This is the best answer in this thread according to me No 1 teaches you better than experience. Also, for most people, they get links,backlinks,directory submissions etc.. and get traffic and earn.. But if you have a niche market, you need none of that.. just a few loyal members who love your site and spread it by word of mouth. Believe me.. word of mouth promotions are the fastest.
Then you are in the wrong biz In fact if you start with nothing but determination, the only way is to scratch the very first cents by using the techniques described in this forum. You MUST choose a niche that you are interested in otherwise you will fail soon to even collect the very first bucks! If you tell me now that others are building sites in niches they are NOT interested in... then the logical answer is: They got the money to pay marketers, designers, writers, whatever. Start with it and as soon as you get the first bucks you can wisely use them to gain more valuable traffic! Alternatively, you may then choose any other niche that requires someone to have a budget!!
Try to read as much as you can on forums.. start a new blog or website with totally differnt and unique topic which is very popular... something like about your country travel or like coming worldcup or anything.. promote it.. do link exchange, dir submission and advertise anywhere anyhow... slowly slowly within couple of months you will start gettin traffic try to do the best ad placement...and you will start earning.. another way is to earn money by affiliate program but its not as easy as it sounds .. you have to have some good traffic website and you can earn very well i mean fair enough from that
IMHO I don't belive you need +10 hours a day in front of a PC. After some initial setup, 1 hour or less per day should be enough. Just like most other things, you just need to plan your work well, think more and act after it, just not try to get rich in minutes...
I think find your own niche is a good idea. If you research with a tool like wordtracker you can instantly gauge competition.
Having a mental disorder is in no way a hinderence to success, it may even be a help. If you want a "normal", "nice", life then you will not be in the top ten percent. Successful people are "different", they are by defination not normal. That is one way, or you could just take what is already done and do it better. Look at the plentyoffish.com guy, he took what was already there, tweaked it and did it better, cheaper, faster. Thing is, you really have to want it. I mean really really want it. There is a tale of a Monk who went to a Zen master to ask him what is the truth. The Zen master asked him if he really wanted to know. The Monk replied, "I really want to know." The Zen master took the Monk to a lake and held his head under the water until the Monk thought he would drown. At the last moment before death the Master raised the Monks head out of the water. "When you want to know the truth as much as you want to breathe, then you can ask me what is the truth." Got that Grasshopper?
and that hour is spent logging in and out of adsense to see if your earnings have gone up (or is that just me...?)