Your mindset is the most important driving
force or engine behind your business.

For those of you that are friends with me on Facebook, you may have noticed I have a little saying under my profile picture:

“Every morning I wake up with guns blazing, ready to take on the world – if need be.”

I’m a firm believer in keeping yourself motivated and believe that to be successful with whatever venture in life you’re perusing you first need to have the right mindset. When you’re an entrepreneur you need to be ready to fail (possibly many times) before you succeed. You need to expect to fail, and have to continually be persistent, which requires a different mindset then you would have at the standard 9-5 job.



I guess I should start out by sharing what having the right mindset has done for me, since this is my first post for the site and some of you don’t know me personally. I attribute most of my success to my mindset. Right now I’m 22 years old and I have enough money in the bank to go wherever I want and really do whatever I want (within reason). I have a supportive family but wasn’t given anything from a financial perspective, besides a computer from my grandfather when I was 12 years old – which changed my life (but that’s another post).



I also believe in the “Laws of Attraction”. I find myself constantly picturing what I want and where I want to be tomorrow, next year, or even in five years. This helps the mind take the appropriate steps subconsciously to make things fall into place over time. It’s very hard for others to compete with someone who’s figuring out to solutions to problems in their sleep.

The majority of the people out there will probably support what you’re doing, but you may run into those who don’t or just don’t like you in general. I’ve found that it’s pointless to try to make everyone like you, a waste of time and generally those who don’t like you probably aren’t worth wasting your time with.

Don’t let these people effect your mindset!



I’ve had my fair share of “haters” in the past (not so much anymore), because I was doing things differently than society would have liked me to (I left college to start my own company etc..) It’s amusing though because now the same people come up to me and ask me how they can get started with doing what I do. All the sudden, the people who wanted to cause you grief, want to be you and want what you have. Everyone is your friend now that you’re driving a fancy car and wearing a nice suit, but I’m sure you’ve heard that before.

I’ve found that for the most part, people who constantly criticize others don’t seem to get very far in life. This is great because Karma seems to take care of everything for you in the end. It’s also important to learn how to tell the different between constructive criticism, people who may be criticizing or critiquing a project of yours in hopes to help you, and criticism from those who want you to fail.


This may sound like a headline for a dating blog, but its true in business as well. A major weakness of mine in the past has been becoming too comfortable with where I am. Most of the money I make comes passively, meaning that the sites I own continue to make money without me updating them every day. There have been days where I was making way more money then I needed and I just didn’t see any point in waking up early or doing anything. When you feel like you don’t have a purpose or aren’t required to do anything you can quickly become depressed and this can heavily effect your ability to innovate and expand.

You need to be constantly challenging yourself and your employees. When your idea takes off and you start making good money don’t just sleep in everyday and do nothing. 


Start planning stage 2 of world domination, get out and travel around the world, do whatever you can to keep changing things up and keeping your mind open to new ideas.

Once you get into the right mindset, it’s important to be persistent and continue to “wake up everyday with guns blazing.” As I mentioned above, don’t let others get to you, and don’t become too comfertable with your daily routine. Continue to explore new things, and most importantly WHEN (not if) you fail – pick yourself back up and try again because the people who are most successful are generally those who are most persistent, and that’s not a coincidence.