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Do You Feel Like Giving Up?

LindaSMcRae

Published on July 24, 2016

Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.

Hello my WA friends and followers:

I have to admit I have been feeling discouraged lately, I don’t really know why because things seem to be going well. I wake some mornings and do not feel the same energy I once had to work. I don’t think this is laziness, sometimes I just feel helpless.

If you know me, I am usually full of energy and a wonderful wisdom to continue my great career. I guess I just wanted to let anyone who feels this discouragement to know this does happen to all of us, even if we are successful. Well, we all have our dark moments and think about throwing in the towel, losing our motivation for a while. I guess this is human nature, but it surely makes one feel alone and let down in oneself.

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Sometimes I too feel jealous of others that are more successful than I, and this is such a negative emotion! Please turn this jealousy into inspiration, because they are no better than you, nor do they work harder. I tell myself that we all get our success wings at different times in our careers. We will all have our wings, but what if we quit at the instance before our wings were in place. Quitting the moment when we were beginning to fly. This would be such a sad thing to know, but we don’t know when this success will come, we just have to work hard and keep the faith. No one will believe in you, if you don’t believe in yourself.

Remember always that your mind is your most wonderful asset geared for your success in your business. Sometimes the mind gets tired and will destroy your awesome work ethic.

Every entrepreneur feels all of these emotions at some time. Success is really the determination to keep working even if you feel failure. You have to make yourself be busy and steady, yes even when you don’t feel like it. Do you think our founders and ambassadors or elders at Wealthy Affiliate have never had dark moments? Well I can assure you they have, but they never gave up, they welcomed their wings and continued to pass on that inspiration within them. So, as a reward their success will only fly and grow stronger. They stomp on SELF DOUBT, and are filled with patience and willpower.

Why am I writing this blog? Well, I found myself feeling down on my own success because I wasn’t getting a big enough taste of it. You have to believe in the opportunity we call success, yes without tasting it. This is why we do what we do, why we are the type of individuals who can make the magic happen in our own lives. We can build a successful business, we have the most wonderful training and foundation we can find, right here within this community of like-minded helpful people! I guess I am telling myself and all of you that I cherish as friends, DON’T GIVE UP, I can see your wings even if you can’t! Fly strong and steady, I will be right beside you on this journey! Wishing you all the very best of luck and much success!

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