Skills, knowledge and experience are all necessary attributes that can be acquired by ANYONE over time. However, there are more important factors that will determine your ability to make a living online.

You must have a burning desire for success. You must believe that you can achieve your goals and be persistent and determined enough to see your vision through to the end.

As with anything in life, you will have good days and bad and if making a living online isn't something you take seriously, these ups and down will affect you in a very negative way. On the other hand, if you are focused on your goal, you will have the resilience you need to overcome any obstacle.

The fact is, success first exists in the mind, then it becomes a reality through consistent daily habits. It may take some people six months, others two years, but the fact remains if you are persistent and continue working towards your goal, you will get there.

The people who are able to make a living online are the ones that never give up. Everyone experiences failure in one form or another, what separates the winners from the losers is how each person deals with that failure.

You do not need to spend more than a few hours a day working towards your goal of making a living online. But, if you take too many days off, you are not being consistent enough.

I like the exercise analogy. When you start out, you are forcing yourself to continue exercising. The results come slowly and sometimes it is hard to tell if you are making any progress at all. If you continue to exercise regularly, not onlydo you start to see more positive results, now it has become part of your daily routine. So much so, that if you don't exercise when you are supposed to, you regret it and wish you had. And when you do exercise, you feel amazing and energized.

This is "the place" you are working towards. You want want to move from working on making a living online feeling like a chore, to something you want and need to do every day.

Basically, what I am trying to convey in this article is that mindset is EVERYTHING. With a positive mental attitude, you can achieve your goal of making a living online.

Adam Raley may be contacted at http://incomegenerationonline.com . Click here to view more articles by this author.
Adam Raley has been marketing online for since late 2006. If you would like to find out more about systems for making money online, please visit: Income Generation Online