If you can follow through, you are THE MAN or THE WOMAN!
I was just going through a thread and I've noticed a trend that I knew was prevalent in the general population, but I'm very surprised at how common it is on this forum as well.
I was just reading through a thread made by a very reputable member of the forum, and he gave people a very valuable series of steps to follow to get started on a venture. Two people in that thread said they were going to follow these steps through to the end. I looked up at the # of pages the thread had, and when I saw it was only 4 pages long, I knew these peoples' updates were not going to be coming for long. Both of them disappeared within a week or two, no follow-through.
Believe it or not, this encourages me. Even on a forum with people who are serious about starting their own businesses, majority of them don't follow through. I'm not trying to insult the people who haven't followed through, I mean hell I've done it countless times. The point I'm trying to make is that if you ACTUALLY follow a plan diligently to its end, you are among the very, very few. You are ahead of 99.99% of people out there.
I always read this article and that article about how so-and-so works 14 hours a day on his business. This always discouraged me because I'd think, "14 hours a day? How the hell am I gonna be able to do that consistently?"
What I'm beginning to realize is that people are blowing their "achievements" up to make themselves look good. That guy who says he's working 14 hours a day on his business could have given up after 2 weeks for all we know. Him or her working 14 hours a day doesn't mean SHIT unless he or she made it to the end of their plan. I'd bet 99% of them don't. We have evidence of that phenomenon all over this forum. People posting extensively of the action they are taking, and then all of a sudden they disappear after a week or two.
When I first joined this forum a couple weeks ago I was pretty intimidated by all the people working on their own ventures. It's like "damn there are so many smart people here, am I smart enough to do this?"
Now I see how hard it is and how rare it is to find somebody who has started a plan and followed through with it. You don't have to be a genius, you just have to take consistent action and follow through! Whatever the reasons for not finishing, it doesn't matter. I hope everyone can find comfort in the fact that if you actually follow through with a plan, you are the 1% of people ON THIS SITE, and the .01% of people in the world.
I hope I worded this in a way that doesn't seem like I'm insulting the general populous of this forum. Obviously there are a lot of successful people on this forum providing great value to everyone here. I just found this to be motivating because I sometimes have doubts about whether I'm smart enough to accomplish great things. I now believe that you don't have to be really smart to start a business. You have to take consistent action and follow through, and through that you will become a lot smarter as a byproduct.
I was just going through a thread and I've noticed a trend that I knew was prevalent in the general population, but I'm very surprised at how common it is on this forum as well.
I was just reading through a thread made by a very reputable member of the forum, and he gave people a very valuable series of steps to follow to get started on a venture. Two people in that thread said they were going to follow these steps through to the end. I looked up at the # of pages the thread had, and when I saw it was only 4 pages long, I knew these peoples' updates were not going to be coming for long. Both of them disappeared within a week or two, no follow-through.
Believe it or not, this encourages me. Even on a forum with people who are serious about starting their own businesses, majority of them don't follow through. I'm not trying to insult the people who haven't followed through, I mean hell I've done it countless times. The point I'm trying to make is that if you ACTUALLY follow a plan diligently to its end, you are among the very, very few. You are ahead of 99.99% of people out there.
I always read this article and that article about how so-and-so works 14 hours a day on his business. This always discouraged me because I'd think, "14 hours a day? How the hell am I gonna be able to do that consistently?"
What I'm beginning to realize is that people are blowing their "achievements" up to make themselves look good. That guy who says he's working 14 hours a day on his business could have given up after 2 weeks for all we know. Him or her working 14 hours a day doesn't mean SHIT unless he or she made it to the end of their plan. I'd bet 99% of them don't. We have evidence of that phenomenon all over this forum. People posting extensively of the action they are taking, and then all of a sudden they disappear after a week or two.
When I first joined this forum a couple weeks ago I was pretty intimidated by all the people working on their own ventures. It's like "damn there are so many smart people here, am I smart enough to do this?"
Now I see how hard it is and how rare it is to find somebody who has started a plan and followed through with it. You don't have to be a genius, you just have to take consistent action and follow through! Whatever the reasons for not finishing, it doesn't matter. I hope everyone can find comfort in the fact that if you actually follow through with a plan, you are the 1% of people ON THIS SITE, and the .01% of people in the world.
I hope I worded this in a way that doesn't seem like I'm insulting the general populous of this forum. Obviously there are a lot of successful people on this forum providing great value to everyone here. I just found this to be motivating because I sometimes have doubts about whether I'm smart enough to accomplish great things. I now believe that you don't have to be really smart to start a business. You have to take consistent action and follow through, and through that you will become a lot smarter as a byproduct.
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