I learned that some people love to talk about things, and some people like to do things. If you are among the ones who love to talk about things, do yourself a favor and start doing!
My main professional goal is to help people be aware of online entrepreneurship opportunities and how they can take advantage of them to change their lives. I have seen many people get excited about online entrepreneurship, but they either say something along the lines of, “I am going to try this sometime,” or they jump at it and start with the most complicated thing. Then they lose interest, get bored within a few days, and stop the execution.
It always boggles my mind why someone would get “bored” or lose interest in trying not to be poor. Then I thought maybe it has something to do with something I heard Tony Robbins say in a recent podcast: “Hard times create strong people, and then strong people create easy times, then easy times create weak people, and weak people create hard times, and the circle continues.” Maybe if you are not under immense pressure to do something, you will not do it. Maybe that is how we are made; I don’t know.
The ironic thing is, most of the people who like to talk about things without doing things will not admit, even to themselves, that they are not executing enough. They will have excuses to tell themselves about why they are not doing the hard things.
Ask yourself the following questions if you really want to know whether you are executing enough, not just talking about things:
➤ If you learn about something new that you feel interested in, something like freelancing, content creation, or anything else, do you start working on it immediately, or do you say something like, “I will start this as soon as…”?
➤ Can you do something for 12 months every week without seeing any result and without giving up?
➤ If you have ever started something like freelancing/virtual assistance, are you doing something more than the bare minimum? More than what the majority of people are doing?
I heard someone say, “If you know every new movie that comes out, and you know and listen to every new song that comes out, and you are poor and you don’t have any side hustle you are actively working on, you have to accept the fact that you are lazy.”
I saw someone recently on their phone doing what is known as “mining,” and I asked them, why won’t you do something like freelancing or YouTube content creation? And they said, “But this thing I am doing is very easy. I just need to tap it for a few minutes every day.” And ladies and gentlemen, that is the problem: the word “EASY.” If you aren’t willing to do the hard things, you aren’t ready to change your life.
Do this if you want to have the best shot at achieving great things:
➤ When you have an idea about something and you think, “I am going to start this when…,” ask yourself, why am I not starting right this minute? If there is not a legitimate reason, develop a habit of starting things “right now.”
➤ Make things easy and realistic for yourself. If you have no online skills and you decide to start learning JavaScript, that is not easy and not realistic, and you will most definitely give up.
➤ Expect to have to work harder than most people. Expect a learning curve. Expect long days and months of unpaid hours of work.
The good news is, if you do all of the above, you should expect to succeed in a matter of time.
Cheers to achieving great things 🥂
