Are Your Tired Of . . .

That was another point I was thinking about. Some of these people are on the forum almost all day long. I hate to base my decision on who to listen to on that though. But perhaps it is a clearer indication than one might think.

Hi JamieD87,

I understand where you're coming from - we've all been there.

What I am trying to get at in my post above is that it leads to the next 'stage' - where you realise that whatever you do in life, or in business, there will be all sorts of people trying to pull the rug from under you and undermine you for all sorts of reasons. It's fun and educational to learn more about those reasons, but at the end of the day you don't actually need to understand them - you just need to generally ignore them and to start applying and refining filters to the information that you consume and to be more selective - no information is better than bad information.

You really only have two options.

You either listen to them and keep changing direction continually.

Or you realise that it is just noise, so you examine the logic, reason and hopefully test results that you originally used to make the decision in the first place, remind yourself that it was all sound, remind yourself that there are never any guarantees and then you carry on and see it through.

If you were right and it works, the detractors will delight you when they proclaim that 'it will never work' because those who are less bloody-minded than yourself will read it and then continually change direction and remove themselves from the competition pool, while you quietly keep proving to yourself that it does work.

The knock-on benefit of this is that as you get fully into this stage of relying on yourself and ignoring the noise, it provides a whole bunch of side benefits in business and life, because you have just become a lot smarter, wiser, resilient, self-confident, rational, logical, independent....etc.

Using the work example. If I plan to apply for company A because it suits my interests, but yet someone I know has worked for that company and says that it absolutely sucks, I can guarantee I won't be applying for company A. Who wants to work somewhere that sucks, even if it does match their skill set and interests?

I think the point that I was trying to make, is that with a lot of methods of making money online it takes a pretty good amount of time to get the ball rolling. If you're in the initial stages of doing something, the point where you've worked your butt off but have yet to see return because there just hasn't been enough time, it sucks when someone you respect comes along and is like, "That would never work because . . ." It just makes you feel like you've busted your butt for nothing, especially when you're at a critical point when you're waiting for return and teetering on the edge of deciding if what you're doing is actually working or if it was a complete waste of time.

People always say to find one method and stick to it. Bust your hump with unwavering focus until it starts to pay off. But that's a bit difficult when you're working your method and then someone who you know is successful comes up behind you and basically says that your method sucks. It's no wonder that so many newbies have a hard time sticking with one thing.

This isn't personally deterring me from going along with my plans. The method that I'm using makes perfect sense to me, despite any naysayers out there. I was just noticing this a lot in the forum and thought I'd bring it up for discussion. Maybe I would just prefer if people took the, 'it didn't work for me but it may work for you approach', instead of the 'you're never going to be successful doing that' approach.

Sorry, but that's bunk. Some of us are faster typists than others. Some have the forum open while we're working and so can respond more often. If you can read fast and type reasonably, you can do a lot of posts in a short amount of time.

Just as high post count means nothing when it comes to whether a person is trustworthy or not, it also doesn't mean that most are broke or unsuccessful.

lol Most that run WSOs have it in their signatures.