patience

The Tampa Bay Rays got the Dodgers with the hidden ball trick more than a week ago. Evan Longoria put the tag on Juan Uribe who took a small lead from third base.

So how did it work? How was the baseball able to be thrown from first base to third base without anyone on the Dodgers seeing it?

The first reason it worked was because when a batter gets out, the catcher throws to the third baseman who throws to another position player and so on. It’s a pattern that people can follow. After seeing the same thing happening so many times, that pattern was expected to always happen. We are creatures of habit.

When the first baseman got the baseball, he threw it to the shortstop which was different. Loney, the first baseman, usually throws the ball to the pitcher. Then, the shortstop throws to Longoria, the third baseman.

Another reason the trick was executed perfectly was because it wasn’t obvious. The Rays players threw the baseball casually.

Throwing the baseball casually prevented the Rays from rushing the play. If Loney threw the baseball as hard as he could at the shortstop, Uribe would have seen it. Also, if Loney decided to throw the baseball right to Longoria, Uribe would have definitely noticed that something was going on. The Rays were patient throughout the entire play.

Finally, the umpire is the person who calls a person safe or out. Before Longoria applies the tag to Uribe, he makes sure the third base umpire sees the baseball in his glove. Then, he tags out Uribe who is called out by the umpire.

The Dodgers ended up winning that game 5-0, but the Rays pulled off quite the trick. Uribe and the Dodgers were able to laugh about it at the end of the game.

If there was a way to get on the peak of Mount Everest and back down in a day, more people would take the challenge on. Everyone would bundle up in all of their coats just for a day and nothing more. Then, they get to see the wonderful view.

There is no way to climb all the way up Mount Everest in 1 day. There are certain risks involved. Is climbing a mountain a necessary risk to take? Absolutely not, although people who actually climbed up Mount Everest may have a different opinion.

You get to the top by creating product after product and finding different ways to market those products. You get to the top by building connections and making yourself well-known. You don’t get to the top in 1 day. If we were all about to get to the top in 1 day, it wouldn’t be special. People would climb Mount Everest hundreds of times and get bored of the wonderful view all together.

You don’t get to go on the top in 1 day. However, when you get to the top, it makes the wonderful view memorable.

Only 11% of bloggers use their blogs as their primary source of income. The other 89% are missing out on the secret. Here’s what they are missing:

It takes patience to go from an unknown to the next big thing. However, most people look at the word “patience” in a variety of wrong ways.

Many people think that a year separates them from making $0 a month to over $1,000 a month. It takes many years in order to achieve success. This is where people think they have been patient enough, but in reality, they give up before they can see their full potential.

Another problem with the word patient is that people think success is guaranteed within a certain amount of years. In 5 years, your blog will go from 0 visitors a day to thousands of visitors every day.

Is that possible? The answer is yes. However, people expect those results to happen whether or not they try to get more traffic such as increasing their blog’s SEO and taking other steps to increase traffic.

The 11% who are professional bloggers making a full income from their blogs never gave up and knew what the word patient meant. The other people who don’t look at blogging as a full income stream didn’t bother looking at the word patience, or they looked at the word wrong.