Success vs. Failure or Mediocrity
Hi everyone!
I realized something today that I had to make sure I passed your way… in case it can help you with your business!
Most of you know that I have been online for almost 6 years now… pretty much always making some money, a part time income, but never breaking through past that level… never reaching anything higher than a part time income.
I have money issues due in large part to how I grew up but because of certain circumstances, still deal with today. Over the course of the first 5 years online, inside there was a part of me that didn’t want to earn more than my part time income because I wouldn’t be able to spend it anyway because some people around me would feel like our spending money meant we had more we should have been giving them. So, rather than earn more money I’d rather earn just enough to pay the bills and have “some” left over for fun… warped I know 
I finally made the decision early last year to forget about how others would feel about the money and only concentrate on what our goals, our dreams are. In making this decision I realized an even more important issue within me…
In my mind, I always “knew” that everyone around me never believed it was going to happen, never believed it was going to work (making money on the Internet), never believed I could make it happen. Now I want you to look at my past and what I have done with my business… I have worked (and worked hard), but never completed one thing and stuck with it… I jumped from one project to another to another without truly completing any one of them and seeing them thru to the end.
I now believe that I worked this way because MY unconscious is what believed I could never make it work (it doesn’t matter if other people do or don’t believe it, it matters what subconsciously I believe) and by moving around from project to project it meant that I never proved anybody right or wrong (myself included), because I never finished a project and gave it a chance to succeed or fail… I could always be in limbo wondering why I couldn’t make it work 
Yes, I was failing all along, but in my mind I wasn’t, in my mind I was allowing myself to get away with mediocrity… if that makes sense.
Do you now realize (just as I have) that it doesn’t matter if you succeed or fail! What matters is that you finish it! What matters is that you dream and work toward that dream because yes I do believe that as long as you hold that image in your head and you do the work to get things done, it will happen, it’s just a matter of when. My disclaimer here is that you can’t just dream, you have to work towards that dream to make it happen. You must complete the follow thru. And you must not give up… I worked for over 5 years before I finally made this work and I know that you can do it faster than I did!!!
I am now living that dream. I now have bigger dreams. I want you to do the same thing… I also want you to succeed. Let me know how I can help!
January 12th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
So many people have money issues, especially involving what others’ think and their own past. So many people do give up before achieving their dreams and goals leaving them with less and less to dream about as the years go on.
Congratulations to you for never giving up! Through your guidance I know I can never give up, either. I realize that I am standing in my own way, as is the advice from almost every person I know who has ever achieved and still achieves their dreams. That fact that you are so much more real to me than these ’superstars’ or authors helps me to realize that even someone like me could achieve my wildest dreams if I just believe it. Anyone can do it! I want to experience this life in a way that I will never regret. I want to know I did my best and that I did the things that would make a difference to me and my loved ones when I look back on the years. I know I am just like you were, struggling to succeed and never seeing the results I wanted to see. Now I think it’s time to stop struggling with myself and just do it! It’s time to realize and taste my own dreams! Thank you so much for your inspiration and guidance! I will be forever grateful to have your influence in my life.
Smile Big,
Sarah