I sometimes have a belief in which one of my ideas will find massive success. Let’s be unrealistic here for a moment. If everyone I know not in the industry tells me no, then I might be onto something brilliant.
Now, here is the rub! That brilliant idea might take two weeks to work or it might take two years or even in some cases twenty years. The difference between these goals is simply a challenge in persistance.
Is this like your talk on consistency? Well, consistency definitely plays a part in persistence. However, you also have to have a strong constitution to stomach the delays, challenges, and objections to become a great entrepreneur. Listen to the stories of great business people throughout history and they all have the stories they relish above all else about the time they faced certain failure, only to come up with a solution that saved the business at the last second.
So what has caused this sudden welling of be stubborn enough to never quit post? Well, I was reading a post by someone on Warrior Forum.
His basic assumption was that he had been at internet marketing for 1 year and was now ready to quit, because he only made $1000 in one year. Good idea! Quit right before you are successful. Yeah, that is the ticket!
Here is my thought. You do internet marketing on the side, because you want retirement money in the next 7 years when you plan to live the great live on a beach in a hut next to the ocean!
If you stick with this for 7 years and learn how to double your income every year for the next 7 years then by year 7 your income would be $64,000/year. By that time social security might still even be around, so add in an extra $5/month for social security as well and you are set for life.
Now, I am not saying that you need to be in an industry long past it’s usefulness. Instead, I am simply stating that you have to give it a true shot to succeed.
If you are really ready to make it successful you do not announce that you are quitting on a public forum. If you told people that you want to quit now publicly, how long have you been privately sabotaging your own efforts at success.
I have been there. I understand that when everything stinks you want to give up! I once had $500 cash from a client. I looked at it compared with the mountains of debt that I owned and said, I could deposit this and do what is necessary or hop on the next flight out of country. I stayed!
When you choose to stay you win a battle that no one can ever take away from you! So, I realize that this post is not the traditional how to use social networking discussion we generally have on this blog. Instead, this is a get your head straight and your business will follow in that direction talk. That is why you have to be stubborn enough to never quit! So you can win!
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Andy,
You have to be extremely persistent and head strong to be successful in anything that you do. I have skin made of kevlar! I don’t let anything get in my way, if I want something I just go about finding the best way the get it. Some things take more sweat equity to get than others. They say that the point at which one usually quits is the moment right before this are about to change in their favor. I believe this to be true thats why quit isn’t in my vocabulary.
Dewane,
I think I have a head made of kevlar then! 🙂
Agree with you about quitting. Just had an instance of that tonight. Called the client and told them something was not possible tonight. Then went back to the project and found the miraculous solution at the last moment! Persistence is the place where you know you will succeed.
Andy
Dear Andy,
Thanks for writing this article. It validates the “Never surrender, Never Give Up” scenario. You have to be tough and keep plowing ahead no matter what. Even if it takes working part time to get through the slim times. Every entrepreneur I’ve talked to paid their dues and went through challenges and finally reached their goals. It isn’t easy doing something that a majority of the population either cannot do or is not willing to do.
The differences between the people who succeed are the ones that do not allow the “quit” thoughts to infiltrate their minds. As you stated, if someone says they plan to quit, those thoughts have already been percolating for a while and will destroy any possibility of success.
You said, “get your head straight and your business will follow in that direction talk. That is why you have to be stubborn enough to never quit! So you can win!” I’m the epitome of stubbornness!
Raena Lynn
Raena,
Success is not just a thought, it a long thought out plan that survives your craziest reasons of why it will not work.
Andy
Oh I wish I could remember for sure, but I believe it was in one of Napoleon Hill’s books I read the true story about this man who tried to strike it rich with a silver mine … got discouraged, gave up and sold the mine cheap. As you can probably guess, the guy who bought the mine struck a vain of silver – just a foot away from where the first miner stopped. I probably murdered that story, but the lesson remains clear to me even after all these years. Thanks for the inspiration!
Was that Acre of Diamonds?
Hi Andy ~ Nice post and sticking with it for the long run. While I have to admit that this online world sometimes gets to me and sometimes causes me to feel disillusioned I have not yet arrived at a place where I am ready to give up. Usually after a period of disillusionment I grasp hold of my perseverance pull myself up by my bootstraps and find something else that motivates me to continue.
After all in seven years when I am ready to retire I’m going to want that residual income to keep coming in month after month ad infinitum.
Hi Andy:
Persistence is so critical in life! It is always easier to quit than it is to endure and persist. There have been many times in my life when I wanted to quit and I am so thankful that I didn’t. I managed to find the persistence that I needed and I am so thankful for that.
Kevin
Kevin,
That was exactly my thoughts when I read that post on WarriorForum!
Andy
Being stubborn can be the best of both worlds. Now of course it can hold you back but can also push you forward but no matter what can prove to I guess in some way be a measurement to your success but of course only in the positive along with the right mind set. I myself am stubborn in some ways but not in others definitely a bit of rearranging of priorities at times.
CJ,
I think all entrepreneurs need to have some degree of stubborness to succeed. They have to be stubborn enough to believe in their goals long enough to ignore the outside world of naysayers.
Andy
Hey Andy,
“Stubborn enough not to quit.”
That just about sums up every success story that this world has ever seen doesn’t it!
Most people will quit, that’s just the way that it is. They are too comfortable with the rules and the duties which society has always placed upon them from birth.
All true success stories that I know of are from those who are indeed Stubborn enough to not listen to the laughter and ridicule of family and friends. Stubborn enough to make scarifies in order to achieve their goals. Stubborn enough to persist in any activity that will get them closer to that goal.
Thanks for being Stubborn Andy,
Kevin
Kevin,
May I am just too stubborn, but the fact is I never understood how tradition, duty, and society rules stop people from being more. Quitting is what people do when they do not believe in themself enough!
Andy
Yep, it is not a traditional post…I did enjoy reading it. You are showing here the value of being consistent, sort of compound interest….I think that’s way it is essential that we’d love what we do. Many times it takes time until the fruits of our labor can be eaten. So if we planted the tree and we don’t feel like watering it, those fruits from that tree are not coming.
So we are looking for another tree and then repeat the pattern.
I would like to add to your profound post that it is better to work on the habit/pattern of why one is not consistent (or quitting) and then make the right adjustment so the hut on the beach would not stay a dream but will become a reality.
Thanks for taking the time to write this post. Much appreciated.
Much love, light and joy,
Sigal Zoldan
Clinical Hypnotherapist & Master Results Coach
Sigal,
That is interesting that you feel it is more important to determine what makes someone lack in consistency versus being consistent.
Andy
Very key point that you bring up here. I think that they say the only way to fail is if you give up. I made my decision a long time ago that I will never give up on my dream of making enough money on the internet to support myself well into the future. I will continue to learn and apply… and most importantly I will never give up! I like your post and found it to be pretty motivational. Thanks.
-Kyle Quinlan
I always think of that cheesey Tim Allen movie when I might want to give up!
“Never Give Up! Never Surrender!” he says in an extremely machissmo way!
Makes me laugh and get stuff done!
No question the greatest success is just after the darkest and most challenging battles. I love the statement of how it is darkest just before the dawn.
In the learning arena we know the real learning takes place just after the greatest frustration and pain. I remember wondering if my students would stay on the task long enough to make the breakthrough they were capable of.
Thank you for the words of encouragement. Glad you stayed! Jim
Jim,
I believe that is a Batman statement about the night being darkest before the dawn.
Andy
Persistence is definitely necessary when you have an idea that you believe is going to go somewhere. You can’t just give up at the first downfall or setback, because then you’ll never know if you were right or not! Believing in yourself and taking every step possible to get your ideas out there is the best thing you can do… Thanks for this post, it’s really motivational and inspiring! 🙂
Laurie
Laurie,
Glad the post helped to inspire you!
Andy