I find that most people turn to the Internet with the expectation of replacing a regular full-time salary instantly. Their list of goals looks pretty much like this:

1. Decide to start an online business
2. Become rich

You need to ditch this notion and understand that building an online business from home takes time. Instead, you need to set small, achievable goals and build from there.

Here’s a much more realistic goal list for you…

1. Join Wealthy Affiliate
2. Begin training, understanding the terminology, & getting comfortable
3. Do some basic research and find topics to write about
4. Build your first website
5. Create articles to fill your website
6. Learn how to get these articles listed in Google
7. Attract visitors and grow traffic
8. Connect with advertisers
9. Start making $1/day
10. Start building a newsletter
11. Discover new ways of getting people to your site
12. Grow to $5/day
13. Connect with readers by creating a Facebook fan page or Twitter account
14. Increase income to $10/day
15. Guest blog and increase your online presence
16. Aim to break $1,000 per month
17. Create your own product to sell
18. Start new projects and expand

As you can see, this is a much more defined list with achievable goals in there. It could take days or weeks to move between each list item, but the point is that you’re always accomplishing something and progressing forward instead of just staring at one, seemingly unachievable, goal.