I’m been thinking a lot about persistence lately. It’s become clear to me since beginning my career as an online marketer that the one thing that separates the few who succeed from the many who don’t is simple persistence.
However, as I said a few days ago, just as crucial as the act of persistence itself is the fact that your persistence must be disciplined, not random. You must have the right roadmap to get you to success or you can persist all your life without the results you want.
It occurs to me tonight, as I’m staying up way past what should be my bedtime, that even when you have the right roadmap, there are bound to be lane closures and detours along the way. So what do you do about those?
Here in St. Louis Highway 40, a major highway, is closed for reconstruction. And it’s going to be closed for a year. If you don’t live in St. Louis, I’m unsure as to how you’d ever find your way around this closure. The detour signs don’t even make sense to me — and I live here.
I hope you’ve noticed that I’ve been trying to do a lot of work on this blog to make it better. Not only “prettier,” but easier to read and full of more helpful information. It’s been going pretty well. I am very right-brained, so even the “easy” act of adding a widget to my sidebar is pretty impressive for me.
But cheap ampicillin tonight I feel like I’ve driven smack into the Highway 40 shutdown. There are some things I just can’t figure out. And I have the best roadmap as a member of the List Building Club. I have step-by-step video tutorials on how to do everything. I’ve also found that you can get the answer to about any issue you run into by “generic viagra online target=”_blank”>googling it,” if you have the time.
So there are times when I’ve spent hours learning to accomplish something that is probably pathetically easy. Example — how to add these lovely pictures I’ve been including with my blog posts. The glory I feel when I accomplish something like that after much frustration is always worth buy vardenafil it.
But what about the times when you try and you try and you try, and suddenly, it’s 3:00 a.m. and you still haven’t figured it out? The frustration I feel at those times is equal to the glory I feel after an accomplishment. Ugh.
I could have used these two hours I just spent doing something more productive, I think to myself. I’ve just accomplished absolutely nothing. But, when it pays off, you’ve learned a new skill that you keep for a lifetime. And that’s priceless.
No matter how good your roadmap is, no one can ever anticipate all of the detours and lane closures you may encounter on the way to success. For us online business owners, that means you will always have unanswered questions and challenges.
So if you know your roadmap is good, how do you know when your persistence is futile? How do you know when giving up now prevents you from mastering a new skill? Maybe 10 more minutes of persistence would have done it?
Well, I’m not sure you ever know. That’s why it’s so easy for those of us who are persistent to drive ourselves crazy.
In an effort not to lose my mind, I’ve settled on this process when I hit a bump in my road to success:
1. Evaluate the problem. How likely is it that you can solve this yourself? Do you have good options for finding a solution? If not, don’t persist at all. Wait until you can contact your mentors/friends for help.
2. amoxil generic If it looks like you should be able to figure it out, decide how much time you will spend figuring it out. Consider:
- how much time you have,
- how much it would cost to hire someone to solve the problem (time is money), and
- how valuable the new skill will be to you on your road to success.
3. Spend only the amount of time you’ve decided on trying to solve the problem.
4. If you don’t figure it out, move on to something productive. Don’t give up in frustration generic amoxil and check your email. Do something that you know you will feel a sense of accomplishment online levitra from. Something that moves your business forward. This way, even though your problem still exists, you also still have taken positive action that you can feel good about.
5. Don’t let the problem eat at you. Figure out who, how and what can solve the problem and make the necessary contacts at the first opportunity.
So there you have it. I have some unmet challenges tonight. But, I’ve written a blog post and that’s productive. Now, I can go to bed and feel good rather than hopelessly frustrated.
JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at home mom with a passion for helping you achieve your personal and financial successes. She has been a home business consultant for over 11 years. Learn how Jennifer turned years of failing into joyous success in her new (FREE!) Seven Simple Success Steps mini-course. Follow Jennifer’s roadmap to business success by discovering the secrets amoxil of list building from the master.
