Have You Just Hit ‘The Wall’?
Have you hit the ‘brick wall’ yet?
No? Well it won’t be long.
I started tinkering with the internet at the start of 2003, then finished my property maintenance business towards the end of that year and went full time online.
In the two years since then I’ve hit ‘the wall’ about once a week. What do I mean when I say ‘hitting the wall’? I’m referring to that point where you get so frustrated that you feel like throwing your hands in the air and packing it all in.
I’ve seen it in action on eBay when I was Аудио деки starting out selling eBooks and software. I found this guy on there and he was selling all of his information products for one pence each. Within the listing he gave a link where you could download all of his products for free.
He sent everyone to his ‘about me’ page where he proceeded to tell his life story - how he was trying to stop his wife leaving him because all of his dreams of online success had failed and she was no longer prepared to accept him sitting in front of the PC all day while there was no money coming in!
I felt really sorry for him for a while until I hit the wall myself later that week and started to feel sorry for myself! Don’t be fooled - this is no easy business to be in.
There are many reasons why working online/being self employed can be very challenging but here are two that I have identified as regular ‘frustrators’ -
Frustrator 1.
You can do wonderful things with technology - when it works! In other words EXPECT things to go wrong regularly. So you’ve got a mailing list script, multiple email addresses, multiple websites, auction accounts, autoresponders etc. Do you really expect all of these to integrate perfectly? Forget it.
As an example, the other week I was experiencing difficulties with my broadband connection - it was very slow. The first problem was 9-ти минутный маринатор Горловка that I needed to identify whether the problem was due to my broadband connection or whether it was the router (for my wireless laptop) or whether it was the PC that was slow.
The second problem was that because my connection/router/PC was slow about 70% of the web based solutions that I use to run my business were unaccessible. I could log in but they would crash and I would sit there staring at the blue bar, cursing my PC and wanting to smash it to pieces! This took three days to resolve. That’s about a 1/100th of my working year ruined because of one single problem.
Frustrator 2.
Everybody talks BIG on the internet. A tiny minority of people have rapidly achieved great wealth on the internet. If you had just lake arbor dr arrived from another planet and you decided to surf the internet you would get the impression that millions of us are now retired with huge wealth while a tiny minority of blithering idiots still struggle to make money.
The truth is the opposite. The amount of people who have found wealth very quickly on the internet is so tiny that in reality their stories are hardly worth considering. It’s almost better to put them entirely out of your mind.
Unfortunately though we need to study and learn. We need to surf the internet to do this. Consequently we are going to be bombarded with stories of massive success, of people working for five minutes a day to maintain their multiple streams of income which flow like rivers into their bank accounts.
How many times have I read of the joy of these people who sit in front of their PC’s - never touching the keyboard, just watching their paypal email account going “Ping!Ping!Ping!”
Then they explain how all that we have to do is to copy their proven, secret system and buy their software for $50 and we too can enjoy a stress free life. Seriously, even though it’s plain utter BS, after being subjected to this monologue day after day it has an effect.
It makes it easier for us to give up. When we hit the wall and look at our PC that never seems to work properly and add up the crazy hours that we have slogged away for and realise just how different our lives are from these imaginary Gods who are so blessed then it becomes really easy
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