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!
Hello Eric, I have a vision of being a successful internet marketer and making $200k plus a year
up until 2009 I was making $80k plus a year at my day job of hard labor those days are gone
cause the housing industry collapsed ..For the last couple of years i been seeing people getting Rich on the internet
and some of these people are selling garbage..I have no idea of what to sell but want to sell something to help people
maybe health and fitness..I will continue to watch your video’s and follow your program ..And make 2014 my best year ever
Thanks Eric!
My goal is to create a successful online business centered around my passion which is health and wellness. I will work from home and spend lots of time with my family and traveling. I will work less than 40 hours per week and I will make over $500,000 per year. I will give back to the community and fulfill my dream of a farm for rescue animals where I can have camps for foster and disadvantaged kids. This will take less than 2 years to accomplish.
Thanks Eric – You help me to stay hopeful!
My vision is that my business will enable me to have complete financial freedom, and to be financially responsible. I deeply desire the freedom to be able to pursue creative projects unhindered by money concerns. I deeply desire to give to worthy causes. Financial freedom will include being completely debt-free, including our mortgage and cars. Financial responsibility will mean that others, such as my family and church, will not be obligated to take care of my family. My goal is to make a million dollars toward reaching these goals. I’m starting over at zero, at age 53.
My vision is to become a great marketer so I can push my offline business, become debt free so that I can closely follow the Lord’s will in my life. I can just feel that burden of debt lifting from my shoulders. I want to be able to help other people, spiritually and financially. I want to have more time for my family, to volunteer, support missionaries and become a missionary myself. I want for my children to go and finish college debt free. so I am so thankful that I found the 3 marketers, now i can now move forward toward my dreams
The vision for my Business. I want to be an established online marketer by having my own product creations and by selling others products and have my business to have made 1 million dollars within a year. I want to be an success story to others and also teach them the skills to be an successful online marketer as well. I want to establish personal financial freedom for me and my children so that I can pay for their college education. I also want to be able to travel anywhere in the world that I want when I want. I want to be debt free by next year!
I will accomplish this by working at least 30-40 hrs a week in the beginning and then when I become established I will work at least 20 hrs a week and hire others. I want to be self employed as well as a business owner.
I believe we are blessed to be a blessing so It is my goal to also sow into my local church by providing the finances to advance the Kingdom of God. I want to be able to put individuals on staff to be paid and appreciated for their time.
My vision:
To become a world class internet marketer by constantly learning, teaching, sharing and giving.
My vision has a few layers. The first layer is getting started and seeing my info products and physical products online. After that, I would want to enjoy debt freedom, and from there to scale my business to enter the B and eventually I sectors, using my business gains to grow and become automated. I want to build my investments, retirement wealth, that will eventually bring generational wealth to my family. From there I can use my wealth to give back even more to church and other institutions and create scholarship opportunities. No one makes their fortune alone, and I’d like to give back to those who sowed into my life.
My vision for my internet business is to earn enough money to get out of debt and retire and be with my family and build a business that will earn a one million dollar profit per year. Also, I want my business to help others to achieve their goals and to use my experience to develop a marketing plan that I can pass on to my grandchildren. I want to have enough money to travel with my wife and live comfortably by working from home; but most of all, I want to free up time to service my Lord, my church and my community.
Wow Dan, it´s inspiring every goal you state here in your vision, especially the last part. I have a vision of having free time to do just exactly that!
Thank you Eric for these great TIPS. It’s amazing to find someone like you. God Bless you.
Let me tell you that my vision is to develop a successful internet business based on Online Stores, and Blogging with affiliate marketing. I want to make it big to show my children the way. I am 58 now and I have been successful in other areas, like teaching, but I don’t have money to do the things I want to do. I picture myself doing internet marketing at a high level, so that I help people get what they need at the same time that I also get the things that I dream of having. I am interested in the niche of Health and Fitness. The research that I have done so far tells me that it is hard to succeed in this area because of the great competence, but I still think that I have a word to say. Any advice or Idea in this respect is welcome.
Marcelo116
Hello Marcelo,
Did you take advantage of our Fitness Firesale? This was likely the perfect fit for you at this stage.
I know i have achieved my vision when I can spend time with family or friends whenever i’d like…
Money will no longer be a burden on myself or my family and traveling would only be a phone call away…
I will build a successfully online business selling my own products or on-selling other peoples products and generating millions of dollars every year, which will be up and running by January 2015…
This income will be used to purchase other income generating assets, which we can use to assist people in need…
Most of my business will be auto-piloted so I can spend most my time doing what ever my heart desires…
traveling, BIG sports events, being with family or friends, staying in the best hotels, dinning in any restaurants I’d like and helping people with financial freedom and getting more involved in the community…
With the right vision and mind set in place and the GREAT help from Eric and his team…nothing can stop me from achieving my vision…
My vision is not just big, it´s very huge.
I want to own my very own movie studio, producing real movies. And, yes, one or two (or more) blockbusters with real Hollywood-Stars. Not only the stars we know by now, because I think there are MANY undetected good actors out there. Nevertheless. a studio like this would be VERY expansive. I’ve got some ideas for youtube-shows to get me there. Actually I don’t know how to produce them. With a 9 to 5 I won’t reach that goal, that’s clear. That’s why I am here.
Sorry for errors, english is only my second language, so it’s not perfect.
My vision for my internet business is to generate a million plus dollars a year from it. I desire to have enough financial freedom to spend time with my family, mostly my wife and grandcyhildren, and take all of them around the world.
Also I desire to spend time with people in my church family and use one of my spiritual gifts with them. I also want to spend time in sharing my faith with others and encouraging them to grow and develope their faith.
Vision to me is “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Eric:
I am just starting to learn online business. I like to spend at least 20 hours a week and see myself at the end of 2014 one million $$ richer. My goal is to pay some of my debt, help the hungry and poor people in Africa specially children who are unfortunate. As I get successful i like to succeed and make more and help more people with health related problems.and abuse animals.
At this time I do not know my niche but I am working on it and will find out soon.
My vision for my business is to earn $100,000 my first year out and have total freedom to travel with my family. My fitness products will have true value to my customers as they will be cost effective and make a real difference in their lives. My business will grow to $250,000 the second year and $500,000 the third year. I will teach my children to think big and live to their full potential using the business as a model to follow their own dreams. I will show them the value of giving back. I will give to my Church, Wounded Warriors, Troubled youth and St Jude’s Hospital for children.
My vision is to be the most wealthiest person in my home town of Plymouth (UK). With that I can then put a lot of money back into my community, helping my local children’s hospice, Macmillan Cancer Support and St. Lukes Hospice.
I feel these charities work very hard doing the jobs they do for so many.
I also want to own the house of my dream which is embedded in my mind right now, a nice car and at least two holidays per year.
I feel, the wealthy are not doing enough to help shape the way the communities are right now, and it is my vision to help shape that.
My vision is to make $250k+ yearly in marketing with only a laptop and have the time freedom to pursue my other interests. I want to be better able to help my family, friends, and church. I want to move to the gulf coast of Florida and start a maker workshop. Maybe I’ll start a blog of my journey to financial freedom. I’m currently a 57 year old HS teacher and I never want to stop learning. Thank you Eric for giving us this training.
Eric,
In a nut shell.
With our Lord blessing me through you, I am going to generate a stream of income through, information, ebooks, and product lines that will help me to help others (Its what I visualize every day) and be able to set it up to keep helping others after I’m called.
Do you need more specific?
God bless
Mark
My vision is to bild a succesfull online business to make the world greener and help people to enjoy their garden.
My business give me a passive incom in 2014 so i can travel around the world to help people to bild their
own business and make them aware of the importance of a green enviroment to live in.
My vision is to teach my children how to run a succesfull online business so they can discover how they can
help other people with their passion.
My vision: To build a very successful internet marketing business. I will build a legacy that I can leave to my son. While building this business I will be open to guidance. I will stop buying useless products that get lost in time and never get implemented. I will implement them one at a time. My goal is to begin earning $5000 within the next 90 days.
My vision is to have several successful online businesses that enable me to generate income to support my family and community. I want to start businesses that can be resold for millions, or be left to my daughter to continue to run.
My Vision is to have an internet based business, with multiple websites generating a seven figured income per year freeing up my time to give back to my community and family.
Lesson #13 Set Vision
My vision is to very successful, as an Internet Marketer earning $40,000.00 per month.
This will enable me to have time to enjoy my grandchildren and great grandchildren and also leave my legacy for them.
I am a very given person and need the money to share with not only family but to donate to my favorite Charities.
Hi Eric. Thank you for all you are giving and sharing. My vision with an online business is this: I want to create five or more streams of income from internet marketing. For this first, I want to earn $1250.00 a week minimum. That is 65K per year which is MORE than enough to cover bills and living expenses which would allow me to freely pursue my passion. That passion is building a team based business with a company that I am currently involved with where my goal is to earn a minimum of $83,000 per month from. That is the amount needed to fund charities, mission trips, college expenses etc. etc. My ideas about an online business may be completely wrong but I expect I will find that out as I move along with your lessons.
Hi Eric,
My vision written down is make $1 million in 1 year.
God bless, alan and Karen Rennie
My vision is like all other above…to live free from financial worries. I want to be able to work my online business for the rest of my life and possibly hand it down to my daughters. I want to be able to help my children w/their dreams at the same time enjoying the rest of my life free from worry. I am enjoying your tips and will continue to listen and work w/you to grow my online business. My vision is huge and I think of it daily.
Thanks, Brenda
The vision for my business is to have financial freedom and complete my education. My passions are to help and serve others. It’s a joy to see lives fulfilled and happy. Also, I will be able to contribute more and more to society and to have spare time to do other thing. This business success will allow me to move to another level in life. In Habakkuk 2:2-3, said write the vision.
My vision is to have a huge following on my website and a huge business having to do with our chemically modified foods and the sicknesses they are causing. My passion is to educate people about our food choices and what’s really happening to our crops, and the resulting illnesses which are epidemic today, and can be anything to mild aches and pains to very serious illnesses like cancer and everything in between, including mental disorders like ADD/ADHD, autism, and even depression, bipolar and schizophrenia. Not enough people are aware of the seriousness of the studies that have already been done and are ongoing now all over the world that are proving that we can all live very healthy lives with just a few tweaks in our food choices.My goal is to help as many people as I can with this site.
vision is to learn maketing online build a business for my family to keep going with when i cannot do this make what ever millions dollars we can make thanks tom scollick
Hello Eric my vision is to make one-hundred-thousand dollars a year online as a market Affiliate.
I believe what Proverbs 3:5-6 say’s you have a great day
Hi Eric,
Here is my business vision:
My vision is to have a successful online business to assist at least 1,000,000 people (to start) in achieving their ideal weight. I have the ability to show people (from my own personal experimentation and results) that weight loss doesn’t have to be boring. I will create every dollar of my own income and work exclusively from home. Once my business consistently nets $118,000.00 annually, I’ll be able to transition into a full-time internet marketer. By 2022, my goal is to have accumulated at least $10,000,000.00 of liquidity from these and investing efforts.
Thank you!
Sam Prindle
Eric,
Here is a revision version. I omitted one very important step:
My vision is to have a successful online business to assist at least 1,000,000 people (to start) in achieving their ideal weight. I have the ability to show people (from my own personal experimentation and results) that weight loss doesn’t have to be boring. I will create every dollar of my own income and work exclusively from home. I will pay off all current financial obligations while not incurring any more debt. Once my business consistently nets $118,000.00 annually, I’ll be able to transition into a full-time internet marketer. By 2022, my goal is to be debt-free and have accumulated at least $10,000,000.00 of liquidity from these and investing efforts.
I wish everyone the very best in building your internet marketing business.
Many thanks!
Your friend,
Sam Prindle
My vision is to refine and develop further my online business, that I began just over a year ago, in order to support myself as a retiree. I aim to make $100K a year, pay off my debts and be in a position to support several Christian organizations including the Bible School I attended 40 years ago. I would also like to be able to hire one part time person who is 80 and needs the extra income.
Thanks Eric for this awesome Tip.
My vision in internet marketing is to build “income systems” In the following fields:
Income system #1: web hosting for getting at least $3K – $10K. I’ll start as an affiliate for hosting companies to learn more about hosting process while I’ll generating income, how people think about hosting companies and how to provide them good service then I’ll start my own hosting company.
Income system #2: fat burning for generating income from affiliate programs while introducing best fat burning products.
Income system #3: Digital photography this system will be a community for photographer to offer their products and services as well as for photography lovers for purchasing products, education staffs and photos.
Income stream # 4: Domain and websites flipping I’ll build new sites for featured domains and offer them for sale.
Income stream #5: Joint ventures with famous people on the internet by monetizing their fields.
This my vision about my internet marketing “village”. in each system, I’ll start as a self employer until the system supports itself and I’ll outsource and manage the processes for growing the system. My basic focus will be in how to bring the success to each system. I measure success in each system by the floods of visitors and in turn huge income.
Hello Eric,
My vision has to do with two main things: 1) Becoming an expert in this field, (being a successful internet marketer, and help others achieve their financial freedom, earn six figures on my product launches, to take vacations whenever I want. And 2) It has to do with the health field where I work on a daily basis, I want to have this success in internet marketing to have my own rehab center, and help a lot people, achieve their health & hopeness as well.
Thank you Eric for all these I.M. training.
All the best & keep up with the excellent work!!!
Thanks Eric for this awesome Tip.
My vision in internet marketing is to build “income systems” In the following fields:
Income system #1: web hosting for getting at least $3K – $10K. I’ll start as an affiliate for hosting companies to learn more about hosting process while I’ll generating income, how people think about hosting companies and how to provide them good service then I’ll start my own hosting company.
Income system #2: fat burning for generating income from affiliate programs while introducing best fat burning products for helping people to loose their fats and enjoy their health.
Income system #3: Digital photography this system will be a community for photographer to offer their products and services as well as for photography lovers for purchasing products, education staffs and photos.
Income stream # 4: Domain and websites flipping I’ll build new sites for featured domains and offer them for sale.
Income stream #5: Joint ventures with famous people on the internet by monetizing their fields.
This my vision about my internet marketing “factory”. in each system, I’ll start as a self employer until the system supports itself and I’ll hire a team to manage the processes for growing the system. My basic focus will be in how to bring the success to each system. I measure success in each system by the floods of visitors and in turn huge income.
My vision is to be able to pay for a house in cash, move to the countryside, and have a sustainable, and scalable income of at least £100K per year working from home. I never want to rely on someone else for my financial security again (as in JOB). I want to become successful enough to be able to teach others how to do this too.
Hello Eric,
This is the vision for my business, in the next 12 to 18 months I envision being able to begin and grow my business to produce over $100,000 per year in income. At that point I can retire from my J.O.B. and build a business that is going to help others achieve their dreams while helping me to follow mine. I will continue to grow the business and expand it set my family up to live their dreams as well. I will become a expert marketer and teacher helping as many to avoid the grind and enjoy life as possible.
I been hunting for 14 years for right spot and right track for my vision, My vision is to work successfully on online business, I’m looking forward to spend some hours not like in the shop but less 30 or 40 a week the rest of my time with my disable son and my family, I’m looking at my business to bring a million or more every year, I would love to help my community, church, as well my family, I want go back to island ( Hawaii ) if I do good
Thank You soooooooo much ERIC for your tips, I really love it
I’m 63 yrs. young. Did a lot of different things in life. This is going to be kind of a story of my life. I hope that’s ok. Grew up on a Iowa farm. My parents were getting started in the farming business, which wasn’t easy in the 50 60 70. Things weren’t going well in the family business. I was married, had 2 children and tensions were high between my mother and wife. My mom had a tough time letting another woman come between me and my mother. So I split off in the fall of 78 to work on a cattle ranch, of 10,000 head of cattle, and farmed lots of land. It was great, drove a feed truck, and farmed when done feeding. Was the best place I had ever worked. After 5 yrs. I changed to work for a farmer and raise livestock. Lasted 2 yrs. Went to work for the school system were our children went to school. Custodian, bus driver for 22yrs. When our last daughter graduated I started driving semi truck. I had always wanted to do that. What a challenge to learn the life of a truck driver. Have enjoyed it a lot. Then on Nov. 16, 2013 6:45 am on a easy load to deliver. A car drifted into my lane and we hit head on. It killed the young man instantly in the car and left me with a compressed fracture in my lower back. I’ve been off work dealing with recovery. So now I’ve been looking into marketing. To see if I could come up with something that would work in that line. I have enjoyed Eric’s lessons, all the knowledge he has shared with all of use. I started a project in 05 with building a three wheeled motorcycle with a v8 motor in it. So I’m working on getting that going, and going to use the internet to help me get going. Well thank you for the great tips Eric 🙂
Hello Eric
My vison is to buld a successful internet marketer business, so I can become finanially able to help other people .
Hello. My vision is to make enough money online ($100,000 per year plus) so that I don’t have to worry month to month about my expenses and having any money for emergencies. I want a successful online business producing enough income to take vacations whenever I want so I can be with the love of my life. I also want to be able to help other deserving people without having to worry whether I have enough money to do so.
Hello. My name is Ron and I am interested in building an online business that will earn me $75,000 or more per year. I would like to do this for the following reasons: 1) To be able to provide for my family, 2) To get completely out of debt, 3) To be able to travel with my wife whenever we choose and 4) To be able to volunteer my time to give to worthy charitable events.
My vision is to gain financial freedom and become great at what I do. I want to start by being an awesome affiliate marketer that can bring in money that will allow me to get out of debt and be able to do some of the things I have only dreamed about while keeping my feet on the ground and my head out of the clouds. I envision helping the less fortune and my church. I want to have the feeling of security in my finances and know that I have the resources to buy it even if I don’t.
My vision for my online business is to clear $20 000 a month empowering women. Not only would I be doing something that I love, but I would be giving back by helping people. I would work in the mornings leaving the afternoons free to either work more or enjoy. Part of the appeal of this business is its portability allowing me to work from a cottage on a lake.
My grander vision is that I can be an example to others of what is possible.
My vision for my online business is to be a super internet marketer. At this time, I will not reveal my income level over the next 3 years. I want “FINANCIAL FREEDOM”. I want to travel. While on travel, my business must be on going.
I want to give charity to the less fortunate, especially to children’s home.
Thank you Mr Eric, for your many good tips.
My vision is to develop my own Internet Marketing Business, starting with Affiliate marketing and to reach a minimum earning of $10,000/- per month in a years time i.e. by March 2015. Thereafter I would develop my own line of business and reach 1 million dollar mark in next two years time. I not only want to create complete financial freedom for my self but help others to achieve financial freedom. The money I earn from by business is not only for me and my family but I would use it to help the people who are financially and otherwise deprived to lead a respectable and comfortable life.
My vision is that i open a multi natural healing centre so that there are different ways of helping others heal and feed the body back to health and free of dis eases with out the use drugs also heath modalities of Kungfu and Qi Gong and yoga so by using the online businesses to produce the necessary monies to build such a place i will make 3 million in the next 2 years my healing center will have healers from all types of different healing & health methods from Atlas chiro to Bowen therapies also hands on healing as well mineral baths and infrared saunas and herbal oil treatments along with organic foods that would be grown locally all this with the blessings of Spiritual teaching to this has been my vision for a very long time i dont wish to run the place i just want it to be operating so all can benefit from real medicine and real healings not one reliant on the big companies for profit only once this is running thats it i will go buy my large cabin on the Oasis of the seas ship and travell the world with my wife oh and cat
My vision is to make $1,000,000 annually. My online business will flourish in the self improvement field. I will work less than 40 hours a week. I will build a community help center for underprivilaged youth’s. There will be a battered and abused woman’s workgroup to help those woman achieve there goals and dreams. I will provide my family with vacations to places they’ve dreamed about (Walt Disney, Baseball Hall of Fame, Football Hall of Fame, visit every state in the continental United States). I will donate time to charity organizations whose vision is to help better the lives of struggling individuals.
Finally I will have the financial freedom to allow my children and grandchildren the education they desire.
My vision is to be debt free in a year and to be able to take my husband as well as our whole family on a family cruise and pay cash for it. I want to be able to make a difference in the lives of people and to be able to sow in to the Kingdom of God in a significant way. My passion is the elderly and would like to do something for them. I’m willing to put in the work and I see myself earning $10,000 / mth. in the next 90 days..
My vision is to create multiple streams of income that provide enough reliable income that I can live and give abundantly without having to worry about money. I already have significant success with info products that are helping people and animals, and I want to increase my intellectual and financial contributions toward raising the consciousness of humanity and making the world a better place for all her inhabitants.
My vision is to be a business owner of an online business, working 35 hours a week marketing and growing my business. I will eventually have employees or freelancers taking care of the mundane aspects of my business as it becomes self sustaining. My vision includes serving others in multiple areas, including feeding the poor, helping mature adults transition into seniors, helping teens as they transition from foster care. My businesses will sustain my lifestyle as I serve others. My short term goals include becoming very successful as an internet marketer, retiring and enjoying life. I will do this by putting these tips to work, along with my other knowledge to begin making money now. My goal for the next three months is $5,000, a new car-Lexus, and new furniture for my new home. My goal for the next six months is to begin outsourcing tasks and put some people that I know to work that have not been able to find work.