Mental Strength is Needed to Succeed
A lot has been said about the secret formula for being successful online and generally on life itself. Countless gurus have touted this and that way. “You go this way and you will find nirvana”. “Follow my footsteps and you will succeed”. If you go to a bookstore and come across the “self-help” aisle, you’ll find tons and tons of books about what you should do to become successful. Of course, most of them are rehash of rehash. Much are the same things, principle and ideas, presented in different ways by different authors.
What is usually the problem?
When somebody becomes aware that he needs to improve, the first logical thing he usually does is go look for a book. He goes to a library or a bookstore to find a book to read. He then gets inundated by the vast number of available books to read. All touting to be the best. For those books, he couldn’t read a few pages of, he then goes back home with a checklist and checks the internet to see book reviews. It can go the other way too, as the person may want to check the internet first for reviews.
For each book, he then finds reviewers who likes it a lot, like it a little, hate it a lot, hate it a little. Then, he follows the suggestion of other reviewer who sounded convincing that there are better books which happens to be not on his checklist. So, off he goes to check the other books. Do the merry-go-round again, check the book, check the review, check the price, check if it’s freely available in the library. Whee! it becomes so tiring. By the time, he settles on a book. At the back of his mind, he keeps asking, “Did I buy the right book? Should I have bought the other one instead?”
He then buys a book. Read it for awhile. Dig it. Follow “some” of what it says. Doesn’t get any result. Gets impatient. Blames self for not getting the other book. Buy the other book. Reads it. Can’t follow some of the advice but followed some. Finds it hard to follow. Didn’t get any result. Go back to the old book. Read it again. Gets little result. Went online and check other readers. Found other “better” books recommended by these readers. Got tired. Stop for awhile. Got discouraged. End up more clueless than when he first started.
OK. Let’s stop and pause for awhile to THINK.
Aahhh. Finally. That’s the best thing I ever did. If I want to become successful then I should look at myself first in the mirror. Reflect on the things I need to change and work on them. Once I conquer myself, I can conquer anything.
Mental strength, the ability to focus myself to do the things I want to do right away is what I lack. This is my challenge and it’s the lack of it that hinders my success. What is yours? To be successful, don’t think sheep, the answer is not found on other people’s mouth. You got to search it within.
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