It’s true that the world is filled with many obstacles. Internet Marketing and small business is no exception. In fact, it seems to me that small business has more obstacles and that they are often hard for a solo entrepenuer to overcome. At least it seems that way.
These obstacles often make it hard to accomplish our goals. But what’s also true is that we suffer from cognitive biases that prevent us from taking action simply because obstacles exist. That is—we place an inordinate amount of weight on the significance of obstacles, even if they aren’t very challenging.
I know I have been recently struggling with these sorts of obstacles myself on my latest project NicheProfitUniversity.com. It is a huge project, and the smallest thing seems to slow me down.
So, from now on, ignore those obstacles. Don’t allow yourself to fixate on them; and don’t allow yourself to procrastinate when you think about how difficult the challenges will be.
Instead, you should stay fixed on your goals; and pretend that the obstacles don’t exist. When it’s time to confront them, deal with them then, but before then, simply pretend that they don’t exist and push forward with your goals.
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I really can’t express how timely this post is.
I just started on a new project just two days ago. I’m launching a new free membership website with motivational materials, and I was putting the finishing touches on it when the whole site crashed. I mean gone; I installed a plugin that had a massive system error and just like that I lost everything I had been working on for 48 hours.
Not a big deal in it’s self, but I would say I worked on it for at least 15-20 hours total and it was one of the first projects I’ve been excited about in a while. And I had just started a round of submissions in my newly purchased Deep Linker Pro right when the site crashed.
After I got over the shock of losing that much work just like that, I started crying, and thought that I would just be done, that this was a cosmic sign that this wouldn’t work.
I took a break and decided to surf through my bookmarked blogs (yours being one of them, of course), and read this post.
Then I thought about how excited I had been thinking about the possibilites of the site I was building and the people I could reach with it, and suddenly the idea of rebuilding my site didn’t seem like the impossible task it had felt to be.
So thanks; I have a real soft spot in my heard for Motivational Mondays now! 🙂
Yes, it’s like deal with the present, forget the past because it’s done already and let the future worry about itself. It’s when you get there that you start worrying about it. So, take everything one step at a time, it will really be much easier. Thanks for sharing this great post.
Hi Mark,
you are sooo right. When it comes to IM we want to be perfect. This is another obstacle to go ahead. But the most relevant obstacle is inside us!!! What we have to do to is be calm, make a plan or this wonderful ‘to-do-list’ and than simply go ahead.
Although it sounds so simple, indeed it isn’t. First of all we have to dominate ourself. The best thing is that every day offers a new chance to start the life we deserve and like to live!