PREAMBLE: The only way to take control of your life, raise your standard of living and move beyond merely surviving is to create your own unique product or service that you offer to increasing numbers of people in exchange for the things of value that you desire. This simple formula applies to countries as well as people. A self-sufficient economy has its own products or services of value to export to the world. Similarly, a self-sufficient individual has something of value to exchange in the global marketplace. That thing of value is based on your natural talent, skill, or interest-in other words, your passion.
The greatest challenge to being successful in business is not the economy, its not the market, your customers or anything external. The single greatest obstacle you will ever face in turning your dreams into reality is overcoming the way you currently think. Your thoughts determine your beliefs, your beliefs set your expectations, your expectations influence your actions, and your actions create your reality. So, the first place to start in changing your reality, is to change your thoughts.
The challenge, however, is that we live in a society which...