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Every wondered what it must take to build a small empire the size of John Chow’s or to become so well known for something that you become the defacto source for information on a subject like Darren Rowse? Sure you have, along with thousands of other people. Just visit any forum catering to the subject and you’ll find numerous posts asking what the secrets are, where to find that silver bullet to make a site the next big thing. There’s also plenty of us bloggers that are willing to share our opinions with you, some of us have had some success while others just talk about the subject because they believe it will make them more knowledgeable or something.

What I’ve found having spent several months now keeping up with a lot of the big players and finding some new and interesting smaller players is that everyone usually has good advice. Advice that’s based on experience so it may not necessarily be the same as similar advice from someone else. That’s good, because I might relate more to one bloggers experience than I do another even though they both have similar posts. Many talk a good game about how to do this or that, but I can’t recall seeing many talking bout the most important thing you need to have a successful blog. I’m going to share that with you because it’s so simple that almost everyone forgets about it. What is it?

ATTITUDE or BELIEF

Before you can ever be successful at anything, you have to first believe you can be. If you don’t or you doubt yourself, you’ll never, ever make it no matter how hard you try. It’s that simple. If you believe you can do it, then you can, and if you don’t believe it then you won’t.

People talk about the A-Listers and the things they do and how they want to be like them. People like Shoemoney, Daren Rowse and John Chow. They aren’t successful because the things they endeavor to do work, those things work because they believe they will work. It’s an attitude, and if you don’t have it from the very start, your doomed to wasting your time. I know that sounds harsh, but it’s the truth. Back in the day my parents were involved in AMWAY and as silly as that has come to sound there is still something to take away from it. People in the organization were always talking about “speaking something into action”. I didn’t understand it then, but I do now. If you believe your are successful and you act like you’re successful and you present yourself as being successful then people will gravitate to you. Any motivational speaker will tell you to surround yourself with people who are successful and this is no joke, the biggest way to bring yourself down and kill your new found blog is to hang around with your best buddy from high school who is always laughing at you saying it’ll never work. Yeah, it’s time to get new friends.

Being a successful ProBlogger, being a successful anything, first requires an attitude of success. After that, everything else is secondary and while still important, none of it is as critical. If you want to succeed and make money online, then you have to believe you can do it. It’s not enough to look at someone who has done it and believe it can be done again, deep down you have to believe that you can do what they did. If you can do that, if you can get past that hurdle, then you will be a successful problogger. A great example of this can be found in the writings of Liz Strauss at Successful Blog, many of her posts are about attitude, where the majority of others are about “How to this or that”.

So here’s a question for you, if I met you on the street and asked what you do, what would you say? Can you honestly look someone else in the eye and say “I’m a successful problogger”? Can you?