Motivation, Passion, and Internet Marketing

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I believe that I am an ambitious, perhaps extremely, ambitious workaholic. Honestly, it doesn't phase me if I have to work for the entire day for many days in a row. Motivation, and thusly passion, allows me to do it.

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.
#internet #marketing #motivation #passion
  • Profile picture of the author Gary Joseph
    Congratulations on finding your real passion! Photography is so much fun and an awesome outlet of self-expression. I bet Annie Leibovitz didn't know she would become who she is today after discovering her passion for photography.

    I think that with Internet Marketing, if you are in it largely for the money, you may find it more difficult to reach that level of success you desire. I have discovered (only recently) that doing things for money truly does lead to emptiness. What I mean by that is that money what fulfill what you think it will. That's my experience anyway.

    Cheers,
    GJ
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  • Profile picture of the author buckeyes09
    I mean, photography has been a passion for a long time, it's just that I've never really actively pursued it for money. I'm not really in it for the money, per se, but rather as a way to make money out of something you'll love.

    I've viewed IM as a stepping-stone to much more elaborate projects. Not really taking in as the end, which may have completely regarded my career growth. I can definitely use IM skills with photography, or any other project I'll start, online. So it's not a complete loss.

    I'm not even really after money per se. Although it may be semantics, I look at ostentatious possessions and wonder why can't I afford them? So, then, I suppose money is a means to an end. Oh well, if I can travel, take pictures, and run (when not injured) whenever I want, I'll meet my life's minimal goals.
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    • Profile picture of the author Justin Spencer
      Buck,

      I read like 50% of your post and skimmed the rest.

      I know how to solve your little problem [I think].

      Correct me if I'm wrong...

      The reason why you have nothing to show for it after (1.5 years).

      Is because you did not do either 1 or all of the following:

      1) Write down a specific and CLEAR outcome that you wanted to achieve.

      2) Take massive action in that direction to get there.

      3) Kept doing things that were bringing you closer to your goal.

      While changing things that were not getting you closer (or that were holding you back)
      for that matter.

      4) Modeling and emulating someone who has achieved EXACTLY what you were trying to achieve.

      If you had done those 4 things [in regards to an IM campaign of any sort]

      I would wager we wouldn't be having this conversation.

      Cheers,

      Justin
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  • Profile picture of the author buckeyes09
    Passion. Although it's long-winded, I did discuss what you mentioned.

    And I dislike extremely detailed work until I'm ueberly passionate and motivated about it.

    (FWIW, that Yale study never took place.)
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  • Profile picture of the author speedbird
    You are on the right path. No need to give up at this moment.
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  • Profile picture of the author buckeyes09
    I'm not at all giving up, I just changing direction. I believe I have underrated passion.
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  • Profile picture of the author HolyWarrior
    After reading through your post I've decided that I want to share something with you.

    You want to pursue your passions but you haven't yet discovered how to properly leverage them. Most people don't know how to do this either, but I've found somebody who's helped me do just that, and so now I am, and I enjoy doing it.

    I was doing things all wrong for more than three years in online marketing. I would get hyper motivated, do exactly what some new product or tactic instructs me to do... and I'd fall flat on my face, often losing more money than I made, breaking even, or in the rare occasion, actually profiting.

    I find that when I post a link to something on a forum so openly, there seems to be some strange psychological discrediting, in the same way that when somebody gives you something for free, the don't want it as much or value it as highly as if it cost them $200, even if it's the exact same thing.

    It's just a link to a video of somebody who's changed my life, and judging by your own post, I doubt you've heard of him, which is why I'm offering this right now.

    PM me if you're interested. I'm not out to sell you anything, but I need the assurance that I'm not wasting my time, and that you're serious about educating yourself and discovering how to leverage your strengths into a monetary gain.

    This is how you show it.
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