I originally wrote most of the article below in response to a highly popular blog post on another site that had to do with becoming discouraged and experiencing delay. I’ve fleshed it out below to give you an idea of what it takes “internally” to succeed at this game of internet marketing.
I started writing it on this other blog and felt compelled to write more about it on my own here. Feel free to distribute this as far and wide as you like. If you implement it, it will save you YEARS of frustration, spinning, and the lower levels of a mediocre existence.
-Wolf
P.S. – For those of you who don’t believe this article applies to you, I’d invite you and ask yourself if you are perfect. Is there any way you could possibly improve right now? Even if you think you know the answer to success, it doesn’t hurt to have a reminder or hear another one of the infinite points of view on the matter. It could give you a refreshing outlook.
So go ahead and read… and enjoy.
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I write about this in my 7-Day Marketing Mastery Mini-Course, but I feel it’s important enough to share with you here.
If you and I are similar in any way, then I’m willing to bet that we both share a somewhat insatiable appetite for self-improvement. Me? I’ve been into it ever since I was 15 when I read my first self-improvement classic How to Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
I’ve read countless other self-mastery books since that time and continue to do so weekly. It is a deeply fulfilling feeling to enrich yourself with knowledge that can bring you a much more meaningful life. I’m sure you know the feeling.
And you know what? After over a decade of reading, spending money on courses, practicing what was given me, learning new skills and joining countless “business opportunities”, I still felt frustrated, depressed, and despaired that I may have to work for someone else the rest of my life. In essence, I was getting nowhere, despite all of the “improvement” I had supposedly integrated.
If you haven’t felt this way before, then you’ve probably heard about someone feeling this way and then finding their way to riches. And I don’t mean just material wealth. There is also emotional abundance, physical vitality, spiritual wisdom.
These are the true riches. Money is just a well-oiled mechanism to help achieve some of those things.
In any case, yes, the story is a common one. Someone who was frustrated, angry, depressed, suffering – somehow finds his or her way out of the darkness.
How did they do it?
I’d read these accounts, the stories, the motivational experiences and I’d understand what it took intellectually. I read it over and over in countless books, books which all relayed the same basic message – becoming an expert, taking massive action, and persistence. Those are basically it.
However… I still didn’t really GET it. I’d read the same message over and over, but it didn’t sink in. And there was a reason for this.
Many of these self-improvement courses do not mention the catalyst, the predecessor that comes before the gigantic leap into the new life that transcends this frustration, anger and despair I spoke of previously.
This one catalyst will change everything if you let it. It will completely transform how you think, what you do, how you do it. It can be the precursor to a new “You”.
What is this catalyst?
The one catalyst that finally got me to exorcise all the excuses - whether it was my mood, not thinking my efforts were worth it, procrastination, depression, frustration or what have you - was becoming FED UP.
I got fed up with not having enough money, time, and ability to enjoy both. I was sick of using methods that yielded me little to no results and just left me frustrated, even angry. I was bitter and disappointed at how long I had been “working”, and the only thing I had to show for it were mediocre results.