If you are like the majority of people who have ever started an online business, you have at some point gotten very frustrated. Often, this frustration has gotten so bad that people quit the business, cut their losses, and then start searching for the next "opportunity of a lifetime" to do the whole cycle over. I've done it myself at least a dozen times. Three strategies I use to lower (I find I can never get rid of it completely) my frustration level are:
1. Patience is a virtue. Unrealistic expectations cause most frustration. Hard and consistent effort is required for most opportunities. On the Internet especially, there is a degree of luck that accompanies that hard work. Even with two identical ads in two identical places, a top producer can choose someone else's and not yours. That's one of the breaks of the game. The other person's business will probably grow faster than yours. So what? Don't compare yourself to the guy who made a fifty grand in seven minutes because he "clicked here." Your challenge up front is to select a business that has a product, pay plan, and training that you believe in. If it does, then just follow the training and stop looking at the calendar. If it takes you a week to do something someone else does in an hour, so what? Do what you have to do every day, and success will come.
2. Have some smaller goals. If your only goal is to to make $50k a month, buy a yacht, just get out of debt, or anything else that is now beyond your reach, you will be more likely to get frustrated than if you have some smaller goals. You can't look only at your ultimate goal. Each time you work on your business, have a small goal for that period of time. Focus on a single thing. Finish the AdWords campaign. Make X number of calls. Send X number of emails. Adjust your website. This will give you a feeling of success rather than a sense of failure. If you do what you need to do today, and the money will follow tomorrow.
3. Go fishing once in awhile. By "go fishing," I mean do something fun once in awhile. It's easy to get so concerned and so wrapped up in building your business that you don't do the things for which you are building the business. Most people I know would like more time for their leisure activities. If that's one of the reasons you are building your business, then recreate once in awhile. Having fun, but not enough of it, will motivate you to keep at your business, and keep doing what you need to do to make it successful.
Keep at it. You can do it. If you do what you have to do today, you can do what you want to do tomorrow.
1. Patience is a virtue. Unrealistic expectations cause most frustration. Hard and consistent effort is required for most opportunities. On the Internet especially, there is a degree of luck that accompanies that hard work. Even with two identical ads in two identical places, a top producer can choose someone else's and not yours. That's one of the breaks of the game. The other person's business will probably grow faster than yours. So what? Don't compare yourself to the guy who made a fifty grand in seven minutes because he "clicked here." Your challenge up front is to select a business that has a product, pay plan, and training that you believe in. If it does, then just follow the training and stop looking at the calendar. If it takes you a week to do something someone else does in an hour, so what? Do what you have to do every day, and success will come.
2. Have some smaller goals. If your only goal is to to make $50k a month, buy a yacht, just get out of debt, or anything else that is now beyond your reach, you will be more likely to get frustrated than if you have some smaller goals. You can't look only at your ultimate goal. Each time you work on your business, have a small goal for that period of time. Focus on a single thing. Finish the AdWords campaign. Make X number of calls. Send X number of emails. Adjust your website. This will give you a feeling of success rather than a sense of failure. If you do what you need to do today, and the money will follow tomorrow.
3. Go fishing once in awhile. By "go fishing," I mean do something fun once in awhile. It's easy to get so concerned and so wrapped up in building your business that you don't do the things for which you are building the business. Most people I know would like more time for their leisure activities. If that's one of the reasons you are building your business, then recreate once in awhile. Having fun, but not enough of it, will motivate you to keep at your business, and keep doing what you need to do to make it successful.
Keep at it. You can do it. If you do what you have to do today, you can do what you want to do tomorrow.
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