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A Surefire Way to Avoid Failure

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

I’ve figured out a sure way avoid failure. That’s right. I said “failure.” It’s not a word that we us often on Internet Business Mastery. But this is too important not to say it like it is.

Ask yourself this: “When was the last time I felt fear?” I’m not talking about stress. We all have some of that every day. And I’m not talking about fear of a bear in the woods. What I mean is feeling out of your depth, uncertain of the future or not up to the task.

I gotta tell you, last month I was feeling great. Life was smooth sailing. For six or more weeks I hadn’t had a work day that was over four hours long and most were only two. The holidays were spent with family and friends. I watched movies, ate good food, bought gifts loved ones. It felt like there wasn’t a care in the world.

So, naturally, when the new year hit I was starting to get concerned.

How to Ignite Your Goals and Your Motivation

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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How would you like to give your goals some real oomph this year? How would you like to light a flame under your motivation?

This is a great time of year. It tends to get us thinking. It instills extra desire to make good things happen. That’s an incredible thing and worth harnessing.

3 Top Business Lessons Learned in 2011

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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Another year is coming to a close. It’s a great time to look ahead to the year ahead and everything you would like to accomplish. At the same time, I like to stop and think about what I learned over the past year (both from what went well in addition to what didn’t go so well).

After all, success is about progress not perfection. Perfection continually looks forward with frustration at an unattainable horizon. Progress remembers to look back, learn and appreciate where you’ve come from.

Crack the Success Code with Consistency

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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I want to share with you one of the most important lessons I learned this year. If you apply this principle in 2012, you’ll find it has an amazing power to transform your life and bring you success.

It’s the secret that finally got me to successfully adopt an exercise routine that I could stick to longer than any other time in my life. Usually I would only last a week or two with my knew fitness habit, and then it would fall to the wayside.

But this time I did one thing differently and it made all the difference. What was the secret?

Overcoming the Money Hurdle | How to Afford Starting (or Growing) Your Internet Business

by Jay (Jason Van Orden)

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It’s fascinating to look back at decisions that could have drastically changed my life. In some cases it could have meant that Internet Business Mastery would have never existed or that I would be back in a job today had I chosen differently. It makes me think of one such case where I nearly took the “safe” route.

It was summer of 2005. I’d just made the decision earlier that year to focus my efforts on the budding technology of podcasting. I didn’t know it yet, but I was about to turn down one of the biggest opportunities of my career.
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Building a Sound Financial Foundation for your Internet Business – Part 2

by Siu Ling Hui -GUEST-

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One of the ‘traps’ that many business owners fall into is to rely solely on the Profit & Loss as their guide to how well the business is doing. However, profit is NOT cash.

The Profit & Loss Statement records how much value has been created (or destroyed) in carrying out day-to-day business activities. It has to be read in conjunction with the Balance Sheet to understand how of that value actually translated to cash.