I was reading Andrew Hansen's blog last night and he published this:
For those of you who don’t know – Lebron James is the 24 year old, widely accepted as the best basketball player in the world.
Not only that, but if you contemplate the following quote from him, he might even help you make more money online; not to mention dominating life in general.
This is an excerpt from an interview with him I was reading earlier:
Q: Who’s the best defender on the league on you?
Lebron: Myself
Q: No, the best defender against you?
Lebron: I’m the only guy who can stop me.
Here was my reply:
Andrew;
I think this is right on the money (so to speak).
When it come to making money online, most people stop themselves. They get started and they try stuff that will eventually work, but they quit too soon. I’ll bet you see a lot of this with Firepow. People sign up, follow your blueprint, but quit after they don’t see $1M in their PayPal account in the first week.
The thing that most people don’t realize about making money online is that you have to work consistently and follow a good system to get results. Firepow is one such system, and there are other good ones out there.
The bottom line in life and in the make money online business is that you are the only person that decides your own success or failure.
Regards,
Mark
Do you agree? What is the biggest barrier for you (I am assuming that you have not quit if you are still reading my blog?
Thanks,
Mark
Hi Mark
I have to agree with you, that most us quit just before we turn the corner, and sometimes don’t even know it.
My biggest obstacle at the moment is TIME and money… or lack thereof of both.
Given today’s economic turn down, I found myself scrambling to do whatever I can do in the short term to generate the income to stay above water with mortgage and the basics. So, I’m doing web sites, email and graphics for OTHERS… and it’s a big time stealer, although I enjoy it.
Can’t quite get to my own stuff or when I do, it’s in small bytes. Yet, I know if I could just hang tough and keep at it, I can get there.
Any advice on managing time so I can make faster strides? I know if I could, my income might increase at least enough to take a bit of pressure off.
Anyway… that’s where I’m at. Thanks for all you do.
Christine
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I agree with Christine…. time and money.
I am constantly trying to balance moving on my blogging and getting client work done…. if money giving but non progressive client work comes in I have to drop all my blogging and get that done… gotta pay the rent.
I’m not moaning, I love my work and the variety…. But just saying it’s take me longer to get to that dream place as I can’t throw all my time at it.
Great quote 🙂
Thanks Mark for sharing this with us.
Sometimes obstacles are so close to us that we don’t see them. We are one of such obstacles. Everyone of us stop ourselves in a different way.
The way I’d stopped myself recently was to try to focus on different things including the stuff that were not my type of things. The result was diversion from the main path I’d planned for myself long ago. Fortunately, I managed to stop myself and even pay to let me go … ! Now, I feel I’ve paid for my freedom. I’m an SEO practitioner, but I had been tempted to get into e-commerce.
Don’t get me wrong. There’s nothing negative about it, but it was not the right thing at the right time for me. So, I just let it go.
I learned that the only liberator is also myself. I’ve discovered this recently and feel so relieved. I’ve decided to do one thing at a time, but do it well.
Absolutely Mark. You have to keep going (provided you like/love what your doing). Never quit.
When I was a teenager (1980 or so) I wanted to be in a rock band. I loved AC/DC, Judas Priest, Van Halen, etc. Everyone told me I sucked, I wasnt good enough, I’ll never make it. For years I was told this. But I held on to the belief that I could do what these guys were doing. I kept at it, kept practicing and “jamming” with different groups. Eventually in 1993 I was good enough and connected with a group of people that were in the same place as me. That band did extremely well. We headlined friday and saturday nights in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin. We went on tour up through the east coast and had a great time.
I look back on that experience and compare with what I’m doing today. Everyday whether I have enough time or not I try to do at least a little something. Some days I do more than others. But everyday I “practice” my SEO and writing. One blog post at a time. I’ve also joined up with a great group of like minded people on Coaching with Josh where we can all share ideas and help each other reach our goals.
Its up to ourselves whether we “make it”, whether we can “headline”, or whether we can quit our day jobs. Don’t compare yourself to others. Everyone is different and learns at a different pace. And Never give up or you will certainly fail
Do or Do Not – there is no try — Yoda
Cheers!
@Joe… that is an awesome story man 🙂
@Joe…I totally agree with Forest’s comment… awesome story!
I have always been an etrepreneur at heart, and I have battle scars to show for it from years of struggling with a brick & mortar franchise and other endeavors in years past.
I don’t think I’ll ever stop trying, but I still face resistance from friends and family when I mention I am working towards creating income on the internet… wow, the negativity you face at times!
By staying connected with like minded folks like all of you and hearing the overcomer and success stories, it keeps me on the path and reinforces my belief that I need to believe — in ME!
Thanks to all of you out there! 🙂
Hey Mark :),
Exactly what I am trying to do 🙂 and you have been a great inspiration for this…. oh by the way did you ever see my vid that pimped your NAT themes :)…. by the way I could not find an aff program for it? Does it not exist or am I being an ejiot?
http://therandomforest.com/how-to-create-a-micro-niche-website-video-tutorial/
@Mark — wow, how well put — funny thing is that these are things that we really already know — but it’s just being disciplined enough to implement it.
I like the idea of committing to one hour a day or whatever you think you can start with and compete. Doing something on a smaller scale lends to success rather than setting goals too difficult to meet and setting yourself up for failure, feelings of being overwhelmed and becoming anxious and discouraged.
SO, instead of spending 15 MORE minutes expounding on the subject here… I think I will go and do 15 minutes of something toward my goal that will help me move forward.
Thanks again, Mark… great stuff!
whoops typo… I meant to say “I like the idea of committing to one hour a day or whatever you think you can start with and COMPLETE” not compete
🙂
I agree with you and have been advising folks on my team to have the same attitude. I equate it to being told there is buried treasure but you don’t know how deep. If you knew this without a doubt, you would continue to dig until you find it. Most people in life establish great goals and want the success, but they stop short and if they had just been consistent and persistent, they would have reached their goal.
To me, it has to do with motivating yourself daily and also recognizing where you’ve been. If you’re not keeping a baseline, sometimes you forget how much you have accomplished.
As for trying to keep your head above water in this economy, residual income is the best consideration. For myself, I am always supporting my team so the business I am in is great because I just need to buy the customers from the company and they do the follow up. I think any business where you believe in it and are able to achieve residual income paying you month after month instead of a linear paycheck where you are paid once for your efforts just makes sense. 🙂
Great story Joe. I think it largely gets down to lack of focus and time committment. Most folks, myself included, make our real money somewhere else. Between work, family, sleep, etc. – you only have so much time to commit. And, that time we do “commit” ( I use that word loosely) can often be not super productive.
So, my goals – commit more time, stay more focused, and worry less about finding the magic shortcut!
I love my blog. I have the coolest readers. Thanks for the great comments.
@Christine and @Forest — I only see one and only one path out of the time and money trap. You have to shift your focus to work on things that pay your residually. Of course this is more easily said than done — I get that. Still, you need to spend more and more time on things that you do once but pay you over and over again.
Let’s take Forest’s clients, for example. Forest is very talented and great to work with. I am one of his clients in fact. But the bottom line is that Forest get’s paid once and by the task for that work. That is good because he gets paid a premium and gets paid immediately. It’s bad because once he gets paid the transaction is over and he has to do more work to get paid again.
I have the same problem in my day job — if I don’t show up, I don’t get paid.
If Forest is able to use some of his talent to build something that can generate passive income — even just a few dollars a day, then he can get paid over and over for working once.
This is the key as far as I am concerned.
Of course, Forest knows this, and has some great projects in this area. I’m just using him as an example.
The problem is that this takes longer and you need to have good ideas that you can execute. It’s not simple, but it is the only way that I can see that you can really make it big online.
If it were me, I would dedicate 1 hour per day to working on something that could eventually make a few dollars per day. When I was done with that, I would do the next one.
Wait – that is what I am doing. 🙂
Regards,
Mark
@Joe — I love that story. Thanks, man. Giving up is the single biggest problem that I see out there.
@Rahman — Boy, you said it. I get so distracted by bright shiny objects. That is exactly my biggest problem — staying focused.
Bottom line — people need a workable plan, and they need to tirelessly work the plan (ignoring everything else).
Thanks for the great comment!
Regards,
Mark
@Kathy — thanks for the comment.
I read on your blog that you had a 6000 person downline at one point. That is really impressive.
Regards,
Mark
Thanks everyone – I wish my own blog posts would get that kind of response 🙂 It just goes to show you that you need to speak from the heart. Thanks again — hmm.. maybe I should blog about it 😀
@Joe: Loved the story, so keep on rockin’.
James Mangosteen Dean
A marketer I was listening to, I believe it was Steve Resell or Greg Gillies said he enjoys listening to sports athletes. They are all winners.
All the major leagues are comprised of the top 1% in their field. Their heads MUST be screwed on right for the most part to get that far.
A great story in Moneyball, the book about Billy Beane ( a truly physically gifted player, who DID NOT have the right pyschological makeup to make it in the big leagues), goes that he was stting in the dugout watching in awe as Steve Carlton pitched. Lenny Dykstra, with little in the way of physical gifts, but a totally scrappy player, says: ” I don’t care who he is, I can that sh!t he’s throwing”.
Two players, one with the right mental attitude, went to have a very nice career, while Billy Beane, a thinker, went to success in Baseball Management.
Well, I am sure about one thing. I played 3rd base on an off for nine years and there is no way in the world I could hit Steve Carlton on my best day. LOL