You've probably heard this before, but I'm putting it here because it is extremely important.
If you do not have a passion for that which you are pursuing, you might have the discipline to do it and carry on, but you will come to hate it after awhile, it will be nothing short of a bunch of chores and you probably won't get out of it what you would if you were doing something else with about the same success rate. This of course, is relative and there is no way to measure this.
The more you like (or love) doing something, the easier it is to do and the less work it will seem to be.
Whether you like doing something or not requires discipline. There are also the variables of consistency and determination involved, as well as the interferences of outside circumstances that rears its ugly head in just about everything you will ever set out to do.
There may be good money in doing something that you don't like or that you even hate, but the likelihood of deriving success from a thing like this is slim. In doing so, you would have to have discipline of iron and the ability to put self aside no matter what.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of making sure you are passionate about what you are doing in this industry because you will be writing about it. If you are not interested in something you're going after because there's a lot of money in it, forget it! Most of us do not have the discipline to do it, and even then, you may make money from it, you will be miserable.
I won't say "Don't do it," but I do not recommend it.
There is a concept of sacrificing things you find extremely enjoying, which offers little value. I will discuss this below.
In our learning curve having a good mindset as recommended here in your training is critical to our being able to get to what we define as success. Totally agree, an overused and sometimes poorly used term, yet if we are careful to define what success means to us, not having it be just monetary, it will help give impetus to reaching our goals.
Thank you for the time you have invested in creating this. Love that it has bubbled up on a surface that includes me. '-)
Linda
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Didn't take me long to put this out. It all started on Notepad and had it within an hour, from start to publish. It's why I try to stick with things I am well familiar with in my campaigns because otherwise, I could spend days on a single work, and that's not prophetable, being tied down to liabilities as I am. That's just one more thing that behooves me to include in the section about interest and passion in our campaigns.
By all means, success isn't the money. That's one way it gets misused, unless one's goal is solely to make money and forget the human beings who pay for the work.
Most definitely, success to me is in being able to pay it forward, as we are taught here, and is one thing that has gone to my heart. Success depends on your worthy ideal and how you approach it.
I like to say things that help build up my readers, and this, in and of itself, is a success to me, because I have not always been able to do this due to the negativity I lived in in the past.
I still have to get my ducks in order, but I'm getting there a little bit each day.
In all of the time I've been here, I've never seen another place on the Internet, no matter what it is, that comes close to the philosophy of paying it forward as done here!
Best wishes :) -Sherry
Daniel
And, I do enjoy reading your posts here, I find them very inspiring and well written. Take care and keep up the good work. Best wishes :) -Sherry
Keep up the good work!
Shawn>>
Now that I'm not living under my previous landlord's roof, he has stopped being so contemptuous and is much more respectful, so it's getting better all the way around. the only thing - I badly need my own Internet connection. All the time I've been at WA now, this is something I've never achieved.
