I think I had about 100 daily snowballs in my back yard. It was not until I started to read people lie Kim Roach that I started to believe I could get somewhere.

Now my traffic is growing weekly and I am very pleased with the progress.

I am glad I found your blog (Kim) and will be back to learn more from you.
Bruce
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During August 2009 I had a very strong picture in my mind of the very same things..ie a snowball being pushed down a hill, and gaining momentum as I kept pushing it.

I knew I would face obstacles aling the way down, BUT, even more clearly, I knew that the more consistently I pushed the snowball, the bigger it would get & the more unstoppable it would be.

So here we are, nearly 10 months later. My snowball is big, but I know I need to keep it moving.

Your insights about not trying to create & push too many snowballs is very, very pertinent to me (and I’m sure to many others out there who get so easily distracted by “Shiny Object Syndrome” (aka S.O.S.!!).

What you have written in this post very strongly resonates with me and it was very encouraging to read it.

Thanks for sharing, and all the best in your growing business.

Best regards,

Dez Futak.
(Fellow internet marketers and recovering SOS addict

It doesn’t help that we keep getting emails asking, “Is ….. dead”? The answer is usually no, it still works just like it always did.

One of your most valuable IM tools is the unsubscribe link. Use it and get back to doing the stuff that matters. (says he, while commenting on a blog instead of writing an article)

Rich
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Great post on mindset! Just what the IM industry needs – though as you said, not necessarily what it wants. Personally, my whole perspective changed when I realized that I already knew enough and that “knowing” wasn’t worth anything until I built something that used that knowledge. Since then, profits have grown steadily.

Something I would find very helpful to learn from you is how you
systematize your business and find reliable people to outsource it to so that it becomes automated – especially being blind. I am at that stage in my business where I need to outsource to reliable help and someone who can offer tips that has “gone before” like yourself would be very appreciated.

I’ve gotten started by hiring some workers but find I am the
roadblock now because I have not clearly defined my system. (I kept waiting to hire until I’d defined it but that kept getting pushed off so I finally decided to force myself into the position of having to.) Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Zeke

I appreciate what you are saying about mindset. I think most of us avoid it because it’s the one thing that is the most difficult to understand or change. We wouldn’t know if we had the right mindset or not. We assume we have the right mind set because we want to make money on the internet. I’ve come to learn ‘wanting’ is not enough, but I don’t know how to transition into the right mindset. How do we get there?

For what it’s worth, here are some of my own thoughts and answers.

@Tanks: sounds like an excellent plan.

Sticking to “one” path for 3 months will get you a surprisingly long way.

It might not feel like it at the time, but when you look back, you’ll realise you’re waaay further on.

@Andrew: Don’t worry about standing out from the noise. Just be yourself, provide value and be straight with people.

That’s enough to make you stand out a mile and people will thank you for it.

@Nikhil , Thanks for sharing this and for being so open.

I don’t at all think mindset is about changing our character from those early years. On the contrary, it’s about getting back in touch with how we were in that early part of our lives.

I.E. not being quite so afraid, and having the courage and self belief to push forward, even when things are tough.

Have you ever noticed how kids often pick things up so instinctively. They seem to miss out the “how” bit, and just go from idea to implementation.

Personally, that’s the approach I try and take. Just “go for it”. If you fall down, get back up and carry on until you can do it.

@Patrick
, totally agree about taking responsibility.

When you take responsibility for your own success (whatever you define as success) you’re already 50% closer. The next stage is taking the necessary steps to turn your dream into a reality.
before you take action. When we “need” to find a solution, we’re capable of amazing things.

@Mark, spot on dude. The internet is one of the cheepest places to fail, and if you fall down, it’s generally not that painful.

@Robert, have a read of Chris’s excellent comment again.

“I would say that setting out to build a business – not “follow a program” or look for the ultimate “step by step” – is a crucial element in the process.”

What kind of business do you want to build?

How would you see your life in 1, 2,5 years time?

Try and start from the end and work backwards.

-Matt

I’m putting my hand up and owning up to the fact that I always get distracted by the latest fancy bauble that comes along. I have been getting information, not actually advice from 40 people and not implementing any of it so starting the first of March I am following one person’s methodology solidly- and implementing it solidly for three months.

I’m going to follow it at the idiot level without any fancy innovations and interruptions.

At that time I am going to review my snowball and see what has happened.

To date I have been farting about in the internet for close on three years – spend a lot and not earned a penny. It is going to change by simple application.

I will be posting my daily progress to a blog so every one can review my success or failure… Nothing like a little public commitment and the fear of embracement to ensure application.

Ok for those of you interested in my progress or lack there of my blog is at: Tanks Progress

At the moment its empty but the first posting will be on the 1st March… Promise

Tank Johnson
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I really enjoyed your latest audio interviews. I didn’t respond to your survey since I don’t think anything is holding me back right now. What I did was to JV with a partner that has complementary skills to mine like he is good at marketing and I am good at coding.

Before this, I had an endless stream of half baked projects. Now I have the motivation to complete the current project, since I know I have the guy with the contacts and list eager to promote it.

One current problem I see is standing out from the noise. So I guess this is where the JVing comes into play?
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I think that reading your blog post above might give me a new direction in my life. Not in the way you intended perhaps. But I would like your comments on my opinions below (if it is possible).

You said that the most important factor in our success is our mindset. Now a person’s mindset is not something that you can change as easily as you switch on the TV.

A person’s character (including his mindset) is shaped in the first 7 years of his life. Freud proved this conclusively many decades ago in the early part of the 20th century and his findings have not been refuted. In the Islamic religion also the Muslim clerics ask for the custody of young Muslim infants to be given to them for the first 7 years of the child’s life. Then the clerics give the child back to the parents. The saying among the clerics is – give me your child to me for the first 7 years of his life and then you can have him back. But after spending those years with me the child will belong to me forever.

So a person’s character (including his mindset) is shaped in the first 7 years of his life. And it is almost impossible to change it. The habits of thoughts. the way we feel on a moment to moment basis as we go through life, the way we respond or react to situations is almost impossible to change.

The impossible can still be done if you are young and have enormous drive and determination.

I started a project to change myself as a person many years ago and I succeeded. What I found useful was reading books to locate a good role model. Once I got my role model I re=read the same books over and over to imbibe and absorb and expose myself repeatedly to the way my role models thought and felt and responded to life.

Another thing which I did and which is also essential was to free yourself from my past conditioning. For this I found Buddhist meditation and awareness techniques to be very useful. Through these various meditation exercises I was able to free myself of my past conditioning. And then I found myself responding to life in the same way that my role models, whom I had exposed myself to, did.

But this was an enormously long and difficult exercise and I started when I was young. Now I am no longer young and do not wish to take the pains to change my mindset again a second time round.

So as far as mindset is concerned – either you have it or you don’t. And if you don’t have it you would be better off working at a job.

I would like to have your comments on my post above. My opinions attack the self help industry and all the people selling mindset products. But it is not intended in a malicious way.

I am looking for some direction for my future and this is the reason I am posting this and would appreciate your feedback.

Thanks in advance and I again hope that I have not hurt your interests in any way.

regards

Nikhil