The biggest risk to your venture is your inability to focus. By allowing yourself to be distracted by new opportunities you fail to capitalize on the one right in front of you. It can often be difficult, as each new idea has potential, but remember that every time you deviate from the path you have already developed, you are delaying your own ultimate success.

Keep a notebook of ideas you develop along the way, but leave them there. Get your current project through to completion, optimize it, reiterate through it until it succeeds. Then choose the next most viable opportunity and do the same. Many entrepreneurs are fearful of passing on the “Golden Opportunity” and along the way that might happen, but if you try to develop each one you will never complete any of them. So stay focused, keep on the road map that you have developed, and give it everything you’ve got.

• Online Marketing Tips for the Entrepreneur Online Marketing Tips for the Entrepreneur Over the years I have compiled a wide and varied list of marketing tips. Online marketing is a challenging and ever changing business that can often feel overwhelming for the lone entrepreneur. For this reason alone I usually recommend that you outsource much......
• Unique Positioning - Standing out From the Competition - Marketing Tips Marketing Tips - Unique Positioning One of the best marketing tips, is the concept of developing unique positioning for your product or service. In this podcast Murray Smith and I talk about the creation of your corporate marketing plan by defining your unique positioning in the marketplace. Defining your......
• The Blues Keep Success Away Letting the negative things in your life interfere with your potential will stop you from reaching your potential. In other words, stay positive. Let nothing bring you down. It is imperative that you look for the good in all situations. Easier said than done, right? Well in truth whatever......
• Building a Strong Customer Relationship Strong Customer Relationship Determining who is your ideal client is the first step on the long road to developing a strong customer relationship. Murray Smith, best selling author ("The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life") and super successful Serial Entrepreneur joins us on......
• Taking Your Idea to Success Every great invention or idea has run up against the same first roadblock… fear. The would be entrepreneur fears the unknown, fears to possibility of failure and fears the innate risks involved with a new venture. So, what separates the entrepreneur from just some person with a good idea?......

• Review of eBay Developers Program blog This is a review of the eBay Developers Blog. One of the things that set blogs apart from news listings is the ability to interact with the readers, and their ability to interact back. Even a corporate blog should have the capability for readers to post comments to posts. Not......
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Reviewed I don't read many books. In fact, I only read books when I'm on vacation. They are great for plane rides and relaxing by the beach. During the rest of the year, I prefer to read blogs and other information from the Internet. That is starting to change and it's......
• Work From Home? 8 Ways to Keep Focused I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I have the attention span of a... did you see the Celtics beat LeBron by 30 points on Tuesday in Cleveland? Sorry. Over the last 3 years, I've spent about a year and half working at home. While that doesn't make......
• The Simple Dollar Review The Simple Dollar by Trent Hamm was the 9th book I have read for my book challenge and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. The book really is all of the advice from Trent's website, The Simple Dollar.com, all wrapped into a book. The experiences he has had......
• Mums and Dads Want to Provide a Home for Their Families Why a Home Based Business ? Mums are Biz and Buzzy juggling with jobs and family, which in some cases include raising children. Raising children by itself is a full time business. Mums who wanted to stay home and raise their children so they can provide a better quality of......

To become and act successful often the first person we must convince is ourselves. I have not yet met an entrepreneur who reached a high level of accomplishment without first being confident in what they were doing and what they were capable of.

It is often amazing how much influence in others we can create by exuding inner confidence. But to look at the inverse, if you do not believe in yourself why would anyone else? Putting it that way it is very clear that you are destined to fail if you do not completely buy-in to your own product.

This sense of self-confidence is often hard to imagine after you’ve been denied, or stalled on one front after another. A simple way to regain your inner strength is to visualize the positive outcome. It might sound silly but it actually works. See yourself reaching the goals, see the hurdles and see yourself overcoming them. See the end positive outcome. Not only does this help you gain confidence it can also point out the pitfalls you might face in getting there.

• Life Lessons of a Successful Entrepreneur Thinking Like a Successful Entrepreneur Murray Smith joins me on another Success U podcast, and shares with us some of the life lessons this very successful entrepreneur has found the hard way. These lessons are hard learned, and often painful and expensive to experience. One of the simplest to......
• Entrepreneur Beware Your Own Success Entrepreneur, Success can be Hard Success as an Entrepreneur can be it's own challenge, and we are hitting those challenges today. We are working on a great many new things for Success U, tools that will help you succeed. But using these tools ourselves, we have been flooded with,......
• Focus or Fail The biggest risk to your venture is your inability to focus. By allowing yourself to be distracted by new opportunities you fail to capitalize on the one right in front of you. It can often be difficult, as each new idea has potential, but remember that every time you......
• The Blues Keep Success Away Letting the negative things in your life interfere with your potential will stop you from reaching your potential. In other words, stay positive. Let nothing bring you down. It is imperative that you look for the good in all situations. Easier said than done, right? Well in truth whatever......
• Entrepreneur - Tapping into your Hidden Reserves You the Entrepreneur The life of an entrepreneur, is the tale of many triumphs and long hard work. Knowing how to push past the negativity and find your hidden reserve of strength is a valuable tool in your struggles for success. We as entrepreneurs are a unique breed. We......

• The Benefits of Coin Collecting for Young Children If you have started a coin collection or have had a coin collection for a long period of time, you know how beneficial it can be. There are plenty of different benefits to having a coin collection as an adult, and plenty more benefits to have a coin collection as......
• What Happened to those Evil Oil Speculators? Three months ago all I heard was speculators this and speculators that.  Every financial news program I watched on a daily basis went out of their way to include the phrase "oil speculator" just to get a rise out of us. And most people lapped it up like crazy!  Especially......
• Lessons in Personal Finance The past few years have been especially tumultuous for many people as far as personal finance is concerned. There are a number of lessons that can be gleaned from this, and if you can take these lessons away from the past few years of losses, you may be able to......
• Three Reasons to Take Your Kids Camping [/caption]The tradition of camping began in the late 1800s as the world became more industrialized, suburbs sprouted around large cities, and people moved away from rural areas. As you can probably guess, camping as a recreational activity grew in popularity the less people had access to the American rural life,......
• Visualize Your Inner YOU! We spend so much time being fathers, mothers, bankers, auto mechanics that we forget what we really wanted to be when we where children.  Most of us really don't do what we imagined we would do we end up doing what we have to do. Image via Wikipedia If you......