You know the ones…

Not enough money…

Not enough time…

Can’t get the right people…

Yada. Yada. Yada.

But if they were real barriers then nobody who was busy or broke would achieve success, would they?

So what is it then, that really determines our level of success?

It can only be one thing…

Our Habits.

That’s right.

For instance, while I work really hard and have achieved a certain level of success personally which I could only dream of several  years ago…

My biggest issue I will talk to my wife about is not having enough time.

But let’s face it…

I have the same amount of time as Bill Gates and Richard Branson. Donald Trump and Steve Jobs.

And so do you.

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But I’ve got certain habits which I need to change.

Probably my biggest habit is spending too much time building up other people’s businesses and not my own.

I also did not grow up rich, so there’s probably a habitual thinking pattern back  there which I need to overcome which puts a cap on how much I can earn.

Man, writing about this is therapeutic because I learn along with you

Ok, let’s look at a few other habits which could be holding me back…

The habit of taking too much time working in my business and not enough time working on my business.

The habit of having a messy office and not being able to think as clearly as  I could.

The habit of not designating must time to create products and spend time on my own personal marketing.

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Sure, I have a lot of good habits too.

I write this email every day and it brings in income. I read sales copy every day. I read books every day. I listen to CD’s on my way to and from work. I write copy at a set time every day. I have my vitamins. I wake up pretty early.

But then I have a meditation and go back to sleep sometimes.

I do my social media posts at http://www.twitter.com/scottbywater

and http://www.facebook.com/scottbywater every week.

Having written this, one thing I have realised is I need to start to spend more time creating products and making my service more agency based.

So if you think you’re a good direct response copywriter, reply to this email with some of your samples and why you think you could work well with me.

I’ve also realised I need to get more products out there which can help business owners, so keep your eye out for a  special offer on a phenomenal internet  marketing product I have created.

There should be more information about that over the next week.

Anyway, hope you got something out my own “habit therapy” session (who needs a therapist when you can write an email to 7,500 people every day

I encourage you to hop down to your local coffee shop today, draw a line down the middle of the page. And on one side write good habits, the other side write bad habits.

It’s a powerful process. And if one of your bad habits turns out to being not spending enough time and taking enough  action to master the art of getting  more customers, then you really should check out
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Everyone thought it was impossible until Roger Bannister made the breakthrough. Since then it has been broken over and over again and is now the standard for all professional middle distance runners.

In fact, over the past 50 years it has been lowered by seventeen seconds.

Now let’s take a moment to look into the psychology of this and what it means to your business.

Because I think this is valid in any capacity.

For instance, I’ve got this spin cricket game on my iPhone which I am addicted to, to my own detriment.

Anyway, on Saturday night I was trying to crack the 100 in 10 overs score.

I had tried and tried and tried.

Often reaching 97, 96, 88… but just couldn’t seem to make that breakthrough.

But when I finally did, I made 114.

And I am sure I will beat it again and again now that I have gotten my way past that psychological barrier.

Anyway, it’s the same in the business world isn’t it.

There was a time when I was paid $15 or $20 an hour.

I doubled my wage with a single job and felt like a fraud.

Now I look back on that and think: “What was I doing charging so little?”

My point is that once you have a breakthrough in your business, it’s very very difficult to move backwards.

And that’s why you should focus your energy on achieving breakthroughs.

For instance, let’s say you got your hands on http://www.copywritingthatsells.com.au/cashflow

and wrote an ad tomorrow which allowed you to have people  chasing you rather than you chasing them to do business…

How would that change your life?

What if it added 20%… 30%… 50% or 80% onto your bottom line?

Would you ever turn back and go back to the old ways?

No way?

How about if you applied the strategy from lesson #2 of  http://www.morecustomersmadeeasy.com

about  joint ventures and found a way of getting other businesses to happily refer clients they have relationships to you.

So that you automatically had trust as soon as you got a new prospect?

Would you go back to the old way of doing things?

Or would you change your ways… and your income and enjoyment levels of doing business… forever?

(By the way, I’ll send lesson #2 in advance to anyone who orders http://www.morecustomersmadeeasy.com today)

The bottom line is this…

Our mental barriers stop us from jumping to the levels which are possible.

But once we surpass those mental barriers it is virtually impossible to go back.

That’s why wealthy people can lose everything and make it back again in record time.

They have already achieved great success and they know and believe they can do it again.

Doing it the first time is always the hardest.

So with that in mind…

What are you going to do this week to move your business to the next level?

What will you do to instigate that breakthrough?

Focus on that. I certainly will be.

… because once you breakthrough, you achieve more than that breakthrough.

You get the confidence… the knowledge… and you internalise the fact that you can do it over and over and over again.

And that, my friend, is better than money in the bank.

Far too many to answer here, so I thought I would hold a special teleseminar / webinar next week where I can answer all of your questions about how to get more customers.

To lock in your seat for this teleseminar and ask  your question, simply hop along to:

http://www.askscottbywater.com

Anyway, let’s get back to the subject of my headline…

I threw up this quote at www.twitter.com/scottbywater yesterday and received quite a few comments at http://www.facebook.com/scottbywater

… so I thought I would take a moment to expand on this comment.

Personally, if you’re like me there are lots of things which make you angry…

People who waste your time

People who disrespect you

Paying taxes

Large corporations who abuse their rights

A few weeks ago an old woman backed her car right
into ours and then suggested that it wasn’t her fault!

Anyway, this sort of stuff can get you fired up.

As can your friends and family when you have  disagreements.

And it’s only natural to get angry.

But when you let it rule you, it has won the fight.

Instead of letting anger conquer you and holding onto it for week after week after week…

Why not let anger be your driver.

If you’re angry about working for a boss who doesn’t  appreciate you, use that anger as your motivation to  get out of  that situation and into your own business.

If you’re angry about the fact your prospects don’t appreciate your value, use that anger to set up a  new marketing system -
http://www.morecustomersmadeeasy.com
- which draws customers to you.

If you’re angry about advertising sales reps who promise you the world, but fail to deliver, then learn how to play the advertising game so you walk out the winner rather than the victim by getting your hands on http://www.copywritingthatsells.com.au/cashflow

There’s two choices when it comes to anger.

Be the victim of anger. Or use it to take yourself and your business to a new level. Use it as your motivator.

Whatever you do – don’t let it conquer you.

Forgive & forget. After all, the biggest person who loses by holding onto anger for extended periods of  time is the person who is angry