Not me writing this (though it could be). Highly relatable from a successful marketer I follow and think a lot about. See what you reckon.........
I sometimes get emails, often sad to read, from seriously pissed off people who are frustrated that they’ve ‘tried everything’ and‘nothing has worked’ for them.
I’m not talking about whingers and moaners, I’m talking about people who have genuinely tried to change their lives through entrepreneurship for YEARS and haven’t seen any success.
Personally when I look back I can see how it was a long process for me too. For years I held down jobs I really hated while all the time trying MLM networking, Ebay selling, Ponzi schemes, car booting and lots of other things.
Each of these failed attempts brought me one tiny step closer to internet marketing because (although I didn’t realise it at the time) each failure eliminated something from the list of things that were never going to work for me.
That process is still happening as I try different things. The only difference now is that I love what I do and even enjoy the failure process.
Sometimes I have slight regrets that I didn’t find IM until I was in my 30’s. If I’d discovered it while I was in my 20’s I’d have had a HELL of a time with the money and freedom, but I was playing in bands and enjoying life immensely (although skint) and wouldn’t change that for the world.
And of course things came together for me around the time my children were born so I’m eternally grateful for the time and money that IM has provided for our family because life has been truly amazing ever since.
But there were scarier times. Not scarier because because when my wife (then girlfriend) and I first moved in together we were totally broke, because it was a great time and money didn’t matter much.
No it was scary because even back then I was trying to increase my wealth and freedom and it wasn’t working......and a few times I almost quit. And thinking back, that REALLY scares me.
Because life would have been so different if I hadn’t kept trying. I don’t know the stats about how many people try to make it in internet marketing or whatever field of entrepreneurship they attempt and fail.
But I do know that for me at least it was vitally important to keep trying, because if I didn’t I was back to being normal and I found that really hard to cope with. I don’t mean to say I’m anything special, I just mean I needed to have that dream, that thing to strive for.
It kept me focused, gave me a purpose and I suppose even kept me happy when many of my mates were so pissed off with their jobs they started to get down about it.
If you have the spark to set yourself on adifferent path (and I think you do if you’re reading this) then stick with it. Build the pursuit of your dream into your everyday life the way you would attending church, going to gym or having a glass of wine in the evening.
Every failure is a step closer to the thing that will work for you. Keep trying and keep focused.
I’m not saying it will eventually come together for you, I’m just saying you’ll lose more than a
potential income if you stop trying.
