Ultimately YOU are responsible for your success or failure, and household duties and freedom to postpone work can sometimes be too enticing to pass up. To have a successful business, one must exert control. Control over surroundings. Control over time. It is important to stay focused on your business and not what's on TV. Here are a few ways to help minimize distractions.

"Location, Location, Location. Set up your office area as far away from high-traffic areas as you can. Avoid kitchens, living rooms, near front door, etc. The best solution is to have a room solely for your office. However, that's not always feasible.

oWhen space is an issue, set up your area in a corner of a room, and keep potential distractions out of view, or you will soon be focusing on them instead. Try to create a barrier from rest of room, which produces visual and psychological separation.

"Organization, Organization, Organization. This will really make or break some people. For starters, only keep things in area that are of use for your business. Sparse decorations are okay, but keep guitar out. Second, keeping supplies organized and well-placed eliminates many future headaches.

Here is scenario. We’ll call this person “student”.

Student: Why can’t I be as successful as some of other marketers on Internet? I work as hard or even harder then they do but, my downline and my sales seldom produce anything.

Coach: Are you being consistent about promoting your site?

Student: I’ve done everything that I know to do. I have mailed out on dozens of safelist regularly, joined banner clubs, even run hit exchanges daily to maximum. Still it seems nothing is happening for me.

Coach: Hummm…. What’s your website address? I’ll take a look.

Student: It is http://www.thecompany.com/ID?xxxx .

Coach: No, I don’t mean companies site. I’m talking about Your site.

Student: Oh, I don’t have one.

Coach: Bingo! How are you going to control anything that you don’t own? You Can’t. How do you introduce yourself and your product so that your prospect feels comfortable with doing business with you? You Don’t.

Student: But company does that for me. Even includes a follow up of 5 or 6 messages through their auto responder system on my behalf.

Coach: Those are templates. Are you a template or an individual wanting to do business? The last that I was aware of is that you are an individual, not a template. Your prospect shouldn’t be treated like a boiler room template either.

Student: Well, I’m an individual and I would prefer to do business.

Coach: Then get your own site to introduce yourself first. Then you add your products and services. When you walk down street and run into someone that you haven’t met yet, do you say “Hello, how are you?” Or, do you just simply throw one of your products in their face?

Student: I say “Hello”, of course.

Coach: Bingo, again!

Let me shed some light here about doing business on Internet in “Real World”.

Understand that there is nothing like doing business on Internet. The vast opportunities are virtually limitless. The Internet can take you to a level of realism beyond what you can even dream about.