On other hand when you’re shy it’s easy to avoid other people, shyness automatically comes with a PhD in how to creatively avoid people, especially strangers! However this tendency can prove detrimental to your business especially when you consider that your ultimate success can depend on approaching people and making a great first impression.

There is a better way; it is possible to use your mind in a simple yet powerful way that will make it easy for you to make a fantastic first impression. It involves applying peak performance principles in a special way.

Here’s what I do when I´m at a conference and I spot someone I know that I ought to say Hello to although my initial tendency is to just avoid them and hope that they don’t see me.

First of all, feel yourself standing tall, just pretend that you feel dynamic, powerful and enthusiastic and take on that posture. Breathe deeply, chest out, and smile so wide that you can feel stretch in your cheeks. Even if you make believe you will still tend to come across far better with whoever you approach.

I looked up word "successful" in my thesaurus and some of words listed were: happy, lucky, fortunate, unbeaten, undefeated, blossoming. If that is definition of "successful", then I am truly "successful beyond measure."

I started dabbling in Internet marketing in October 2000. It didn't take long for me to become a victim of "become-a-millionaire- overnight" mentality that's so prevalent on Web. I found a marketing system that was supposed to be so easy to sell that even beginners could start making money VERY FIRST DAY! I spent most of my time advertising rather than learning HOW to advertise.

By January 2001, I considered Net marketing a hobby. I wasn't making any money and $20 checks weren't filling my mailbox, but playing Net marketing game was something amusing to do when I had some spare time.

In June, I found a program I was so impressed with, I became a member and an affiliate and started promoting it exclusively.

While I was promoting this program about Internet marketing, I was also learning from it. It wasn't long before I threw away "get-rich-quick" mindset. I began to realize that this is a profession and like any profession, I would have to take it seriously and learn my craft. (Never mind that last time I studied anything seriously, Nixon was president.)

Then it happened. My dabbling that had become a hobby was now a PASSION and my life hasn't been same since!

HOW PASSION HAS CHANGED MY LIFE

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." Tolstoy

* "Not Quite Ready To Become a Member of Mensa, But..." Mentally I feel more alert and creative. Every day is a day of learning something new and of being continuously challenged. There's a clarity in my thinking I didn't have before. I actually feel like I've replaced some brain cells I destroyed in '70s.

* "Move Over Energizer Bunny. She Just Keeps Going And Going and Going" Physically I have more energy. I can't wait to get up each day. I'm not waiting for something to happen; I'm making it happen. I believe that is difference between living or merely existing.