Positive thinking can help you reap many benefits in your internet business. Through positive thinking you can achieve better focus, more readily recognize new opportunities, better define your business goals, build up your belief in yourself and your product/service, and more actively seek new ideas. Positive thinking can help you keep your focus by teaching you to concentrate on what you can accomplish. Once you believe that you can accomplish a goal, your attention becomes more focused and your determination increases. You can also use your positive thinking skills to help you recognize new opportunities. With a positive belief in the future, you will become more open to different possibilities. This belief in what is possible will allow you see certain situation as opportunities for growth and inspiration. Positive thinking can also come in handy when you set out to define your business goals. As you learned in the earlier chapters, goals that are set using positive thinking guidelines are easier to achieve and progress towards. You can also use these skills to better define those goals. The more specific a goal is the simpler the steps are to reach achievement. When you view a goal as being simple to complete, you encourage your progress toward that goal. Anyone who has ever attempted to set up and run an internet business knows that the undertaking comes with pitfalls. These pitfalls can be better weathered if you are armed with positive thinking skills. Through positive thinking skills you can expand upon your belief in yourself and your business, which will lead to a better attitude and the belief that your business can grow and flourish. During slow times or times of difficulty, use your affirmation, visualization and goal setting skills to redefine your business and make the changes that will lead you to success. Finally, you can use your positive thinking skills to help you seek new ideas for your internet business. Whether you need a way to improve a product or a new way to expedite the shipping of a product, you can use your skills to brainstorm for new ideas. By believing in the impossible and putting your positive attitude to work, you will be able to find inspiration in things that others dismiss. Negative thinkers have a tendency to see a new idea and think, “There is no way that will ever work”. By immediately dismissing the idea, they miss out on the opportunities it can afford. Positive thinkers, however, see an idea and think, “Well, that may not be the exact answer I am looking for, but let’s work through the possibilities and see what we come up with”. This ability to be open to an idea and eventually expand upon it or reinvent it to suit your exact needs will enable you to benefit from ideas that may not have been positive to start with.