Every person I know who has started a home based business has gotten extremely frustrated at some point. Often, this frustration has gotten so high that they quit their business, licked their wounds, and then headed off to find the next "best opportunity ever" to start it all over again. At least a dozen times, I've done it myself. Here are three effective strategies I use to lower (I find I can never get rid of it completely) the frustration level:
1. Remember that patience is a virtue. Unrealistic expectations are the cause of most frustration. Although hard and consistent work is required for most businesses, especially on the Internet, there is a small element of luck that goes with the territory. You must understand that even with the same ads in the same places, a big hitter can click on one and not the other. That's one of the breaks of the game. So, the lucky person's business grows faster than the other one. So what? Don't compare yourself to the guy who made a million dollars in eleven minutes just by "clicking here." Select a business that has a pay plan, product, and training that you believe in, and then religiously follow the training. If it takes you a week to do something someone else does in an hour, so what? Do what you need to do each day, and success will come. Stop looking at the clock.
2. It is necessary to have some smaller goals. If your only goal is to make $10k a month, or to get out of debt, or buy a boat, you will get frustrated more easily. Don't look only at your final goal. Every time you go to work on your business, have a small goal for that period of time. Focus on one thing until you get it done. Make X number of calls. Write an article. Work on your autoresponder messages. Send a certain number of emails. If you have a smaller, more specific goal each time you work on your business it will give you a feeling of success rather than a feeling of failure and frustration. If you do what you need to do today, every day, the money will follow.
3. Go riding once in awhile. By "go riding," I mean do something you really enjoy. (For me, that's horseback riding in the mountains.) You can easily get so so wrapped up and worried while you are working on your business that you don't take the time to do the things for which you are building the business. One of the reasons you are probably working on your business is that you would like more leisure time. If that's true, then take the time once in awhile. Having some fun, but not enough of it, whenever you can. This will motivate you to keep you at your business, and keep you doing what you need to do to make it successful.
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