The Affiliate Marketer's Marathon

A NICE EVEN PACE

We know it’s essential to have goals as an Affiliate Marketer. When setting up these goals sometimes we forget to account for any obstacles that may deter us from reaching them.Some of these roadblocks may be family obligations, working full-time or just life in general get in the way. These goals are definitely attainable but maybe we need to just make a simple adjustment in the time frame we set to reach them?

I want to share a quick story and I promised myself to keep this blog shorter than the last. :}

I like to exercise, I use to walk at a fast pace around the neighborhood daily. I would walk around our development about an hour. A neighbor who is a marathon runner stopped me during one of my walks and asked me, “why don’t you run, you already walk pretty fast, you will burn a lot more calories?” I said, “I can’t I have asthma, I get to out of breath.” He looked at me and said,” you should come running with me sometime, I’ll train you, you could be running to fast or not breathing correctly?” I said, “I’ll never be able to do it, I won’t be able to keep up with you.”

He was very persistent and wouldn’t let up, so after his gentle persuasion, I gave in. I started out walking for 5 minutes, running for 5 and did this for a couple weeks. After a month’s time of building up my endurance, I’m now able to run 6k miles. On some days if it’s humid or windy I have to stop a few times to catch my breath, but I don’t quit, I catch my breath and start again. It might take me an hour or so but it doesn’t matter, I learned to run at my own pace.

I share this because it’s no different in this business, we’re not running a marathon, be excited, be motivated, but run at your own pace and you will get there in your time!