Crossing The Chasm To On-line Success
Copyright 2004 By Willie Crawford

Bill Phillips, in his excellent book "Body for Life," likens
making the life-style changes necessary to build a healthier
body to crossing a deep, dark chasm.  Before you cross this
chasm, it often looks like a very daunting task.  Once you get
started, doing what you need to do soon becomes a habit
that requires very little effort.

Building a successful on-line business also involves crossing a
deep, dark chasm where you must make doing just a few things
that you need to do regular "habits."  There is really little
more involved in achieving success after you've done the proper
research than "crossing the chasm."

Just as getting started turning a body suffering  from years of
neglect into a picture of health can appear nearly  impossible
at first, so can your building an on-line business that
generates a six or seven-figure income.

My friend, and author of the best seller "The Super Affiliate
Handbook," Rosalind Gardner, once pointed out how simple
it was doing an interview which was a part of the JV Alert
Perpetual Learning Series. She said it's like when you want
to lose that extra 10 pounds and all you really need to do is
just start walking!  The fact is that so few people just "start
walking."

People who want to build their own on-line businesses rarely
suffer from a lack of ideas. In-fact, most have too many ideas.
Because they have too many ideas, they can't focus and
choose which idea to start on first. The solution is of course
to just choose one idea and "start walking."  Usually, it makes
the most sense to choose the idea that fits in with the most of
your long-term objectives to start on first.

Sometimes, it takes choosing a smaller project to get
started on - and complete  - first. This "finally getting
something done" can generate the momentum and cause
you to dare starting other larger projects.

One of the tools in Bill Phillips' book that helps to keep
you on-target, if your goal is a new health body, is a
workout partner. If you have someone that you know is
waiting to meet you at the gym or track, then you have
little choice but to show up ready for the workout - no matter
how unmotivated you may feel on some days.

Being accountable to someone else, and knowing that they're
depending upon you, helps you stick with a new pattern
long enough for it to become a habit.  That why professionals
in many fields have coaches or managers.  They possess the
talent but need someone to keep them focused or directed.

You can use the same principle in your on-line business.
Simply form a partnership or joint venture with someone where
completing one of your projects is part of the deal. This added
accountability, and knowing that someone is depending upon
you to do your part, will force you to do things until they
become new habits.

Working with a mentor or coach in your on-line business can
have the same effect of keeping you focused and moving
forward. A good coach or manager, who is also a good match
for you, will provide you with as  much prodding and guidance
as necessary.

Crossing that chasm really is little more than forming new
habits that you KNOW you need to form in the first place.
For some people, one of those habits is actually learning how
to be wealthy and successful. Many of us have a "poverty
mentality" that we need to break free from first.  That was
a mentality that I personally had to shake off.

Cultivating the success mentality involves feeding your mind the
proper instructions and teaching it to think like a person
who IS wealthy and successful.  A highly-recommend aid to
properly retraining your mind is the best-selling course, "Know
How To Be Rich" by Dr. Robert Anthony. You can find it at:
http://TheInternetLifestyle.com  You must get in the HABIT
of feeding your mind the proper nutrition just as you should feed
your physical body the proper building materials.

Just as for the person getting back in shape, mindset is one of
the first flaws most of us need to correct. If you look in the
mirror and tell yourself that "it's useless" then you'll never start.
Instead, read the success stories of people just like you who've
already done what you intend to do. Seeing that ordinary people
CAN achieve what at first seems extraordinary has a way of 
spurring you to get started.  For that reason, I have all of my
consulting clients read John Evans best-seller, Success Alert
which you can read about at http://Success-Alert.com

Once you get started, it's fairly easy to keep going.   Keep
going, or keep doing anything new long enough, and it becomes
a habit.  Develop the habit of doing those seemingly difficult things
that you know you need to do, and before you know it you will find
yourself on the other side of that chasm!


Willie Crawford has been teaching others how to build successful
on-line businesses since late 1996. Frequently featured in radio,
magazine and newspaper articles and interviews, Willie teaches
the average guy what the top marketers are doing but seldom
talking about. Discover more of Willie's proven success secrets
at:  http://TheInternetLifestyle.com