Consistency Got You in the Mess You're in Now

There is so much talk of the importance of something called 'consistency' when it comes to succeeding in your online business.

You need to be consistent with your effort, the value that you give, your Facebook posting, your knowledge gaining.

Everything needs to be consistent.

If you say you are going to help people, you need to do it consistently and not just when you feel like it.

When you explain this to some people who are looking to maybe improve their life a little through an online business, they get a bit concerned as to whether they are able to do it.

It sounds like a lot of effort because it seems contrary to what they are used to doing.

But think about this.

For all of your adult life you have been consistently thinking that a 9-5 job is the correct and responsible way to go through life.

When you get that job you consistently attend and consistently get paid by somebody who decides what your time is worth.

You consistently put up with that, whether you agree with it or not.

You consistently have just 2 days per week to yourself and consistently try to cram all your enjoyment into that time.

If you don't like your job you spend year after year consistently wishing things were different but doing nothing about it.

You consistently wish you had more money, more time, more freedom.

You absolutely know how to be consistent. You have been doing it all your life. You just didn't realise it.

Maybe if I use a different word you will understand it better.

Another way of describing consistency could be 'habit'.

All of those things you are doing in your life, you do then because you have got into the habit and didn't realise you could actually do it differently.

Let me tell you right now. You can break those habits.

Anything worth having will always require some effort and this is no different.

But when you actually take the step to make the changes, you start to realise that it's nowhere near as daunting as you feared.

You start to create new habits.

Helping others, learning new things, connecting with like minded people, setting your own hours and structuring your life around what you want, rather than at the demand of a boss.

Consistency got you in the mess you're in and consistency will get you out of it.

When you understand the importance and concept of what consistency is, you have the recipe for success.

Don't Let Foolish Pride Get in the Way

Most of us seem to have read the same rule book that told us the key to our success in life was to go to school, get a good education, then get a good job and work real hard. Well, we did all that, but it didn't exactly work out the way we thought it should. We find ourselves constantly struggling to pay bills, to make ends meet. Most of us are stressed out financially, with a painful awareness that we need more income.

There frequently is a feeling of inadequacy that haunts us for we find ourselves making uncomfortable compromises, buying not what we want, but what we can afford. We cut back, restricting our purchases to only what is essential, doing without or with far less than what we would like. Given time, our situation only gets worse.

When we finally face the music, and realize that we have to do something else to create more income, we are often hindered by a false sense of pride, the one that has us pretend to be doing better than we really are. We curb our desperation to look good, but that doesn't get us where we want to go. Sure, we can look out at plenty of others who have it worse than we do, but is that any consolation? We are still struggling.

When we are forced to seriously consider other possible ways of generating more income, we are confronted with a wide variety of get rich quick schemes, pyramid operations and other questionably legal or ethical marketing plans. When we wade through those supposed opportunities, if we are lucky, we end up in a legitimate networking business as the best option for us to pursue.

The challenge we face is having to swallow our pride, and admit to the world that we need something more, that we are not really satisfied with our life the way it is. We are apt to refrain from showing our business to our work or business associates even though they are probably in the same boat as we are. To be truly successful in a networking business, we need to focus on sponsoring people at our level or above, and that is almost impossible to do if we let false pride get in the way.

We should take pride in the work we do, and do the best job we can, but if it isn't cutting it financially for us, we need to do something about it. Don't let foolish pride hinder us from pursuing a viable alternative for generating extra income.