True enough, we must all have passion for everything that we do or else there is a high probability that we will fail. If you think you are losing your passion, rekindle it. Take a break and reflect. Get back in the game afterwards with a newer and relieved fighting spirit. Don’t let failure come your way and haul out distractions.

With these things in mind, especially from your post, I think you can really fall in love with the business all over again.

Nice and very true-to-life post.

This simple combination of acupuncture points tapping with some simple motivational (kind of NLP) words keeps you out of unnecessary thoughts.

You stay focused on the things you do. You get out from the routines (and every business has its routines). And you do love what you do.

Hope your day is great!
Mark

The more I took shortcuts with a focus on making money with the least effort, the more my enthusiasm lagged. The more I focus on the value I provide clients and customers, the more I enjoy what I do.

I think that having a well-defined purpose that benefits others is key to enjoying what I do.

On Thursday’s brainstorming session (and probably a couple of previous Tuesday/Thursday webinars), we talked about how people have a tendency to give up on their attempt at an online business just when they’re about to make a breakthrough. Since we can’t see into the future, we don’t know how close we really are to breaking through whatever blockage is stopping us.

Lynn’s been talking frequently about sticking with one thing until it’s profitable and I’ve heard her and agreed with her…in theory. And then I read this article today.

WHAM! a 2X4 between the eyes, man! (For non-US readers, a 2X4 is actually a piece of lumber 1-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches = 38 x 89 mm. And the reference of its hitting between the eyes is from an old joke about a farmer’s method of getting his mule’s attention… Well, Lynn got MY attention with this article.)

This article followed closely on the heels of my discovery this morning of a hymn I’d never seen (stay with me, this all ties together). You see, Lynn or someone in the webinar chat used the word FAITH the other day. We need to have the faith that we CAN accomplish our goal.

So here’s some of the hymn text. You all tell me if you think this doesn’t apply. It certainly resonated with me and so I’m offering it to the rest of you, hoping it will cause a light bulb to come on, or to remove a veil from your eyes.

“Faith, while trees are still in blossom,
Plans the picking of the fruit…

Long before the dawn is breaking,
Faith anticipates the sun.
Faith is eager for the daylight…

Long before the rains were coming,
Noah went and built an ark…”

Considering that faith is the substantiation of things unseen, in other words trusting that something is real even if we can’t see it or touch it, I think there’s a subtle difference between believing the sun will come up and believing our business will become profitable.

In part, that’s because we’ve already seen the sunrise and believe and know it happens every day. We know that spring follows winter no matter how long it seems to be taking for the snow to go away. These things are inevitable.

What so many of us don’t have faith in is ourselves, since we can recite all the things we’ve failed at doing in the past. But it seems to me that at Lynn’s forum and in her webinars, we are operating with a safety net. Failure in the big, bad fear-in-the-back-of-the-mind worry wort sense shouldn’t even be an issue with us.

We’ve got Lynn on our side. Plus we’ve got a fantastic team of fellow marketers cheering one another on, offering advice, tips, suggestions, ideas, inspiration, etc. Tell me, where else online can you get this caliber of support without joining an expensive Master Mind group?

I guess the bottom line of what I’m saying, in my usual verbose way, is that this journey we’re all on is not something we are undertaking alone, even though it can seem like that as we slog away in virtual isolation on our computers for hours on end without much more than hope that we’re going to succeed to keep us going. That is, it’s the only thing keeping us going until we get a word from this person or that person, get feedback in the forum, receive an email, hear and write down a great quote to post next to our computers (like Mary Gallagher’s “Does this take me closer or distract me?” and Loretta’s “remember: from start to profit”).

I celebrated my 1-year anniversary as a member of Lynn’s elite forum in October. That was the smartest investment I ever made online — bar NONE! (And believe me, I’ve invested so many dollars in training and products since 2005 that it sickens me to think about what I might be able to do with that money now, like oh, maybe buy gasoline or food…)

This blog, the free forum at SSWT, and the weekly webinars are at the center of my online business.

OMG!!!!

I don’t even want to think about where I would be without them and Lynn herself.

So I believe that I am just one breakthrough away from success. I may not be able to see it, but I take Lynn’s view over mine anytime when it comes to perspective.

Thank you, my friend and mentor, dear Lynn! I’d have given up a year and a half ago without you.

And thank you to all the gang at the webinars and at the forum. You “guys” are just the best!

Deb

P.S. – One more thing. This is about having a vision for anything.

I heard it said that a vision requires 3 things.

The first is revelation. This word carries the meaning of removing veils. So we need to have the veils removed from our eyes. Lots of things veil us, like philosophy, upbringing, attitudes, etc.

The second is sight. We can have the veils removed, but it does us no good if we are blind. So we need to have clear sightedness too. This is really our thinking, so it’s also clear headedness.

The third is light. We may be unveiled and able to see, but if we’re in darkness, neither of those can help. We need to have light bulbs going off in our head as we understand more and more of this business. They illuminate what we need to know.

I hope you have a clear vision of your business or that you’re working toward that goal to have a vision of your business or your life.