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Blogging can get rough at times. After constantly writing blog post after blog post, the same number of visitors come (or at times, less visitors come). However, there is a gold mine waiting to be discovered. That gold mine is your blog. Don’t take your eye off the prize, and do the consistent work that will allow you to receive that prize.
There are plenty of sports games. There are the debates. There are the board games as well. We have been taught to understand that winning is better than losing. Winning the soccer game is better than losing the soccer game.
However, people want the win too quickly. People think of the fame, the glory, and the rewards that go along with winning. If you beat the competitor, you’re the #1 guy or gal. The thought of #1 makes people set the bar too high. When the bar gets set too high, people become impatient and want to win faster.
Track runners run faster because they want to cross the finish line first. They push up their pace and end up being exhausted on the final lap. Then, everyone comes from behind and catches up. I’ve seen it happen to others and myself as well. Thinking about the fame, glory, and rewards makes us go out of control. We lose out on what could have happened because we were too focused on getting the win.
You can’t go from startup to thriving business with a sprint. Becoming successful is a marathon, and I’m sure you’ve heard that many times. However, some people think that they’re the exception, and they sprint the first mile of the marathon. The other 25 miles aren’t going to end very well.
Some people can’t fish. They are able to go on a boat and throw the line into the water. However, many people aren’t willing to wait that long for a fish to surface. It’s entirely possible that a fish doesn’t bite for hours. Fishing requires a lot of patience in order to get the win, but many people want the win as soon as they can get it.
The fame, glory, and rewards should motivate you to work harder. However, those thoughts should not motivate you to rush to a finish line that is all the way at the end of the rainbow. Persistence is powerful, and it will allow you to get to the other side of the rainbow where you will thrive.
There’s a common characteristic among all successful entrepreneurs. They’re businesses and blogs started out as crawlers–the smallest results came in. Going from 1 visitor to 2 visitors was the best feeling for these people in the beginning.Getting one sale every month was the best thing that ever happened.
Now these people are taking giant leaps of success. Their products sell out. Their blogs get hundreds of visitors every day. They keep on seeing better results. The difference is no longer by one visitor. It’s by hundreds of visitors.
You may be crawling your way to a giant leap of traffic just like how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. You may not know when the big leap is coming, but it will come.
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The first step you take towards implementing an idea leads to the second step. As you continue taking more steps to implementing your idea, a snowball effect will occur. You’ll be completing step after step to implement your ideas and turn them into realities.
The snowball doesn’t get to go down the hill until you push it down. Whether pushing the snowball down the hill means typing the first word of a blog post or publishing your first YouTube video, you need to do that first step to get the snowball effect.
This blog post has 160 words total, but it started with only 1 word, just like all of our ideas. The snowball is waiting to be pushed.