This is nuts. In the early days, I couldn't even conceive of making $100, much less $10,000 in a day. Especially on a vacation day. Or a day when much of the rest of the country was shut down.
But, it also isn't surprising. I've spent years teaching thousands of people how to build work-from-home businesses that allow you to work where you want, when you want. This type of flexibility and security is exactly why I built my business the way I did — and how I teach others to do it as well.
It's humbling to me to think how close I came to not starting my business at all.
As my mentor said:
"Enough. You have more than enough to decide.
It's time to make a decision."
I was scared.
How could I start a business? I didn't even know how to find an idea that was profitable. And even if I found one, I had no idea how to go from there...to a real business.
I was so afraid of not knowing how to launch a multimillion-dollar business that I almost didn't launch a $5 business.
But I knew if there was one thing I could do, it was try something small. Just baby steps.
"Start small? That's so obvious, LOL." But the truth is, going from $0 to $4.95 was harder than going from $100,000 to much larger numbers.
I learned that if I could sell something for $4.95 once, I could build systems to do it over and over — even while I slept. And when I multiplied it by several years, the impact (and profit) became truly staggering. $4.95 to $50 to $100 x 3 sales a week...it adds up. It's not magic. It's math.
I also learned something really weird about human behavior.
All of us have something in our lives that we REALLY want to do — lose weight, get a new job, start an online business, learn how to iron clothes with a crease so sharp that it cuts your face.
We talk about it with our friends, we read blog post after blog post about it, we think about it every day.
But when we get the opportunity thrust in front of us, we hesitate.
It doesn't mean we're stupid. It's actually normal. But I don't want to be normal. I don't want to live a normal life. I want to live a Rich Life. My Rich Life.
3 delusions about starting
a successful online business
1. "I don't have an idea"
I believe that we all have something special that we're unusually good at. If you and I talked for 20 minutes, I know I could dig it up. Maybe you can teach dogs to do tricks. Maybe you're an Excel whiz. Or maybe your friends always come to you for amazing relationship advice.
When you say, "I don't have an idea," that's really code for, "I'm waiting for a magical idea to fall down from the sky."
NEWS FLASH: THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!
Ideas don't happen to you, you find them. Like a pig sniffing for truffles, I can show you a systematic process to "excavate" your own skills, then "test" them for profitability. In fact, Earnable includes a Playbook focused on exactly that.