Today Matt Levenhage wrote a terrific post about what it really takes to succeed online, in which he included the following statement:

“No eBook or guide is going to make you a success. You will gain a lot by reading many of them. There are some great systems and techniques out there to make a lot of money with Affiliate Marketing, but the elements that will find you with a highly profitable and expanding Affiliate Marketing Business lie within you and your mindset.”

You can read the full post here.

I agree with that and I would add that there are many people who have great aptitude for online or offline business success but are being blocked by emotional barriers of which they may or may not be aware. Now whether a person is actually really WORK through those emotional roadblocks is another question.

It’s a different type of work than the work I discussed in the post here.

But make no mistake – it is work. It’s hard work. And ultimately it can be very rewarding work in many different ways.

Matt also states about “desire”: “The pure desire to succeed. You need to make up your mind that Affiliate Marketing is real…”

While I agree that’s important, I don’t agree that it’s always as easy as “making up your mind”. There are a lot of people who have lost heart in parts of their life or life in general who in fact are quite capable of regaining their heart and desire through specific processes designed to help them do so. In other words, if someone doesn’t have the desire to succeed right now, I don’t believe it’s not there.