I've seen HELL! Have You?

I keep a Fire Extinguisher with me at all times!

Your mental strength is that unique combination of passion, tenacity, and stamina, and I won't quit, and you can't make me. That enables you to stick with your project until it becomes a reality.

Fight when you feel Lost!

When things begin to get tough, you always have two choices. You can either overcome an obstacle and grow in it or let it beat you. We are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets easier to stop the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through a challenge, the mental strength begins to grow in you like iron.

Delay immediate Gratification!

You are building your sales pipeline right now on Wealthy Affiliate. This delay of gratification and necessary patience is essential to success. All successful marketers with mental strength know that results only materialize when you put in the time and let instant gratification go. A job that requires major mental strength is affiliate marketing or selling anything on the web. It's a lot of work, and you need a platform like Wealthy Affiliate to help you make the right decisions as you move through the complete process.

Make Mistakes, look like an Idiot, and try Again without wearing your emotions on your Sleeve! Crybaby!

In a recent study at the College of William and Mary, in Virginia researchers interviewed over 800 entrepreneurs. They found that the most successful ones have two critical things in common. First, they're terrible at imagining failure, and they tend not to care what other people think of them. In other words, the most successful entrepreneurs put no time or energy into stressing about their failures as they see failure as a small and necessary step in reaching their goals. Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. Always start with the end result in mind for every project.

Keep your Emotions in Check!

Negative emotions challenge your mental strength every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your feelings, it's entirely under your power to manage them effectively and keep yourself in control. It's easy to lose your resolve when you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly.

Make the Sales Calls you're Afraid to do it! Do it Anyway! They can't Change your Birthday!

Sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do because we know they're for the best in the long run. The short game never accomplishes anything:

• Start a business on a shoestring
• Live on no money or cold-call a prospect.
• Work longer than you want to.
• Work weekends and evenings.
• Scrap a project and start over.

It's easy to let the shadow of a challenge paralyze you, but the most successful people know that the best thing they can do is get started right away in these trying times.

Trust your Gut or Your Heart!

There's a fine line between trusting your gut and being impulsive. Trusting your gut is a matter of looking at decisions from every possible angle, or as I call it, turning over all your rocks. When the facts don't present a clear alternative, you believe in your ability to make the right decision; you go with what looks and feels right. You feel it inside your belly or your heart! It depends on your specific anatomy.

Lead, Follow, or Get Out of My Way!

People with mental strength believe in themselves no matter what, and they stay the course until they win people over to their ways of thinking. An industry that requires excellent leadership like this is affiliate marketing or selling anything on the way. So stay away from all negative people in your life.

Focus on the Details even when it makes your Brain Hurt!

Nothing tests your mental strength like brain-freeze details, incredibly when you are tired. The more people with mental strength are challenged, the more they dig in and welcome that challenge, and numbers and details are no exception.

Never Quit! Fight, Fight, Fight!

You have every second of every minute each day to turn it all around!

I know, I've seen HELL and lived to tell my story!!

Small Business Advisor