Online Business Is Hard Before It Is Easy
Are you a pessimist?
I don't believe that Goethe is a pessimist. His statement that "everything is hard before it is easy" is a realist approach to most tihings in general. Even the elusive word 'success' must be treated as such. For success does not come easy so they say and I believe so.
The same is true with online business. Hard to learn, at least for me. I find the learning curve quite challenging. Challenge per se is not the hard part. It is the learning and applying the tenets of the business over time. The more time I have to spend accumulating knowledge, the harder it gets. Procrastination makes it even harder especially when I deflect from my scheduled reading and tasks required in the training.
Make It Easy On Yourself - be confident
Before things get easier, I got to have confidence. Confidence in the things I do and doing it right. Confidence is anchored on education. Over time I am the doing the things defined in the training and boot camps. It empowers me to overcome the challenges of online business. Confidence paves the way to ease of accomplishment.
Is it easy? Easy is a subjective word. What is easy for me may not be easy for others. I know though, that without Wealthy Affiliate I cannot navigate the online sea of affiliate marketing. My compass goal will go awry. I will not find my destiny - a successful affiliate marketer. Nor attain my financial goal.
Setting one's goal is another hard task. I can still feel the pain of setting a realistic goal. I had a hard time setting my target income. When I finally did, I kept revising it as time goes by. I keep adjusting it capriciously. I was behind on my training; my actions were wanting. A few months down the line as premium member, I was too far from my set goal. I had doubts about the business. Even thought of quitting. So I reset my goal hoping to find a rationale to move on. I'm glad I did. not because it was unattainable but because I was not doing the things I am supposed to - reading, training and tasking. It should not be that way, i.e., modifying my goals.
Dream big, set goals & take action
I have to be firm on my goal. Everyday I have to work on it. It is my big dream. And I have to take action. I have to be closer to my goal than yesterday.
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Nothing great comes easy- Hard work and persistence is key
Great post and all the very best to you along the way
Vicki
Well said, and come to think of it, it`s not supposed to be easy, if it were easy, everyone will be a successful online marketer.
Who would not want to work at their own time and terms, doing what they want when they want to.
There will be days you don`t want to work on your site, that`s ok, don`t beat yourself up, find something easier, something that requires no effort like doing social media or just checking your old posts and seeing what could be improved, see where a paragraph should have been shorter.
That`s how I work on my sites, it must not always be something major, if I don`t feel like learning or writing, I check for something that requires little work and do it.
Keep on keeping on, Cesar!
Jeff