Are you chasing the money? Are you buying every expensive Internet marketing course, software application and $47 e-book you can get your hands on? If you answered yes to that question, it means you are not thinking straight, don't really know what you are doing or have lost the way in what you are doing.

If you spent your days checking your Inbox every 2 seconds, you are swimming in other people's thoughts about what you should be doing. You know the old saying, if you don't know what you are doing, someone else will find something for you to do. All those emails are finding things for you to do.

I will remind you that you have been given the brainpower to think and to analyse your own thoughts and their consequences. Thought is not an unknown concept to you. Thought is the force that drives your world. Your thoughts have shape, quality and have an influence on your daily decisions on how you spend your time. Thought can originate, develop and create things, YOUR things. These thoughts affect your present or future living.

You can project thought, visualize and create things to satisfy all of things you crave. The only way to do this scientifically and effectively it is essential to organize your thoughts into a plan. This article is an example of a plan.

Until you actually sit down, decide what you are going to do, regardless of what the latest fad is, write it down and commit you will only ever see half of what could really be.

Listed below are the 5 basic disciplines you can use to really stay on track for what you want.

1. Get up in the morning.

Do this without question, regardless of the fact that the online experts are telling you they are getting up at midday and are only spending 2 hours a day on the Internet in their underpants. If you had the life you desire today, you would get up to enjoy it. They do, they just have to make out to you that life is easy in the fast lane, so you can buy what they are selling.

2. Have a plan when you get up. Plan your work and work your plan.

Your plan is the method of action you are going to take to get what you want, it's a procedure or an arrangement of your ideas. It is a program to be done. It is a design or a blueprint to give effect to your ideas or thoughts.

3. Write it down.

You have heard many times that when you write something down you are reinforcing your subconscious mind. There is also another reason. When you wake up in the morning and read your plan, you are reminded of what you have to do instead of trying to figure out what you are trying to achieve - AGAIN!

4. Finish what you start.

Do one thing on this plan of yours at a time, without exception. This will help you to finish. All the entrepreneurs you read about do several things at a time: you are not at that level yet.

The people you admire who always seam to have a new product out every week have teams of people working for them behind the scenes; most of their work is outsourced, you don't have such luxuries yet. You will do one thing and do it well. One job finished will give you more returns on your time than 6 or 7 'sort of' finished products.

You will have to stay focused on the plan or task at hand until it is finished. This requires discipline. In very plain words, this means do a bit of what's on your plan everyday, even if you don't feel like it. Sometimes we hit brick walls and we can't go on anymore. This is the hard part. This is where you are tempted to start another project. Don't. Go back and read your plan and carry on where you just left of. There is no other way to finish.

5. Market your idea.

If you have reached this far into your plan, you are way in front of the pack. Write one article, put up a Google ad, post to a forum or put an ad in an ezine. Do at least one thing with your idea in the market place. This is where it really starts. Get a result and then go back to the beginning of your plan and start all over again.

Remember that you are not Donald Trump, Madonna, John Reese or any other person. Mr Trump has spent more money in a single transaction than you will ever see in your lifetime. You cannot compete with that. Deal with it! Stop worrying and wasting time over things that are completely outside of your control and work at your own success with your own plan.

Your success will start with your single idea added to your written plan. You are where you are because of your thoughts and what you did with them. Stop babying yourself for what you didn't do or can't do. This doesn't mean that you are not going to be a success. The future will only complete the plans you have made in the present. So get to it.