Can’t and Newbies - Sure Ways To Find Failure
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The following are a couple of excerpts from the book, Getting Started remember you can get the entire report free. Just click the link at the top of the page.
Believe it or not, your mindset is more important than any of the knowledge you have. Henry Ford only had very limited formal education, but he had a desire and a mindset that actually forced him to achieve his goals.
He is also the one that said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t your right!”
His drive and determination took him from a non-educated worker to a leader in industry.
This is the same type of mindset you need to have to succeed. This is a mindset that doesn’t say, can’t!
The word can’t is a word that is sure to bring you failure if you use it all the time. I like to define can’t as conveniently accepting negative thoughts.
C= Conveniently.
A= Accepting.
N= Negative.
T= Thoughts
Whenever you say you can’t do something, you are conveniently accepting negative thoughts. There is always a way to achieve your goals.
If you don’t know how to do something that doesn’t mean you can’t do it.
If it hasn’t been done before, that doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
All you have to do is to create a mindset with a burning desire to achieve. This means anything that you think you can’t do, can be done. You just have to figure out how to do it.
NEWBIES
The most common excuse that I have heard used for Internet marketing purposes, is “I am a newbie!”
I know this doesn’t sound like an excuse, but it is. Gary Ambrose pointed this out to me a couple of years ago. When you say you are newbie, you are using that as an excuse. The reason for this is that you never say I am a newbie unless you need an excuse.
Example: what is your website?
Answer: I don’t have one I am a newbie.
Question: what niche are you working in?
Answer: I don’t have one I am a newbie.
Question: have you started building your list yet?
Answer: No, I am a newbie.
As you can see all the answers were used as an excuse for not having something done. I know I used this as an excuse, when I started out, and you probably have too.
But just being a newbie doesn’t mean that you can’t take action.
Getting started doesn’t take a lot but you have to take action in order to start.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Loved the definition of CAN’T. It is so true. I also met the Newbie with whom you were talking. I never was that newbie, but have been chastised by a guru when I told him how many different directions I was going. He said, “Come back and talk to me when you have decided what you are going to do. I can’t do anything for you now.” At the time I did not understand what he meant, but now I realize that because it takes so much time to just perfect one area or one niche that not focusing can also be a newbie trait.
March 4th, 2008 at 7:09 am
I hate to admit this but I was that Newbie!
It was mainly because I was trying to do everything at once instead of FOCUSING on one thing and achieving it. So, I guess I was them and you at the same time. It wasn’t until I focus on actually producing something that I became a non-newbie.
That is part of the reason I wrote the Getting Started guide.
March 5th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
It was nice to know we have something in common. Maybe there is hope that I will catch up with you someday.