The tortoise usually wins the race
January 5, 2009 – 2:30 pmInternet business is a quirky thing. There are so many products on offer that if you were to buy them all you would not have enough time to read them all before you died!
So, quality is more important than quantity. If you do buy something, anything, to help with your internet business, use it. Spend time reading the documentation. Set it up, if it requires setting up. Try different settings. Test the product in your marketplace.
If you buy a product a week, you know, SEO Magic, 1001 PLR, blah, blah, blah, and they sit around waiting to be used all you will end up with is a lower bank balance, lots of unused products and probably lots of regrets. You could read yesterday’s post about overcoming regrets but that will not help with the other two outcomes.
Rather than doing that, buy one product and “use it to death”. That is, be a tortoise with it. This requires patience. Applying patience to your internet business will not only produce long term success but it will help create a more peaceful you.
Patience with a product or service or whatever you are working on will allow you to be more accepting of what it is rather than what you expect it to be. Without patience you are likely to experience severe frustration. You will find that the smallest glitches with a product annoy you and you put it aside and go buy something else to give your business that magic boost.
See yesterday’s post about living for the moment. Patient people live in the present. They get the most out of each second and work like a tortoise towards the next goal.
Take a breather when things are not working out the way you expected. Remind yourself that you are working on your business. There is no need to stress about it. Keep working toward getting this product or service working and accept setbacks as a normal part of building anything worthwhile.
Everything is “small stuff” in the big scheme of things. You can regain that train of thought. You can redo that page/post. It is not lost forever. Try again. Enjoy the journey and apply patience to everything you do.
If you look closely at everything you are doing you will determine that many things are not really the “emergency” that they seem to be. We so often live life at 100 miles an hour to “get there” but “there” never comes over the horizon.
Develop patience and you will find that your internet business keeps growing, and you get to enjoy all of it as it happens. Slow down and enjoy the journey. The hare might cross the finish line first but there are enough prizes for everyone. Be the tortoise and you can not only finish the race but enjoy the journey each step of the way.
For an internet business opportunity with a difference, take a look at SiteSell. The approach is very much slowly-slowly, just like the tortoise, but the results speak for themselves.
Cheers, Brendan
