What you get out is proportional to what you put in

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9 years ago

What you get out is proportional to what you put in

We have heard it all before, “you will only get out what you put in”. Then why is people don’t put the effort in. For some people it is the “shiny object syndrome”.

Don’t be addicted to the “rush” of starting something new. Too often people are always running to the latest shiny object that takes their interest and is going to “make them rich”.

For those people, they're addicted to the rush of STARTING.

Über sales strategist John Paul Mendocha defines this process as a simple, 3-step cycle:

1. Idealization: "This is the absolute best, most perfect opportunity. I can't believe I had the spectacular fortune of stumbling upon this amazing, miraculous goldmine!"

2. Demoralization: "Dang, this sure is hard. Maybe I don't have the skills to pull this off. I'm dazed and confused."

3. Frustration: "I can't get anything to work. This is hopeless. Business doesn't work. Life sucks and then you die. Maybe I should just find a tall building and jump off."

Step three leads directly back to step one, except it's yet another amazing, miraculous goldmine.

The conversation-inside-the-head that fuels and perpetuates this normally goes something like this:

"If I could only just get on the leading edge of a huge trend, early on, I could ride its coat tails to success and Susan and I could have our very own motor coach and we would drive around the country and tell other people that they can do it too."

There's also usually a whole bunch of chants and mantras, stuff like:

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

and

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way..."

While these mantras aren’t bad, without effort going in then it is unlikely that anything will come out the other end.

The difference between the failures and the successes is what we choose to do when we come back around to the top.

How much effort will you really put in?

Are you afraid of hard work? Do you just procrastinate? Are you scared of failing?

Don’t let excuses stop you from achieving major things at Wealthy Affiliate. I am learning fast that you have to seek out and learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.

You will get the rewards as long as you stop and put the hard yards in. Don’t treat this as a shiny bauble. It will take effort and determination and persistence but don’t stop, never ever give up.

Here is to your success.

Russell