Recently I was referred to a blog entry posted by someone who had watched a video of my presentation I did in Vegas for the E1kaD Conference. My presentation was on the importance of “Mindset” in I.M. He argued that mindset was “crap”. What about you?

His post was well written and thought out. He shared his feelings of frustration at his lack of attaining the level of success he desired and was angered by some of my comments. In other words, he didn’t care for my presentation too much :)

After some inner debate, I decided to reply on his blog. My response of which I have pasted below. Because he left my name out of the original post, I will extend the same courtesy.
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Hi XXXXX ,

Well written, well thought out post as I always expect from you. :)

Let me come right out and say that I have the feeling that I am the speaker in the video you are referring to I put this out there so that others will know the point of view that I am coming from. ;-)

First off, if someone is struggling to do well online then we are not “broken” and nothing is “wrong” with us. We are the “norm”. If that is what people feel that I communicated then I didn’t do a good job. I say “we” above because I have been in the place many people are right now. There are many times that I still am, lol.

But the reality is that hindsight is always 20/20. And looking back at myself (and speaking with other successful people I find they have the same opinion) I can clearly see where my problems were during the six years I struggled.

My mindset stunk.

I believed making money online was hard. I was angry that I couldn’t achieve the same results that others were getting, I pointed fingers, my spouse would be upset because of the amount of time I spent on the computer, etc. Sound familiar?

My mindset stunk.

I agree 100% with you that “there’s no way on earth that me imagining that I live in Buckingham Palace is gonna cause a cheque to come through the door.” Yet we still have to have dreams, right? We still have to have goals, right?

That’s part of mindset, asking yourself “Why am I doing this” and making sure that the answer is compelling enough.

All of us who struggle to make a living online work HARD. No doubt about it. But, are we working on the right things? How is it that many can work much less yet accomplish (and earn) so much more than us?

That’s part of mindset.

Are the people around you supportive? Do they understand your goals and dreams or do they knock you down at every turn?

That’s part of mindset.

If nearly EVERY successful person says that their success began when they started to think differently, then there has to be something to that right?

I shared various ways to help those working IM part time (like me) improve their mindset in order to hopefully achieve success faster. I work 85% in niche marketing and only dabble a little in the “Make Money Online” . I never presented an offer in my presentation, in fact I didn’t even mention my blog, lol.

I just shared things that I wish others had shared with me six years ago.

You wrote that I “angered me with some of the points he made”.

My response? …. Good.

If I angered people enough that they say “I’m going to show HIM!” and they go out and make six figures next year, then I did good.

If I encouraged people enough that they go out and make six figures next year, then I did good too.

Either way, we’ll still all go out to lunch together at the E1kaD event have a good time. :-)

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Soon I will make the presentation in debate available to you, :-)

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