Making money online is one of those truly unique methods for making a living. It doesn’t have to involve selling a physical product, it costs practically nothing to start, you can work from home, you can live anywhere in the world (as long as you have a good internet connection) and in a lot of cases you don’t need to work long hours to succeed.
A good majority of the population aspire to working online but never get any further than thinking about it. And in most cases their thinking involves negative beliefs that keep them rooted to their 9 to 5 job. I’ve heard lots of excuses over the years – I don’t have the time – When my kids are bigger I might start looking into it – I spend all day on a computer at work, I don’t want to have to come home and do the same – I can’t type (hello!?…you only need 1 finger to type on a keyboard).
Every one one of these excuses is simply that – an excuse to keep that person from even trying. For most it is easier to not attempt something than to attempt it and fail. Their fear of failure keeps them stuck doing the same 9 to 5 job day after day. Unfortunately they don’t realise that the most successful people on this planet have failed again and again, but the difference between them and anyone else is that they see these failures as opportunities. They know that they can learn more from their failures than they can from their successes.
I think we’ve all heard by now the story of Thomas Edison who failed over 2000 times before he finally perfected the light bulb. Imagine if he had given up after the first failure? Would we all be sitting in the dark now? Probably not, as someone else who wasn’t afraid of failing would have taken over.
You only have to see a baby attempting to walk to see how this all works. They get up, take a step and fall straight back down again. But do they give up?…no way, they keep getting up and falling down until they take that second step and the third and before you know it they are walking across the room towards you. And the thing is, we expect them to fail again and again before they eventually start to walk properly. We don’t codemn them, or think they’re stupid or tell them to stop trying. We know that the only way they will walk is if they keep trying.
So if you think about it why aren’t you doimg the same? What’s holding you back from taking the next step to making money online?
Let go of the fear and just do it. If you make a mistake then don’t beat yourself up about it – instead look at that failure and see how you can improve upon it. Just keep at it and you can only succeed.
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one of my excuses was that I just don’t have enough time to work on making money online. You have to put in a bit of time if you want to get somewhere.
It’s not so much time that you need – it’s more about being very focused with the time you have. I am learning to become more focused with my time. I would spend hours on my internet business but when I took at look at what I was doing I realised that I was wasting a lot of time. Take Twitter for instance, it is so easy to spend most of your day just sending out tweets and following people. Now I spend about 30 minutes a day on it. I send out anywhere from 2 to 5 tweets and I have a bit of software that makes it a little easier to find people with the same interests I have. So I would suggest looking at what you do now and try and simplify it and also what you are doing that could be done better. And finally, find out things you are currently doing now that you really don’t need to do at all.
Points taken. Thank you very much for the tips. They will help out a lot.
Hey Paula and Wanda,
Great blogpost its true as a coach i see so many people with excuses and not results..you cant have both…Thanks for following me and Rt me on Twitter by the way Good luck in all you do ,lets catch p some time
Thanks for dropping by Karin. I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment.