Question for the Veterans... From a Peasant.

GimpSpack

GimpSpack

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Hey, peasant here. I've been lurking on these forums for a little while, but I have to ask a question that's been haunting me for a while...

How easy was success for you?

Like, seriously. I know a lot of you full time IMers believe you haven't achieved success yet, and I understand. As soon as your head hits the bar, you raise it higher...

But I have to know - are you guys just fucking geniuses or something?

I consider myself a fairly sharp dude... But I'm struggling here...
I've been at IM for the past 2 years on and off, but I've only began to get over "shiny object syndrome" this past year... Yeah, I've made money online, sure. But not enough to quit my minimum wage peasant job.

Currently, the path I'm following is a hybrid between Mark Lang's "Affilioblueprint" method and CCarter's "Big Brand" strategy... and I'm overwhelmed.

I see veteran members bitching at people for "outing" and sharing industry secrets, and it only makes me feel like i'm hustling backwards... like I don't have a firm grip on what it takes to succeed with authority sites and such. It's to the point where I don't want anything other then success with this, but self-doubt is overriding rational thought and self-motivation.

Blah Blah Blah...
/pussy shit

But freal, did you guys come into this game and just naturally excel? Was this shit effortless to you? Or did you struggle tough at first and just kept pushing until you started to see major progress?

I'd love to hear your honest thoughts. Cuz right now, I'm willing to sacrifice whatever to become financially independent and make it in this game, but I'm also curious how many successful IMers hit the "self-doubt" wall I'm experiencing.

/vent
Give your thoughts or take shots at me... I'll take your perspectives to heart and memes with laughter.
 


No ass for you. I consider myself a peasant as well when it comes to making money online, but I am willing to try things out, read and listen to those that have had success... I am also not afraid to get it wrong occasionally while I'm figuring out what works for me.

But freal, did you guys come into this game and just naturally excel?
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That may play a small part in it for the guys here that actually make decent money online, but for the most part it has come from doing their due dilligence, experimenting until they found what worked for them, and sheer perserverance and the will to succeed. There is no secret formula as to why they succeed, other than that last bit. They have, to my knowledge worked their asses off, and continue to do so.

You are either wlling to fail and fall on your face (over and over and over again) to get to where you want to be, or you give up after a couple of failed attempts.

Cuz right now, I'm willing to sacrifice whatever to become financially independent and make it in this game, but I'm also curious how many successful IMers hit the "self-doubt" wall I'm experiencing.
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Self doubt is part of human nature, but like I said before, most of these guys were willing to fall on their faces until they got it right. The only time you truly fail is when you give up completely. Only you, within your own self thought can overcome doubt and do away with the fear of failure.


Or, you could not listen to me since all I do is post ass. :D

And in the words of CCarter,

Carry on...
 
SC, I'm not clicking any link you put in your posts - ever. You've already caught me out twice this year damn it.
 
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See now I don't mind it that much. Except when I'm on the phone and my client thinks I am calling from a port-a-potty at some eurotrash party.
 
@GimpSpack

No one comes into this as a "natural"

This is a heavily numbers and analysis driven game, mixed with creativity.

But CCarters method is solid, the rest is hard work.

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Disclaimer: I am just another internet hundredaire.
 
Suddenly_Ass said:
No ass for you.

Self doubt is part of human nature, but like I said before, most of these guys were willing to fall on their faces until they got it right. The only time you truly fail is when you give up completely. Only you, within your own self thought can overcome doubt and do away with the fear of failure.


Or, you could not listen to me since all I do is post ass. :D

And in the words of CCarter,

Carry on...
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Damn, some real shit. Thanks.

I think that's the only thing that's been keeping me motivated - you really only fail if you quit completely.

I guess the thing that scares me is the time factor. I don't care about investing money and never seeing a return - fuck it. You can always make money back, but time is forever lost in the past. And that's the scary thing about the SEO game. It takes serious time and commitment, and if things don't pan out, that's HELLA time I've wasted. Wasting time is a far greater risk then losing imaginary digits at this point...

But fuck it, no pain no profit.

Thanks for the responses (that includes dickrolls and/or dickroll references - it's an honor lol).
 
the path I'm following is a hybrid between Mark Lang's "Affilioblueprint" method and CCarter's "Big Brand" strategy
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You will continue to fail for some time.

You don't understand what you're doing. You're the novice chess player who memorizes opening moves. Across from you is a grandmaster. To him, it comes naturally. It's easy for him.

You're asking him how he became so good.

He shrugs, "It's easy."

Success teaches no lesson; Success is the payoff.

The only commonality in success is repeated failure.

So you can learn a lot more from other people's failures than you can from their successes.

Every "failure" is a lesson. It's only really a loss if you don't learn from it.

As long as you keep learning, over a long enough timeframe it’s impossible for you to not succeed.

Learning from others will save you time. But people are funny - you can tell a kid that the stove is hot but he’ll burn his fingers sooner than he’ll listen to you. Most of us never grow out of that. It requires humility.

Success and knowledge are domain-specific. The grandmaster’s wife left him and she took the kids. So don’t jump around too much.

I’m about to do something that I’ve never done before. I wholly expect to “fail” over and over before I succeed. Nothing else makes any sense.
 
GimpSpack said:
Damn, some real shit. Thanks.

I think that's the only thing that's been keeping me motivated - you really only fail if you quit completely.

I guess the thing that scares me is the time factor. I don't care about investing money and never seeing a return - fuck it. You can always make money back, but time is forever lost in the past. And that's the scary thing about the SEO game. It takes serious time and commitment, and if things don't pan out, that's HELLA time I've wasted. Wasting time is a far greater risk then losing imaginary digits at this point...

But fuck it, no pain no profit.

Thanks for the responses (that includes dickrolls and/or dickroll references - it's an honor lol).
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Wasted time? Whats your alternative, wasting your whole life in a dead end job. I know what id rather be doing. No time spent on improving your future is wasted time, its just experience.
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5nVqeVhgQE]Will Smith shares his secrets of success - YouTube[/ame]

A great video. get it watched and then get fucking working.
 
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