Stop Spinning Your Wheels

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4 years ago

Ever feel like you're spinning your wheels? You write, you post, you promote, you mingle, you advocate. You get up early to create before you have to go to work. You type furiously on you lunch break. You spend hours posting your stuff on social media. Why isn't it working?

It may be time to slow down for a minute and take a look around. Are you missing something? Are you so focused on the finish line that you're ignoring the things you need to be doing now to improve your website status? Have you forgotten that your website is a place you can be helping people? Has it become a dumping ground of excess and useless content (just so you can say you posted something)?

It's easy to get discouraged and even easier to forget that the only way to be successful in this business is to focus on filling the needs of society, not filling our own pockets. It's time to stop spinning your wheels and step up to the plate.

I would like to tell you a story of a girl who got a job straight out of high school with a company that has several different entities under its umbrella. Having no experience in the working world or life in general, she started on the lowest rung possible, literally digging ditches and scrubbing toilets. She was, however, always willing to step up to the plate when there was a need to be filled. If she knew how to fill the need, it was easy. If she didn't know, she learned. The more she stepped up to the plate, the more she learned, the more experience she gained. She always kept the interests of the company in the forefront of her mind and remained professional when she was opposed by those that would think she was trying to "show them up" or "brown-nose" to management. Now? She's second in command at one of those entities. All because she was willing to step up to the plate.

Now I know that most of us here are working to NOT work for someone else but this story still has value in what we are trying to achieve. Most of us came into this with no knowledge of how to affiliate market or even run a website. OK, I'm really talking about me but I can’t believe there aren’t others out there in WA-Land with the same story.

If we want to be successful at this, we need to step up to the plate and do what needs to be done to make our website visible. We need to find out what needs there are to fill and we need to figure out how to do it. We need to keep our wits about us while being able to face what we still need to learn. We need to be open to the resources that are all around us, in our training, our fellow WA bloggers and the many tools that we have at our disposal here at WA.

And many of us also need to contend with those people who may think that we’re wasting our time. Maybe they tell us that we’re trying to rise above our station, to be something we’re not and will never be.

And maybe, sometimes, we’ll think they’re right. Maybe, sometimes, we’ll have a setback or, worse yet, we’ll think that we are failing. Maybe we’ll think (or maybe we’ll know) that all those people are putting on their pious faces because, hey, they tried to tell us.

Let it go. Who cares? In no time at all, there will be new stories, new scandals, new things for people to talk about. Your “mistake” will be long forgotten so get back on that horse.

Step back up to the plate. As many times as it takes. Your new beginning is always today.

“Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up.”– Chinese proverb

All my best,

Cynthia