A few days ago I was discussing some of the things that motivated my to keep writing articles when I just had a few articles online, and what it was that drove me to keep writing, and how I was able to motivate myself to write 10-20 articles per day.

I am a big believer in the concept that you should work as though you are making the money you want to, and then the money will follow.

I think that principle also applies in most other areas of our lives, too, like our families, relationships, and quality of life. Live as though you are the happiest person on earth - and you will get happier. Treat your family as though they are most important thing in your life - and they should be - and they will treat you like you are the most important person in their life.

A fellow in my church used to tithe on the money he wanted to make, not the money he currently made. His income went up.

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Long story, short, I believe you should work as if you are making your desired income, and before long you will be making it.

I'll tell you how it happened to me.

Back in October of 2006, I had a record month for me online: a whopping $900! That was my third month online, so I was OK with it. But what I did was I went into my subscribers stats and I went into my article stats, and I looked at the number of new subscribers I was getting per day per article online, and I looked at the average value that each subscriber was adding to my list, and I calculated the value of each article I submitted online. I came up with $20 per article. I decided I would stop thinking of my daily income as being equal to what people spent with me that day, as some days were $0 and some were $50 and others were anywhere in between. I decided that since I knew the future value of my articles, if I calculated my income by how many articles I wrote that day times the dollar value of the articles, then I would have an accurate figure for how much I actually earned that day, not received.

So I would write around 20 articles, many days, crediting myself with having earned $400 that day. 20 days per month and that comes to $8000. And sure enough, a few months later, I was at $8000 per month.

You see, what you are paid today online is not what you are worth today. It is some extrapolation of work you did last month or the month before that. You see, if I sell a book today for $100 - when did I earn that money? Not today. I earned it when I wrote the book - several months ago. I earned it when I wrote the sales letter. I earned it when I built the online relationship with the person that bought it.