Up until this point, we’ve essentially been covering the requirements and prerequisite knowledge necessary to increase your chances of building a successful online business.
Today marks a turning point.
It’s time to begin focusing on your personal situation, and to turn our attention to your future business…
(Watch this video…)
Main points:
Without vision, your business probably won’t succeed.
I describe vision as being able to “see” a clear picture of your fulfilled goals in your mind.
It’s like the box cover of a difficult puzzle…
You must begin with the end in mind.
Almost every success in my life has come AFTER having a vision for it. (For example, when I won the state championship, and every time I launch a product)
The successful business owners that I’ve known ALL have vision.
It’s kind of like looking at the world from 30,000 feet. You see the big picture, and not the problems.
If you lose sight of your vision, you lose hope. And if you lose hope, it’s game over.
As we progress in the lessons, we’ll keep moving forward step by step, but if you don’t start by getting a vision, further efforts could be somewhat futile.
If you set your target too low, you may hit it, but there is almost no chance that you will exceed it. On the other hand, if you set your target too high, you may fail, but you will be further along than the “low” target. Therefore it’s better to set your vision higher.
One of the biggest things I see holding people back is a “victim mentality”.
“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture. Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image. That is most dangerous, for the mind always tries to complete what it pictures. So always picture ‘success’ no matter how badly things seem to be going at the moment.” – Norman Vincent Peale
Many of us have taken on a “just get by” mentality.
The size of your vision will dictate the size of the result.
YOU are valuable. Don’t sell yourself short.
Here’s my “disclaimer” that I forgot to include in the video…. “The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.” (Prov. 16:9)
Action steps:
I want you to take a moment to tell me your vision for your business. The vision can involve other areas of your life too, but since we’re working on building your business, it should be focused on your business.
It’s important to write your vision down, so go ahead and post it in the comments below. This is YOUR vision, and there is NO wrong answer.
Focus on the big picture. Don’t worry about the details of how you will get there. We’ll worry about that stuff when we learn about goal setting and business plans, and I’ll be talking about those things in the next lesson.
As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below.
Have a great day!
I am going to build a web business in Perth West Australia so that I can help others make money on line.
My business is going to provide me with income so that I can help others who are in need. i am prepared to put all my effort into the business to make it a success. I want to take my wife on trips overseas pay off my expenses so I am Debt free and can do the things that helps others The website was built by me over the last 8 weeks. I started doing this business since Dec 14th 2011 I have a lot to learn BUT I WILL SUCCEED
Hi Eric,
After months and hundred of hours for no results, after the confusion and discouragement… this is like “coming home”! Thank you so much Eric for your approach and thinking.
My vision is to build a solid ethical business to produce $1 million a year but not just for me. To bless my family and those in needs and also have the time to minister and build up others using my training in counselling and leadership coaching. I want to expand the personal coaching I provide to senior pastors.
My vision is to have a profitable website that would generate a system that others could use that will help them survive and pass along to help people in need…………
My vision wow, I love my vision but imma make it brief cause im typing from my smatphone. But my vision is to create 1,147,092.00 for the year selling an ebook a video course and a traffic course in the internet marketing niche. To establish my already created brand “Success at Home” and create a virtual internet academy teahinl aspiring internet marketers how to succeed and develop their businesses based around their passions
My vision is to finish my actual project, earn money from it and begin with a lot of others, as my head is full of ideas. Once successful I will show others on how to gain an income from the internet. Take care everybody
Eric
I am one of your older students but I have hope dreams and look towards eventually making about 10 websites to market various informational products that would enrich in some way my fellow internet markets lives. My Vision is to have multi-income streams so that I don’t have to worry about finances and also have sufficient resources to help me give to my 3 children and 6 grandchildren. I know I will achieve my visions through God’s help and Eric’s Tips. I am also looking for a miricle as funds are ridiculously scant, huge bills etc
but I am 73 and smiling and suceeding is my vision
Hi Eric: My vision is to earn enough (25k/mo) for now to get my family through the next few years of this slow economic recovery with enough left over to buy gold, silver, and food producing land. The second phase of this would be to build a health clinic for the poor in an under served rural area of Latin America.
Simultaneously with keeping up withthe lessons we Newbies have to decide whether or not to buy software deals pitched by Eric & team. Now comes the Amazon triple software and Eric says
“turn off any cookies” so we can get credit. Well, Newbie Ron does not know how to turn off cookies.(?) I am not even sure I am downloading correctly.Probably there should be 2 courses at the same time- one on computer
handling and the other on affiliate marketing.
Hello Eric,
My Vision:
1. To be able to provide people with health tips, information & products to improve their health.
2. To build my website subscribers and presence online & be one of the top visited health information resource sites.
3. To build relationships with people all over the world.
4. Be financially free by paying off all of my debts in 12 months.
5. Be able to take care of my parents financially so they can be free and take them on a trip they will never forget!
6. Travel anywhere I want to and be able to run my business at any location.
7. My spouse and I do not work so we can spend quality time doing what we want to do.
8. Make 25,000/month minimum in my online business. Selling health information & products.
9. Write a best seller in the health niche and a fiction as well.
I would like to thank you Eric for this free training! I have taken other training courses that cost quite a bit of money that I really could not spend. The courses could never compare to the training I have had so far with you. You truly give back and for that you will be rewarded in life.
My vision is to be financially independant. To own at least 10 prosperous websites that are making me 5 figures monthly. Pay my bills online on the same day they arrive, drive my two dream cars, own my home and travel first class at least twice a year. To help myself and then help others. Donate annually to the five organizations that I have always wanted to help. Help and teach my children and family to help themselves. Accomplish all this by working four days a week.
Yolanda
My vision is to develop online marketing, work about 4 hours a day except weekend. This will bring me about a $million/year. I will have a chance to help my family and provide the means for a long term house keeping and traveling. I will do this passionately and with joyfulness.
Marija
My vision is to have a successful internet business integrated into my holistic lifestyle. I will work a few hours each week, and from my business I will receive $100,000.00 or better per month. I have some projects that I will bring to fruition for my community and the freedom to make choices for myself as and when I want to.
I am grateful for your time and knowledge which is helping me to grow and enhance my life andonline business. Thank you.
My Vision is to have a financial Freedom with my online business and to help others do the same thing.
My vision is to be able to make millions of dollars to set my younger family members up in thier own businesses; and to give back by making great societal canges that somehow will decrease the amount of homelessness in the country.
my favorite story on Visioning is when the president of Disney and the chief architect walked into Disney world, the architect said,” It is a shame Walt died and did not get to see this.”
The President of Disney said,” If Walt had not seen this it would not be here now.”
My vision is to be an internet marketing coach, supplying low cost and affiliate marketing programs to low budget entrepreneurs.
My vision is to gain financial independence.
Hi Eric my short term goal (90days) is to make $10 a day on each of my 11 domain names 10×11=110($3000 monthly)I have that many domain per a nich guru i was listening to before you. My long term goals are to make a at least $30,000 a month. I will tithe to my church $3000.00 monthly. My parent can celebrate 45 years of marriage by going on all expeness paid cruised on my dime. They can also give up their rental property business and start enjoying be retired. I want to pay for my 18 year old niece who is my heart go to the college of her choice. I will also help my school teacher sister pay of her school loans. There are so many people who need my help. Now i’m not total selfless,I want to stop substitute teaching and travel and buy a top of the line luxury car.
Hello Ron,
Here is Eric’s lesson on Basic Computer Skills:
You can also search for answers at Google, Yahoo, etc. for immediate answers to your questions.
Here’s a website I just found when I searched “How to Clear Cookies”
http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=2
Hi Eric,
Your tips are an absolute God Sent! Thank you for helping us put it in respective. My vision is to have several successful online automated businesses earning money everyday. The goal is helping people get what they want to make their dreams come true. This money will get me debt free; I want to be able to buy an energy efficient home with a walk out green house and pay with cash. I would like to travel when I want and be supportive for my family and make my mother’s last days peaceful and comfortable. I have not been able to buy my grandchildren presents for a long time; This would bring joy to me. Lastly my dream is to attract unlimited income, with a short term goal within 3-6 month bring in $5,000 a month and increase from there.
Thanks again
Nomad
My Vision
To launch a perpetually successful online business by or before August this year 2012.
I will cease working for others and thus remove myself from the current daily nine to five obligations.
My business will be a earning, learning, sharing experience; dynamically expandable utilising my present and evolving interest. My current interests are:
Music
Computing
Digital things
Reading
Reasoning
Travelling
HEALTH -Physical – Mental – Emotional Physcological.
History – research my roots.
I will work primarily from home or on the move or on vacation, when I desire or due to necessity outside my norm.
I will have more time for family and good friends.
I will earn millions of pounds sterling per year.
I will help family and good friends who genuinely want and need my help.
I will retire and live in a safe and sunnier location than where I am currently located.
with the ability to regularly visit people I wish to see, and assist those who wish to visit us in our sunnier location.
I will assist worthy communities and individuals.
I will encourage and assist family and friends who desire to be financially independent from the nine to five routine.
My vision it to develop a Marketing mindset and then to discover the latent and unrealized talents that I have and to apply this knowledge to a successful Internet Marketing Business that will generate an income of $120,000 in the first year, increasing by 50% for each subsequent year until my annual income exceeds $1,000,000 per annum.(By my reconning that will happen in the 7th year). I have a conceptual design in my mind to develop a magnetic motor that will revolutionize how we generate power on this planet. My vision is to develop this idea into a working model and then market this to venture capitalists who will develop this into a commercial model. My vision is to offer all of myself to this planet so all who interact with me benefit in some way as I in turn benefit from all the persons who are in my life now and in the future.
My Vision is to build an Online Business that will provide me with the Funds to help me Develope a Business that combines Education and Entertainment. I firmly believe that we must begin to Teach our Children the Truth about what it takes to Succeed in Life.
In other words don’t give a Man a Job Teach Him how to Own His own Business.
By combining Entertainment to the Equation it ensures that People will support the project especially when they understand that every dollar they spend on Entertainment will guarntee a Child’s Education they will not only come back but will spend those dollars knowing they are recieving quality Entertainnment while helping our Children recieve the Education they need to be Successful in Life.
My vision is to become financially independent within the next 7 years. At age 50 I want to retire and together with my wife travel the world. By then I would have built 101 individual online businesses each generating $ 100k per year. 7 of these businesses would provide income for childrens homes, 7 of these would provide income for old aged homes and 7 of these would provide income for churces to enable them to spread the word of God and to provide for those in need. 29 of these businesses would provide housing, food and clothing for families for 7 months until they are able to have their own sustainable online business to provide for their needs.
My vision is to create an online business that will make a difference for others,particularly the baby boomers like myself nearing retirement. On a personal level, my vision is to achieve financial independence for myself and my wife, so that we can experience life together and give back to others in various ways.
Hi ,
Firstly I want to say thank you for your replay for my question. After your replay I believe I can succeed in my business.
I want to become debt free person. I want to give my kids their needs and make them happy. I would like to buy my dream house. This is my first vision. My vision will continue throughout my life.
Hi Eric, this lesson has struck a cord with me. I carve wood into different objects. To do this I have to have a vision of what I am creating. Now my vision for my marketing venture is to creat a E marketing dynasty, making $1,000,000 + every year to pass on to my family in the E marketing and Mobile marketing world..to my daughters, grandsons,granddaughters and their families.
Interesting, my Pastor spoke of this same story this past Sunday. His topic was having unreasonable faith, or in other words, having faith that you are able to reach what others may feel is an unreasonable goal.
My parents are aging and live in the country. But, my job keeps me in the city.
My vision would be to be able to support myself in a manner that would allow me to be close to them and have the time to help them to remain in their home for as long as that is practical. They have spent their lives giving me support. Now it is time to give back.
My vision I see myself running different successful online marketing businesses and getting $1,000,000 every year from these businesses so I can work less than 40 hours a week and be able to afford many holidays in the year. I earn enough money to be able to live with the woman I have chosen and leave a legacy to my descendants after having lived a life of luxury. I drive a maseratti and a mercedes slr McLaren and a Hans christiansen yacht.
l give a lump some of money to my Church so they can repair the roof and do the regular maintenance of the Church. I see myself in the future giving money to my brother for his school.
I will pay for my GodDaughter studies and her sister and brothers in order to help my brother.
My short term goal is to earn $10 000 per month from June 2012 and be debt-free.
My vision is to have multi streams of income, that consist of online marketing and different investment stratigies, making multimillion dollars a year. I want to leave a legacy for my great great grandkids. This will be a family business that gets passed on to generations. I want the freedom to give to my church not just finacial means but also myself for serving. I want to be able to help in local and far away missions and a couple times a year enjoy a vacation of my choosing.
My vision is to have a very succesfull online business, I don’t have a set nitche yet but have different ideas, I love helping others and would like to give back to the community, spend a lot more time with my family and provide them with what they diserve traveling and several vacations, make millions of dollars.
2009? Did you do it?
My vision is to be successfull and leave my family secure
Thank you Erik for your invaluable lessons. I kept procrastinating in listening to you but once I started, I am inhaling them one after the other. About the video on vision, this is probably the stumbling block for me. Even though I’ve been online for several years, to this day, I could not see a distinct persona for myself online. I read and learned from many people like yourself but what that did was neutralize my own personality. And because I don’t have a particular thing that I am passionate about, (other than my passion for making money online no matter what), I found myself aimless. Besides not having developed my own strong online identity, I think one of my biggest problems is goal setting. I set specific goals with deadlines before but they never come to pass because of not having accurate plans to execute them or because of lack of vision or both. Having listened to your lesson on vision, coupled with my duo paradox of no persona but strong passion for making money, out of that comes this vision. I hope I didn’t confuse anybody with this last paragraph:
My vision is to have a successful online business that will enable me to retire my wife (as I am already retired). My business will be centered around affiliate marketing and Google Adsense in particular. I can see my websites generating $5,000 per month by September 30, 2012, and in access of $10,000 per month by March 31, 2013. I plan to build effective quality websites in various niches, in addition to the few that I already have. I will build and design all my sites with the objective of creating a positive experience for my visitors, and value as the overriding principle. In order to achieve my goals, I will develop a specific plan of how many sites, niches, etc. and I intend to learn from and follow certain mentors who are considered authority in this field.
Dear Eric,
I am such an idealist that I marvel I would find here of all places on an internet marketer’s website(and how far would you go to find another place on the web or anywhere) where one’s vision is what matters most. I ‘retired’ when I lost a job on a point of principle to uphold civil rights of inmates in my care as a correctional psychologist. I fell then into a job market in my 60’s with a masters degree in a world that during my years of government service had now come to require a doctorate. In the past year starting with a three week vigil in July I helped my mother through end of life issues until her death at the end of January. In the middle of this period of my mother’s illness, Tropical Storm Lee put 8 feet of water in my home and it is still under repair, requiring multiple appeals to obtain what it takes to repair my home. And just after the flood I was placed for a time on a medical treatment that induced anemia and slowed my thyroid so that I was perpetually sleepy and tired. Yet this has been the most spiritually affirming and uplifting year of my life. I experienced great closeness with my mother and my brother during this time of her life’s end. And, I am finding that we are making progress restoring our home; and my health has returned. I am beginning to get some clinical hours with a neglected population. During the time I looked for work without success (a year and a half, and it is not fully resolved) I thought about what ‘sustainability’ means and I felt that if I sold health insurance to some who normally do not get it like restaurant workers, etc., that it would sustain them if they were hurt or sick. I am just beginning to get somewhere with this.
So my vision is to learn to market online and help my young sons just about to enter college with the best opportunities I can help them with. I want to help my wife, a professor, with her vision of sustainability through nutrition education, and food production by giving her resources and time to work in the community. I wish to be able to return to fine painting where I started out and help other artists who have weathered a difficult economic time in recent years to be able to pursue their artistic vision. I believe that of multiple enterprises I am trying to make go, that internet marketing can be a highly ethical as well as highly economically successful enterprise. And I love the challenge of figuring out all the new skill sets that go with this enterprise. So imagine how good it feels to come across someone who speaks of approaching internet marketing from the place of holding high moral values and high personal vision. Thank you oh so much!
Robert Dromboski
Eric my first site will be launched by Tuesday. My
product is to design websites, with a goal of 3 or 4 sales per month at $499 each.
I am a grandparent raising a grandchild, she has been recently diagnosed with BI-Polar disorder,my prayer and hope is to be able to set up a trust fund for her in the event of my nor being aroung to care for her.
Hi Eric,
My Vision is to run a successful online job from home and quilt my day job later on. I will spend more time with my son, married my girlfriend, give back to the community and go on Vacation I’ve never had before.
You’re inspirational teacher. My business outlook changed the moment I listen to your video. I have alway shortchanged my vision for lack of self conviction and focus. My goal is to have my website generating £5000 per month by December 2012.This is my vision
I’m not sure where I found Eric’s tips, but I am grateful I did. Your style of teaching is just what I need. I thank you very much for the value you are giving.
I am a 73 year old women who has only a high school education and 1 year of college. I have had many jobs in my life, the last was a Faux Painting business ( my own business, which was just a job with more responsibility). I have just retired from that business. Social Security is minimal and I have no savings. I have been working on the interent for 3 years to learn the technical part of an online business. Now I am ready to begin the process of building that business.
I want to earn at least $120,000. per year, using multiple streams of income. With that money I want to give myself some pleasureable things and then help people, who are in the same position I am, to become self sufficient. I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, as my time here on this earth is short now. I want to give extensively to my church and missions around the world.
Thank you Eric for helping me achieve my goals.
My vision is to build a way of living for the rest of my life:
1. I’ll build a from home business that takes me out of unemployment and the fear of not being able to pay my rent, bills and food.
2. My business will make enough to pay my debts.
3. My business will secure my future/my old days.
4. My business will give the possibilities to help my daughter fulfilling her vision, to be a musician.
5. My business will give me the possibilities to help my closest friends to start off better lifes.
6. My business will raise enough to let me work voluntarily for some important organisations – concerning music and my chuch – which I concider very important.
7. To raise these goals my vision is to earn more than seven figures a year.
Hi Eric,
My vision is to have a successful online business centred around my skills as a hypnotherapist and a medium. I have written two books, one of which is not even published as yet, and the other has not sold many at the moment. I will work from home in the hope to capture email addresses from people who are interested in what I have to offer, and promote and market my books better. I will then have the opportunity to spend more time with my two sons, and will even be able to go on holiday with them.
Hello Eric and Family,
I had envisioned a vision of myself, many years ago, as a national motivational speaker, and that glimpse I still question today.
Father me?
To-date:
My VISION is to be listed among the top 5 in the nation of Business Marketing Management. And enjoy all the positive perks that go along with it. For example, living a life with complete financial security where money creates money, not me working for money. I’d like this method of living to continue, for generation to generation. This will require me to take one full step at a time. My fears are within, and the greatest threat, is self. My goal is to conquer and revert back to God’s ultimate purpose concerning me.”Able”
I picture myself being financially free and being able to take care of my family. Not to worry that the next day the boss might say I am sorry “Dave” but we do not require your skills anymore. When I get up in the morning knowing I am capable of creating or developing a means to make money. Whether it be informational products or physical products. Using my mind to even improve upon a product that may already be in the market right now. To create an empire that I could pass on to my children so that they have the opportunity to be free from the 9 to 5 drudgery. To just plan a trip to some exotic place and the money we used was made from our business. To continue to make friends through the development of the business. I am getting sleepy but these are part of my aspirations that I think about as my vision continues to grow into this massive picture. Finally to have a team of like minded people that loved creating new concepts and solving problems as much as I do.
Hello Eric
My vision is to be among the top five in the nation of Business marketing Management, while enjoying all the positive perks that go along with it.
My vision is to have a successful online and local business centered around my passion which is Precious Metals. I will work out of my office which will have 30-50 Online and Phone Sales Representatives.. My business will make me 1 million dollars per year, with which I will help my family and donate some to cancer research. I will take several vacations to different countries several times a year never going to the same place twice until I have been to all the others.
Hello Eric,
First let Abbye and I thank you for your straight up teaching and passing your wisdom on to us. We have looked at so many out there on the net and your are truly refreshing. Your strong faith in The Lord is what has captured us.
We are over 70 youngsters and I, Gary, am still working full time as an electrician. Abbye and I are supporting two families right now besides ourselves. Due to no jobs being available.
Our vision is to build our internet business to the point that I can retire from construction by the end of this year and continue to help these other families (our children) stay afloat until they can get back to work. To build the business large enough to where they can continue to run it and be financially free themselves.
Before we go home we want to take some mission trips ourselves. We do support missions at our church now but would like to be able to go also.
We want enough financial freedom so that when we see that there is truly a need we will be able to help. When a child needs medical care and they won’t give it because the family can’t afford it, we want to be able to write the check, pay for the flight or what ever is needed.
These are immediate and long range goal and visions.
Thank you again Eric
Gary & Abbye
My vision is to make the first dollar, I did reed about and I honestly believe in that, then I can make 10, I can make 100 Yes I can make a living on it and I will be the best. You was say that it was like learning a new language, so then I learn first better English and then the rest. I be there all the time watching U.
First of all I Acknowledge your knowledge and how it divinely inspires me…Then, not only do I envision my own site as one of information but to manage it in such a way that it may attract people relative to what I believe and that can help them expand their(our) consciousness into a better world for everyone.
Vision:
First 6 months: I am earning a minimum of $755 per day, every day through online marketing
of digital products.
I earn enough to allow my wife to retire from her business. We are spending more quality time together.
We are building our dream home that is off the grid with renewable energy.
We are selling our present house.
We volunteer at the community soup kitchen.
We are traveling. We have time to exercise and be healthy.
We donate 10-20% to our favorite charities.
Passive money is coming in daily through sites set up for digital products,
SEO marketing and youtube videos.
By the end of the first year I am serving hundreds of thousands of people helping them
improve their lives with high-quality digital products.
I am earning over $5,000 daily in passive fashion
from my sites. My wife and I have established a charitable foundation.
We are helping those in need. We are making a difference towards bettering our community.
We are strengthening our faith and walking the walk together…
To make six figure in a year online and at least double it every year. Build my own house and send kids to college of their choice, help my family and have vacation with them (twice a year) in my expense. Mentor people to succeed and be happy. Learn and produce quality movie.
My vision is to create an online business that leverages automated web-based technologies to market products and services that enhance the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of its customers.
“Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it…” Psalm 127:1 – KJV