We all reach a point occasionally when we're fed up of working hard. For me as an online seller, some days I think forget all of the perks and benefits, I wish I could pass all of the responsibility, worry and stress onto a boss or manager. When all of the little stresses in life have built up and are about to overpower us, that's our chance to prove we really are capable of running our own business -- through good times and bad. And of course, all of us are! So what can you do on these days, when you feel like you've worked yourself to the bone to find good products, you've been listing for hours and hours, and nobody is buying anything? Wallowing in the pits of your depression might sound appealing, but you're likely to wake up tomorrow in exactly the same situation. So today is the first of a three part series giving you the action plan you need to turn things around and get your swagger back. Today's action is the quickest, simplest of the three. It's about realising that our perception of reality at those dark, frazzled times is at the very least a little distorted -- and often completely ruined by whatever the opposite of "rose tinted spectacles" is. Think back to when your business was a baby; do you remember your first order? How did you feel on the first day that you got not just dribs and drabs of orders,