I am asked all the time how some people can start online and make thousands in their first month, and yet others have been plugging away for years but still seem to be approximately where there started … well, you’ll have to forgive my frankness, but I think the main reason some people never get anywhere is the fact they never really actually get going… This was brought into sharp focus in the wake of the recent invitations I sent out to work with me on my new project … and while I can understand how it (or anything else I mention in the Lowedown) wouldn’t be for absolutely everybody … I must admit some of the replies did leave me scratching my head… Of course, I had the usual emails from people explaining that they were either too old, young, fat, thin, short, or tall for it to be possible to succeed (before they even knew anything about it) or how having the wrong family, house, surname or accent would somehow exclude them from earning £12,000 to £57,000 each month… But what I found slightly flattering and mildly amusing (but at the same time a bit worrying) were the emails suggesting that this kind of thing (or in fact pretty much anything) ‘only’ works for me because I am in some way ‘special’… Well, this is something I can assure you ‘She Who Must…’ would find very amusing indeed … and would take great joy (and several hours) producing her huge portfolio of evidence to prove that the opposite was in fact true) Obviously I’m nothing special … I’m certainly not stupid, but I’m no rocket scientist either, I had no starting advantage in either wealth or family connections … in short, I started out pretty much where you are now … and, relatively speaking, had about the same amount of resources. That said however, what I did that so many others never do was … I actually took action and got started… Now although the economy was not quite as it now, when I got started a decade ago there was more than enough going on in the world for me to find a reason to put it off ‘until the time was right’ if I had wanted to, and the same would have been true every year since … and I easily could still be sitting there now, waiting for the perfect set of circumstances to occur… The fact of the matter is that ‘right now’ is the time to start whatever venture you happen to have in mind … and it’s also true to say that ‘right now’, (regardless of when you may be reading this) is, and has always been, the best time to start. So many people hang around waiting for the perfect conditions to get going, which of course will never come, and they just don’t ever start. It really doesn’t matter what is going on in the world, if you really want to succeed you will always find a way to overcome the circumstances. Of course, different situations can often call for the occasional bit of lateral thinking and ingenuity but I’ve found with a little effort you can turn almost any situation to your advantage. Every single year is the same in that there will inevitably be ups and downs and the ideal is to work through the ‘downs’ preparing and planning to take advantage of the ‘ups’. I used to quote a phrase to sum this all up which I will now ‘dust off’ for your consideration … If your sail is always up … then when the wind blows – your ship will sail! Until Next Time, Tim Lowe Publisher, Tim’s Business Lowe Down