Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

Are You Pretending?... Or Becoming?
You know all the time most of us spend pretending? You know what I mean. It's those times when you don't quite feel up to the task. So you pretend you have everything under control and hope you can fake our way through.

Most of the time you actually succeed. OK, maybe you don't always set the world on fire with how well you do. But you actually get through it without embarassing yourself. You get it done.

So let's say you pull something like this off. What do you do? Do you ever let out a huge sigh of relief that you "got away with it," and move on to the next task? Do you ever feel like—even though you succeeded—you're just living on borrowed time before you come up short the next time around?

It's easy to lock ourselves into this negative approach. It's easy to live day-to-day by trying to fake our way through problems and then not giving ourselves credit when we succeed.

How much energy do we put into trying to convince others that we're more than we ourselves think we are? What would happen, though, if we took that energy that we put into something more productive? What if we put it into convincing OURSELVES that we're actually capable of what we set out to do?

What if we took our energy out of worrying that people will find out that we're not all that we want to be? What if we put that energy into becoming that very same person we would like to be?

Can you imagine what a huge leap forward that would be in your life? It would ROCK!

I've been looking at things like that lately in my study of BANABU.

(Don't worry, it's not some kind of weird cult. It's a personal growth program that takes a no-nonsense, no-starry-eyed-babble approach to changing your mindset so you ALLOW yourself to succeed instead of always finding a way to fall short of your goals.)

It's been a real eye-opener to see how much I've been leaving on the table in my business—and in other parts of my life—because of simply looking the wrong way at what I'm accomplishing.

Check it out. I think you'll find the same thing in your life as well. And for anyone starting a business, getting your mindset tuned to success is essential. While everyone else is bumbling around trying to win with tools and tactics alone, you can focus on the one element that most top marketers consider 90% responsible for their success: a success mindset.

And frankly, I've never known ANYONE who succeeded long-term at business who didn't have a mindset that is geared for success.
Jeff