Making Money Online is Work: There is No Secret Formula

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Making Money Online is Work: There is No Secret Formula

April 25, 2008 by Dane Carlson | 16 Comments

This is a guest post by Alan Johnson.

From losing weight to earning a living online, people seem to always be interested in finding some sort of a secret formula for everything. Wouldn’t it be great if we somehow had a secret formula for solving all of our problems?

Wouldn’t it be great if we had a secret formula for raising our children, for having a happy marriage, for earning a living by doing something we love, for losing weight or for becoming more productive? Of course it would, but things don’t exactly stand that way in the real world.

If you want to raise your children the right way, you have to give it 110%, if you want to have a happy marriage then, once again, a lot of work will be required on your part. And, you?ve guessed it: the same principle applies when it comes to earning a living by doing something you love, to losing weight or to becoming more productive.

Secret Formula? You Can’t Be Serious!

Raising your children the right way is possible, having a happy marriage is possible, earning a living by doing something you love is possible, losing weight is possible and becoming more productive is possible. But, and here’s where it gets tricky: there is no secret formula which will solve all of your problems, there is no easy way out.

Do you have solid long-term goals? That’s great and it’s an important first step, but you have to take things to the next level and work towards achieving them, trying to find all sorts of secret formulas would simply be foolish on your part.

Forget About Quick Fixes

Sure, you could always try to approach things with a ‘quick fix’ way of thinking, but you will only be able to come up with short-term solutions that way or may not even be capable of doing that. If you are serious about actually solving a certain problem instead of constantly delaying the inevitable, you have to give it 110%.

Will it be easy? Of course not, but it is the only way to go if you are serious about long-term success. Millions upon millions of people are interested in becoming successful, yet most of them are not willing to make the necessary sacrifices. They seem to somehow think that searching for that secret formula which will make everything seem like a piece of cake is the way to go but, unfortunately for them, they couldn’t be more wrong.

Do you still think that secret formulas are out there, just waiting for you to find them? In that case, I am afraid that you have a lot to learn and, unfortunately, it seems that you will be learning it the hard way. If the thought doesn’t exactly sound all that tempting then taking action and finally starting to head towards the right direction is simply a must.

What will your choice be? Are you ready to change your way of thinking and forget about trying to find ‘secret formulas’ or are you interested in finding out how things actually work the hard way?

This was a guest post by Alan Johnson, author of The Online Business Handbook.