Stuggling with inaction? Motivation to Succeed in here... (13)
(Sparknotes at bottom 
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If you are finding it hard to continually learn, grow, and make campaign after campaign... I have a motivational solution for you.
I am offer my services to give you a swift kick in the balls every day that you feel like slacking off, for only $5.95/month
This kick will hurt, and the pain will linger, and I am going to get to the point of this right now...
Everyone in the forum will give you advice, great advice... advice worth many times more than 99/month (**disclaimer, not an indication you should raise price **).... but more an indication that if you're not seeing success, then you're not following the advice.
There are two simple points I want to make:
1) There's no excuse for NOT ACTING on the information and advice given to you.
2) Do not expect to see drastic improvements overnight
There are many reasons people don't act, and those are all topics for a different post... but what I will say is this... Why aren't you doing what you're told? Who knows, could be anything...
but what if I told you that if you didn't follow that advice (say continually test 1 thing every day on your campaigns for 30 days or whatever it may be), that Wayne Rooney will come to your house, and while I hold you down, he winds up and corner kicks you square in the balls.... or what if you didn't follow that advice, someone from your family would die... would you do it then?
Point I'm trying to make is that no-action is ALWAYS a mental block that is holding you back, because if push came to shove, if you HAD to or gun to your family's head, you'd damn follow that advice...
To the second point of success... it comes in small incremental stages, long periods of plateaus and then spurts of growth, a peak/dip in progress, then back to plateaus. Rinse and Repeat.
Overnight success is the exception, not the rule. Yeah success stories are great, and they're motivational, but NEVER compare another persons success to your own. Follow your process, follow their advice, but NEVER compare them to you, that will get you no where except a 1-way ticket to NO-Action. A great book on this called Mastery: The Keys to Success & Long-Term Fulfillment (no aff-link).
So the sparknotes of this post:
Wage war on your goals, you're here for a reason. Quit bullshitting yourself, get rid of the mental blocks, stop comparing, stop thinking you have to do what everyone else is, and just TAKE ACTION.
- D
hey dubbsy,
great post!
my motivation comes exactly from the examples in your post...
Great post dude.
There is a tonne of insanely awesome info on these forums, but it's all worthless if it's not put into practice. When I was starting out I made all my ad account passwords "justdoitnow" (yes, that is cheesy...yes, i've changed them now). I used it as a reminder to stop procrastinating, stop second guessing, stop over thinking and start teaming up with my good friend Mr Data.
Like dubbsy said you need to have some target to hit (which can be done by creating goals). I'm a very competitive person so intially my goals were to try to do better than other affiliates around. I would continously look for new "enemies". I hit up my AM and would ask what volumes the top affs were doing for specific offers, it would be my goal to take them down lol.
Obviously those kinda of goals are not for everyone, but you need to find a goal that really stimulates a drive in YOU.
I gtg, time to take down some more enemies.
This is my current desktop: http://i.imgur.com/ZBsOT.jpg
If you follow that advice repeatedly you'll end up on top.
Do it fucking now.
We’re talking about developing your online properties. We’re talking about creating new campaigns to drive links and revenue.
Too lazy to read all that.
Very well said@ Something i want to elaborate on is the setting goals part.
I'm sure setting goals is fine and dandy since everyone loves to do it, but i don't. I guess i have some mental goals in mind, but i would never write them down (this is just me though). What i'm trying to get at is you don't need to write some special goal list to acheive what you want, it all reverts back to just doing it. Sometimes i think im overloaded with work, because i try to 'just do everything', but i'd rather just do everything then skip on half. Everyone can succeed in whatever they do, it'll just sometimes take a lot of attempts, but you won't ever succeed if you DON'T start, and get back up when you fall.
it reminds me of this line...
"Good is the enemy of great; and great is the enemy of what's possible"
check it out here 
Originally Posted by allthegold
Thanks guys! Yeah I didn't want to make it a huge post about goal setting, because it's really a double edged sword. Done right it can help a un-focused/semi-focused person be laser focused, but done wrong has basically the exact opposite effect that it was intended for.
In your examples, Stack & Mr. Super G!, even tho you both have "different" views, there is the underlying principle(s) that you have in common. You know what it is you need to do, how to do it, expectations along the way, limitations in certain areas, etc...or simply put, you are able to manage your expectations with the correct mindsets. That enables you to keep a level head and grind away, not getting discouraged, disappointed and start a "failure cycle" spiraling downward.
Where most people go wrong is they plan these huge goals, which is great, but forget about the baby steps you need to take to get there, and are basically setting themselves up for failure. You first start out in anything, I always relate shit to meeting and hitting on women haha, say learning how to talk to some fancy females... if you go out your first night with the goal in mind - "I'm gonna get laid" or "I'm gonna make out with a babygal", then you're setting yourself up for failure. Sure it might happen, but again that's the exception not the rule, and when the all-mighty gavel of probability comes bearing down and you don't reach your wildly exaggerated goal, your brain interprets failure -> releases negative peptides -> makes you think "this doesn't work" "this isn't for me" "other bs excuse because you didn't go about it correctly".
Same applies to AM... sure some people might hit it big right out the gate, exception not the rule. Expecting to spend a week, a month, shit maybe even 6 months at this and be able to quit your job, move to beverly hills and sniff lines off Lindsay lohan's ankle bracelet is just setting yourself up for failure.
Baby steps are the be all and end all (in my opinion), for when you're going through any kind of learning curve.
Dubbsy out ;-)
it's a disease i have: analysis paralysis...
need to change
Great post. I agree with all yall above especially taking baby steps - but for me I make sure my ultimate goal is so high that even if I donot reach that height, I still come close just a few yards away. Basically the don't be afraid to think big but yeah you gotta just do it! If you can't do shit at home, get your ass out of the house and hit up a starbucks or library. If you only can do work while taking a shit, take a shit more often during the day! If you can only work at your office at work, stay there after work until you finish 10 campaigns or whatever goal you set. As long as you are doing something to get your ass to MOVE and just DO! Do it And be sure to reward yourself with something after you finish something significant to you - it could be just 1 nice campaign you feel great about. Treat yourself to something you absolutely love like a blowpop or a footmassage lol
Great post man. Keep them coming.
As I mentioned in the other post on this topic -> inaction is the biggest wannabe affiliate disease
Harry -> Analysis Paralysis - I know what your talking about. I can have the same problem. I feel it helps to ->
have too many campaigns to analyse them all
before you start analysing (or split testing) how much will this earn me, ie if your split testing - will it improve my ROI by 10% on a campaign that brings in $30 a day and it takes you an hour to do? Your better use that time more wisely.
creating new campaigns is Priority 1 for the day. Optimising existing is priority 2.
Damn... I always put optimize campaign first priority and I admit most often times I tend to optimize all day and not create. Now I know my problem lol I'm obsessed with current campaigns. I need to move to more new ones but not to over analyze them to the point it stops you from working on new campaigns. Thanks Tijn
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