’t the same as where you wish to be. You can wish to be rich but do you want to be rich? Of course, everyone will say they want to be rich but what are they doing about it? Most of the time, the answer is nothing. You are where you want to be.
Finding Your Why
People stay where they are because they don’t have a compelling enough reason to leave. Everyone wants to be rich but will settle for where they’re at. Until you find a compelling reason to leave where you’re at, you’ll be staying there for a very long time. This is where you need to come up with a really good why. Why do you want to succeed? If you haven’t made much progress in the past year, it’s because your why wasn’t compelling enough. Once you figure out the why, the how is pretty easy.
It All Come Back To You
At the end of the day, it’s not going to me or any other make money online blog that’s going to make you successful. You are the only thing standing between where you want to be and where you wish to be. Stop blaming outside factors and start to take responsibility and change your attitude to that of a successful person. You are the problem but you are also the solution. Success begins and ends with you.
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1st comment!
Anyways - you mean we can’t blame it on high oil prices?
That’s why you gotta eco-drive, eh?
I blogged about it a while back
Ride a horse to work
It will Eco-Drive all over the street 
You can blame it on high oil prices all day long. And good for you, high oil prices are keeping you down. Meanwhile John is making out with hundreds of thousands. right?
That first comment, was it that orgasmic? LOL
John,
I agree with most of the post but there are some things I think we should include. Not all successful and unsuccessful people think completely opposite. Their actions differ and so does their attitude but besides the black and white of things, there are always gray areas. Although most of what you say is true in general.
Another big problem is people blame time as in there is not enough of it or whatever the cause. Most people ARE motivated but are too LAZY to really do what is necessary. The other big problem is they look at their effort and THINK it’s actually trying when in fact, it’s not even close to the REAL effort they can actually produce. There lies a huge problem. Mankinds greatest disease is not his lack of motivation or innovation, but rather his strong desire for laziness.
I agree with John and Steve - It’s all about TAKING ACTION! I read another post of John’s about how people that say they want to start a blog or online business, someday, but the fact is; someday will never come. If you just realize that today is someday and take action now you will find success. I take action everyday to work on my blog. It’s less than one month old, yet it’s Alexa rating was 89k yesterday - not too shabby, why? Because I take action. My goal for the next 6 months is to break 25k, and I’m sure I will because I will continue to take action…
It’s sooooo simple: Action = Success.
Of course you can blame it on the oil prices. It’s always about the oil prices
lol @ Oil. Here oil prices doesnt rise so fast :p
price of oil yeah blame that because you know some time back everything else to be cheaper, and now it is getting more expensive. It is just a cold hard fact so you gotta live with it.
Oil is only part of the equation, but some think it’s all there is. So no, we can’t blame it on oil.
Great post John. I’m currently working hard to be become successful and it’s showing every month.
This is so true! Reading your book over the last few weeks has shed some light on what I can achieve. I have set goals and will be successful with my efforts. Thanks for the kick start!
The Little League Coach.
Thank you for inspiring me to take the leap! Your book and your blog has been very inspirational to me.
success - here I come!
I agree, great post John. Thanks for all the information you give us. I’ve read your eBook and it has inspired a friend and I to setup our own blog. Now we need to learn more about how to get our blog seen. I better do a search in your archives.
Thanks!
Joe
Great post John. You hit all the right points! Success, attitude, goals…
Hmm how come I feel like I’ve seen this post before.
Anyway, this is always true no matter it is making money online or your job or your family. It’s all up to you.
Money….. meh…. ruling the world is better! First step - I’ll take over Hollywood!
(is that the right attitude to have? 
)
I have a friend who recently lost a high paying job and now he has to go out and find another high paying job. Bummer, they aren’t that easy to find. Sounds kind of risky to me.
But it’s dangerous to look for a low paying job though since he’s going to go back to the low paying job’s salary as a reference if he ever looks for another job.
Congrats, John on hitting 20,000 RSS readers!
i blame the holocaust
This only shows that you can break or make your business!
Very Very Very Nice article. The article gave a lot of information and ofcourse a true fact revealed. I know a lot of unsuccessful people who put blames on many factors and a successful person, even if you make him poor by taking all the money, he will land up soon being richer than that person who stole all his money. Finally. Yes. Thanks for such a great article John. I loved it.
Makes sense. Heard this many times. But still holds true.
Wow! This is my read of the day
Keep up the good work!
-Mike
Intresting
Great article John. Too many times you find that people try to copy someone else success. To add little twist to your post John, the reason why people are not successful online is because they fail to use Creative Visualization.
Creative Visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create what you want if your life (not someone else’s). You are already using it every day, every minute in fact. It is your natural power of imagination, the basic creative energy of the universe which you use constantly, whether or not you are aware of it.
Hmm… everyone is in agreement with this article, but I’m going to go out on a limb and agree with it BUT… external forces are definitely at work. Economy goes down, ad sales go down and so does yer income. But, of course the successful person will adapt and find a way to turn lemons into lemonade.
LAST POST!
We cannot blame the corrupt government officials who make our business go forward slowly?.
no because there is always way around things …
Good post… thanks to you I’m slowly inching towards earning some serious bucks thru my blog.
Ya true but hard to figure out
Yea.. ofcause this is really true.. Very nice post.
You are just so right. I haven’t really thought about it that much earlier but now when you tells me. I don’t just thinking about “making money online” but also about my athletic carrear. I am the reason I haven’t more successes and I have to get me where I wanna be.
Thanks alot John!
I know a few of the “wife wont let me” people but I’m sure its never been the case where money is involved.
It just takes a breakthrough in your mind to make you see the light.
Excellent article! If you want to be successful, change your mindset to success. John you should write a guest post for my blog. You’re a great writer.
-Andrew
Good points, John. Success depends on the individual. No one is going to do anything for you. Not your boss. Not your friends. Certainly not the government. Success depends on the person and how badly he or she wants to move up in the world. Making money online, investing for financial freedom, etc…..if someone really wants to, he or she can achieve it.
“Certainly not the government.” Exactly, it kind of makes me wonder why people get so excited about one politician over another, when it is in fact, you who are going to make the difference in your own life.
hey John. this is my first time at your site. just wanted to say that I enjoyed this post. its probably the most inspiring thing I’ve ever read that didn’t try to sell me something at the end!
Well said John. I am new to your website and reading things for past few days. Ultimately one has to blame himself if he fails and sucess has many fathers
I agree 100%, John. There is nothing between me and succes but myself. And those d@mned Amish holding me down.
Great post John. Certainly thought provoking. Time for some of us to get the proverbial finger out and start looking at the meaningful things in our ‘online’ lives instead of bemoaning our bad luck all the time!
Is this what you meant in your post
I tend to agree. I have found that there are simple ways to make money online, most people just don’t want to act on it. I’ve rarely seen people accomplish making money online by doing nothing. Good Read!
John, I’m sifting through your archives looking for answers, but I thought I might save some time with this question. What’s the quickest way to earn(net) $500 on the web? Or, how quickly can $500 be earned? No doubt it takes time to earn high dollars, but I don’t require high dollars. I understand it’s not just about the money. Anyone?
“What’s the quickest way to earn(net) $500 on the web?”
Sell a review on your blog. That is the magic number for this blog.. which is utterly ridiculous.
Why is $500 utterly ridiculous? I catch on, I just catch on slow.
That’s the point…the success ppl let the money work for them.
This post made me think of being successful totally different then what I thought 5mins ago before i read this. Was inspiring in a sort of way to read this.
Thanks Johny.
Very inspirational post John. It is definitely true that most bloggers are hurt by the feeling that they simply can’t acheive what the “big dogs” have done. It is very possible, and you have really demonstrated this quite well
I believe some people might know this. If A=1, B=2, C=3…Z=26, Attitude add up will be 100. You guys can try it. Success lies down not only mindset, attitude also is very important factors. Attitude is exactly how a person expressing or doing something. It is the expression of how a person behave base on his thought and mindset. Successful person with right mindset and right attitude, he or she will be in the right track to be successful in life.
For myself, it took me some time to be in the right track and fine tune my own attitude towards the journey of being successful in life. Continuous learning and take action are important to assist me to be successful in life. Life will never be the same again.
Love-Fun-Peace
Kevin Low
Very well put. Keep up the good work.