In a previous blog post “I’ve Got to Ditch the Gold Rush Mentality”, I said I needed to get the gold rush mindset out of my head. Affiliate marketing is not going to be a show-up and just pull the gold nuggets out of the creek, get rich in a week, and retire in Bolivia by next year situation.
If I want to succeed at Affiliate Marketing I have to think of it as a business and realize it’s going to take some effort – just like starting any real business. It’s a great business to start, with a whole lot of advantages for the solopreneur, but it takes some effort.
When I started my first business in 2011, I was out of work.
My first child was a toddler, and my wife was pregnant with our second – I’d been fired from my previous job (for “philosophical differences”, whatever that means) just over a week after we found out she was pregnant.
I couple years earlier I had tried to start a coffee shop. The “Great Recession” killed that. But it wasn’t that big of a deal. My wife had a good job, and we could easily pay the bills even if I didn’t work.
But this time the situation had drastically changed. This time I NEEDED to succeed so that I could take care of my family.
There’s a big difference between wanting and needing. Think about yourself right now, do you want to make money online? Or do you need to?
Now sure; you could say that needing to do something creates an air of desperation in our actions.
It does, I know that to be true. I had no income, no money for bills, nothing. I was desperate. But I wasn’t desperate in a way that made me act like a fool. I was desperate in a way that focused me and made me do what needed to be done.
But needing to succeed meant:
Seeking out advice and guidance from people who could help me, AND following through on what they told me
But just “wanting” to succeed actually meant:
Behaving like someone who was desperate to make money, but who didn’t really follow through with anything like I needed to.
Big difference there.
It is good to be desperate to change the circumstances you are in. It is not good to feel desperate – trying to find that quick and easy thing that will make all your dreams come true.
I’ve seen it happen to myself and countless others – money doesn’t present itself to us because we want it … doesn’t matter how badly we want it. Or how much we fantasize about it.
Money doesn’t care about what we want. The people who we want to sell to, don’t care about our whys for making money.
Money presents itself to us only when we are disciplined and focused on doing all the things that are repeatedly proven to lead to the result of earning money.
Now, if you are reading this, there is a very strong possibility that you really want to make money online. You want to make affiliate marketing work.
The truth is …
You won’t make it work with that internal dialogue.
You need your very own Epiphany Switch. And no, I don’t want you to have to lose your job to have it. You can have it now.
How?
I’ll talk about that in my next blog post.
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