Nothing replaces persistence and innovation when it comes to succeeding.

You don’t have to smart, rich (already) or good looking.

Persistence and innovation alone can help you succeed like nothing else can.

I’ll tell you a true story about persistence and innovation.

In started my online business in 1999.

By 2001 I was broke. Really broke.

I was $60,000 in debt and had little income.

But the bills piled up everyday - without stopping.

I guess they didn’t know I didn’t have the money to pay them.

My back was against the wall. I needed money fast or I would lose my house, my credit and it probably would have broken up my family.

I was only making between $500 a $1000 a month but my bills were $2000+ a month and I needed at least $1000 a month for food, clothing, gas and property taxes.

Do the math. I was getting farther and farther behind. I was paying bills with credit card cash advances.

I blew through $25,000 in savings and went $60,000 in credit card debt hell.

But in ONE MONTH I turned it all around and when I figured out what I was doing wrong, I went from $500 a month in income to over $9,000 the very NEXT month.

Then I started making $15,000 a month.

Then I made $25,000 a month.

Then I started making $50,000 a month.

I have written exhaustively about HOW I did it.

And over 6,000 people have taken my 2 courses that explain the details of how anyone can duplicate my success if they are persistent.

But as much as I have put into those 2 courses there was something I could not control.

That something I could not control was: You.

Everyone is different, no two people do anything the same… even the way you learn new things is unique to you.

I have concluded, without a doubt, that *success* is very much dependent on so many variables related to your personality, temperament, skills and individuality - even your cultural background -that it’s impossible to simply *copy* anyone one else’s success.

What DOES make a difference is learning a little bit from everything you read, everyone you meet and INTEGRATING it into your own, personal business philosophy.

But you MUST develop your own business based on WHO YOU ARE.

In some respects, your business reflects who you are as a person. I don’t want to get into a philosophical discussion, but you need to have a strong sense of ’self’ - of who you are-before you can move forward in your own business.

If you’re not grounded in ‘who you are’, you’re STUCK and can’t move forward.

If you find yourself in a position of being STUCK then you need to break out of the self-imposed box you’ve surrounded yourself with.

Here are three ways that have helped me to get UN-STUCK:

1) Travel to someplace you have never been before - whether it’s 5 miles away or 500 or 5000. Get in a different environment for a few days. It’s amazing how it helps clarify your thinking.

2) Make a BOLD move. Do something that is totally un-characteristic for you. Here are a few examples: Go to a movie in the middle of the day (if you normally would never do that) … start a new hobby that you thought about but never got started… go to the bookstore and pick up a magazine you never have read before and really get into the ideas and articles in the magazine… etc…

3) Dance, wave your arms around and stomp your feet like you did when you were a kid. If you haven’t danced to music in a long time it’s amazing how movement of your body can free your thinking. It really works.

The key is to do something different. Get out of the routine you’re in see life in a different way…