Internet marketing is like fishing?!

Hi markowe
Of course you are right.
Making money these days is like hunting, fishing and gathering tens of thousands years ago.
We have different tools but rules of the game are the same. To kill huge mammoth you need a lot of brain, persistence, adroitness, focus and courage.
Exactly same qualities we need to be successful in IM and any other business J

Wow , I really like this analogy and it is so true that unless you know what people are looking for , you cant begin to give it to them .

Would you like to see my 'honey hole?"

I wrote that post a few months ago. Enjoy.

Hi markowe/ramone_johnny,

This is funny, as I've often used the fishing analogy because I see the parallels, as well as applying the lessons I learn from my own personal fitness regime.

In fact, you can go as deep as you like with the analogies, because the way the world is set up, depending on how you view it, you can see it all as a series of lessons that can be applied to anyones personal struggle. There are parallels everywhere and some would suggest that they are there for a reason, if only we stop and take the time to look for them and also open our mind to them being there (which is also a fun activity, as well as an educational one.)

Why are animals on this planet?

Well apart from the obvious uses we find for them, if you read enough you will find that various tribes and peoples (such as the native Americans) used them as exercise books for their education.

I once read about a native American who had a conversation with a white man. The white man asked him why so many of them sat around doing nothing. He explained that they weren't doing nothing at all, they were working hard observing the world around them - especially the animals - in order that they could become wise.

For example, when an animal has some illness or injury, they would watch what it did. Often, it would rub the wound on some plant, or eat some plant. If it recovered, they now knew which plant could be used to cure that kind of injury/illness and what to do with it.

I was once looking out of the window and noticed a spider at work on one of his webs. I decided to take some time to watch it for a while as it toiled and to compare it's life and daily survival tasks with my own.

Guess what kind of business it taught me lessons about?

Johnny,

Through training, have you found the connections between physical and mental strength? For example, I have found that when it becomes too difficult to increase mental strength directly, when it is required, I instead just focus on increasing physical strength. The thing is, it takes mental strength and discipline to go through with the act of increasing the physical strength - bingo.

Hi ramone_johnny,

You said -

So what you are saying is that what you learnt in the gym are these things -

* never give up
* have a relentless attitude

Those two things are mental attributes, rather than physical. But you learnt them in the gym, which on the surface is all about physical training.

So you did (kind of) answer my question, even though you didn't understand it.

What I am saying, in other words, is that there is a connection between physical and mental strength and that most people, even though they may understand it at a basic level, don't really understand it on a deeper level.

One of the slightly deeper understandings is that if you are struggling with one of them (physical or mental) you can train the other and gain benefits in both, due to the nature of how connected they are.

An example of how they are connected in the negative sense - if you are lost in the desert and become really physically weak through lack of nourishment, it's also likely to affect your mental/emotional well-being and make you mentally weaker - you will have to fight for your life to maintain a positive attitude, particularly if like most people you are not practiced and trained in coping with this experience.

Likewise, if you are dealt a crushing blow in life and suffer from some form of depression, you are less likely to do the physical things that maintain physical health. A mentally well-balanced person is likely to train more often than someone who is clinically depressed.

To get this back on topic - if you are someone who regularly partakes in disciplined, beneficial, tough physical training and practices overcoming mental blocks encountered during that process, you are statistically more likely to outperform those who don't do this in a seemingly unconnected mentally-driven business environment.