It all started on the way home from Big Seminar. Being that I live in
the same town as Lisa Diane (of 6M Fame), we and a couple other
friends drove together to Atlanta to attend Armand Morin’s Big Seminar.

On the way back home I was driving Lisa’s beautiful black H2 Hummer
when it happened.

I was driving pretty fast, ok very fast. The passenger to my immediate
right was constantly telling me to slow down.

I think you see where this is going.

Anyway, I go flying by a cop somewhere in the neighborhood of
85-90 (dumb I know)…but guess what? He didn’t stop me!

Ha Ha!

I know I lucked out.

Just a few minutes later I’m driving a lot slower (because of slow
people in front of me) when I see 2 cops who have someone pulled
over.

As I look closer I see that one of the cops is digging through the
trunk while a middle aged woman watches.

From my point of view, this cop was definitely searching her car. I
hate to admit this, but I’ve been pulled over and had my car searched
on at least 4 different occasions.

I casually stated to Lisa (who was nodding off in the back seat) look
I can’t believe that cop is searching that womans’ car!

Lisa then stated very matter of factly, “Oh, I thought he was helping
her fix a flat tire, and he was looking for the spare in the back of
the trunk.”

That’s when it hit me.

More than just the story of the cop and the trunk.

I realized that what we perceive is usually the result
of our past.

I was bringing the “bad cop”  because I have had negative
experiences with the police.

Lisa saw a “good cop” because she has had generally positive
experiences with the police as servants of the community.

We both saw the same exact scene and walked away (should
I say drove?) with two very different assumptions about
what we had just seen.

This applies immensely to our business lives, our emotional
development, relationships, and pretty much every aspect
of our life.

When presented with a situation, don’t be like me and let
your past dictate the future outcome.

Instead, decide on a new fresh perspective that allows you
the freedom to see the world in a whole new way.

When you do that, there’s no limit to what you can
accomplish, what business you can start, what new
relationship you can have.

It’s all just a matter of perspective.

Hey!

I wanted to tell you something stupid about me.

I’m not joking, this is so stupid it will probably make
you sick to your stomach. When I thought about it
I almost did get sick!

As you may already know, I spent the last 5 days in
Atlanta, GA at Big Seminar. Big Seminar is sort of the
‘defacto’ seminar of the internet marketing world.

I made a lot of great friends there. Marlon Sanders,
Armand Morin, Russell Brunson, Chris and Ken from
Day Job Killer, Joel Comm, and tons more.

What I found most amazing is that many of them
spoke of the good old days. Like way back (I’m being
sarcastic) in 2002.

Back in 2002 things were easier they said. Everyone
talked about how they could advertise on Google Adwords
for only .05 cents a click on really broad keywords.

If you sold Bananas, you’d make banana your keyword
and people would click on your ad (costing you .05 cents)
and they’d buy your bananas.

These days, you’d be lucky to spend .75 cents a click to
even be on the first page.

Here’s the sickest part though.

I remember an event in 2002 that has changed my
life forever.

I was surfing around the internet when I found a little
forum called the Warrior Forum.

It was a site where people met and discussed marketing
on the internet. It looked pretty interesting to me and I
was going to sign up.

One problem though. To sign up you had to spend $10.

Not a large sum of money to be sure. But I didn’t have
a Credit Card at the time (I was 20, in college, B R O K E).

I certainly didn’t have a Paypal account then. Paypal was
really cheesy back then anyway, remember?

So what did I do? Nothing. I didn’t sign up. I could have
gotten the $10 easily. I just never got around to it.

Had I joined the Forum right then I would have met some
of Internet Marketing’s biggest names…Willie Crawford,
Allen Says, Mike Filsaime, Jonathon Mizel, and the list goes
on.

Many of today’s biggest names were learning the ropes, and
I could have been right there alongside them.

Instead, I didn’t start marketing online until October 2006.
Over 4 years later.

What did I miss out on?

The launch of Google Adwords.
The launch of Google Adsense.
Yahoo’s growth with Yahoo Search.
The Google Cash Method
John Reese’s Traffic Secrets
And ton’s more

I missed all that…and yes it’s true I could probably
be a millionaire today had I got in then.

BUT

Here’s why I’m happy. I did get in. Sure it wasn’t at
the easiest time, but it definitely was the right time for
me.

I now derive a full time income (and then some) simply
by marketing on the internet.

I have learned from my prior mistakes, and now the only
thing I can stress to you is to take action.

Don’t wait till tomorrow, don’t wait for the “right” time.

This is it.

If I had started in 2002 sure I would have made a lot
of money…but what if didn’t start last year?

I would have lost tens of thousands that I’ve already
made in the last few months.

So my advice is this. Don’t wait around anymore. If you’re
on the fence, get off and either forget this idea or do
something with it.

You’ll have to learn the ropes, but once you do there isn’t
an industry out there as fun as this one. (I may be a little
biased, though).

Otherwise you might miss out on the next Google, or the
next YouTube, or Yahoo, or Google Cash or Traffic Secrets…

And that would be a shame.

To Action,

Mike Antoni

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