If you have ever started a home based business, you have probably had a time when you got extremely frustrated. This frustration might have gotten so high that you quit your business, licked your wounds, and then headed off to find the next "best opportunity ever" to begin again. Sound familiar? Here are three effective strategies I use to lower (I find I can never get rid of it completely) the frustration level:
1. Patience is a virtue. Most frustration comes from unrealistic expectations. Although hard and consistent work is a pre-requisite for most businesses, on the Internet especially, there is an element of luck that goes along with it. Understand that even with two identical ads in two identical places, a big hitter can click on one and not the other. That's one of the breaks of the game. That person's business will probably grow faster than the other one. The point is, so what? You can't compare yourself to the person who made a million dollars in seven minutes just by "clicking here." What you need to do is select a business that has a product, pay plan, and training that you believe in, and then follow the training. If it takes you a month to do something someone else does in a day, so what? If you do what you need to do every day, success will come. Stop looking at the calendar.
2. It is necessary to have some smaller goals. If your only goal is to make $10k a month, or to get out of debt, or buy a boat, you will get frustrated more easily. Don't look only at your final goal. Every time you go to work on your business, have a small goal for that period of time. Focus on one thing until you get it done. Make X number of calls. Write an article. Work on your autoresponder messages. Send a certain number of emails. If you have a smaller, more specific goal each time you work on your business it will give you a feeling of success rather than a feeling of failure and frustration. If you do what you need to do today, every day, the money will follow.
3. Go riding once in awhile. By "go riding," I mean do something fun once in awhile. (For me, that's horseback riding in the mountains.) It's too easy to get so worried and so wrapped up in working on your business that you don't take the time to do the things for which you are building the business. I'm guessing that one of the reasons you are working on a business is that you would like more time for your leisure activities. If that's true, then recreate once in awhile. Having fun, but not enough of it, will keep you at your business, and keep you doing what you need to do to make it successful.
1. Patience is a virtue. Most frustration comes from unrealistic expectations. Although hard and consistent work is a pre-requisite for most businesses, on the Internet especially, there is an element of luck that goes along with it. Understand that even with two identical ads in two identical places, a big hitter can click on one and not the other. That's one of the breaks of the game. That person's business will probably grow faster than the other one. The point is, so what? You can't compare yourself to the person who made a million dollars in seven minutes just by "clicking here." What you need to do is select a business that has a product, pay plan, and training that you believe in, and then follow the training. If it takes you a month to do something someone else does in a day, so what? If you do what you need to do every day, success will come. Stop looking at the calendar.
2. It is necessary to have some smaller goals. If your only goal is to make $10k a month, or to get out of debt, or buy a boat, you will get frustrated more easily. Don't look only at your final goal. Every time you go to work on your business, have a small goal for that period of time. Focus on one thing until you get it done. Make X number of calls. Write an article. Work on your autoresponder messages. Send a certain number of emails. If you have a smaller, more specific goal each time you work on your business it will give you a feeling of success rather than a feeling of failure and frustration. If you do what you need to do today, every day, the money will follow.
3. Go riding once in awhile. By "go riding," I mean do something fun once in awhile. (For me, that's horseback riding in the mountains.) It's too easy to get so worried and so wrapped up in working on your business that you don't take the time to do the things for which you are building the business. I'm guessing that one of the reasons you are working on a business is that you would like more time for your leisure activities. If that's true, then recreate once in awhile. Having fun, but not enough of it, will keep you at your business, and keep you doing what you need to do to make it successful.
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