camski
Contributor
When I first decided to pursue an entrepreneurial path, I wanted to make as much money as I could, as fast as I could. I was in essence always swinging for the fences for the home run. I wanted it all and I wanted it now. I was lways looking how I could make the quick buck.
MLM promised quick money, so I tried that. FAILURE! Someone approached me about something called gifting ( a typical pyramid scheme) so I tried that. FAILURE! I tried HYIP’s and thought I found the holy grail of making money. FAILURE! I bought the latest hot stocks (with absolutely no stock market knowledge). FAILURE! I tried MLM another couple of times. FAILURE!
I was swinging for the fences and always striking out. Then it hit me. Not every baseball player is a home run hitter. In fact most are not but yet many are very successful just hitting singles all the time. Off the field controversy aside, who has had more success hitting, Pete Rose or Barry Bonds? One is the all time home run leader while the other is the all time hit leader. Both achieved a tremendous amount of success, just through different methods.
I finally realized that I am not a home run hitter. Instead of always swinging for the fences and striking out all the time I needed to change my focus and just try to hit singles. Instead of trying to make big money quickly I needed to try and just make a little money. I needed to try and create my wealth a little at a time. I needed to just make something instead of always losing it on my get rich schemes.
Once I decided to change my methods things really started to come together. I started making money and then reinvesting it. My singles turned into doubles and sometimes even triples ( think compounding). I wasn’t hitting home runs but I was still getting around the bases. I wasn’t making a fortune but I was making money. I was tasting success, small drops of success but success all the same. Trust me though when I tell you that even drops of success taste much better than the buckets full of failure that I had tasted in the past.
So that is where I am at today. I am not financially free, yet. But I am much closer than I was just 3 short years ago. I no longer look for the get rich pill that I can just take and become wealthy overnight. I grind it out every day trying to improve on what I did yesterday. Don’t get me wrong I would love to be able to hit the home run and make the easy money but I am not swinging for it. I am just trying to round the bases one hit at a time.
MLM promised quick money, so I tried that. FAILURE! Someone approached me about something called gifting ( a typical pyramid scheme) so I tried that. FAILURE! I tried HYIP’s and thought I found the holy grail of making money. FAILURE! I bought the latest hot stocks (with absolutely no stock market knowledge). FAILURE! I tried MLM another couple of times. FAILURE!
I was swinging for the fences and always striking out. Then it hit me. Not every baseball player is a home run hitter. In fact most are not but yet many are very successful just hitting singles all the time. Off the field controversy aside, who has had more success hitting, Pete Rose or Barry Bonds? One is the all time home run leader while the other is the all time hit leader. Both achieved a tremendous amount of success, just through different methods.
I finally realized that I am not a home run hitter. Instead of always swinging for the fences and striking out all the time I needed to change my focus and just try to hit singles. Instead of trying to make big money quickly I needed to try and just make a little money. I needed to try and create my wealth a little at a time. I needed to just make something instead of always losing it on my get rich schemes.
Once I decided to change my methods things really started to come together. I started making money and then reinvesting it. My singles turned into doubles and sometimes even triples ( think compounding). I wasn’t hitting home runs but I was still getting around the bases. I wasn’t making a fortune but I was making money. I was tasting success, small drops of success but success all the same. Trust me though when I tell you that even drops of success taste much better than the buckets full of failure that I had tasted in the past.
So that is where I am at today. I am not financially free, yet. But I am much closer than I was just 3 short years ago. I no longer look for the get rich pill that I can just take and become wealthy overnight. I grind it out every day trying to improve on what I did yesterday. Don’t get me wrong I would love to be able to hit the home run and make the easy money but I am not swinging for it. I am just trying to round the bases one hit at a time.
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