Having returned from a 2 week holiday in Turkey with my family just yesterday, and while writing this post, I realize how lucky we really are for the small things in life that we often take for granted.
The staff at our Hotel working 7 days a week for a mere equivalent of a paltry £50 – £60.00 per week.
They served us all day, every day… for 14 days… with a smile on each of their faces happier than a child on Christmas day.
They think nothing of working 17-18 hrs a day keeping their holidaymakers happy; mopping up pewk from carefree and barely 18-yr old youngsters, unblocking toilets, taking criticisms from winging Brits that there’s no Heinz beans at breakfast time, while still having time to learn the ignoramuses how to speak their language.
In Britain, most of us are truly blessed with the things we possess, yet when our comfort zone gets interrupted, we moan like mad; when the sun doesn’t shine we moan; when we have to work more than 8 hrs we moan; when our computer crashes we moan; when someone in the family eats the last of the Cornflakes we moan; when we’re asked to learn something new we moan, yet when we want to better our lifestyles by creating an extra income from home we get mocked and laughed at, purely for trying to achieve something different to what everyone else is accustomed to.
Reaping the fruits of your labor in any internet business will only pay dividends once the seeds have been sown – in other words, you acquire the right education; reading and studying what is necessary to succeed while refraining from purchasing every single product launch that hit’s your inbox.
Moaning and giving up yields no more than reinforcing a procrastinating society, and can easily encourage ventures of ill-gotten gains.
I see many trainee Internet Marketers with an undisciplined and negative mindset of trying to make a quick buck rather than building a foundation for their own financial security.
Internet marketing has many elements and to be proficient at every one would take a lifetime. But whatever your own personal definition of Internet marketing is, you should at least think of it this way: Internet Marketing is purely “The Art of Putting Attractive Offers In Front of Highly Receptive Buyers While Over-Delivering On Ones Promises.”
Master even a quarter of this concept and you’ll do well, and let the mockers of society keep mocking, moaning and groaning.
As we head slowly into longer dark, frosty and chilly nights… a spree of overspending on the ‘fantastic-plastic’ for Christmas, and a declining recession (though the housing market depicts otherwise), I’ll think of the humble Turkish men who earn less wages than a UK Giro, yet they keep smiling 24/7… come rain or shine.
Oh… If we could all work like a Turk on our Internet business perhaps ‘Pareto’s principle’ would need redefining.
To your continued success,
Hans
