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Your Key to Success – StopBlaming Others or Your

Circumstances

I want to talk about the key to success in your business, and how complacency anddiscontent in whatever business you’re in, whether it’s in affiliate marketing, networkmarketing or your own small business, can keep you from getting where you want to be.

It can be very difficult to keep up the daily pace of marketing, advertising and buildingbusiness relationships online and offline. And at the end of the day when it seems like you’venot made any progress, you can start feeling discontent and complacent, either of which cango a long way toward destroying your drive to pursue your dreams.

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A lot of people in this position start playing the blame game. “I don’t have a good sponsor.” “Idon’t have any money to invest.” “I don’t have enough time.” “I’m not good at this.”

I know. I used to be there. But you won’t find me blaming others for my lack of achievementsin my business, even though I can get discontent and complacent too. I’ll be the first to admitthat even I have days where I simply want just quit. But then, I’d be giving up on my dreams.

These are the days I call my “mental health” days, when I need to reassess why I’m in thisbusiness in the first place, and if I still have these same goals and dreams.

Of course I do! So let’s take a look at how successful people think in these areas where youmight be placing blame for what you see as your lack of success:

“I don’t have a good sponsor.”

Well, it’s not your sponsor’s job to make you successful. It’s yours. People drop out ofbusinesses or systems or programs every day, even after they’ve sponsored people in. Oncethey’re gone, does that mean you leave too?

No. If you’re in the right business, there will be tons of support in a forum, on a privateFacebook group, and other friends you’ve met in the business you can reach out to.

Ultimately, it’s your job to make yourself successful, no one else’s.

“I don’t have any money to invest.”

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Stop blaming lack of money for your lack of success. It’s 2014, almost 2015. The Internet isso full of free resources that you should never let the lack of money get in your way.

If you have enough money to get online, that’s all you need. The rest is free to use!

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“I don’t have enough time.”

This is one I hear all the time, even from family members who complain about their jobs andgoing broke.

But the next day they’re off on a road trip, going to a party, hanging out with the neighbors,going to dinner, etc., etc.

Time management is something that’s controllable. You only feel like don’t have enough time,but you’ve just as much time to manage as everyone else on the planet.

It’s just a matter of what you’re doing with your time that’s important.

“I’m not good at this.”

If you’re brand new to Internet marketing or network marketing, keep in mind, no one isperfect at this. What you need to do is find out one area of marketing that you like, and learn

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as much as you can about that one area.

For example, if you love spending time on Facebook, learn about Facebook marketing.

Are you a Twitter junkie? You can get a lot of traffic by using the right Twitter methods.

The same can be said for forums and Pinterest; anything online can be used successfully ifyou put your mind to it.

The bottom line is this – how much effort in time or money are you willing to put into workingfor your dreams?

Remember, they’re your dreams, not your sponsor’s dreams or your friends’ dreams.They’re yours. And only you can make them happen. Only you can learn how to be happyagain in your business and make yourself successful.