How to Guarantee Your Success in Internet Business


I got into Harvard Law School two months ago, and I know that my success is guaranteed!

Well, that’s not exactly true, at least not the first part. But it does prove an important point about the mindset of success. Allow me to explain:

First, let’s look at why getting into Harvard equates with guaranteed success.

Until I made the decision to become completely committed to information marketing and internet entrepreneurship, I was going to become a lawyer. That seemed like a logical route for me: I’m good with words, ideas, and logic. I’m also a savvy writer and quick on my feet. (Not to mention that I’m a total “ham” on stage.)

But there was only one reason I was interested in going to law school: fear of failure.

Becoming an attorney is what Robert Frost would have called “a well worn path.” Entrepreneurship is definitely one “less traveled by.” And at a point in my life when I arrived at a fork in the road, I’ll be honest: the well worn path looked very enticing.

Needless to say, I turned away from that route almost as soon as I started down it. Then, I returned to the fork in the road, got a little coaching, and thought long & hard about the kind of life I wanted to live. The answer was easy. I knew where I would find happiness. But there was still that burning fear of failure.

You see, internet entrepreneurship just doesn’t have the same “guarantee of success” that the life of an attorney seems to have. Or at least that’s how it *seemed* at the time - until I had a dream…

One night after I had already made a final decision to fully invest my time and energy in entrepreneurship, I had a dream that changed my life forever. In that dream, you guessed it, I got into Harvard Law School.

In all of my research about law school, I consistently found Harvard at the top of nearly every list of best schools. We know what kind of cachet the very word “Harvard” has in our culture. But I wanted to know *why* it was so great. So I did a little investigating…

Here’s the thing: I discovered that everyone who gets into HLS becomes successful. Everyone. The drop-out rate at Harvard is basically zero. If I recall correctly, something like one person every decade drops out of the school. With those kinds of numbers, you know that just getting into the school GUARANTEES your success.

During my dream, I was TOTALLY ecstatic about my acceptance. I had never felt so happy in my life (or at least so it seemed in the dream). Even after I came to my senses and realized it was all just a dream, I still felt ecstatic.

Here’s why:

I suddenly realized that the dream revealed the key to success. This is nothing new, and I’m sure you’ve heard it all before. So had I. But this dream illustrated the point in a way that still resonates with me today:

The key to success is to guarantee your success.

Yes, it’s that simple. Just do it.

When I realized that the dream about Harvard was just a dream, I made a conscious decision to transfer that same feeling of definite success into my work as an internet entrepreneur.

Every day, I remind myself that my success is guaranteed. All I have to do is show up.

And the best part is, I don’t have to go to law school!

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