| Most people who have ever started a home based | | | | calendar. |
| business have at some point gotten extremely | | | | 2. Small goals are necessary. If your only goal is to |
| frustrated. Many times, this frustration has gotten so | | | | get out of debt, or to make $10k a month, or buy a |
| bad that they quit the business, lick their wounds, | | | | yacht or something else that is now out of your |
| and then head off to the next "best opportunity | | | | reach, you will be more likely to get frustrated. Don't |
| ever" to try again. I've done it myself at least a | | | | let yourself look only at your final goal. Every time |
| dozen times. Here are three strategies I use to lower | | | | you sit down to work your business, have a small |
| (I find I can never get rid of it completely) the | | | | goal for that time. Focus on one thing. Send X |
| frustration level: | | | | number of emails. Make X number of calls. Finish the |
| 1. Patience is a virtue. Most frustration comes from | | | | AdWords campaign. Tweak your website. Having a |
| unrealistic expectations. Although hard and consistent | | | | smaller, specific goal each time you work on your |
| work is a pre-requisite for most businesses, on the | | | | business will give you a sense of success rather than |
| Internet especially, there is an element of luck that | | | | a sense of failure. Do what you need to do today, |
| goes along with it. Understand that even with two | | | | and the money will follow. |
| identical ads in two identical places, a big hitter can | | | | 3. Go fishing once in awhile. By "go fishing," I mean do |
| click on one and not the other. That's one of the | | | | something fun once in awhile. It's easy to get so |
| breaks of the game. That person's business will | | | | concerned and so wrapped up in building your |
| probably grow faster than the other one. The point | | | | business that you don't do the things for which you |
| is, so what? You can't compare yourself to the | | | | are building the business. Most people I know would |
| person who made a million dollars in seven minutes | | | | like more time for their leisure activities. If that's one |
| just by "clicking here." What you need to do is select | | | | of the reasons you are building your business, then |
| a business that has a product, pay plan, and training | | | | recreate once in awhile. Having fun, but not enough |
| that you believe in, and then follow the training. If it | | | | of it, will motivate you to keep at your business, and |
| takes you a month to do something someone else | | | | keep doing what you need to do to make it |
| does in a day, so what? If you do what you need to | | | | successful. |
| do every day, success will come. Stop looking at the | | | | |