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Have you noticed that all the people selling internet marketing products will dangle enormous earnings in front of you? They will give you the example of a half-blind drug addicted single mother of handicapped triplets who went from being bankrupt to pulling in over $100,000 a year in just three and a half weeks using their Bright Shiny Object, with the clear inference that you, a fully functional human being, could obviously do better than that.

If you have not yet earned your first penny online, this is a very dangerous train of thought for you.

It will have you reaching for your credit card before the speaker has even finished listing the incredible bonuses included with their Bright Shiny Object.

But that is just not the way it works.

If you talk to the speakers, most of whom are earning in that sort of bracket now, you will find that they did not have that type of on/off, black-to-white transition to earning big money online.

Even those for whom the tap turned overnight, like Stephen Pierce, whose first money-making website started earning him $35,000 per month from its very first month, didn’t come from nowhere. Stephen had been working on the core value of that website, options trading recommendations, for over 15 months, full time, earning nothing whatsoever at all, before he created the subscription website which started to bring in money. That included giving his tips away for free on bulletin boards, creating a free website to give them away, and creating an email list of subscribers who were hungry for his product - all of this while earning nothing, nada, zip, zero point zero zero dollars.

Building an online business is NOT a get-rich-quick scheme.

If you want one of those - I’m sorry to disillusion you, but they don’t exist.

I know people who were apparent overnight successes in making money online, real estate investing, multi-level marketing, and traditional business.

In every case, without exception, those people had done their “success apprenticeship” in another vehicle - often more than one other vehicle - before falling into the one that worked for them just as they were psychologically ready for huge success.

If you have not yet done your apprenticeship anywhere, then there will be no overnight success for you.

What is a “success apprenticeship”?

Some people are lucky enough to be born to parents who start teaching them the laws of success during their childhood - parents who have, themselves, carved out success through their own vision and hard work, and know how it is done.

Others find a mentor early in life, and follow their advice, no matter how difficult it seems.

Some people go in circles, not understanding why they can’t make progress, until their mid-life years or later, before they start to find the teaching they need to shift their attitudes and create success.

It’s never too late to start, and it’s never too early. You’re never too old, too young, too tall, too allergic, or too busy.

All it takes is making a decision.

And then, years of work.

Most of the work is on your own mind and attitudes, and developing the skills you need. Only a short time of actual real-world work will then produce the income and lifestyle you desire. However, until you have done your apprenticeship, all your real-world work will appear to be frustratingly fruitless.

Your “success apprenticeship” involves choosing a vehicle - internet business, share trading, real estate investing, multi-level marketing, traditional business, commodities trading, whatever - it really doesn’t matter - and working at that vehicle with 100% effort for 3-5 years. Once you have learned everything about yourself that vehicle can teach you - which you won’t in less than 3 years - you can move on and choose another. Work that one with 100% effort and dedication for 3-5 years, as well.

At some point, you will have uncovered all your personal quirks that get in the way of success, and you will also have gained some very valuable skills. When this happens, you will find yourself gravitating toward the people who are teaching in the field of your next chosen vehicle. You will start to develop the relationships which will take you to the next level of thinking and operating.

At that point, your income will explode.

Do not listen to anyone who promises you an easier way.

Unless you are in the 1% or less who were born with a natural ability to have everything you touch turn to gold, you will have to undertake this training process. You have probably been doing it in fits and starts all your life, actually, but then giving up in frustration and blaming the vehicle for “not working” instead of gleaning every possible scrap of self-knowledge from the process.

Become a successful person, and the income will follow. It never happens any other way.