In the previous lesson, we talked about motivation. More specifically, we talked about the need for long term, intrinsic motivation, and about how it should correlate with your overall vision.
I talked about how you need to be inspired and excited about your vision, and about how you can draw motivation from your vision.
But excitement alone is not enough to keep you going…
(Watch this video…)
Main points:
1) Feed your vision
2) Make it the right level of priority
3) Make sacrifices
4) Develop good habits
5) Be flexible
6) Keep moving forward, no matter what
7) Solidify your commitment in writing
(Example of Bill Bright’s contract with God)
Action steps:
1) Commit to your vision. Write it down, sign and date it.
2) List your priorities, in order of importance.
3) Write down some habits you would like to develop, choose one to start with, and do it!
As you commit to your vision, I believe you will be mentally prepared to begin the work of building your online business.
The foundational portion of this learning series is almost complete; there’s just one more important question I need to address in the next lesson before we start putting together the pieces of your business.
As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below. (Feel free to let me know if you’ve decided to commit to your vision)
Have a great day!
Hi, Eric,
I will be 69 next January, and as I watched this lesson much of my life was revealed before my eyes. I had a limited contract with God, and He held me to it. In 1969, when I left active duty with the US Navy, I committed to Him ten years of my life working in environmental protection. It took two years to find my dream job, chief spokesperson for a state environmental agency. Ten years later — almost to the day — in 1981, my job was abolished by the state legislature. My reward (with Divine Intervention, I am certain) was a two-year temporary recall to active duty as a Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander and prompt promotion to Commander — living with my family in a Newport, RI, mansion with the best income of my life. An incident with a dreadful pastor there caused us to withdraw from the church and from God, and life has been chaos ever since.
• I am committed to my vision
• Subject to other immediate income opportunities, my top priority is establishing my business consistent with my vision
• I will overcome my fears and doubts and stay on course
• I will use EFT, the Emotion Code, and other techniques to overcome my fears and doubts
• I will read my vision, goals, and commitment statements daily
• I will avoid things that distract me from working on my business
• I will develop habits that keep me focused on the business
• I will commit to a minimum of 40 hours per week on building my business but I will shoot for 60 hours.
Eric
how do i bring traffic to my website?
I am having so much trouble with this.
thank you,
nammy1958
I cover this in depth starting in about lesson #70.
my biggest problem is
i think the grass is “greener” on the other side then I stop promoting what ever I am doing and promote the new product then I look back and see whatever I was selling the last time is greener or the next yard is greener and go promote it.
i hope this lesson will help
thanks
nathan
Fantastic and inspirational. It has breathed new sense of purpose in me. Many thanks to you Eric. God Bless you.
Hey Eric,
Thanks for another great lesson they are really helping me out and I truely appreciae them all so once again THANKYOU
thanks
Andrew
Eric tou talk about motivation but how can one be motivated when their inbox is full of 200 plus emails saying not listen to this person and dont buy this or buy this and start making money in 15 minutes I am so confussed and I have bought things but have no idea how to use them.
I can understand that to be motivated I need to focus on other things I just want to know how do I not listen to all the other people when I am so new to all this and am trying to get a start in online marketing.
regards
Andrew
Hi Andrew- remember lesson #11: http://www.ericstips.com/tips/lesson11/
You can unsubscribe from most of those emails you’re getting. Just choose one or two people that you trust.
I wrote out my Vision, Priorities, & Needed Habits in my notebook, and here is what I wrote so far.
MY VISION:
1. I commit to running a successful online business with integrity, together with hard work in providing great customer service, along with quality products and services for the niche I will ultimately market to.
2. I will accept the challenges and risks along the way, as there will also be rewards from it.
3. My short term goal is to be making a minimum of $1,000.00 a month by 04/30/2011, and still working on the long term goal at the moment.
4. I commit to working hard each day going forward in the business.
MY PRIORITIES:
1. Being there for family and friends at appropriate times to maintain good relationships, and give help when needed in crisis.
2. Building and maintaining a successful business.
3. Taking care of my home.
4. Hobbies and recreation when I choose to have some leisure time fun.
NEEDED NEW HABITS:
1. Getting organized, and setting a concrete schedule to follow.
2. Focusing on the tasks needed to move the business along in a efficient and profitable manner, and not get sidetracked by hype, or easy money offers and messages.
3. Overcoming procrastination and fears!!
Dear Eric
Thanks for the foundational stuff of my online business. Your lessons are so genuine and guiding. I will write down my vision and date it as you said. I will discipline my mind to be committed to it.
I will endure hardships, fight obstacles and persist until i achieve and leave my vision as a lifestyle.
Thanks a million times Eric for your tutorials. You are different from these other online vultures who prey on innocent people’s hard earned monies before they teach what online business is all about.
Regards
Previous
I’m quite skeptical about getting into online business, cause I don’t have the confident in myself, whether I can do it or failed again. I always do things half way, never complete to the end. Maybe this is one of the reasons I didn’t accomplished much on online business. But when following your training, I understand it not easy to really to commit yourself to it, one must have that spirit in us to do it no matter how if you want to be successful.
Hi Eric
I totally agree on getting or even setting priorities. I’m a mom of 3 and get easly distracted. Your tips are motivational and a breath of fresh air. I will be forming new, positive habits to get things done.
GBU
As we get more lessons we get deeper into the root of any business inspiration. You’re right about everything of course. You need passion, vision and perseverance to succeed in any business. Thanks for making things so clear!
It is 100% correct.
Best regards
Thomas
Okay, I’m hooked. Now every one of your lessons are getting me motivated to get going towards success.
Hi Eric,
Awesome stuff. Great teacher indeed. Keep up the good work.
Kind regards,
Prue
Hi Eric, Love your course. Just let you know Lesson 17 stops at 5 minutes, not sure if there is something wrong with the program. Once working again please let me know so I can listen to it. Take care and keep up the wonderful work you are doing.
Hello Paul,
Here is a link that should help you to be able to view the videos properly:
Hi Eric,
My vision?… I want to walk out of my front door with a coffee in one hand and a great book in the other and sit in my favorite chair and do nothing but read. The only care is to decide if I want to leave my book long enough to get more coffee.
Now before you say that’s not good enough let me explain in better detail….
You can’t see what the house I’m walking out of or the lawn, chair, car in the driveway all looks like. In my mind it’s the house I’ve always wanted with the perfect car and the perfect lawn. I’ve never had a very large porch with nice lawn furniture and would love that. When I make the comment above I’m picturing the dark red brick entry with the dark wood door between a small series of side windows. I’m also picturing the very large covered porch with several choices of sitting places and potted flower pots all around. This porch overlooks a nice lawn with a few large maple trees, one silver and one red. My shrubbs are neat and the flower beds are pretty because I’ve hired someone to keep them that way.
All of this will be possible because my buisness is a success and I’ve made the choice to go forward and never look back.
Thanks for the lessons. You’ve been great.
Thanks Eric!
Great! It sounds like a psychological analysis. Vision, motivation, commitment, and other step of actions. Like you said, marriage is like a business (thought this is rather progresiveness ideology ha ha) it requires a commitment.
Thanks for another great lesson they are really helping me out and I truely appreciae them all so once again
Hi Eric,
I am using my daughters computer until she leaves for Europe in July.
I am trying to figure out how to get my own. Are the lessons for creating PLR’s to articles a good way. also had a goal to write about Asthma and have an affiliate link for Pulse Oximeters website. This time crunch is motivating me very much at this time.
Are you looking for info about how to write the articles, or how to create the rights for PLR?
Thank you Eric for this lesson.
It comes in a time of “darkness”, when a good reminder of were we find motivation was needed. Same as last lesson. This has helped me to start finding again the origen of my dreams, my goals… I couldn’t figure what was missing… Now I know I hqve been running on pure passion for what I do, but as mentioned, its never enough. I am so ready to find again my commitment and redirect my motivation to my vision. Thank you!
Eric you are great.i signed up for this lesson but never write a coment.the reason is that i am not sure if it is real or fake.thank you for the lessons you sent to me sofar, iam blessed.
Show me RESULTS ! That will take care of motivation
I Chris Downs commit from this day forward to be a slave to Jesust Christ. To Honor the Vision that HE has given me with the funding and building of HIS Farm. To stay committed and focused on the contract that I agreed to. 07/12/2011
Thanks Eric for a great lesson, you are so inspiring. I hope to get my business started in a few days and this is so great. I have had to struggle to get started and this has given me hope. Thank you so very much, and my God Bless
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Commitment has taken me to follow all your videos and to implement your teachings on my new website. Now, I’m getting an average of 100 visitors a day in less than 2 weeks. I’m pretty happy so far, and can’t wait to see what’s next.
Please everyone, check it out, and give me your feedback:
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Hello Marvin,
Thanks for pointing out the product. We haven’t gotten a good look at that product, but we’ll have to check it out when we get a chance.
If Eric feels that it would benefit his readers at this stage, he’ll be sure to do a review.
Hey Eric,
Good habits! Yes I will commit to developing good habits. I see this as weakness that I have and must turn around. If I am to succeed in my life.
Thanks for opening my eyes & ears!
Hi Eric, just a note to thank you not only for this lesson, but for taking upon yourself to teach us everything that you know about establishing an internet business. The Lord is blessing you and you are blessing us!
Thank you,
Eduardo
Passion and Commitment, and a heartfelt thank you for doing this.
I am glad to say, that I have been doing this for years, generally, and specifically with my life as well as my goals. So, I see that I have been on the right track.
Where I got lost was attempting to take those I loved and cared about alone with me. I did not realize that if this was not THEIR goal as well, that they would be holding me back.
Another ah-ha is realizing that life happens, and putting things off for a better time will NEVER happen. So, now, I do what I need to do with the plan to helping those I care about, later. And, regardless of what’s going on in my life that can be viewed as an obstacle to just make smaller steps, but keep moving forward, and then when I can take larger steps, again, I will not have lost any ground or momentum.
Thanks soooo much for being that beacom Eric..!!!
Nedra
Great Lesson… Thanks for your eye opening tutorials Eric!!
Eric, I do look forward to each tip everyday. I’m totally committed to make my Internet Marketing Business a success. I’m patient, trainable and a self-motivator. I’m like a pit bull. I grab hold and won’t let go until my goal or vision is accomplished.
i like to follow the advice set out in Matthew 5; 37 which says “Just let YOUR word Yes mean Yes, YOUR No, No; for what is in excess of these is from the wicked one.”
Hi Eric,
Thanks for these step by step lessons.
Dinah
This was by far your best lesson! Very meaningful.
I thought this lesson was especially inspirational! Thank you for taking the time to create it, I will definitely put it into play!
So good to see a photo of dear Bill Bright. He recruited me years ago and I was involved in Christian Embassy here in Canada. Bill was a giant though humble and fully others oriented.
Really great people are visionary and humble.
Excellent reminder for me at this time of my life. Thanks
Hi Eric,
Thank you for your great educational lesson. I bear in my mind that everything what I have planed passionately I could achieve in the past. The same is with my commitment to online business. The vision has imprinted in my mind and become the part of myself. I enjoy your lessons. Marija
Thanks for the lesson on commitment! I needed to hear what you had to say about it.
Eric,
you are an inspirational, you are bless. I’m moving forward to the 18 chapter. Thank you so much….
Great Comment
I could not agree more
Eric, i have a diploma in business ad none of the units mentioned anything about the things talked about here.This just opened up another window for me to explore.Thanks.
Thanks, Eric. Very inspirational so far. I am glad i opted on to your site.
Keep it coming man!
Mark
Good evening, Eric:
You have brought out some very important points
uver the last five or six lessons. I agree that all are needed to establish a successful
business. You are very good at motivating
people to commit themselves. Hats off to you!