Too often, people start an online home-based business hoping it will be the solution to their financial situation. It is often said, but too often misunderstood, that when you focus on your home based online business being all about money, you will be sadly disappointed with the results.

If you ask any great salesperson if it was marketing skills or mindset that got them their first big breakthrough, more often than not they will answer with mindset. Here are ten simple steps to help you focus on not just playing the game, but playing the game to win.

1. If you stay in the game and play it regularly, executing and incorporating new habits daily into your business, you’ll begin to develop a level of natural toughness that comes with the territory. By achieving fitness through this process, you will develop what people often refer to as thicker skin and find that everything bounces off you as if you were a full-fledged rhino.
2. Expose yourself daily to others who have achieved the success you seek. Spend at least 30 minutes a day, every day, reading or listening to someone who inspires you to greatness. If someone else has achieved success before you understand that you can too if you learn what they learned and do what they did.
3. Affirmations are positive emotional statements uttered in the present tense to help recondition the subconscious mind. Thoughts really do become things and if you spend time thinking about positive affirmations, you will attract the ways in your life for those thoughts to materialize. Read your affirmations at least two to three times a day and start today.
4. Tony Robbins talks a lot about associative conditioning and its power to make change happen quickly. Be very angry about where you are, in fact, angry enough to do something about it. When you associate enough pain with where you are right now, and as much pleasure and joy from your life as you want to design it, only the will will take the necessary steps to change it.
5. Visualization techniques are being discovered as much more than just fantasy. Creating a powerful picture in your mind about your future, where you want to live, your ideal body, lifestyle, car, and income is a very powerful exercise that you will need to help you reach your goals. Repeat your visualization daily and back it up on a vision board.
6. Reinventing yourself allows you to first become the person you want to be. Whether real or acting, reinventing yourself works. Think about how the person you would like to be talks, walks, dresses and acts with other people, the simple philosophy of being, having is essential for success.
7. Focus is something that can be easily disrupted by distractions. You must stay centered and totally focused on the task at hand, your ultimate goal. Totally focus on success, victory and victory. Keep your eyes on the ball until the game is over, then you really are playing to win.