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5. Model Successful People or Successful Businesses: This will help accelerate your success by avoiding mistakes made by people or businesses that failed. So, learn from other people's mistakes, as well as your own.

6. Take Action! This has got to be most difficult "habit" of all. If taking action were easy, you would already be wealthy, healthy, and wise. As I said earlier, we all have plans, but, we don't always take action necessary to implement those plans. Therefore, our goals are never achieved. YOUR INABILITY TO TAKE ACTION IS THE PROBLEM!

Chances are you are currently working for someone else at this time. When you are working for someone else, you are not really in control. By working for someone else, you don't have freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. As an employee, you get paid hourly or a salary.... but if you stop working, you stop getting paid.

What you really want is ability to make money while you are sleeping, taking time off, or even on vacation for a month. The only way this is possible is if you own your own business. If you have a business, then develop these six habits of highly successful webmasters and you'll be well on your way to success.