Making sense is NOT what I’m known for. You are warned.
Success is a shadow of rarity. Try to be rare before you try to be successful.
99% of the people takes whatever they can while 1% gives whatever they can. 1% is a rarity. So they are 100 times more likely to get what they want than the 99%.
The idea of owning something is the source of suffering. It worries you and occupies your mentality, keeping you from achieving more because you are afraid to lose the things you have earned.
One should not try to own something. Owning or getting something such as wealth should not be the overall goal of his or her endeavors. Instead, one should try pushing the limits.
Want to be more financially successful? Don’t think of target numbers, but think about these questions – Why am I limited at where I am now? Why are the few others so ahead of me? What can be done to lift that limit and go farther? What can be done to be more productive or more creative? – And answer these questions by very very specific answers.
For example, I worry that one day I would lose the revenue streams of the many sites I created in the last 4 years, so I spent considerable time each week maintaining and promoting them. While results are slightly better and better by month, it’s ultimately not exponential growth which you would need to be a billionaire. It’s just a linear growth. Linear growth would only get you a millionaire at the best.
And this LIMITS me. It keeps me from getting better.
While these old sites occupy large portions of my schedule, I can’t concentrate enough on projects with “better outlook”. AND because I am dedicating my time to so many different projects at the same time, hardly any of them would eventually roll into an exponential growth at all because none of them are good enough to hit critical mass.
Even worse, it costs a lot when you multi-task.
It’s hard to give up on something you’ve been working so hard to build, because you are emotionally attached to it. It produces little yet you hold it dear.
Stop! Don’t get married to your projects. Move on, when you find out the niche isn’t as good as you thought it would be.
So I found one of the things that are limiting me — multi-tasking on too many projects at the same time. And my solution to this is: I’ll concentrate on one project at a time from now on.
Caring too much about the results would lead you to “copy” what the successful guys are doing, which is exactly what you don’t want to do if you don’t want to be mediocre.
You can do much better when you don’t care about the results than when you do.
Only when you lose you grow.
“Do one thing good, so the rest doesn’t suck. “
(This line was from one of the movies. Can’t recall the title though.)
There is NO such thing as a saturated niche.
Be stubborn. Don’t seek advice. People are stupid. Don’t listen to them. Do what you think is right. Fail? So what!!
Take care.