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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Success is never easy for anyone, even when it appears to be. Just as with success in anything in life... with relationships, with family, with work, with business, it requires sacrifice, determination and the persistent drive to make it happen.
Reading your post sounds like that of someone who is planning to fail, not succeed. I put everything I had a few years back into a business and then was grinding constantly - waking up at 4:30 and getting home at 8 or 9pm.
I let all my online stuff go. I wanted to focus on my business.
After 2 years of grinding and feeling like I could easily make more online and should have never left, I decided I was going to make extra money and start working online again.
I thought long and hard about how to do it and where to start with little and turn it Ito a bankroll I could grow.. I went to a friend and said "listen, please tell me one product and one traffic source, I'll sign up under you and make you some money". He did.
I started with a few hundeed dollars. In a few months, it was 10,000.00 (maybe 1,5yrs ago). Just from buying more and more traffic from one country for one specific thing.
The point being that how you think and how I think is VERY different. My thinking is "what do I want to achieve and how can I achieve it?" And I reason thought it until I figure it out... and your thinking is "why try, I've already decided it's not worth it".
I found answers, you found excuses.
It really is that simple.
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it may be that simple when all you have to worry about is yourself. it was much easier to take risks in my 20's before i had a wife, kid, mortgage, car payments, etc. if i fail, they all suffer. not just me.
despite feeling hopeless at times i still work hard, 10-12 hours a day 7 days a week (if i worked any longer i wouldn't' even know my child). though even the time i am 'off' i am never really off. i am determined but i also live in reality where i know the possibility of failing is bigger than the possibility of succeeding. it doesn't mean i don't try or don't want success. its just being realistic. and my definition of success isn't just making a living. i make a living doing what i do but don't consider myself successful as i am not at the level i'd like to be.
after my last venture crashed in 2008 i was left with 100k of debt, 30 of which i am still paying off. on top of that i had to start from zero. what i did before didn't work anymore. it took 2 and half years just to be profitable. i make about 50-60k a year now which is probably nothing for someone so great as you but for me, its a living and i am happy to at least be making that though not satisfied. i am 35 now, will i ever hit it big? unlikely but if i do i will appreciate what i have and what it took to get there.