I know it’s tough to keep going when you feel like giving up.  It’s frustrating when you feel like you’ve been trying for a long time and you haven’t gotten anywhere.  I spent the first several years of my business career freelancing at mostly ridiculously low wages, because I just couldn’t seem to make money any other way.

There were so many times when I just wanted to give up.  Sometimes I was so down on myself that I just felt worthless.  I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t making any money when I felt like I was trying so hard!

As time went on, I began to realize that my failures were my fault.  Some would let this realization sink them into despair, but I saw it as an epiphany!

It wasn’t that I was stupid, worthless, lazy, or in some other way deficient.  I was simply unfocused.  I kept skipping around from one thing to another, and I never stuck with any one thing long enough to really be successful!

I also realized a few other things that made a HUGE difference in my success:

  1. I was unfocused, as I mentioned above.  That was my biggest problem.
  2. I was afraid of failure.  The more I failed, the worse this got.
  3. I was letting my fear and self-doubt consume me.

So how did I resolve these issues and go on to become more successful?

First, I had to focus.  I figured out which method of making money I was best at and that I really ENJOYED doing, and I made the commitment to stick to it for at least 60 days.  Once I did this, my income improved DRAMATICALLY during that time period!  That was a HUGE motivator!

Next, I had to get over my fear of failure.  This was actually a LOT easier than it sounds.  You see, I realized that YES, I might fail.  I might spend hours and hours of my time working hard on something and then not make any money with it.  But, more importantly, I realized that if I didn’t do anything, I would DEFINITELY fail.

So put this on a sticky note on your monitor, scrawl it on your wall, tattoo it on your forehead, whatever you have to do…

“If I try, I have a chance to succeed, however small it is.  If I don’t try, I have NO chance to succeed.”

Or, to put it another way:

“If I don’t try, my odds of failure are 100%!”

Finally, I had to pull myself up out of the pit of despair I was in.  I managed to do this by committing to something for 60 days and seeing results, but I kept myself motivated my constantly reading motivational books and watching motivational movies in every spare moment I could find.  Once I started seeing some money coming in for the hard work I had done, the rest was easy!

So, the bottom line is this:

  1. Choose ONE business model and commit to stick to it for a period of at least 60 days.  Work HARD on it!
  2. Remember, if you don’t try, your chances of failure are 100%!  If you try, at least you have a chance!
  3. Don’t let yourself get down.  You CAN do it.  Once you believe you can, you will succeed!

Don’t give up!