The day I met Thomas at his home for first time, he was in middle of his yard spreading a pile of mulch, 8 feet wide and 5 feet tall. He did this while seated on ground with a shovel. He looked up at me, and smiled, as he said "Good Day." I then took notice of a garden of wild flowers and vegetables, impressive enough to make any farmer jealous.

I just had to think of obstacles that he has had to overcome every day of his life. Daily tasks, most of us take for granted, can be time consuming and tough for someone with Thomas' disability. I have never seen Thomas complain, or allow himself to be set back by challenges.

The perspective from a man like Thomas F. Seymour has on success, is from a much different point of view. It is a perspective all of us can learn from.

Thomas told me, when we first met, that all he wanted was "money, coming to him, in mail from everywhere","I would rather take only a dollar from thousands of people than to take a thousand dollars from one." Said Thomas. With this idea in mind he started his first online business "The Gold Link." http://www.tgoldlink.com.

He was easily able to corner price on high quality solid 14kt Italian gold, with an Internet low of $10 per gram. His pricing allowed Thomas a very competitive position in his online venture. He now had best place to get gold on Internet, but ... it was hidden in woods.

The first real obstacle Thomas ran into was getting traffic to his online store. For 3 years Thomas persisted with Gold Link with credit card processing fees and webhosting fees eating into his low monthly profits. To make things worse he invested a great deal of money with many ineffective Internet marketer's.

Start your own business.

But isn't it nuts to start a business when times are tight? Not at all. Many of today's huge corporations started out in someone's basement during height of Great Depression when one in three people were destitute. Now those were tough times, yet great new businesses were born and thrived.

And don't you need a big bankroll or at least a line of credit at your bank? Nope. Half companies on Fortune 500 started with just a few thousand dollars. Many began with only a few HUNDRED dollars. I know plenty of thriving small businesses that started with nothing more than an order pad and $20 worth of fliers announcing a new service.

Here's big secret to success. YOU suddenly become a NEW person when you start your own business. For most of us, getting out from under demands of a boss changes something in us. When YOU are demanding things from YOURSELF, you suddenly become ten times more motivated than when someone else is telling you what to do.

When I started my business from a corner of my kitchen, I found hours flew by. I went from working 40 hours a week doing bookkeeping at an asphalt company to putting in 100 hours a week on my business. And you know what? It didn't feel like work. I was tired at end of those 14 hour days, but I felt like I had just come back from vacation.

This is one of those human things that people knew well back in 1800s, but nobody seems to remember today. You're smarter, more clever, and harder working when you work for yourself.

Here's how to get started.