Motivation, Passion, and Internet Marketing
I discovered IM over a year and a half ago. I really have nothing to show for it other than wasted/spent time and money. I find it intriguing, I've given many different ways a shot, but I find myself with little to no motivation with it anymore.
Why? I'm a person who can do the best job you've ever seen if motivated. That is not to say that I am lazy, I just need a reason to do something, otherwise my mind will eventually come to the point about "what's the point? I'm getting nothing out of this."
I came to IM because of the relatively low entry point of entrepreneurship. I became so intrigued by it a couple of years ago and thought that IM could be a way to finance project I want to start. Yes, want to start.
I thought, perhaps fooling myself, that I can motivate myself to make anything a success. I can put up with a bunch of boring, detailed work. Well, I don't really know if I can anymore. I don't really have an passion for IM. I liked the idea of making money from it and thought that it is/was kind of cool, but never developed a passion, a passion you see in entrepreneurs that really love what they do.
Take photography for example. I have legitimate passion for that; do I want to do it forever? I dunno, but I have passion that I can spend hours doing a review on seven esoteric photo papers just for fun and hope that someone online reads it and wants me for some service or something. I blog as much for fun to keep the hobby exciting, fresh, and interesting as any actual business proposition.
I would love to be able to branch out an online presence for my photography and perhaps start to travel with it as well. That's something that interests me. That, however, is not something I want to do in the long term. I don't know where, but I'm sure that could lead me in interesting directions, interesting opportunities.
I love to just browse a Barnes and Noble because it gives me motivation to start something great. The next great thing. What is it? Well, if I know, I wouldn't be here. It seems like I'm one great idea of step away from being off to the races. But I don't know if IM is a step anymore. Right now, with trying to put a concerted effort toward photography and my actual job, if it involves much more than getting a set of directions and handing it off for someone else to do, I don't really care about it right now.
So, I believe that you really do have to have passion for success, especially if it takes some time to achieve. I'm not sure what I am going to do next, but I'm not going to stop trying. Just may try something new.
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