Do you feel like that sometimes? Overwhelmed? If so, then you're in good company.
We all feel like that.
I know that I certainly do.
And far from stimulating us to action, it can have the opposite effect.
It can paralyze you.
It can keep you from concentrating at all.
And that's before our emotions start getting in the way.
Our emotions can spur us on to accomplish great things, but they can also let us down; badly.
I mean, here's the thing.
All the while we're working on our businesses, there's a little voice that accuses us of being a phoney.
Do you ever hear it? It says things like, "You know that great lifestyle you planned to have? Well, it doesn't look like you'll ever make it!" And then you look at all the effort you've put into your various ventures, and you are reminded of the embarrassment that you've experienced with your friends and family because things haven't turned out the way you had hoped.
And that makes it even harder to concentrate even on the smallest tasks.
Does that sound familiar to you? I speak from experience.
I know what this is like.
On your first attempt at starting a business, you imagine owning a Ferrari.
By the third or fourth venture, you're down to a BMW, and when you reach the 10th or 11th, you begin to wonder if you'll ever be able to manage car payments on a Skoda.
And I think that, in many ways, it's our focus on what we can buy as a result of having a successful business that actually takes our minds off of what is most important.
It's true that many people start businesses to get rich.
But the ones who keep trying time after time after time soon become jaded with all of that.
Oh sure.
When you see a flash car whizz past you, it can still give you a bit of a tingle; but I think that there comes a time in the life of most entrepreneurs when they make a transition in their minds from "I'm going to get rich," to "I hope that I can make this thing work.
" And the problem, as I see it, is that there's simply a lack of credible advice available to encourage us in the right direction.
We're still subjected to all the hype - the big bank balances, PayPal, and ClickBank accounts that so many so-called gurus display on the Internet.
And we're still shown the fast cars and the luxury vacations that we're supposed to aspire to so that we'll want to make our businesses succeed.
What utter rubbish! Would these things add a little zest to our lives? Perhaps.
But what we really want is a worthy vision: a place to take our businesses that is consistent with our core values.
After I became completely fed up with this non-stop hype, I decided to create some training that would help entrepreneurs like you to imagine a future that you could believe in.
That you would feel would be worthy of the financial payoff that you know will come eventually.
And I have to tell you that even as I was recording it, I, too, began to feel some of the excitement that a vision like that can have.
I want to share this training with you, and I'm so excited about it that I want to give it to you.
I don't want to sell it to you.
But, I also recognize that there are still a lot of would-be business people who aren't ready for what I have to say.
And so I've decided that I will only give this special training to those people who invest in the two interviews that I conducted with a couple of other entrepreneurs, both of whom have created multi-million dollar businesses from scratch.
In fact, they both had tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt.
Terry Dean Terry Dean began his first business online with no technical skills at all.
He delivered pizzas full-time and still couldn't make ends meet.
And so in his spare time, he taught himself how to be an internet marketer.
In this very candid interview, Terry discusses several mistakes that beginning entrepreneurs make and explains how to avoid them.
Bill Liao You may have heard it said that your bills will always expand to consume all of the money you make.
And we all know how easy it is for it to become a lot more than that.
Bill Liao found that out.
He was earning a lot more than Terry Dean; but despite the fact that his wife was working as well, he had managed to rack up $30K in credit card debt as well.
But, his life changed when the head of a charity challenged him to make a pledge to contribute $50K during the coming year.
Not only did he meet that pledge, he was able to clear his debts and add another $50K to the original one.
Both Terry and Bill taught me a lot in these interviews, and I'm confident that you'll benefit from them as well.