First, let me say straight up ”I love what I’m doing”, AND the recipe for developing my skills at Internet marketing and E-commerce has not been a simple one, although it sure was supposed to be according to all I’ve read. I have spent nearly 1 year assembling the ingredients learning and producing the structure I’m finally using, and at great personal and monetary expense. My wife is completely frustrated and doesn’t understand anything I’m doing saying “I just don’t see products like in the stores.” My point, had I known, had someone told me it would have cost me this much to open the door to begin receiving business, I would likely never have begun. I kept preparing and believed in the feast.
This meal started with a hunger, a desire to build my own business supporting those who needed personal financial literacy training. A dream of mine for over 20 years, I had little idea how big the demand would become. To this recipe was added a declining Silicon Valley real estate investment appetite in late 2007 combined with a pound of sub-prime loan failures in early 2008 and the stage was set for an almost certain flop. I kept preparing and believed in the feast.
Tim Ferris in his book “The 4 Hour Work Week” has whole sections on how simple it is to develop a product, test it, sell it, and profit for life. I’m the first to admit I was hooked. That was a feast I wanted for myself and my family, and while I was at it my ideas were so good I figured I’d feed a few others. I kept preparing and believed in the feast.
I just completed with a coaching client today and will have my last session with them tomorrow. He is 65 years of age, a successful CEO retired from his business and in just about the same spot I was in one year ago. Our work was to get his personal and business goals identified and prioritized for him to move forward on what ever business is next which will include the Internet and E-commerce. I gave him my best and how to avoid what delayed me, and shared with him a way to prepare and believe in the day of the feast.
Well, just like Thanksgiving which most of us will enjoy in a couple of days, the feast is almost on the table and will be enjoyed. In spite of all the preparation, in spite of it’s cost, and in spite of all else I could have been doing, I will taste this feast of financial freedom and guess what - just like Thanksgiving next year, I’ve got plans for the next feast and am preparing. I know it will take too long, won’t go the way I think it will, and obstacles will be encountered because that is the life we enjoy, it’s the journey & not the destination we’re after. So I will continue to prepare for enjoying the next feast. How about you?
