You can use positive self-talk, or autosuggestion, to help you develop a solid faith that will sustain you no matter what. This is not to say you won’t have some low times, but it’s what you do when this happens that makes the difference whether you’ll continue to pursue your dreams. Regular negative self-talk fuels low self-worth and stops us from being able to identify opportunities when they do arise. Most times this negative self talk is simply a habit. One which if practiced for so long can seem nearly impossible to break. But it can be changed. When you are drowning in negative self-talk, the anti-mantras that you have believed for so long, you give in to limiting beliefs that can hold you back. This leads to a false skepticism about the validity of your dreams and your ability to achieve them.

Because faith and self-talk are so connected, practicing positive self-talk when your faith is faltering can sometimes feel like a giant lie. This is because people often go to the extreme, trying to jump from feeling despair to joy with one affirmation! It leaves people feeling frustrated, as if self-talk works for “some people” but not for them.

Successful people know how to practice self-talk they can believe in, which leads to a sense of self worth and faith that cannot be shaken. The key to using this universal success principle is to use inner language that makes sense to you in terms of where you are right now. If you can get yourself to feel just a tiny little bit better now, you can up the ante tomorrow, building your unbreakable house of faith day-by-day, brick by brick. Slowly changing the habit of negative self talk to positive. Making this shift slowly ensures the change will last.

There are only two categories of self talk and those are self-love and self-hate. You are either feeding your mind and spirit with supportive, self-loving thoughts and actions or you are breaking your spirit and motivation down by engaging in destructive self-talk. Like most anything, this is habitual and can be changed. Awareness is the key to all change, so try carrying a notebook for a couple of days and recording how many times you’re aware of your self-love talk and your self-hate talk. When you are supporting yourself with positive self talk, you are able to move in the direction of creating what you want in your life.

What do you desire? What do you dream about having, becoming, experiencing? What is it that you want more than anything? Most people can come up with a list of things they would like to have more of: money, a new house, new friends, supportive colleagues, or time off.

All of us, at some point or another, also list over-arching goals that we would like to achieve: become a millionaire, get published, open a new business, run a marathon. I call desires that are not crystal clear your “wish list”. Whether you carry your wish lists in your pocket, your briefcase, or in a tiny corner of your heart, what you desire will come easily when you get clarity. Then it becomes a desire.

The people you admire, the successful, wealthy, joyful people whom you set on a pedestal have desires. The difference is, they are able to obtain what they desire, and they do that by first getting very specific about what they want. Even if disaster strikes these people and they seem to lose things for a moment, have you ever noticed they always rebound to even greater heights of achievement?

When you learn to apply these proven principles to your life, it’s like a roadmap or a recipe, follow it and what you would like to create in your life becomes easier and more attainable. To use this first universal success principle, clarify your own wish list so that you know exactly what you want, and then commit to that desire.

Get it down on paper, every last detail. Design and refine your desire until it is crystal clear. Feeling excited, but also a bit nervous? Good. You’re on the right track!

“Desire is the Starting Point of All Achievement”

- Napoleon Hill

This quote says it perfectly, desire is the foundation upon which all your success is built. There is the desire to move away from the things you do not want and the desire to move towards the things you do want, when you approach from both sides of the coin, you’ll attain a burning desire to create your products and create your successful online business.

It happens many times when a person decides to create a product. Once people achieve crystal clear clarity about what they desire, a cloud of negativity can invade their space and soon their excitement and commitment to achieving that goal, creating their money making product, is overpowered by overwhelming self-doubt.

Has that every happened to you? Have you ever made the decision to “go for it” and then stopped dead in your tracks because you looked at the entire road and you just don’t think you can pull it off?

What you need is to cultivate a strong sense of faith, and faith begins with a positive self worth. When you have faith in yourself it is much easier to take all the steps to complete your product. With faith, you can believe that your product will help people and help you. When you hear stories of extremely successful people who have created products and product empires, notice they all possess a strong sense of faith that carried them through tough times, helped them overcome obstacles, and helped them carry on until they achieved their goals.

Faith is not a mystery; it’s not a feeling that magically appears to the chosen few. If your faith is weak or seemingly nonexistent, take heart. You can cultivate and strengthen your faith through different means. Some of the ways to strengthen your faith include using empowering questions, by applying the power of self-talk.

By far though, the most important method to create a sense of unwavering faith is by taking action. Every time you take a baby step, which includes action of some kind in the direction of your dream, you are strengthening your faith. Creating your product includes taking a leap of faith and the way you see it through to the end is taking small, daily actions in faith until you’ve finished your product.

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” – Mary Manin Morrisey

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Clarity of purpose as an online entrepreneur is essential to success. When I coach entrepreneurs, many have not clearly defined the value they bring to the marketplace. Without that laser focus, they end up floundering and chasing business instead of having potential customers recognize their value instantly.

I recommend creating a Bio Blurb, a 15 second entrepreneurial mission statement that clearly defines you and your purpose as related to your customers. Business success comes when there is an exchange of value.

Your Bio Blurb helps you define the value you bring and your potential customers can quickly identify if they need your products and services. The most important thing to remember is although it’s called a Bio Blurb, it’s not really about you.

“What..?! My Bio Blurb isn’t all about me?”

No, it really isn’t about you, it’s about the solutions you offer for the problems of your customers. How will purchasing your products and services benefit them?

Here are two examples of Bio Blurbs that work:

1. Maritza Parra’s Bio Blurb: I’m the Product Creation Queen and I love teaching my students to get their products out of their head and put money in the bank!

2. Jeff Herring’s Bio Blurb: I’m the Article Marketing Guy and I teach Article Marketing for more prospects, publicity, products, profits and a whole lotta fun!

You don’t have to give yourself a cute name but you must clearly define the value you bring to your students and customers. Your Bio Blurb should be short, focused and clear. When someone asks “What do you do?” And you answer with your Bio Blurb, they can quickly identify whether or not they need your services. Because it’s just as important to communicate who your perfect customer is and who is not.

So create your short, laser focused Bio Blurb today!