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When I first start my blog, I expected instant results like I did with my family. I would try something that I learned about online and when it did not work our=t the way I had panned, I would give up. For example when I first put up affiliate offers on my blog, I expected them to covert right way. But when I did not refer a single sale after a few months. I immediately get discourage and started questioning writing skills.
We launched our commerce store, we made zero sales because not one knew we existed. No one told us that we had to go out and generate our own traffic. We were not in a community of entrepreneurs and never done this before.
When I first tried to launch my email list, no one was willing to sign up because my sales copy was atrocious. But over time and with repeated failures, I got better at marketing myself. I improved my copywriting skills. And with each experiment, I gained a better understanding human psychology.
What most people do not realize is that the human brain needs time for certain concepts to sink in. The instinct to pull back from anything we might fail at is a stone defense mechanism but it ends up hurting more than helping. We have to reject the lies our own egos what to tell us the leis that if we fail, we will get hurt or that if we are not naturally good at something we will never be good at it. We have to replace those lies with the truth that we can always get better.
Once I started seeing a tiny bit of tracking with my marketing efforts, I became hungry of more information. Slowly but surely, everything stared to click. Today, I would believe that I am good at sales and marketing now. Not because those skills came naturally to me but because I was resilient enough to keep learning, keep experimenting and to build up small results over time that proved I could do.
When starting a business, creating websites, marketing you site or building an audience you are going to suck at in the beginning. The hard truth is, you are actually not good enough to succeed just yet. But you are plenty good enough to begin. The longer you keep at it, the better you will become. I have learned that it is just a matter of getting over the initial hump of discouragement.
Once you start seeing the smallest amount to progress you will begin enjoying the process more. Humans tend to gravitate toward activates that we are good at and therefore enjoy. Even the greatest minds started from square one and we are not that good to begin with.
