Persistence Is An Essential Key
Persistence. Doggedness. Tenacity. Call it what you will, but the ability to “stick with it”, even when you’d rather play a game or watch TV is an absolutely essential key to success.
A couple of months ago, I wrote Plodding Your Way To Success over on my other blog, and while it is geared towards SEO, the same general tenets apply to the broadest spectrum of success. I listed the following:
- Stay focused
- Work, don’t play
- Know what needs to get done
- Actually get something done
- Start a task
- Don’t sweat every tiny detail
- Finish a task
It is easy, when working from home, to put things off. Sometimes we get distracted. Sometimes we get lazy. Sometimes we are just plain scared as we look at the big picture or the mountain of tasks that lay ahead of us. It’s those times that we need to just choose a small task and get it done. Perhaps accomplishing that small task will lead to accomplishing larger tasks. Perhaps it won’t. Either way, at least one thing actually got done. That’s a checkmark on the plus side, and ensures that you are a step closer to success, even if that step is a tiny one.
Be persistent. Don’t stop taking those steps. If you have to take a tiny, little step, because a bigger step just seem too overwhelming, fine. Take the tiny one. Eventually you’ll have the guts to take the bigger one. Of all the things on your to-do list today, isn’t there at least one thing you can actually get done? I’d bet there is.
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Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Keys To Success
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You nailed it, Donna.
I am able to make a good living from my websites today, and it’s not because I’m awesome at writing content or a pro at generating traffic or that I know all the right people (shoot, I don’t know *any* of the right people :P). Really my big “secret” is that I’ve just stuck with it for three years, adding content on a regular basis and working a bit on getting links to my sites.
So many people are always trying to find the next quick way to get rich, when if they’d just started something worthwhile and stuck with it, they’d probably be there by now… or at least making some decent money.