If you’re feeling stuck in your job or some aspect of your life situation, this video should get you feeling hopeful. I’m going to read a few pages from this book, The Magic of Thinking Big, which was written by David Schwartz.

[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/IwxeB1VPvoY?rel=0″ align=”center” title=”How to change careers: the magic of thinking big” description=”How to change careers: the magic of thinking big” maxwidth=”750″ /]

It’s time to build an online business that empowers you and your life

Click here to receive the video series that will show you how to earn money from the comfort of your laptop.

There is someone speaking to the author in the book and he says, “Just five years ago I was plodding along. Just another guy working in the tool and die trade. I made a decent living by average standards, but it was far from ideal. Our home was much too small and there was no money for the things that we wanted. My wife, bless her, didn’t complain much, but it was written all over her face that she was more resigned to her fate than she was happy. Inside I grew more and more dissatisfied. When I let myself see that I was failing my good wife and two children, I really hurt inside. But today, things are really different.”

My friend continued. “Today we have a beautiful home on a two acre lot and a year round cabin a couple of hundred miles north of here. There’s no more worry about whether we can send the kids to a good college, and my wife no longer feels guilty every time she spends money for some new clothes. Next summer, the whole families flying to Europe to spend a months holiday. We’re really living. How’d it all happen? Well, it all happened because I harnessed the power of belief.

“Five years ago I learned about a job with a tool and die company in Detroit. We were living in Cleveland at the time. I decided to look into it, hoping I could make a little more money. I got here early on a Sunday evening, but the interview wasn’t until Monday. Well, after dinner I sat down in my hotel room and for some reason I got really disgusted with myself. Why, I asked myself, am I just a middle class failure? Why am I trying to get a job that represents such a small step forward? I don’t know to this day what prompted me to do it, but I took a sheet of hotel stationary and I wrote down the names of five people I’ve known well for several years, who had far surpassed me in job responsibility and earning power.

“Two were former neighbors who moved away to find subdivisions. Two others were fellas I’d worked for, and the third was my brother-in-law. Well next, again, I don’t know what made me do this, but I asked myself what do my five friends have that I don’t have, besides better jobs. I compared myself with them on intelligence, but I honestly couldn’t see that they excelled in the brains department, nor could I truthfully say that they beat me on education, integrity, or personal habits. Well, finally, I got down to another success quality one hears a lot about, initiative. Here I hated to admit it but I had to, on this point my record showed I was far below my successful friends.

“It was now about 3:00 am but my mind was astonishingly clear. I was seeing my weak point for the first time. I discovered that I’d held back. I dug into myself deeper and deeper, and I found the reason I lacked initiative was because I didn’t believe inside that I was worth very much. I sat there the rest of the night just reviewing how lack of faith in myself had dominated me ever since I could remember. How I’d used my mind to work against myself. I found I’d been preaching to myself why I couldn’t get ahead, instead of why I could. I’d been seeling myself short. I found this streak of self deprecation showed through in everything I did.

“Well, then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself. Right then I decided, I am through feeling second class. From here on in I’m not going to sell myself short. The next morning I still had confidence. During the job interview I gave my new found confidence it’s first test. Before coming to the interview I’d hoped that I would have the courage to ask for 750 bucks, or maybe even $1000 more than my present job was paying. But now, after realizing that I was a valuable man, I upped it to 3500 and I got it. I sold myself, because after that one long night of self analysis I found things in myself that made me a lot more salable. Within two years after I took the job I’d established a reputation as a fellow who can get business.

“Well, then we went into recession. This made me still more valuable, because I was one of the best business getters in the industry. The company was reorganized and I was given a substantial amount of stock plus more pay. Believe in yourself, and good things do start happening. Your mind is a thought factory. It’s a busy factory, producing countless thoughts in a day. Production in your thought factory is under the charge of two foremen, one of whom we will call Mr. Triumph, and the other we’ll call Mr. Defeat.

“Mr. Triumph is in charge of manufacturing positive thoughts. He specializes in producing reasons why you can, why you are qualified, and why you will. The other foremen, Mr. Defeat, produces negative, deprecating thoughts. He’s your expert in developing reasons why you can’t, why you’re weak, why you’re inadequate. His specialty is the why you will fail chain of thoughts. Both Mr. Triumph and Mr. Defeat are intensely obedient. They snap to attention immediately. All you need to do is signal either foremen and give the slightest mental beck and call. If the signal is positive, Mr. Triumph is going to step forward and do go to work. Likewise, a negative signal brings Mr. Defeat forward.

“To see how these two foremen work for you, try this example. Tell yourself today is a lousy day. This signals Mr. Defeat into action, and he manufactures facts to prove that you’re right. He suggests to you that it’s too hot or it’s too cold, business is going to be bad today, sales will drop, other people will be on edge. You may get sick, or your spouse might be in a fussy mood. But, tell yourself today is a fine day, and Mr. Triumph is signaled to act. He tells you this is a wonderful day. The weather is refreshing. It’s good to be alive. Today you can catch up on some of your work, and then it is a good day. Mr. Defeat will convince you that you will fail, while Mr. Triumph will demonstrate why you will succeed.

“Now, the more work you give either of these two foremen, the stronger he becomes. If Mr. Defeat is given more work to do, he adds personnel and he takes up more space in your mind. Eventually, he’ll take over the entire thought manufacturing division and virtually all thought will be of negative nature. The only wise thing to do is to fire Mr. Defeat. You don’t need him. You don’t want him around telling you that you can’t, that you’re not up to it, that you’ll fail and so on. Mr. Defeat won’t help you get where you want to go, so boot him out. Use Mr. Triumph 100% of the time. When any thought enters your mind, ask Mr. Triumph to go to work for you. He’ll show you how you can succeed, walk in, the door to success is open wider then ever before. Put yourself on record right now that you’re going to join that select group of people who are getting what they want out of life.”

Focus, not on Mr. Defeat but on Mr. Triumph. All it takes is a little bit initiative to break free from the situation that’s dragging you down, and I’m here to help you.

If you haven’t received the seven day video series that will show you how to break free from your current job situation, you can click here to check it out!

Related Reading:

The Mindset Needed To Change Careers

Can You Start An Online Business Around Your Job?

How To Change Careers At 40, 45, or 50

How Much Does It Cost To Start An Online Business?

How Much Money Can I Make With An Online Business?

Firefighter And Nurse Assistant Turned Online Entrepreneurs

How A Drug Addict Scientist Became An Online Entrepreneur

Matt T. Nathanson
Freedom Through Digital Education

By submitting your application to join the SFM, you’ll gain immediate access to top coaches and daily live training webinars

Each webinar is recorded and shared with the community. Microsoft Lynda (Owned by LinkedIn) and DigitalMarketer (the world’s longest standing and most highly respected B2B and B2C digital education training company) have both partnered with the SFM and now offer their courses and services as part of different levels of SFM membership too!

We focus on helping others break from their unfulfilling careers and lives, to take back control and become the best version of themselves. I believe in creating a spark that ignites the fire within others to confidently take action, so that they are inspired to become who they are meant to be. The result is time, financial and geographical freedom.

Our core value is this – we want to help anyone who has the courage to step out of the status quo (your financial security in the hands of an employer) and drive into creating life on their own terms. All you’ll need is a working computer, a decent internet connection and the commitment to learn the skills that will set you free. We help each other and if you’re hoping to find a community of people who can show you how to change careers: the magic of thinking big, you’ve found it!

Most of our community members were working to build someone else’s business and someone else’s dreams, but decided that life is too short. We all had “a-ha” moments and decided to recreate our lives by starting online businesses in our spare time. Join us and protect your income!

Meet Stuart Ross, SFM Co-Founder and Your Guide

“Welcome! I started my journey into the digital and entrepreneurial world with nothing more than perseverance, a laptop and a dream.

To date, I’ve created a multi-million dollar lifestyle business in the education and technology industry that I absolutely LOVE. My driving passion is sharing the know-how and mindset that lets others feel the same way.

The reason they call me The Freedom Entrepreneur is because I refused to accept the constraints of traditional employment. Having successfully found a better route, I’m committed to showing others how to live life on their own terms too.”

Stuart and his team have helped thousands of people who want to be self-employed from the comfort of their computers, but don’t know how. The SFM’s Digital Business System and community are one of the fastest ways to get you from where you are, to where you want to be.

Four Principles To Create Your Best Life

PRINCIPLE #1 KNOW YOUR VISION

[arve url=”https://vimeo.com/331979772/d485b8d713″ align=”center” promote_link=”no” /]

Stuart talks about vision moments. My girls screamed with delight, as they touched snow for the very first time and like a light switch, I instantly realized that no job was worth missing my kids’ childhood and making quality memories together. That’s the vision that keeps me motivated. I’m putting the effort in now, so I have free time and extra money to make memories with my wife and kids for many years to come.

[arve url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/313038291″ align=”center” title=”principles for success” description=”principles for success” /]

PRINCIPLE #2 INVEST IN YOURSELF

[arve url=”https://vimeo.com/331979878/48719c87e8″ align=”center” /]

“Every day I make sure that in some capacity, I’m investing in myself. Unlike school, as a self-learner, you get to choose the areas you’re enthusiastic about and you get to choose the people that you’re learning from.” The most important investment I’ve ever made has been in me and my education, not a 401k. The return on your investment is the ability to earn income, no matter what the economy is doing.

[arve url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/313048336″ align=”center” title=”principles for success, invest in yourself” description=”principles for success, invest in yourself” mp4=”https://f000.backblazeb2.com/file/IslandTimeLiving/Stuarts2ndPrinciple.mp4″ /]

PRINCIPLE #3 DO THE WORK

[arve url=”https://vimeo.com/331979971/e17109f52c” /]

Find someone who has what you want and do what they did! Find someone who’s willing to teach, who’s been there and done what you’e looking to do, and follow their lead. I tried to build several online businesses early on, without a guide, and failed. Then I found the SFM and their guidance allowed me to succeed. It’s designed to help anyone go into business for themselves online.

[arve url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/313051122″ align=”center” title=”principles for success, do the work” description=”principles for success, do the work” mp4=”https://f000.backblazeb2.com/file/IslandTimeLiving/Stuarts3rdPrinciple.mp4″ /]

PRINCIPLE #4 KNOW YOUR VALUES

[arve url=”https://vimeo.com/331980050/5c6d6e54a2″ /]

If you don’t know your values, then it’s time to uncover and illuminate them. Then, everything else you do will be aligned with your values. I decided to make a change and learn the skills necessary to be self-employed online, so that I’m always available to make memories with my wife and kids. God, integrity, loyalty, having fun, and passion are a few other values I hold dear. What values drive your daily actions?

[arve url=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/313055142″ align=”center” title=”principles for success, know your values” description=”principles for success, know your values” mp4=”https://f000.backblazeb2.com/file/IslandTimeLiving/Stuarts4thPrinciple.mp4″ /]

It’s your time. Join us and we’ll show you how to recreate your life!

Submitting your application comes with a 30 day money-back guarantee. Feel free to check it out and if it’s not for you, get your money back by emailing support@thesfm.com.

Visit Island-Time Living’s Social Media Pages

YouTube, Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn

Matt T. Nathanson-How To Change Careers: The Magic of THINKING BIG-Top of page