How To Stay Motivated

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6 years ago

Wow You Made The Decision...

Congratulations, you have finally decided to bite the bullet and make that career change you have always wanted and started your new online career, what an exciting time it is, you feel refreshed, ready to take on the world and nothing is going to stand in your way, no matter what.

You know you are going to have to learn all about your new career and you are aware that it is going to take time and patience, but you understand this is required and are willing to do whatever it takes to be successful.

Does this sound like you?

We know that we are going to have to do training to learn our new venture, but like most of us, we still have to keep our "normal" jobs as we are not in a financial position to be able to quit and just start something new. We make a firm decision that we are going to invest a minimum of 2 hours a day to take the training and we are comfortable with this decision.

This training is going to take time, there are new things we need to learn, some of us have had nothing to do with the World Wide Web except for google search and reading the odd blog. But now we need to learn how to make a website, how to promote that website, how google works, and the list goes on and on, but this is a new chapter in our lives and we are still super excited and still ready to conquer to the world. Soon we will be ready to tell our boss we are not coming back and are going to work from home, WOW how good that will be.

Fast Forward...

Fast forward 3 to 4 weeks and we are still carrying on with our normal jobs, we are still doing the training, we still have so much to learn, we start to think OMG will this ever end. Although we may not have spent any money to start our new online business, we suddenly realize that we have also now done a month of training, but we still have not made any money. All that time, all that effort, has it been all worth it or a total waste of time. Almost immediately our motivation stops and we start to doubt the very thing that had us so excited only a few weeks ago, how could this happen, we must have missed something in the training or we have done something wrong.

Could It Get Any Worse...

But to make matters even worse if that could happen you read how other students who started at the same time as you did, are boasting about their first sale and how happy they all are, they get praise from the group and told how they are going to be a superstar and to keep up the hard work. Bloody hell what do these people think you have been doing, sitting on your hands and watching the world move by. If we were not depressed before and doubting ourselves we surely are now. Now we have zero motivation, we start to think we are not cut out for this online business stuff, what a waste of time and effort, the end result is we quit. There are thousands of stories like that plastered all over the internet, don't let you be one of them.

So How Can We Stay Motivated...

How can we stop this lack of motivation affecting us, how can we stop this from holding us back from what we want so badly. We were so excited, how can we get this motivation back and continue to move forward to reach our goal. How we get our motivation back will be different for each of us, we first need to look at our reasons for starting, look at why you wanted to make the change, maybe it was to spend more time with your family, maybe to earn extra income, maybe simply just to work from home, whatever your reason was you need to look at these again. Visual prompts are a great way to stay motivated, put a picture of your family, car, boat, holiday destination, whatever your reason put this picture on your computer, on the mirror in your bath room, on the fridge, i don't care if you have to stick it on ya bum but put it somewhere and look at it often, whatever it is you have to do just do it. Do not become one of the internet stories of what could have been, and understand you have no idea just how close you might have been, it could have only been one more day, hour, minute, before that first sale.

Just imagine for a minute if we could see into the future, we would do everything we could to be ready for that first sale, we would know in 4 weeks, 3 days and 33 seconds later that first sale will be coming, who's to say that this is not going to happen now. Stay motivated and stick with the program and the rewards will come, we knew right from the start that this would be a work in progress, nothing in that respect has changed, what has changed is that we now have more knowledge and a better understanding of this business than we did 4 weeks ago. We understand this is all part of the learning curve and this is the sacrifice we have to go through to come out the other side as successful Affiliate Marketers.

Be Happy For Others Success...

Be happy for those who have had success, we should be using this as a positive means of motivation, if you really look at their success, what does it tell you, it tells us that this business works, that all the time spent training and learning will all be worthwhile, we just need to have faith, focus on our goals and never ever give up, only the weak give up on their dreams, we are not quitters we are fighters and we will fight for what we believe in and want for our families and ourselves, and nothing or no one will stand in our way.