It isn’t very often I feel I just have to open up a notepad page and just type you all
a message.
Today is one of those days, I get a fair amount of email every week and I also get a
number of PM’s across the forums I am on, some people are looking for help with one of
my products others are looking for a starting point but most want to know why they are not
making the gazillions that they thought they would.

I have tried to help people whenever and however I can and I do really appreciate the fact that
people are willing to part with their hard earned cash for one of my products. Today I got a email from a friend of mine asking how my new house is doing (we just had a flood in our basement) and he mentioned that someone had canceled the membership to his latest service “because we didn’t realize we would need to do any work”.
I have had something very similar in the last week “we are looking for something that takes no work”.

I am sure you have guessed what one of the two letter words is by now,

Work

The other one is

Fear

A certain percentage of people seem to think that those of us who are successful online (and offline) have been lucky, had it all given to us, or that people come and hunt us down and give us money. The truth is that everyone who has had success has worked for it, they may choose to work less now than they did when they were starting out (and it is nice to be able to choose) but at some point they have had to work hard for their money.

When people ask for a refund based on the fact that they have to actually do some work I tend to think that is a excuse as surely everyone knows they are going to have to do something?

I wonder if they have a fear of the work. Maybe they are frightened that they won’t do it properly so if they don’t do it at all then they can’t do it wrong.
Another fear that has been mentioned to me is a underlying fear of success, I know it sounds crazy but many of us (myself included) feel that we are not really worthy to be up there with all the real money makers/gurus/successful people.

I hate to sound like a hippy but maybe this is the time that we should all be taking some time to look at ourselves, what do we want and what are we willing to do to get it. Buying the latest ebook or bit of software (even mine) and then doing nothing with it is not “working”.
If you are not willing to put in some work, reading the manual and watching the instruction videos then using the tool for the purpose it was designed then don’t buy it.
If you are not willing to put in some work then you should stop moaning that you don’t earn anything, that others are earning more, that everyone else has been lucky and finally you must stop saying you “work online” or that you are an “Internet marketer”.
If you are not willing to do the work (and this includes learning and then acting on what you have learnt) then you may as well give it all up now and just go back to surfing around you tube.

Look into yourself and if Fear is holding you back, whether it be fear of feeling stupid when you don’t understand something (like I do when people start talking programming with me), a underlying fear of success, fear of being different and following a different path than the ones the “Gurus” try to sell you on then you must start to face it and get help (I am not talking about a psychiatrist)

Find a partner online or offline who you can be honest with and share the fears and the success, A forum can be a harder place as there is always someone who thrives on being nothing but negative, I use skype to talk with my partner. It is a great way to get a boost when you are feeling down, as well as have someone who isn’t to scared to be real with you and pull you up when you get out of your pram (as we say in the UK).

I am reasonably successful online and while I am reasonably clever I am no Albert Einstein (more like beer stein), I have met one or two of the “gurus” and they sure don’t come across as rocket scientists (and I have met a real life rocket scientist). I know people who are Mensa members who have trouble constructing a coherent letter and I know self made millionaires who never finished school.

Any one of us can make it online, but it takes work and an ability to face your fear.

So is fear holding you back, or something else?