3 keys to achievement: Common Sense, Hard work and Stick-with-it-ness – Thomas Edison

3 Awesome Steps to Virtual CEO Success

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There are 3 keys to achievement: Common Sense, Hard work and Stick-with-it-ness – Thomas Edison

You see I believe in a simple theory; that success (in anything) is 20% mechanics and 80% psychology.

Anyone can learn the mechanics of the Virtual Business Lifestyle. You can learn about creating passive income,outsourcing your work and becoming mobile, but in order to truly make it all work for you and create the lifestyle you want, you MUST approach it in a different way.

I could ramble on for ages about all of the keys to achievement that you could incorporate into your life but I won’t. In all seriousness though, here are 3 important keys to achievement that I’d like to share with you today.

1. Common Sense

To make a successful transition between in-office CEO and Virtual CEO, you have to use common sense. To outsourcing business you have to understand the process, what works and what doesn’t, and use that knowledge to help you make the move as smooth as possible.

Use your common sense by realising that this whole process of becoming a Virtual CEO will take time and so you are not jumping into this in a week.

You have this same ability to use your common sense to live a Virtual Business Lifestyle. All it means is using your head and making sure you think your goal through before you jump in.

2. Hard work

Hard work is crucial to success, I think we can all agree on that can’t we? But many people thing that hard work equals long hours and that’s not the case (at least for the majority.) So while you might have to pull the occasional all-nighter to finish off that ebook or product for a passive income stream, the kind of hard work I’m talking about is a bit different.

Mr. XX, for example, isn’t just working hard to make sure that he can fully remove himself from the business at the end of year. He’s travelling all over the show, trying to find that all-important operations manager and he’s putting in the effort to complete projects like his ebooks.

Mr. XX is also working hard on making the time for his family and his mini-vacations. He’s working hard on disciplining himself to work from home on Fridays. He’s working hard to ensure he has all the systems in place for the big change in 2011.

You can apply the same principle of hard work to your virtual business. You’re completely able to work in this hard work fashion. It’s not about slaving away for 20 hours a day but instead, taking the approach of working hard in productive ways to get your virtual business singing and dancing.

3. Stick-with-it-ness

Finally, the last key that Mr. XX uses to his advantage is what the great Thomas Edison called “Stick-with-it-ness”. It’s a simple concept really when you think about it but the majority of people don’t live by it.

For example, when Mr. XX was looking for his ops manager, he stuck with it even though he was travelling all over the place to make it happen. Even when the search looked in vain, Mr. XX stuck with it and kept going. A year is, for some, a long time to work away on their dream of change but the success in the end comes for this ability to just hang in there long enough.

So if you’re creating your ebook that is going to be your first passive income stream and it’s taking a bit longer than planned, stick in there and see it through. It’s easy to give up and cast it into the “I tried but couldn’t do it” pile but that won’t bring you the virtual lifestyle success. To get that lifestyle you want, you need to “stick-with-it” until the end don’t you? Stick with that blog until you start to see the numbers rise. Stick with the idea of outsourcing even if you’ve been burnt a few times. Stick with creating those passive income streams even if it seems to be taking longer than planned. And stick with your goal of living that virtual business lifestyle – it’s closer than you think.

The 3 keys

So yes, I could go on for ages about all the hundreds of keys to achievement that could help you reach virtual CEO success but I won’t. Because really, using your common sense, working hard and sticking with it is a great place to start and WILL make a massive difference to you living your virtual business lifestyle.