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 vision prosperity, $400K a year is enough, and a foundation to help yuouth be successful, with a foundation income of 1 million yearly. I lteach and empower the youth programs bringing leaders and innovatiors of all ages to be partners. WE make a difference locally and nationally.
My vision is to get up early every morning and exercise before taking my kids to school. I would then work on my internet business from my home until it was time to pick the kids up from school and be done working until the next day. With a long lunch in the middle, this means working a 4 hour day. I’d like to profit about $2000/day.
Hi Eric.
Thanks for your tips. My vision becoming a successful online entrepreneur to achieve a higher degree of comfort for my family instead of wondering can we afford to do things families should be doing together. I envision multiple income streams of income to also contribute to local charities and to homeless folk. Debt free is where I want to be. I always work hard but don`t always think smart and because of that I missed out on much of my sons life, and I pray that I can regain some of that time I lost with him. Once again thank you Eric for your tips.
MY VISION
To build my websites with multiple streams of income, so that I have an annual income of $1 Million + to enable me to become debt free and be able to help worthy causes like, the Australian bushfire appeal, the wheelchair project in America, Dr Robert Schuller’s world wide non-denominational religious programme in America, the Red Cross and Salvation Army. I also want to help people with information on a non – drug treatment for cancer. I would like to be able to take some time off to complete a book that I am writing – to be sold on and off line.
Thankyou Eric for all your kind and helpful
tips. Kind Regards
Bob Hall.
I want to rich an income level above $20000 per month after taxes, which would leave me financially independent.
I want to run my own company successfully in all aspects.
I want to pay off my depts of $30000, buy myself a great flat in central town and a new Honda Civic Type R, set up a center for meditation and other spiritual development, set up a house with small inexpensive flats for people to rent short term – eg students looking for housing, people working partlý abroad etc.
I want to educate myself in spiritual development, being both student and teacher.
i don’t know how but i want to feel all the luxury of life i want to be rich cause i have many things to do for myself and for others and those things which i’m planning to achieve in my life can’t be fulfilled without money so i want to earn lot of money………
Thank you for the lessons the are a life saver for me. My vision at the moment is to be a successful affiliate marketer in the beginning. Be able to get myself out of debt and help my family. Be able to go see my family when ever I wanted to. To be able to do what you are doing for people and help them with nothing but the feeling as an award.I want in the beginning 50,000 to 75,000 a yr. That will double my annual salary from my full time job in a grocery store.
thank you again for the lessons. Iam learning and know that I will get there one day.
Dear Eric,I live in England and have a Thai wife,I had a successful business but was robbed of it by a devious partner.I feel that I have let my wife down.So my vision is to be so successful in my online business that(as I promised her before)we could go and live in Thailand have a nice home not worry about finances again help the poorer people in the area live a life f fulfilment,look after her family as well as my own and carry on running my business in paradise.
Eric Thank You for the Lessons and Tips… I want to pay for all of my kids college and education and be financially capable of helping them. Retire with a residual income of over $1 million per year and help other people to achieve their goals in life. To have the spare time to do the missionary work that God has put in my heart to do.God Bless”
These is great info Eric. I really want to become a successful affilliate marketer to begin with. I first tried it out through a company, but have been limited by very limited administrative freedom with my website. I want to create my own website at this point and try a fresh start at doing it right. I see myself learning and growing this over time and refuse to put a limit on what I may achieve.
My vision is to have a successful online business that nets two million dollars a year. I will quit my job and have more time to spend with my family. I will eliminate all of my debt. I will renovate my house and hire a house cleaner to come in twice a week. I will be able to work around my hours and be able to travel as often as I like. I will teach my children how to work online successfully so they too can have the freedom to reach their goals and pursue their passions. I will be able to donate not only more money but more time to the charities I am already involved with as well as new causes that I am moved by.
I want to build a successful online business to over one million dollars per year. This will allow me to help finish our new church that is about half finished.
Hi Eric,
My vision is to create a successful online business involving how to information concerning Real Estate. The business will be on automatic responders and will generate over $100,000 per month. My family and I will travel and take wonderful vacations. We will invite others that they maybe inspired to look at being involved in internet marketing. I’ll give a percentage to my church and give back to the community, and other needed services. I don’t want this to be all about me and my family, but also to help other reach their dreams and goals.
My vision is create an online business which will generate three million dollars per year and be as completely automated as possible. This will help me to pursue other things in life that matter to me without having to worry about money. I shall teach others to do this and help those who are less fortunate.
Fulfilling my personal dreams would include an expansive list of FREEDOMS for my heart and soul! I will establish these freedoms from a large open parcel of land from which I can view majestic mountain peeks. I will be surrounded by family and friends, who love me. I will have the financial resources to remove all barriers and constraints to all my dreams. I will have the freedom of time to support my spiritual needs and those of my community. I will commune with nature. I will travel. I will have the financial ability to support my extended family by paying for mortgages and college educations. I will support St. Jude Hospital. I will support those who work to save endangered species and our planet. And…
By the way Eric, I entered a lense in Squidoo about you yesterday. Do you live in California? I hope I didn’t lie! Sandy
My vision is to be debt free im a single mother trying to raise my two children. Working in a nursing home. It is really hard living from paycheck to paycheck,i would love to make at least 500,000 a year so if my kids ever need something i can also be there for them.Thats the stress free life i would like to have. Gail
Hi Eric
My vision is to become debt fee with the exception of my house mortgage (for tax purposes). Also to put my 17yr old son through art school. All the while being able to keep staying at home to be there for both my sons in thier high school years. Also to be able to contribute to our household income to do more vacations (before they leave the nest!) as well as extra activities with the kids (my youngest son competes in team roping which requires several horses). After writting down my goals, I tried to put a dollar value to it. I need more money than I thought!!! So reaching high, as prescribed by you, and reaching realistically, I came up with this. I would like to strive for $10K a month within the next 6 months. Within the next year $20k-50k a month. In one year see where I am and adjust. Hopefully to increase my monthly income goal. Unlike some people who want it all without putting in the time, I have the time and am willing to use it wisely. I thank you for all your encouragement in this online business venture.
I took a college course that spent a lot of time on the subject of personal vison. One class assignment was to write our own “epitath”
and to include our wildest imaginings of success between now and our death. So I feel as though I’ve done this one already…
Still I’m happy to “focus” my pathway on internet marketing as my the avenue for fulfilling my dream.
I now see: Unlimited potential to live at the top of my best expectations for monetary compensation and funds for reinvesting in products services and companies that will nurture and improve the lives of others, as well as my own family. I see:”green companies” I see: products that ease our stressful and anxiety prone lifestyles. I see: financial security through investment “services” for those reaching retirement in large numbers (boomers.) I see: all the way past the subject of a certain salary since I will need several million to make these dreams reach fruition….I’ll start with a goal of 4 million in a year and a half so I can diversify those resources in two areas…One to produce “faster income” by selling “what’s hot” and one to use those funds in less lucrative but still viable businesses that will truly improve our world ie: plastics recycling, electric vehicles, programs to improve the mental health of all in the education systems that now exist…etc.
We’ve all seen the successful stories of those who have made money beyond their largest expectations, ans suceeded at commiting to some of their most altruistic dreams.
I want to set a goal only a “miracle” could bring, because this world needs miracles….more than a few.
As John Lennon once wrote of the same mental state; “but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us…”
Thank You for reminding me of the place that visualization exercise took me then, and where it can lead me now.
Sharon Shea
Eric, Thanks for your step by step process. I love it.
My vision is to develop an online business that centers around entrepreneurship and particularly solving energy and transportation problems in this country in the near future. Like solar energy for housing, electric or hydrogen for cars, and maglev trains for transportation.
I will develop a system that will bring me an income of $1 million over the next year. I will tithe to my local church, give to my family, and spend much time with them. Work less than 40 hours per week, and allow time for my relaxation and spiritual development. Possibly take some missionary trips to South America and Africa. Do some traveling, I have always wanted to go to Israel and Petra. I also have some other businesses I want to develop relating to sailboating, self-storage, and car rental.
Thanks again for your clear explanations and let’s get on with it.
Rick Huerta
Hi, Eric,
First, It seems like you are a great guy and I truly appreciate your lessons.
My short term goal is to get three websites up and running by July. The first two are retail outlets using dropshippers, and they are getting started now. The third is the one I will need your input with. I am a music teacher and I want to put up a series of bass line and percussion tracks for people of all ages to practice with. I need to figure out how to build a feedback system in. I also want to offer private lessons via web camera, Skype, I don’t know what yet and to sell percussion instruments on the site.
My long term goal is to be able to move into a specific ecovillage in Northern CA with my spiritual community (it is expensive). I want to be able to work from the community and have lots of time to volunteer for them. I also need money to travel freely.
My Vision is to not have to worry about trying to find a J.O.B, I was just laid-off from being an Animal Control Officer for 10yrs.
I hate looking for work…
I have a really big vision for myself and the planet! I’m a Chiropractor and also a DJ / Producer, strange or unusual combination I know… Well I’m in the process of building my online business where I am giving away my first book on the topic of wellness. As part of my strategy to build my email list. Anyway my vision is to have a health & wellness related product sold in all formats audio/visual/transcripts and the the premium level product being one on one coaching. The idea is to get as many people on the planet as healthy as possible because there are far too many millions of sick / unhealthy people out there and 99% of it is self-inflicted!
How does all this relate to DJ / Production? By helping people get healthy, I become wealthy is all areas of my life allowing me to meet mentors in high places in DJ land thereby propelling me to the top of the DJ Game… Simple really!
My vision is to forfill the vision gifted to me by my Lord. I must create a avenue where the life of his children (all of us) are seen and are view by us as a constant reminder that His will be done. That there will be valleys as we go, but in those valleys are diamonds and pearls that have been there before us and these are the steps that they took. Each one teach one. Our daily testimonies will give encouragement, even in our darkest hours, it will encourage those who have been going through what they believe is their darkness moments and know that there is a top to our valley, just one step and one day at a time. My vision is clear and I’m proud to be given the task. All prays will be greatly appreciated. This will be. Peace
My vision is to have a successful online business that nets my online business brings in an average of one million dollars per year.
Hello Eric and readers,
My vision is to share the unique way in which I quit smoking with other smokers. I ultimately plan to make a serious impact on long-term success rates, which are now unacceptably low. This work will also create a livelihood that will allow me to support my family and live comfortably doing what I truly love.
Jeff
Hi Eric,
Before I get into my vision I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to learn from a truly inspiring marketer. Your lessons are not all about hype on products you sell but about a holistic view of an online business. Thank you.
Now my vision:
I have for a long time wanted to have a business that my employees could call the best they ever worked at. My vision is not about how much money I can make but more about making enough to share with the people that help me do it every day.
I can now see the big picture of how an online business can do this. I will have multiple steams of income both passive and dynamic. These will include websites and courses to help people as well as to entertain and educate. The business will have made $100,000.00 by year’s end and $ 2,536,346.00/yr within five years.
This will allow me to let others run the business so I can focus on family and (this is the selfish part) my hobby.
Mark007
Hi Eric,
Defining my vision has been a very encouraging exercise. I invision a website that will attract people with interests similar to mine (golf, yoga, gardening, working with senior citizens, spiritual guidance, health and fitness). I see my website haveing several pages for these different interests and links to blogs on some of these topics. And, ofcourse products that people with these interests would want to purchase. At this point, I feel I’m at the tip of the iceberg with a lot more to learn but I definitely have a vision of one day being in charge of the daily maintenance of this website and receiving feedback from happy, positive visitors along with a stream of income that allows me to debt-free, enjoying the people and things I love and giving to the charities and causes that are important to me.
My vision is to stash $10,000 into my “9-1-1” account, faithfully pay my 10% to the Lord (plus whatever other meaningful donations I can make: like helping someone go on a mission that could not – were it not for the financial support of a faithful brother or sister of faith). I seek financial freedom: to do missionary work with my wife – anywhere in the world the Lord would have me serve. I seek the financial freedom to that will give me the time I desire to work at keeping my family together and strong, and, able to financially help whenever a need presented itself. I see philanthropy within that I wish to express. I envision an online social network website that will empower Indie artists to make a living with their gift, and, have a legitimate venue to attain fame and fortune. I see myself participating in a digital age where I will capitalize on the merging of internet with televion: which will soon become the eScreen (TM) – replacing television as we know it today. I envision a “open-source” collaborative portal that will compete with media moguls for a market share cinema (no longer referred to as the Silver Screen. eScreen will be the new BUZZ! Between now and then… I envision myself mimmicking my mentor (Eric Holmlund) to online marketing guru status by this time next year. I will follow his blueprint until I have tasted a modecum of success, after which I will begin to add my own twists – to build upon the foundation that Eric has given me. I don’t mention cash flow here because if I build using a proven blueprint, the money WILL come!
Eric, My vision sets me on top of the world,with no debt and the ability to provide educations and houses for my 2 daughters.Then My wife and I could travel the world. But most of all I want to be able to help less fortunate people.
My vision is to conquer the knowledge of advertising to the world to promote my primary business.
With that I see myself being one of the top marketers online and off.
Eric, my vision is to create enough online business so I can get out of debt, help my adult children with their debt and to at the least fix up my existing home. I see myself becoming independently wealthy, and helping my heartfelt charitable organiztions. I am trying my best, as this is all new to me. I am a disabiled professional who was forced out of my profession. My vision is to once again become a whole person, one who is useful, functional, and finacially healed. I amcurrently working on my first website.Wish me all the luck you have, and say a prayer for me. I am a firm believer in the power of prayer. Eric, thankyou for your help so far. Debbie
I am writing this before reading any of the others so I won’t be influenced. My vision is increasing my income to $10,000 a month by June 1st, 2009, and then increasing it by at least that amount each month for the rest of the year. My internet marketing income will come mainly from selling affiliate products. My other income will come from collecting on unpaid judgements, real estate rentals, and other real estate deals such as wholesaling and short sales. Beginning in 2010 I will produce my OWN products for internet marketing. These will include instructional videos & materials for learning mathematics and for healing techniques– specifically shamanic healing. I need to do these things before I get much older; I am 61 yrs. old and have three children and two grand-children–all who are struggling financially. My father helped us out when we were getting started and I want to help my children. Daughter is struggling actress, step-son with children just lost his drum shop business, and other son is doing ok in construction, but can’t cover his medical expenses and is in heavy debt. I want to get them to where they can be independant, as we have run out of funds to help them.
My vision has two overall components; Short & Long term.
Short Term Vision (3-6 mos)
Complete the steps necessary to develop and start my online business.
Reading marketing & sales books.
Continuing the learning process of these lessons and use the principles & techniques to build high traffic websites.
Devote the daily time necessary to feed my overal long term vision.
Verbalize, Vitalize, and Visual my goals daily.
Long Term (6 mos & beyond)
Generate a six figure monthly income.
Leave my current stressfull IT Mgr position Financially support my church with thousands of dollars monthly.
Be available to spend more time providing service(s) to my Pastor.
Pruchase a 6 bedroom, 4-5 bathroom, house w/a an inground swimming pool on a private lot, with fantastic views.
Develop real estate income.
Pay off all DEBTS.
Develop income throug Forex & Stock Markets.
Devote more time to studying the martial arts.
Prepare financially, socially, and spritually for marriage (currently single).
Become a lender not a borrower.
Finish my college education and attend seminary.
Travel & vacation outside of the US.
Support my mothers financially.
Be an inspiration to people and get opportunities to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world.
My vision is to quit work. Have financial wealth through residual income or constant product selling. Take more vacations, finally get the dream home I have wanted all my life. Tithe in my church and bless those less fortunate than I. In your video you spoke of many things I thought about. I belive I can become wealthy, I just didn’t know how. I think I will scream to know end once I receive the first check from my online business no matter how small or large it maybe. Because this has been something I have been trying to do for years with no success. I will follow your teachings to the letter and word for word. I want to succeed this time around. Thank you for your sincerety in starting from the basics and giving me an understanding fully of how the internet marketing is to work.
My vision is to be able to make at least $100,000 per year working at home. I plan to build an online business that will reach out to others and help them improve their lifestyle and personal image. I plan to retire in 5 years and travel with my husband to spend time with our children and grandchildren who are scattered from coast to coast. I plan to earn enough money to help build and stabilize the National Federation of Grandmother Clubs of America and donate to their charity, “Cure Childhood Cancer”.
My vision… to have an income from an online business which will allow me to be burden free of a very important part of life – financial. Then to be free to except a gift to help others around me, to share my gift of a free mind, to help others fulfill their vision.
Hey Eric,
My Vision is to build an online business that would give Me total financial freedom that I need to be in the position to help others gain freedom aswell. My online business to generate a revenue of Million Dollars a year from multi strimes of income.So I and my family can live a wonderful life in giving back to our community.
Hello Eric
This lesson on vision seems to be the best. You even sounded as a pastor on the altar. I am exited and drilled in my heart to make itin life. I have a very large vision on how I will use the internet to help mankind in my life time – THANKS.
Hi Eric,
It’s actually interesting that today of all days, would be the one that I listen to this particular lesson. For the last couple of months, I have allowed my employer to pummel me into submission over a back injury that has kept me from my regular bus driving duties. I have allowed this to drive me into a shallow depression, but somehow I am still driven to accomplish better things. There’s room here for a tremendous speech about negative motivation, but I think I will use it on my own site.
First, let me thank you for doing something I have had a vision of doing myself. Putting a simple perspective on internet business and making it a whole lot less intimidating for many new netrepreneurs.
Now on to my vision…
I have dreams of traveling with my wife and our golf equipment, just enjoying the things we want to do. We have a house in mind that we want set back in the woods on a decent property, and our business bringing in a healthy 20-30,000/month. To have the ability to help our friends and family in their hour of need. Something we can’t really do right now. I want to see Dreamorphosis Networks become a branded name, and I will make it so. The name itself is an acronym for a metamorphosis of your lifestyle. This is my vision for my family, and for anyone I help in this industry in the future.
HI ERIC!
SINDS LESSON #1 I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON MY VISION! BACK AT MY OLD JOB WE HAD A GUY GIVING US A SEMMINAR, AND HE TOLD US A PARABLE OF AN EAGLE THAT GREW UP WITH SOME CHICKENS.
WHEN SHE GREW UP, EVERYONE PASSING BY, ASKED HER WHAT SHE WAS DOING AMONG THOSE CHICKENS, SHE ANSWERS “I’M A CHICKEN”.
ONE DAY SOMEONE TOLD TO TAKE A BETTER LOOK TO HER SELF. SHE WAS TOLD TO SPREAD HER WINGS AND SEE HOW LARGE THEY WERE. SHE WAS TOLD THAT SCRATCHING IN GRASS AND GET SOME FOOD TROWN FOR HER IS NOT ALL THERE IS. THERE ARE MORE DELICIOUSE THINGS TO EAT AND MORE TO SEE.
SO SHE SPREAD HER WINGS! CATCHES THE WIND AND WENT UP IN THE AIR!
WOW! WHAT A SIGHT! NOW SHE HAD A BIGGER PICTURE! AND SHE COULD SORE ALL ABOUT AT HER DELITE!
NOW I TOOK THAT STEP, BUT TO HASTY, I LEFT MY JOB, ORDER A BUNCH OF STUFF AND LOST LITERARLY ALL MY MONEY, BUT I HAVE NO INTENTION TO GO PLAYING A CHICKEN AGAIN, I’M AN EAGLE, I WILL STAY IN THE HIGHTS UNTILL I CATCH THAT DELICIOUSE THING I’M WAITING FOR.
…….FREEDOM FOR ME AND MY RELATIVES…….
…….AND ANYONE ELSE THAT DESERVE MY HELP!
=======I’LL JUST GO GLOBAL…..GLOBAL!!!!!!!
Hi Eric,
I have tried or maybe should say attempted to start an online business a number of times with no avail.The problem was that I did not know where to start, what product or how to go about it. All I had was a desire which really led me nowhere. Now thanks to you I can at least learn how and what it takes to be an online marketer. This is something that I really want. I am in my 60’s and have worked for someone else all my life getting that little paycheck that was just enough to get by with. Since being layed off I have resolved my interest in getting online (this is make or break, come hell or high water time) Just getting the mind into being a marketer or reading those suggested books is a challenge. As I have worked outdoors or with my hands all my life and hated anything to do with sales or office or indoors. Getting the mind to think like a marketer will be the greatest obsticle. As for a vision this is another hard one because I don’t know what a vision really is or what I do want, except get online and make some money to be able to retire on and help my family with their debts. This will take some soul searching and a hard look at “WHAT DO I REALLY WANT”.
At least if I fail this time It will be because of me and no one else as You are teaching me how and it will only be because I have no vision or commitment to succeed.
Thanks Eric for the opportunity
Don
i want to be able to give my children the life they deserve,as well as my self. i do want to travel.in one of those large class A motor homes and see everything ,,,enjoy life …i am not a stranger to hard work..i enbrace it ,,,,i will succed …this is my vision……….
I’ve often been told to write my target down-THIS TIME I am doing it!
My target is to clear £150,000 in 1st year, double it the second year then have it grow exponentially, helping as many people as I can along the way.
I want make a lot of money to live the way I want, clear my debts and help as many others as I can.
hi eric what to base my business on this is a hard one my problem has always been what do i want to be when i grow up.i’m 57.i know so much about so many things. example about 16 yrs ago i applied for a computer repair school but didn’t get a grant i said to myself how hard can this be bought a couple books and have been building my own computers about every 3 yrs since then. i have a knack of catching on to whatever i’m into i have no retirement so i would like to spend my later years not having to worry about finances.about how much i want to make? extremely comfortable would be a good description,i don’t want to limit myself.thanks to you for eric’s tips i wish i ran into this before i spent x amount of dollars searching around for the right info thanks marty
Hi Eric
I have to say that i am well behind in the lessons as I don’t always get to the computer each day and as I work my way thru these lessons I am finding that it is not only your lessons that I am learning from but I also find that I get a lot from the blogs as well.
I have always found it hard to set goals for myself after as an “know it all teenager” had set for myself too hard a task and of course I failed. I thought that I was smarter than I was and my vision for life was so romanticized that I failed.I adopted the “this will do aspect” and since then I have continued the failure /victim aspect and I continued to set my goals so low that they are certainly acheiveable and getable but don’t stretch me as they should. I have found that I tend to resist the need to see the greater picture. So I just go thru the motions I suppose.
But here I am finding myself at 41 with just about everything I want but nothing spectacular on the horizon, thinking there must be more to this life. I have been thinking about the income creating aspect you mentioned in lesson 6 and that has got me to pondering what I can do that will generate more income than working all hours of the day for a employer that just uses up my energy and life and doesn’t give the opportunity to increase my income.
Being a “domestic engineer for 15years” I have lost so much income over the years as being a stay at home mum that I will never recover it with a regular job. I know that I won’t get that “fabulous high paying”job here where we live without moving to the city and that is not an option. Hate the city. I have come to the realization that now it is time that I crystalize some dreams and get them to come true.
So here I am setting down goals for myself on the internet of all places!
I would like to see a comfortable old age where we can travel our magnificant country and not have to worry about how to pay for it. We will have a 500k figure income from the products that I have designed and that promote water conservation and don’t have a detrimental effect on the environment and create employment opportunites in our area. Needless to say the credit crunch has hurt our town.I want to see my products as fashionable and everyone will want and need them. I don’t want to run the day to day side of the business so I will employ people to do that. I have always been hands on so that part may be a bit difficult there! I don’t want to do more than 20 hours a week of hands on work in my business once it gets off the ground. That will allow me to travel and do the things I want with my family.
I want the kids to acheive their goals BUT they will have to do the hard work to get it and not just have it handed to them on a plate. They will find they will appreciate it all the more if they do it for themselves.
I have a vision of helping the ones who need it thru charity work and funds from my ever increasing income. And I want to see it all up and going along by the age of 45.
There I have set my goals and with your help Eric I thank you in advance.
Hi, Eric
First, let me thank you for your time and effort put into these lessons. Without going into a long drawn out story, I am one of htose people you speak of at being at the bottom financially. Because of my age and handicaps, outside employment is almost impossible. My vision…to grow, learn, earn, and achieve a new ME everyday. Not only in $’s but in emotional wealth to give back to my community, family and friends. I always thought I wanted too much out of life that I couldn’t possibly attain until I listened to lesson #13. Now, I KNOW I can do it!!! I started your lessons just yesterday and I finally feel like I have found someone who can actually help me reach my goals!!!
Thanks so much!!!!!
Hi Eric,
Thank you so much for your lessons. I have been looking for the “right” online work/business for about a year and a half now, and I have spent a LOT of money, but not found what I was looking for. It was so refreshing to hear someone say “stop buying stuff”! You are giving info in a clear manner that can be easily understood. What a gift!
I have been out of the workforce since 1996 due to some chronic pain issues, but even though I am almost 58, I am too young to “veg”. I still have a lot to offer, I just need help figuring out where to channel my energy and creativity.
I am still a newbie to affiliate marketing, but anxious to learn, so I don’t really know where this business will take me. I am excited and anxious for each days’ lesson. My short term vision is to out of credit card debt by the end of 2009. A non-financial goal is to pull myself out of my funk and depression, and get back into contact with the outside world…even if that world is online, for right now.
I do not know the protocol regarding these
comment spots, but I’ve seen a few other people’s spots that I identify with. Is it OK to respond/correspond with these folks, or do I need to be invited to do so? Thanks again Eric.
My vision is to be financially independant at what I love to do.My talent is in Pencil Portraits.I know I excel because in school my teacher{mentor} was the best at everything he did.He constantly compared his art with the best out there and was usually the best.I have the same style and few on the net can compare.I love your insight and teaching and have learned a lot and hope to learn more.I am still having a hard time with some of your teaching because I can;t find the relevanc eto what I do.I PLAN TO KEEP ON PLUGGING TILL I GET IT RIGHT!!!
hello Eric my vision is to become successful at internet marketing and now after viewing your video i now chose to aim a lot higher.i have recently retired from the workforce and i was looking to earn a few hundred dollars a week to help pay for household expenses, car rego insurance etc.Now i want to earn as much as possible and to then help others in need such as charitable organisations etc.