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sometimes in IM really need other IM motivation ....

by Devilfish168
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Last time I use to have a stable job working in school consider a government job in my country here.
Due to office politics, best colleagues betray me...etc , Management also put me on black list In the end I find it no point staying there as I know promotion will be dam long to get....

last pay I got 3.6 k ....after deduction for saving etc take home is roughly 2.6k.

And now I in IM , so far my earnings not so much

in and out few hundreds ....

Now again is year end and every one getting bonus feel so happy......Sometime I don't know is it due to jealousy or what....see my ex colleagues post online want to buy this and that as bonus coming...

in fact I miss it.....but I always told myself , motivated myself....I will earn even more than what I have earn last time.

Sometimes I feel IM should motivate one another IM. I know a lot in fact don't earn a decent constant mostly amount ...just like having a job ...to be frank.Ask your self how long it take for you to earn a decent amount?

A lot thus give up and back to work ...drag yourself to do things you don't like.
If the job you like , that is a Bonus as you work also can do IM to earn some passive income.


What I mean here is those trying to earn a Full time decent passive income online.
It does need lots of patience ....hard work ...even months to one year to see big results.

Agreed?
#motivation
  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
    No,not agreed... You are lucky that you can still rely on your parents to feed and house you while you wait to "make it online"... (Your post reads like you are trying to reassure yourself by getting reassurances from people in the same boat as you...)

    Imagine that you did not have that safety net, you would be out on the streets. This argument that you should "never give up" although IM is clearly not your forte is ludicrous. Millions of people go to a job they don't like every single day because they need the money, that's life!

    I've had offline businesses that were clearly not working, you don't keep on pumping in money and resources into a failed venture, you close it down and try something else... It's foolish to keep on hammering away at something thats not producing results.

    "Yeah well it took so and so X amount of time to see results" and, and, and... Well that's great but i would rather dedicate my energy to a business that's working now than grind away on something that has not worked and may never work...

    You guys can keep on boosting yourselves with your "never give up" mantra, eventually you'll have to face reality...
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    • Profile picture of the author kilgore
      I think salesgurus is exactly right. The whole "never give up" mentality is either (a) naive or (b) cynically promoted by MMO marketers who want people to keep plugging away so that they can make money or (c) is wishful thinking by people who like yourself aren't making much, but keep telling themselves if they just keep rolling the dice, one day their numbers will come up.

      But sometimes you really do have to give up -- either to try something completely different or to just get a job.

      As for me, this is my third venture and my first successful one (though I'd hesitate to pronounce any business that's still under 4 years old a "success"). I could have kept pushing at the other two, but they were going nowhere fast. But instead, I took a realistic look at what I was doing and decided to cut my losses. I got a new idea, I put together a new team and tried something else.

      One caveat I'd make to the above is that money it itself isn't necessarily the best indicator of success for a new business. For instance, it took my current business over a year before it was making enough money that my partner and I both could live off of it. But we could tell by day one from the response we were getting from our customers that we had struck a chord and were providing a valuable service. And at the end of our first holiday season (which is when we make the bulk of our sales), our revenue was such that we were pretty confident that we'd get to sustainability -- even if we weren't quite there yet. We just needed to scale.

      What I'm saying is if there are other non-monetary indicators that make you think you're moving in the right direction, then by all means, don't give up. But if you're plugging in day in day out and not getting results of any kind, I'd seriously think about what you're doing and either (a) adjust your business model or (b) give up and try something else, a job or another venture. There's no shame in failure if you learn from it.
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      Originally Posted by salegurus View Post

      You guys can keep on boosting yourselves with your "never give up" mantra, eventually you'll have to face reality...
      Yet, that's exactly what you and Kilgore did: Ultimately you didn't give up on your goal of having a successful business.

      If you would have stopped at those first "failures" (like many people do) you wouldn't have been successful.
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