Watching my son grow up I get to see all kinds of parallels between his development and marketing on the internet.

If we had to learn how to walk all over again it would be a tough job. Somehow as adults we have learned how to quit. An infant hasn't learned that yet (and hopefully I can delay that lesson as long as possible). From what I have observed in working with a lot of people over the years, most adults would lay on the floor and complain about not being able to walk.

I can imagine people saying things like, "I should be getting paid to learn how to walk like those guys", "it's not my fault I can't walk, it's too hard", "there should be a government program that will get me up and walking", "there's a secret that the people who can walk aren't telling me".

In this imaginary scenario, there are some adults who see everybody lying around complaining about not being able to walk, seeing everyone else walk, and decide that they will do whatever it takes to learn how to walk. Instead of wasting time complaining about not walking they start pulling themselves along with their arms.

Eventually they get the legs pulled up under them and can coordinate the arm and leg movements well enough to get crawling. It may not be pretty, but it's progress. It's not quite walking, but it's farther along than laying around with everyone else who is still complaining about not walking. What's more, several of those people who can walk take notice of the crawling efforts and start giving some encouragement! The "walkers" can't make the crawler walk, they can't do it for him, but they cerainly can tell the crawler he's doing a great job and doing the right things to make progress.

After more time practicing crawling, they start reaching higher, holding onto things and standing. Before too long they're wobbling along on two feet and soon are running around as natural as could be. The people still laying on the floor will say things like "they had special help", "that kind of person always succeeds", etc.

The secret, if you want to call it that, was that the person who truly wanted to walk made up their mind to do so and did not give up until they accomplished that goal. And adults being what we are, we tend to try and pull down anyone who trys to get up and join the walkers. People tend to think, "I've never walked, there's no way they can walk - nobody in that family has ever walked", and so on.

I'm just glad that my son doesn't know what "quit", "can't" or "give up" mean. Without having that in his vocabulary he will achieve whatever his imagination can create. This is true for every new child born to this Earth. The longer that we can keep them away from influences that tell them they can't achieve something, they greater they will soar.

Now maybe the connection between the story I laid out and building a business in [tag-tec]network marketing on the internet[/tag-tec] is not completely clear, so I'll try to summarize it.

We see a number of people who make very nice incomes from having their own business. In the last decade or so, many of these businesses have been started on the internet, and many of them have taken advantage of the leverage available in [tag-tec]network marketing[/tag-tec].

It's not easy, just as learning to walk is not easy. It's tempting to give up after trying real hard and making little progress. But with persistence you keep getting better at it. Sometimes you look back and you don't know why something you now do routinely seemed so hard a month or two ago. People who make five figures a month on the internet have a hard time understanding why it's so hard for everyone else to do because they have been doing it for so long that it's second nature.

This is how it comes to be.

We have to unlearn the "quit", "give up" and other attitudes that keep us from reaching our goals. It's the vision we set for ourselves that will keep us moving forward and blowing past anything that we thought was out of reach.

This is what we can learn from babies.